Words and phrases whose definition contains actions: (187 results)
aim, cause, course, drive, earn, face, far, fell, key, life, line, most, near, nigh, part, past, role, scheme, skate
about, accord, action, all but, almost, answer, approach, attack, brutal, campaign, cautious, closeness, conscience, covert, crackdown, cruel, crusade, design, desperate, effort, exile, extreme, fiber, fibre, first step, function, future, garner, intent, karma, mind game, movement, music, nature, nearly, office, past tense, pay back, present, psyop, purpose, redound, repay, reward, roughshod, savage, schema, scruples, someday, ultra, undo, vicious, well-nigh, whirler, yoga
accounting, acting out, agreement, analyst, ask for it, barbarous, character, circumspect, compulsion, counteract, countervail, crosscurrent, deterrence, discredit, dissension, dissonance, extremist, future tense, get one's lumps, heroic, intention, just about, marxism, medicine, moral sense, neutralize, obsession, opening, openness, orderly, personage, pragmatist, present tense, radical, ramify, self-aware, self-conscious, self-disgust, self-hatred, spinmeister, spin doctor, sublunar, take one's lumps, unconcerned, valium
accountable, ask for trouble, authoriser, authorizer, clotting factor, counterbalance, countercurrent, desperate measure, diazepam, disagreement, divorce lawyer, face the music, ill-considered, imitation, indicative, initiative, misconstrual, misconstruction, necessary, opening move, operation, plan of attack, play it by ear, secretiveness, sedentary, set in motion, sublunary, subservience, substantiate, virtually, whirling dervish
decision table, endaemonism, eudemonism, exasperation, important person, judicial review, muscle relaxant, operational, pacification, rationalisation, reincarnation, sense of right and wrong, trespass on the case, vigilantism
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