| attain | (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: hit, reach |
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| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, gain, hit, make, reach |
| (verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike |
| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, reach |
| attaint | (verb) condemn by attainder | - |
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| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, shame |
| attemper | (verb) modify the temperature of | - |
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| attempt | (verb) enter upon an activity or enterprise | Synonyms: set about, undertake |
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| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, essay, seek, try |
| attend | (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: advert, give ear, hang, pay heed |
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| (verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: assist, attend to, serve, wait on |
| (verb) take charge of or deal with | Synonyms: look, see, take care |
| (verb) be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc. | Synonyms: go to |
| (verb) to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result | - |
| attenuate | (verb) become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude | - |
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| (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: rarefy |
| attest | (verb) authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity | - |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: certify, demonstrate, evidence, manifest |
| (verb) give testimony in a court of law | Synonyms: bear witness, take the stand, testify |
| (verb) establish or verify the usage of | - |
| attire | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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| attitudinise | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinize |
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| attitudinize | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinise |
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| attorn | (verb) acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord | - |
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| attract | (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: draw, draw in, pull, pull in |
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| (verb) exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away | - |
| (verb) be attractive to | Synonyms: appeal |
| attribute | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, impute |
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| (verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme | Synonyms: assign |
| attune | (verb) adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with | - |
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| auction | (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction off, auctioneer |
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| auctioneer | (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction, auction off |
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| audit | (verb) attend academic courses without getting credit | - |
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| (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: inspect, scrutinise, scrutinize |
| audition | (verb) perform in order to get a role | Synonyms: try out |
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| augment | (verb) grow or intensify | - |
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| (verb) enlarge or increase | - |
| augur | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) predict from an omen | - |
| aurify | (verb) turn golden | - |
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| (verb) transform into gold | - |
| auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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| auspicate | (verb) commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck | - |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| authenticate | (verb) establish the authenticity of something | - |
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| author | (verb) be the author of | - |
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| authorise | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorize, clear, pass |
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| (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorize, empower |
| authorize | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, clear, pass |
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| (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, empower |
| autoclave | (verb) subject to the action of an autoclave | - |
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| autograph | (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: inscribe |
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| automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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| automatise | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatize |
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| (verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatize |
| automatize | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatise |
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| (verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatise |
| automobile | (verb) travel in an automobile | - |
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| autopsy | (verb) perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem | - |
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| autotomise | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomize |
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| autotomize | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomise |
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| avail | (verb) take advantage of | - |
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| (verb) take or use | Synonyms: help |
| (verb) be of use to, be useful to | - |
| avalanche | (verb) gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow | Synonyms: roll down |
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| avenge | (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: retaliate, revenge |
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| aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
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| (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
| average | (verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
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| (verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
| (verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
| avert | (verb) turn away or aside | Synonyms: turn away |
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| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| avianise | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianize |
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| avianize | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianise |
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| aviate | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: fly, pilot |
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| avoid | (verb) stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something | - |
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| (verb) refrain from certain foods or beverages | Synonyms: keep off |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, invalidate, nullify, quash, void |
| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| (verb) refrain from doing something | - |
| avouch | (verb) admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about | Synonyms: avow |
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| avow | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, swan, swear, verify |
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| (verb) admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about | Synonyms: avouch |
| avulse | (verb) separate by avulsion | - |
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| await | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: expect, look, wait |
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| awake | (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
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| awaken | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) make aware | - |
| award | (verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: present |
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| (verb) give as judged due or on the basis of merit | Synonyms: grant |
| awe | (verb) inspire awe in | - |
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| ax | (verb) terminate | Synonyms: axe |
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| (verb) chop or split with an ax | Synonyms: axe |
| axe | (verb) terminate | Synonyms: ax |
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| (verb) chop or split with an ax | Synonyms: ax |
| azure | (verb) color azure | - |
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| baa | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: blat, blate, bleat |
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| babbitt | (verb) line with a Babbitt metal | - |
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| babble | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: blather, blether, blither, smatter |
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| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
| (verb) utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way | - |
| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
| baby | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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| babysit | (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, sit |
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| (verb) take watchful responsibility for | Synonyms: baby-sit |
| bach | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bachelor |
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| bachelor | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bach |
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| back | (verb) establish as valid or genuine | Synonyms: back up |
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| (verb) strengthen by providing with a back or backing | - |
| (verb) shift to a counterclockwise direction | - |
| (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: bet on, gage, game, punt, stake |
| (verb) travel backward | - |
| (verb) cause to travel backward | - |
| (verb) support financial backing for | - |
| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: endorse, indorse, second |
| (verb) be in back of | - |
| backbite | (verb) say mean things | Synonyms: bitch |
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| backcross | (verb) mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents | - |
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| backdate | (verb) make effective from an earlier date | - |
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| backfire | (verb) set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire | - |
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| (verb) emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire | - |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backlash, recoil |
| background | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: downplay, play down |
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| backhand | (verb) hit a tennis ball backhand | - |
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| backlash | (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, recoil |
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| backlog | (verb) accumulate and create a backlog | - |
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| backpack | (verb) hike with a backpack | Synonyms: pack |
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| backpedal | (verb) modify one's opinion, make it less strong | - |
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| (verb) pedal backwards on a bicycle | - |
| (verb) step backwards, in boxing | - |
| backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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| backslap | (verb) display excessive cordiality (towards) | - |
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| backslide | (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: lapse |
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| backspace | (verb) hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard | - |
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| backstitch | (verb) do backstitches | - |
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| backstop | (verb) act as a backstop | - |
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| backstroke | (verb) swim on one's back | - |
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| backtrack | (verb) retrace one's course | Synonyms: double back, turn back |
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| bacterise | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterize |
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| bacterize | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterise |
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| badge | (verb) put a badge on | - |
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| badger | (verb) persuade through constant efforts | - |
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| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: beleaguer, bug, pester, tease |
| badmouth | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: drag through the mud, malign, traduce |
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| baffle | (verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: regulate |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| bag | (verb) put into a bag | - |
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| (verb) capture or kill, as in hunting | - |
| (verb) take unlawfully | Synonyms: pocket |
| (verb) bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge | Synonyms: bulge |
| (verb) hang loosely, like an empty bag | - |
| bail | (verb) remove (water) from a vessel with a container | - |
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| (verb) empty (a vessel) by bailing | - |
| (verb) secure the release of (someone) by providing security | - |
| (verb) deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period | - |
| (verb) release after a security has been paid | - |
| bait | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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| (verb) attack with dogs or set dogs upon | - |
| (verb) lure, entice, or entrap with bait | - |
| bake | (verb) cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven | - |
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| (verb) heat by a natural force | Synonyms: broil |
| (verb) prepare with dry heat in an oven | - |
| (verb) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | Synonyms: broil |
| balance | (verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: poise |
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| (verb) compute credits and debits of an account | - |
| (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize |
| (verb) be in equilibrium | - |
| bald | (verb) grow bald; lose hair on one's head | - |
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| bale | (verb) make into a bale | - |
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| balk | (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: baulk, jib, resist |
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| ball | (verb) form into a ball by winding or rolling | - |
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| (verb) to live very well | - |
| ballast | (verb) make steady with a ballast | - |
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| balloon | (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: billow, inflate |
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| (verb) ride in a hot-air balloon | - |