chirrup
— Verb
– English
~ make high-pitched sounds; "the birds were chirping in the bushes"
chisel
— Verb
– English
~ carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble"
chisel
— Verb
– English
~ engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"
chisel
— Verb
– English
~ deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
chit-chat
— Verb
– English
~ talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
chitchat
— Verb
– English
~ talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
chitter
— Verb
– English
~ make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
chivvy
— Verb
– English
~ annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
chivy
— Verb
– English
~ annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
chlorinate
— Verb
– English
~ treat or combine with chlorine; "chlorinated water"
chlorinate
— Verb
– English
~ disinfect with chlorine; "chlorinate a pool"
chloroform
— Verb
– English
~ anesthetize with chloroform; "Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them"
choke
— Verb
– English
~ suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"
choke
— Verb
– English
~ pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
choke
— Verb
– English
~ become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
choke
— Verb
– English
~ reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor"