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verb
Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
Synonyms: jibing, agreeing, tallying, matching, fitting, corresponding, gibing, stamping, squaring, harmonizing, marking, consisting, conforming, chiming, according, indicating
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verb
Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
Synonyms: investigating, telling, trying, conditioning, learning, counting, testing, watching, comparing, proving, correcting, training, ascertaining, examining, validating, seeing, inspecting, essaying, monitoring, reviewing, determining, disciplining, assaying
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verb
Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
Synonyms: restraining, breaking, snubbing, curbing, keeping, rebuffing, squelching, suppressing, barring, inhibiting, holding, neutralizing, repulsing, discouraging, counteracting, bridling, constraining, checkmating, controlling, braking, repressing, cracking, bitting
Antonyms: encouraging, advancing, liberating
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verb
To look at carefully or critically.
Synonyms: casing, viewing, traversing, surveying, studying, scrutinizing, inspecting, examining
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verb
Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
Synonyms: stopping, halting, containing, terminating, delaying, stalling, surceasing, quitting, arresting, discontinuing, ceasing, retarding, holding
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To subject to a test of knowledge or skill
Synonyms: testing, quizzing, examining
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verb
To prevent from accomplishing a purpose
Synonyms: balking, stumping, crossing, thwarting, stymieing, frustrating, foiling, defeating, checkmating, baffling
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verb
Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
Synonyms: curbing, staying, hindering, stopping, braking, withholding, stalling, blocking, restraining, controlling, halting, holding, slackening, surceasing, assuring, choking, confirming, leashing, studying, verifying, validating, testing, taunting, anchoring, tallying, surveying, supervising, stymieing, ascertaining, obstructing, arresting, stilling, stifling, stemming, lessening, reviewing, weakening, moderating, reproving, repressing, repelling, reining, rebuffing, quenching, quelling, probing, opposing, containing, neutralizing, monitoring, marking, limiting, inhibiting, impeding, ensuring, frisking, deterring, detaining, delaying, discontinuing, defeating, reducing, daunting, counterpoising, counterbalancing, insuring, counteracting, constraining, ceasing, checkmating, bridling, billing, balking, auditing, seeing, allaying
Antonyms: hastening, allowing, permitting, indulging, hurrying, liberating, expediting, assisting, helping, aiding, speeding