| knead | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. knead, work | make uniform.; "knead dough"; "work the clay until it is soft" |
| ~ manipulate | hold something in one's hands and move it. |
| ~ proof | knead to reach proper lightness.; "proof dough" |
| ~ masticate | grind and knead.; "masticate rubber" |
| ~ crop, cultivate, work | prepare for crops.; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land" |
| ~ work | behave in a certain way when handled.; "This dough does not work easily"; "The soft metal works well" |
| v. (contact) | 2. knead, massage, rub down | manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes.; "She rubbed down her child with a sponge" |
| ~ manipulate | hold something in one's hands and move it. |
| ~ rub | move over something with pressure.; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin" |
| mash | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. mash | a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing. |
| ~ suspension | a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy. |
| ~ sour mash | a mash with optimum acidity for yeast fermentation; a mixture of old and new mash; used in distilling some whiskeys. |
| n. (food) | 2. mash | mixture of ground animal feeds. |
| ~ feed, provender | food for domestic livestock. |
| ~ chicken feed, scratch | dry mash for poultry. |
| v. (contact) | 3. crush, mash, squash, squeeze, squelch | to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition.; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon" |
| ~ wring | twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid.; "wring the towels" |
| ~ press | exert pressure or force to or upon.; "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot" |
| ~ stamp | crush or grind with a heavy instrument.; "stamp fruit extract the juice" |
| ~ steamroller | crush with a steamroller as if to level.; "steamroller the road" |
| ~ tread | crush as if by treading on.; "tread grapes to make wine" |
| ~ telescope | crush together or collapse.; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack" |
| v. (communication) | 4. butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance | talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions.; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" |
| ~ talk, speak | exchange thoughts; talk with.; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words" |
| ~ wanton | engage in amorous play. |
| ~ vamp | act seductively with (someone). |
| v. (change) | 5. bray, comminute, crunch, grind, mash | reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading.; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" |
| ~ pulp | reduce to pulp.; "pulp fruit"; "pulp wood" |
| ~ pestle | grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar.; "pestle the garlic" |
| ~ mill | grind with a mill.; "mill grain" |
| ~ fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, break up | break or cause to break into pieces.; "The plate fragmented" |
| masa | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. masa | an independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages. |
| ~ chadic, chadic language, chad | a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa. |
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