All look for synonyms
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- attempt β If you make an attempt to do something, you try to do it, often without success.
- predict β to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- anticipate β If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
- want β to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- necessitate β to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- go through β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- scan β to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page.
- investigate β to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- sift β to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
- scout β a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scour β to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scrutinize β to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- purchase β to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- buy β If you buy something, you obtain it by paying money for it.
- discover β to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- snoop β to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
- linger β to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: We lingered awhile after the party.
- hang β to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- delay β If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
- remain β to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace.
- stand by β a staunch supporter or adherent; one who can be relied upon.
- stick around β to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- count on β If you count on something or count upon it, you expect it to happen and include it in your plans.
- foresee β to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- assume β If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
- await β If you await someone or something, you wait for them.
- forecast β to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- see β to perceive with the eyes; look at.
- anticipate β If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
- attend β If you attend a meeting or other event, you are present at it.
- stay β (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- predict β to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- take β to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- think β to seem or appear (usually used impersonally with a dative as the subject).
- require β to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
- call for β If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
- demand β If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
- shoot β to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- capture β If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
- poach β to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
- track β a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- fish β (loosely) any of various other aquatic animals.
- pursue β to strive to gain; seek to attain or accomplish (an end, object, purpose, etc.).
- drag β drag and drop
- stalk β an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
- kill β to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
- snare β one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
- oblige β to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
- compel β If a situation, a rule, or a person compels you to do something, they force you to do it.