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cavort

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Verb (intransitive)
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ca=vort

CIDE DICTIONARY

cavortv. i. 
     To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cavort, v.intr. sl. caper excitedly; gambol, prance.

Etymology
US, perh. f. CURVET

THESAURUS

cavort

antic, bob, bounce, bound, caper, capriole, caracole, carry on, curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, cut up, dance, dido, disport, falcade, flounce, fool around, frisk, frolic, gambade, gambado, gambol, horse around, horseplay, jump, jump about, leap, play, prance, ramp, rollick, romp, roughhouse, skip, sport, trip

ROGET THESAURUS

cavort

Agitation

VB be agitated, shake, tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf, quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle, wriggle, wriggle like an eel, dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort, squirm, throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat, flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker, bustle, ferment, effervesce, foam, boil, boil over, bubble up, simmer, toss about, jump about, jump like a parched pea, shake like an aspen leaf, shake to its center, shake to its foundations, be the sport of the winds and waves, reel to and fro like a drunken man, move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard, agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt, jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.


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