Words starting with C

• chum up — Verb – English ～ become friends; act friendly towards
• churn up — Verb – English ～ cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
• choke up — Verb – English ～ obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
• clam up — Verb – English ～ refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached"
• clean up — Verb – English ～ put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!"
• chirk up — Verb – English ～ become cheerful
• chock up — Verb – English ～ crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"
• clean up — Verb – English ～ make oneself clean, presentable or neat; "Clean up before you go to the party"
• cheer up — Verb – English ～ become cheerful
• clean up — Verb – English ～ make a big profit; often in a short period of time; "The investor really cleaned up when the stock market went up"
• chat up — Verb – English ～ talk to someone with the aim of persuading him
• chew up — Verb – English ～ censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
• choose up — Verb – English ～ form sides, as for a game
• charge up — Verb – English ～ cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
• chop up — Verb – English ～ cut into pieces; "Chop wood"; "chop meat"
• chalk up — Verb – English ～ keep score, as in games
• chin up — Verb – English ～ raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar
• chuck up the sponge — Verb – English ～ give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up"
• chalk up — Verb – English ～ accumulate as a debt; "he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening"
• clean up — Verb – English ～ dispose of; "settle the bills"

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