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pack, load down load with a pack pad, fill out line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra" pair, pair off, partner off, couple form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off" pan out be a success; "The idea panned out" pan, pan out, pan off wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals pan, tear apart, trash express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance" pare, pare down decrease gradually or bit by bit pass away go out of existence; "She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away" pass off be accepted as something or somebody in a false character or identity; "She passed off as a Russian agent" pass off cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity; "She passed the glass off as diamonds"; "He passed himself off as a secret agent" pass off disregard; "She passed off the insult" pass on give to or transfer possession of; "She passed the family jewels on to her daughter-in-law" pass over, overfly fly over; "The plane passed over Damascus" pass through cause to move through; "Pass a chemical through a solution" pass up fail to acknowledge; "he passed me up in the street" pass, go through, go across go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind" pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" pass, make it go successfully through a test or a selection process; "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now" patch, patch up mend by putting a patch on; "patch a hole" pay back, pay off, get, fix take vengeance on or get even; "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him" pay off yield a profit or result; "His efforts finally paid off" pay, pay off, make up, compensate do or give something to somebody in return; "Does she pay you for the work you are doing?" peck, pick up eat by pecking at, like a bird peg, peg down fasten or secure with a wooden pin; "peg a tent" pent, shut up closely confined percolate, sink in, permeate, filter pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" perk up, perk, percolate, pick up, gain vigor gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap" persevere, persist, hang in, hang on, hold on be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions" phase in introduce gradually phase out terminate gradually photocopy, run off, xerox reproduce by xerography pick at, peck at, peck eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food" pick at, pluck at, pull at pluck or pull at with the fingers; "She picked nervously at the buttons of her blouse" pick off shoot one by one pick up buy casually or spontaneously; "I picked up some food for a snack" pick up get in addition, as an increase; "The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home" pick up give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift; "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway" pick up lift out or reflect from a background; "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile" pick up meet someone for sexual purposes; "he always tries to pick up girls in bars" pick up take up by hand; "He picked up the book and started to read" pick up, lift up, gather up take and lift upward pick up, receive register (perceptual input); "pick up a signal" pick, break up attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice" pile up, heap up, stack up arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room" pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify define clearly; "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game" pin down, pin up attach with or as if with a pin; "pin up a picture" pine away, waste, languish lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" pioneer, open up open up an area or prepare a way; "She pioneered a graduate program for women students" pipe up begin to play or sing pit, oppose, match, play off set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other" pitch in, dig in eat heartily; "The food was placed on the table and the children pitched in" pitch, set up erect and fasten; "pitch a tent" place, come in, come out take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal; "Jerry came in third in the Marathon" plan, be after have the will and intention to carry out some action; "He plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion" play along, accompany, follow perform an accompaniment to; "The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano" play along, go along cooperate or pretend to cooperate; "He decided to play along with the burglars for the moment" play around, fool around commit adultery; "he plays around a lot" play back, replay reproduce (a recording) on a recorder; "The lawyers played back the conversation to show that their client was innocent" play out become spent or exhausted; "The champion's strength played out fast" play out perform or be performed to the end; "How will the election drama be played out?" play out play to a finish; "We have got to play this game out, even thought it is clear that we have last" pluck, tweak, pull off, pick off pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush" plug away, peg away, slog, keep one's nose to the grindstone, keep one's shoulder to the wheel work doggedly or persistently; "She keeps plugging away at her dissertation" plug in, plug into, connect plug into an outlet; "Please plug in the toaster!"; "Connect the TV so we can watch the football game tonight" plug, stop up, secure fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak" polish, round, round off, polish up, brush up bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; "polish your social manners" poop out, peter out, run down, run out, conk out use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out" pop in enter briefly; "He popped in for two minutes" pop off leave quickly pop out come out suddenly or forcefully; "you stick a bill in the vending machine and the change pops out" pop out exit briefly; "He popped out for a quick coffee break" pop out, burst out appear suddenly; "Spring popped up everywhere in the valley" post, put up place so as to be noticed; "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump" postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" precede, come before be the predecessor of; "Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands" precipitate, come down, fall fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum" preclude, rule out, close out make impossible, especially beforehand present, represent, lay out bring forward and present to the mind; "We presented the arguments to him"; "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason" press on, push on, plough on continue moving forward prick up, prick, cock up raise; "The dog pricked up his ears" probe, dig into, poke into examine physically with or as if with a probe; "probe an anthill" proceed, go forward, continue move ahead; travel onward in time or space; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now" prod, incite, egg on urge on; cause to act; "The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window" produce, bring about, give rise cause to happen, occur or exist; "This procedure produces a curious effect"; "The new law gave rise to many complaints"; "These chemicals produce a noxious vapor"; "the new President must bring about a change in the health care system" produce, bring forth bring forth or yield; "The tree would not produce fruit" produce, bring forth bring out for display; "The proud father produced many pictures of his baby"; "The accused brought forth a letter in court that he claims exonerates him" produce, bring on, bring out bring onto the market or release; "produce a movie"; "bring out a book"; "produce a new play" progress, come on, come along, advance, get on, get along, shape up develop in a positive way; "He progressed well in school"; "My plants are coming along"; "Plans are shaping up" project, send off throw, send, or cast forward; "project a missile" prolong, protract, extend, draw out lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight" prolong, sustain, keep up lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work" pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" prop up, prop, shore up, shore support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building" prove, turn out, turn up be shown or be found to be; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive" provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple" publish, bring out, put out, issue, release prepare and issue for public distribution or sale; "publish a magazine or newspaper" puff, puff up, blow up, puff out to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests" pull back move to a rearward position; pull towards the back; "Pull back your arms!" pull back, draw stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow); "The archers were drawing their bows" pull in, get in, move in, draw in of trains; move into (a station); "The bullet train drew into Tokyo Station" pull off cause to withdraw; "We pulled this firm off the project because they overcharged" pull off, negociate, bring off, carry off, manage be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs" pull out, get out move out or away; "The troops pulled out after the cease-fire" pull over steer a vehicle to the side of the road; "The car pulled over when the ambulance approached at high speed" pull, root for take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for; "We all rooted for the home team"; "I'm pulling for the underdog"; "Are you siding with the defender of the title?" pursue, follow up on, act on carry further or advance; "Can you act on this matter soon?" push, bear on press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action; "He pushed her to finish her doctorate" put away, put aside stop using; "the children were told to put away their toys"; "the students put away their notebooks" put away, put aside turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily; "it's time for you to put away childish things" put away, put to sleep kill gently, as with an injection; "the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep" put in, submit make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a grant to the NSF" put on add to something existing; "She put on a sun room" put on add to the odometer; "He put on 1,000 miles on this trip" put on put on the stove or ready for cooking; "put on the tea, please!" put on, apply apply to a surface; "She applied paint to the back of the house"; "Put on make-up!" put on, turn in carry out (performances); "They turned in a splendid effort"; "They turned in top jobs for the second straight game" put out be sexually active; "She is supposed to put out" put out put out considerable effort; "He put out the same for seven managers" put out retire; "he was put out at third base on a long throw from left field" put out, retire cause to be out on a fielding play put through connect by telephone; "the operator put a call through to Rio" put up make available for sale at an auction; "The dealer put up three of his most valuable paintings for auction" put up, contribute provide; "The city has to put up half the required amount" put up, provide, offer mount or put up; "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance" putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house" putter, potter, potter around, putter around move around aimlessly |
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