| bleach | (verb) make whiter or lighter | - |
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| (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
| boldface | (verb) print in boldface | - |
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| brace | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) support by bracing | - |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: stabilise, stabilize, steady |
| (verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: poise |
| brachiate | (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
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| bracket | (verb) classify or group | - |
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| (verb) place into brackets | Synonyms: bracket out |
| (verb) support with brackets | - |
| breach | (verb) make an opening or gap in | Synonyms: gap |
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| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| broach | (verb) bring up a topic for discussion | Synonyms: initiate |
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| bushwhack | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) cut one's way through the woods or bush | - |
| (verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla | - |
| cache | (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away, stash |
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| cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
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| cackel | (verb) make a cackling sound | - |
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| cackle | (verb) emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing | - |
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| (verb) squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens | - |
| (verb) talk or utter in a cackling manner | - |
| (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: gaggle |
| capacitate | (verb) make capable | - |
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| (verb) cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg | - |
| (verb) make legally capable or qualify in law | - |
| caracole | (verb) make a half turn on a horse, in dressage | - |
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| carjack | (verb) take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it | - |
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| character | (verb) engrave or inscribe characters on | - |
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| characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
| characterize | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterise |
| clack | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: click, cluck |
| (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clatter |
| coach | (verb) teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports | Synonyms: train |
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| (verb) drive or operate a coach or carriage | - |
| coact | (verb) act together, as of organisms | - |
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| compact | (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
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| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, pack, wad |
| (verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compress, pack together |
| (verb) have the property of being packable or of compacting easily | Synonyms: pack |
| contact | (verb) be in or establish communication with | Synonyms: get hold of, get through, reach |
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| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, meet, touch |
| contract | (verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: get, take |
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| (verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: narrow |
| (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: shrink |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
| (verb) enter into a contractual arrangement | Synonyms: undertake |
| (verb) make smaller | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, press, squeeze |
| (verb) engage by written agreement | Synonyms: sign, sign on, sign up |
| counteract | (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonise, antagonize |
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| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: countercheck |
| (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counterbalance, countervail, neutralize |
| counterattack | (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterstrike |
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| crack | (verb) break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension | Synonyms: snap |
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| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, check |
| (verb) break partially but keep its integrity | - |
| (verb) cause to become cracked | - |
| (verb) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking | - |
| (verb) break into simpler molecules by means of heat | - |
| (verb) pass through (a barrier) | Synonyms: break through |
| (verb) tell spontaneously | - |
| (verb) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise | - |
| (verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up |
| (verb) make a sharp sound | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a very sharp explosive sound | - |
| (verb) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions | - |
| crackle | (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
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| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
| deaccession | (verb) sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works | - |
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| deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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| (verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
| deface | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: blemish, disfigure |
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| deracinate | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: extirpate, root out, uproot |
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| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: uproot |
| desacralize | (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: secularize |
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| detach | (verb) come to be detached | Synonyms: come away, come off |
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| (verb) cause to become detached or separated; take off | - |
| (verb) separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment | - |
| detract | (verb) take away a part from; diminish | Synonyms: take away |
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| diffract | (verb) undergo diffraction | - |
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| disaccord | (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disagree, discord |
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| disgrace | (verb) damage the reputation of | Synonyms: discredit |
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| (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: degrade, demean, put down, take down |
| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, dishonor, dishonour, shame |
| displace | (verb) cause to move, usually with force or pressure | - |
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| (verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense | Synonyms: move |
| (verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: preempt |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| distract | (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: deflect |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| efface | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: obliterate |
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| (verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing | Synonyms: erase, rub out, score out, wipe off |
| (verb) make inconspicuous | - |
| ejaculate | (verb) eject semen | - |
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| (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out |
| emaciate | (verb) grow weak and thin or waste away physically | - |
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| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: macerate, waste |
| embrace | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, espouse, sweep up |
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| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: bosom, hug, squeeze |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, encompass |
| emplace | (verb) put into place or position | - |
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| (verb) provide a new emplacement for guns | - |
| enact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, reenact |
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| (verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: ordain |
| encroach | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: impinge, infringe |
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| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: entrench, impinge, trench |
| enlace | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine |
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| evacuate | (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: empty, void |
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| (verb) remove content from | - |
| (verb) create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel) | - |
| (verb) move people from their homes or country | - |
| (verb) move out of an unsafe location into safety | - |
| exacerbate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate |
| exact | (verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: demand |
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| (verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: claim, take |
| extract | (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill |
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| (verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: excerpt, take out |
| (verb) calculate the root of a number | - |
| (verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, pull, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
| (verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: express, press out |
| (verb) separate (a metal) from an ore | - |
| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, evoke |
| (verb) get despite difficulties or obstacles | - |
| face | (verb) deal with (something unpleasant) head on | Synonyms: confront, face up |
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| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: confront, present |
| (verb) oppose, as in hostility or a competition | Synonyms: confront |
| (verb) line the edge (of a garment) with a different material | - |
| (verb) cover the front or surface of | - |
| (verb) turn so as to face; turn the face in a certain direction | - |
| (verb) turn so as to expose the face | - |
| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: front, look |
| (verb) be opposite | - |
| facilitate | (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, ease |
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| (verb) increase the likelihood of (a response) | - |
| (verb) be of use | Synonyms: help |
| facsimile | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: fax, telefax |
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| factor | (verb) resolve into factors | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
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| (verb) consider as relevant when making a decision | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
| (verb) be a contributing factor | - |
| factorise | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorize |
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| factorize | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorise |
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| follback | (verb) to return someone's following of you on a social media platform | - |
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| fraction | (verb) perform a division | Synonyms: divide |
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| fractionate | (verb) obtain by a fractional process | - |
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| (verb) separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents | - |
| fracture | (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: break |
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| (verb) become fractured | - |
| (verb) violate or abuse | - |
| (verb) break into pieces | - |
| (verb) interrupt, break, or destroy | - |
| fullback | (verb) play the fullback | - |
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| glaciate | (verb) become frozen and covered with glaciers | - |
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| (verb) cover with ice or snow or a glacier | - |
| grace | (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, ornament |
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| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, embellish |
| grimace | (verb) contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state | Synonyms: make a face, pull a face |
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| hack | (verb) cough spasmodically | Synonyms: whoop |
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| (verb) significantly cut up a manuscript | Synonyms: cut up |
| (verb) fix a computer program piecemeal until it works | Synonyms: hack on |
| (verb) kick on the shins | - |
| (verb) kick on the arms | - |
| (verb) cut away | - |
| (verb) cut with a hacking tool | Synonyms: chop |
| (verb) be able to manage or manage successfully | Synonyms: cut |
| hackle | (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hatchel, heckle |
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| hibachi | (verb) cook over a hibachi grill | - |
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| highjack | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, hijack, pirate |
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| hijack | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, highjack, pirate |
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| (verb) seize control of | - |
| impact | (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, touch, touch on |
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| (verb) press or wedge together; pack together | - |
| impeach | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, incriminate |
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| (verb) charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office | - |
| (verb) challenge the honesty or veracity of | - |
| inactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: deactivate |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
| incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
| infract | (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, offend, transgress, violate |
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| interact | (verb) act together or towards others or with others | - |
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| interlace | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, intertwine, lace, twine |
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| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlock, lock |
| jack | (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jacklight |
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| (verb) lift with a special device | Synonyms: jack up |
| jacket | (verb) put a jacket on | - |
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| (verb) provide with a thermally non-conducting cover | - |
| jackknife | (verb) dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife | - |
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| jacklight | (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jack |
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| jackrabbit | (verb) go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement | - |
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| jactitate | (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
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| jampack | (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, ram, wad |
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| lace | (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: fortify, spike |
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| (verb) draw through eyes or holes | Synonyms: lace up |
| (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, twine |
| (verb) do lacework | - |
| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: braid, plait |
| lacerate | (verb) cut or tear irregularly | - |
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| (verb) deeply hurt the feelings of; distress | - |
| lack | (verb) be without | Synonyms: miss |
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| (verb) To be insufficiently prepared | - |
| lacquer | (verb) coat with lacquer | - |
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| lactate | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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| leach | (verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid | Synonyms: strip |
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| (verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: percolate |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate | - |
| lifehack | (verb) make one's day-to-day activities more efficient | - |
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| macadam | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadamise, macadamize, tarmac |
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| macadamise | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamize, tarmac |
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| macadamize | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamise, tarmac |
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| macerate | (verb) soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result | - |
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| (verb) become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking | - |
| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: emaciate, waste |
| (verb) separate into constituents by soaking | - |
| machicolate | (verb) supply with projecting galleries | - |
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| machinate | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, conspire |
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| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, organise, organize, prepare |
| machine | (verb) make by machinery | - |
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| (verb) turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery | - |
| macrame | (verb) make knotted patterns | - |
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