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1. abuse, v. View full entry c1430
...trans. To use (something) improperly, to misuse; to make a bad use of; to pervert; to take advantage of wrongly....
2. base, v.4 View full entry 1984
...intr. To take cocaine in the form of freebase, esp. by smoking it. Cf. freebase...
3. bend, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To put in bonds, to fetter. Obs....
4. besot, v. View full entry 1583
...trans. To affect with a foolish, blinding affection; to cause to dote on; to infatuate with....
5. blast, v. View full entry c1300
...intr. To blow, to puff violently. Obs....
6. blaze, v.1 View full entry ?c1225
...intr. To burn with a bright fervent flame. Often with away, forth, out. to blaze up: to burst or flash into a blaze....
7. blow, v.1 View full entry c1000
...intr. The proper verb naming the motion or action of the wind, or of an aerial current. Sometimes with subject it, as ‘it blows hard’, and often with complement,...
8. bogart, v. View full entry 1966
...trans.U.S. (esp. in African-American usage). To force, coerce; to bully, intimidate....
9. bomb, v. View full entry 1694
...trans....
10. bust, v.2 View full entry 1639
...intr. To burst, esp. as a result of internal pressure; (also) to break, fall to pieces; (hence) to stop working. Also with adverb, as open, out, ...
11. cane, v.1 View full entry a1667
...trans. To beat with a cane as a punishment....
12. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
13. connect, v. View full entry 1537
...trans. To join, fasten, or link together: said either of the personal agent or of the connecting medium or instrumentality. Const. to, with....
14. cook, v.1 View full entry c1380
...intr. To act as cook, to prepare food by the action of heat (for a household, etc.). (Now regarded as the absol. use of 2.)...
15. cut, v. View full entry c1275
...trans. To penetrate with an edged instrument which severs the continuity of the substance; to wound or injure with a sharp-edged instrument; to make incision in; to gash, slash....
16. deal, v. View full entry c950
...trans. To divide. Obs....
17. decriminalize, v. View full entry 1963
...trans. To reform (an offender or one with criminal tendencies) through psychiatric treatment. (In quot. 1963 as ) rare....
18. deˈtox, v. View full entry 1970
...trans. To treat (a motor vehicle or its engine) in order to remove or limit the noxious fumes emitted through the exhaust system, etc....
19. do, v. View full entry c825
...To put, place....
20. dope, v. View full entry 1868
...trans. To administer dope to (a person, a horse); to stupefy with a drug; to drug....
