| ordain | (verb) issue an order | - |
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| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, order, ordinate |
| (verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: enact |
| (verb) invest with ministerial or priestly authority | - |
| outsail | (verb) sail faster or better than | - |
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| overpraise | (verb) praise excessively | - |
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| overstrain | (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overextend |
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| pain | (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: ail, trouble |
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| (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: anguish, hurt |
| paint | (verb) apply paint to; coat with paint | - |
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| (verb) apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil | - |
| (verb) make a painting of | - |
| (verb) make a painting | - |
| pair | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, couple, mate |
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| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, match, mate, twin |
| (verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: geminate |
| (verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: geminate |
| (verb) form a pair or pairs | Synonyms: couple, pair off, partner off |
| pertain | (verb) be a part or attribute of | Synonyms: appertain |
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| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
| plain | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, quetch, sound off |
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| plait | (verb) weave into plaits | - |
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| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: braid, lace |
| porcelainize | (verb) coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface | - |
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| praise | (verb) express approval of | - |
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| preordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
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| prevail | (verb) use persuasion successfully | - |
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| (verb) prove superior | Synonyms: triumph |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, run |
| (verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: hold, obtain |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, reign, rule |
| proclaim | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, promulgate |
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| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, glorify, laud |
| (verb) declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles | - |
| (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: predicate |
| quail | (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
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| raid | (verb) search for something needed or desired | - |
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| (verb) enter someone else's territory and take spoils | Synonyms: foray into |
| (verb) take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock | - |
| (verb) search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on | Synonyms: bust |
| rail | (verb) complain bitterly | Synonyms: inveigh |
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| (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: revile, vilify, vituperate |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: fulminate |
| (verb) fish with a handline over the rails of a boat | - |
| (verb) lay with rails | - |
| (verb) travel by rail or train | Synonyms: train |
| (verb) separate with a railing | Synonyms: rail off |
| (verb) convey (goods etc.) by rails | - |
| (verb) provide with rails | - |
| (verb) enclose with rails | Synonyms: rail in |
| railroad | (verb) transport by railroad | - |
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| (verb) supply with railroad lines | - |
| (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: dragoon, sandbag |
| raiment | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, tog |
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| rain | (verb) precipitate as rain | Synonyms: rain down |
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| raise | (verb) cause to become alive again | Synonyms: resurrect, upraise |
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| (verb) increase the level of | Synonyms: enhance, heighten |
| (verb) raise the level or amount of something | - |
| (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: elevate, lift |
| (verb) invigorate or heighten | Synonyms: lift |
| (verb) put an end to | Synonyms: lift |
| (verb) bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project | - |
| (verb) multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3 | - |
| (verb) cause to be heard or known; express or utter | - |
| (verb) put forward for consideration or discussion | Synonyms: bring up |
| (verb) activate or stir up | - |
| (verb) establish radio communications with | - |
| (verb) pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth | - |
| (verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: levy, recruit |
| (verb) bet more than the previous player | - |
| (verb) bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level | - |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, stir |
| (verb) construct, build, or erect | Synonyms: erect, put up, rear, set up |
| (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: farm, grow, produce |
| (verb) create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise | - |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke |
| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, lift |
| (verb) cause to puff up with a leaven | Synonyms: leaven, prove |
| (verb) move upwards | Synonyms: lift |
| (verb) collect funds for a specific purpose | - |
| (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, nurture, parent, rear |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, upgrade |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, inscribe, recruit |
| reappraise | (verb) appraise anew | - |
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| reassail | (verb) assail again | - |
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| reclaim | (verb) make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state | - |
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| (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, tame |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: rectify, reform, regenerate |
| (verb) claim back | Synonyms: repossess |
| (verb) reuse (materials from waste products) | Synonyms: recover |
| refrain | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: abstain, desist |
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| (verb) resist doing something | Synonyms: forbear |
| regain | (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, recover, retrieve |
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| (verb) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost | Synonyms: find |
| remain | (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state | Synonyms: rest, stay |
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| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, stay, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: continue, stay, stay on |
| (verb) be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc. | - |
| remainder | (verb) sell cheaply as remainders | - |
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| repaint | (verb) to apply another layer of paint | - |
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| (verb) paint a particular subject again | - |
| repair | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, restore, touch on |
| (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remediate, remedy |
| (verb) move, travel, or proceed toward some place | Synonyms: resort |
| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, recompense |
| restrain | (verb) prevent the action or expression of | Synonyms: hold back, keep, keep back |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, constrain, hold |
| (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: cumber, encumber |
| (verb) prevent (someone or something) from doing something | - |
| retail | (verb) sell on the retail market | - |
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| (verb) be sold at the retail level | - |
| retain | (verb) keep in one's mind | - |
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| (verb) secure and keep for possible future use or application | Synonyms: hold, hold back, keep back |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: continue, keep, keep on |
| (verb) hold back within | - |
| retrain | (verb) train again | - |
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| (verb) teach new skills | - |
| sail | (verb) travel on water propelled by wind | - |
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| (verb) move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions | Synonyms: sweep |
| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: navigate, voyage |
| (verb) traverse or travel on (a body of water) | - |
| sailplane | (verb) fly a plane without an engine | Synonyms: soar |
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| saint | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonise, canonize |
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| (verb) hold sacred | Synonyms: enshrine |
| shanghai | (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: impress |
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| snail | (verb) gather snails | - |
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| spondaise | (verb) make spondaic | Synonyms: spondaize |
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| spondaize | (verb) make spondaic | Synonyms: spondaise |
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| sprain | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
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| stain | (verb) produce or leave stains | - |
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| (verb) color with a liquid dye or tint | - |
| (verb) color for microscopic study | Synonyms: dye |
| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, sully, tarnish |
| straighten | (verb) put (things or places) in order | Synonyms: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten out, tidy, tidy up |
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| (verb) make straight or straighter | - |
| (verb) make straight | Synonyms: straighten out |
| (verb) straighten by unrolling | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) straighten up or out; make straight | Synonyms: unbend |
| (verb) get up from a sitting or slouching position | - |
| strain | (verb) cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | Synonyms: tense, tense up |
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| (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, distort |
| (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strive |
| (verb) use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter, filter out, filtrate, separate out |
| (verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sieve, sift |
| (verb) become stretched or tense or taut | Synonyms: tense |
| (verb) rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender | Synonyms: puree |
| (verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: stress, try |
| straiten | (verb) squeeze together | - |
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| (verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: distress |
| sustain | (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, have, suffer |
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| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support |
| (verb) admit as valid | - |
| (verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: keep, maintain |
| (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nourish, nurture |
| (verb) be the physical support of; carry the weight of | Synonyms: hold, hold up, support |
| (verb) lengthen or extend in duration or space | Synonyms: keep up, prolong |
| tail | (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: bob, dock |
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| (verb) remove the stalk of fruits or berries | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, track, trail |
| tailgate | (verb) follow at a dangerously close distance | - |
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| tailor | (verb) adjust to a specific need or market | Synonyms: orient |
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| (verb) create (clothes) with cloth | Synonyms: sew, tailor-make |
| (verb) style and tailor in a certain fashion | Synonyms: cut |
| taint | (verb) contaminate with a disease or microorganism | Synonyms: infect |
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| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, corrupt, defile, sully |
| toenail | (verb) drive obliquely | Synonyms: toe |
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| trail | (verb) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground | Synonyms: train |
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| (verb) hang down so as to drag along the ground | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track |
| (verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: shack |
| (verb) to lag or linger behind | Synonyms: drag, drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back |
| train | (verb) exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition | - |
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| (verb) undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession | Synonyms: prepare |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, educate, prepare |
| (verb) teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports | Synonyms: coach |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, direct, take, take aim |
| (verb) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground | Synonyms: trail |
| (verb) travel by rail or train | Synonyms: rail |
| (verb) educate for a future role or function | Synonyms: groom, prepare |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, discipline |
| (verb) cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it | - |
| traipse | (verb) walk or tramp about | Synonyms: shlep |
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| travail | (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil |
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| unbraid | (verb) undo the braids of | - |
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| unchain | (verb) remove the chains from | - |
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| (verb) make free | - |
| unstrain | (verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unwind |
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| upbraid | (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: reproach |
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| upraise | (verb) cause to become alive again | Synonyms: raise, resurrect |
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| wail | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, pule, whimper |
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| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, yaup, yawl |
| wait | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, expect, look |
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| (verb) serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant | Synonyms: waitress |
| (verb) stay in one place and anticipate or expect something | - |
| (verb) wait before acting | Synonyms: hold back, hold off |
| waitress | (verb) serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant | Synonyms: wait |
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| waive | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, relinquish |
| wassail | (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, toast |
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| (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, whoop it up |