tenderise
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~ make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat"
tenderize
— Verb
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~ make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat"
tense
— Verb
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~ become stretched or tense or taut; "the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed"; "the rope strained when the weight was attached"
tense
— Verb
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~ become tense, nervous, or uneasy; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"
tense
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~ cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up"
tense
— Verb
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~ increase the tension on; "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring"
tent
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~ live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"
tenure
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~ give life-time employment to; "She was tenured after she published her book"
tergiversate
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~ abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
tergiversate
— Verb
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~ be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
term
— Verb
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~ name formally or designate with a term
terminate
— Verb
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~ be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"
terminate
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~ bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
terminate
— Verb
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~ have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
terminate
— Verb
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~ terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
talk terms
— Verb
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~ discuss the terms of an arrangement; "They negotiated the sale of the house"
terrace
— Verb
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~ make into terraces as for cultivation; "The Incas terraced their mountainous land"
terrace
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~ provide (a house) with a terrace; "We terrassed the country house"
terrasse
— Verb
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~ provide (a house) with a terrace; "We terrassed the country house"
terrify
— Verb
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~ fill with terror; frighten greatly