reason (verb)
61think up — verb devise or invent (Freq. 2) He thought up a plan to get rich quickly no one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software • Syn: ↑think of, ↑dream up, ↑hatch, ↑concoct • Der …
62lose — verb 1 not keep ADVERB ▪ forever VERB + LOSE ▪ be about to, be going to, be likely to, stand to ▪ The company stands to lose if this deal falls through …
63bunk off — verb play truant from work or school The boy often plays hooky • Syn: ↑play hooky • Usage Domain: ↑slang, ↑cant, ↑jargon, ↑lingo, ↑argot, ↑ …
64carry away — verb remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state (Freq. 6) Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands The car carried us off to the meeting I ll take you away on a …
65argue — verb (argued; arguing) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French arguer to reprove, argue & Latin arguere to demonstrate, prove; Anglo French arguer, from Latin argutare to prate, frequentative of arguere; akin to Hittite arkuwai to plead,… …
66conceive — verb (conceived; conceiving) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French conceivre, from Latin concipere to take in, conceive, from com + capere to take more at heave Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to become …
67disarm — verb Etymology: Middle English desarmen, literally, to divest of arms, from Anglo French desarmer, from des dis + armer to arm Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to deprive of means, reason, or disposition to be …
68explain — verb Etymology: Middle English explanen, from Latin explanare, literally, to make level, from ex + planus level, flat more at floor Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. a. to make known < explain the secret of your success > b. to make plain or… …
69expostulate — verb Etymology: Latin expostulatus, past participle of expostulare to demand, dispute, from ex + postulare to ask for more at postulate Date: 1573 transitive verb obsolete discuss, examine intransitive verb to reason earnestly with a person for… …
70philosophize — verb ( phized; phizing) Date: 1594 intransitive verb 1. to reason in the manner of a philosopher 2. to expound a moralizing and often superficial philosophy transitive verb to consider from or bring into conformity with a philosophical point of… …
