| amalgamate | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: commix, mingle, mix, unify |
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| amass | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| amaze | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: astonish, astound |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| ambition | (verb) have as one's ambition | - |
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| amble | (verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: mosey |
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| ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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| ambuscade | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| ambush | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing | Synonyms: still-hunt |
| ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
| amend | (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair |
| (verb) make amendments to | - |
| amerce | (verb) punish with an arbitrary penalty | - |
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| (verb) punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court | - |
| ammoniate | (verb) treat with ammonia | - |
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| ammonify | (verb) treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification | - |
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| amnesty | (verb) grant a pardon to (a group of people) | - |
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| amortise | (verb) liquidate gradually | Synonyms: amortize |
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| amortize | (verb) liquidate gradually | Synonyms: amortise |
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| amount | (verb) to measure up to in kind or quality | Synonyms: add up, come |
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| (verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, come, number, total |
| (verb) be tantamount or equivalent to | - |
| amplify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: magnify |
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| (verb) increase the volume of | - |
| (verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: blow up, expand, inflate |
| (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
| amputate | (verb) remove surgically | Synonyms: cut off |
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| amuse | (verb) make (somebody) laugh | - |
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| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: disport, divert |
| anagram | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagrammatise, anagrammatize |
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| anagrammatise | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatize |
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| anagrammatize | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatise |
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| bamboozle | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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| beam | (verb) smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression | - |
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| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, broadcast, send, transmit |
| (verb) express with a beaming face or smile | - |
| (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
| (verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: shine |
| bedamn | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| blame | (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: charge |
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| (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: fault |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: find fault, pick |
| bream | (verb) clean (a ship's bottom) with heat | - |
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| buckram | (verb) stiffen with or as with buckram | - |
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| camber | (verb) curve upward in the middle | - |
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| camouflage | (verb) disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something | - |
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| camp | (verb) give an artificially banal or sexual quality to | - |
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| (verb) establish or set up a camp | Synonyms: camp down |
| (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp out, encamp, tent |
| campaign | (verb) go on a campaign; go off to war | Synonyms: take the field |
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| (verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, crusade, fight, press, push |
| camphorate | (verb) treat with camphor | - |
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| caramelise | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
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| (verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
| caramelize | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
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| (verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
| chamber | (verb) place in a chamber | - |
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| chamfer | (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chase, furrow |
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| (verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: bevel |
| champ | (verb) chew noisily or vigorously | Synonyms: chomp |
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| (verb) chafe at the bit, like horses | - |
| champion | (verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: defend |
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| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| clam | (verb) gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean | - |
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| clamber | (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
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| clamor | (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamour |
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| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamour |
| (verb) compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring | - |
| clamour | (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamor |
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| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamor |
| clamp | (verb) impose or inflict forcefully | - |
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| (verb) fasten or fix with a clamp | - |
| contaminate | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: foul, pollute |
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| (verb) make radioactive by adding radioactive material | - |
| cram | (verb) prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam | - |
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| (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, jam, jampack, ram, wad |
| (verb) put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled | - |
| cramp | (verb) suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle | - |
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| (verb) affect with or as if with a cramp | - |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: halter, hamper, strangle |
| (verb) secure with a cramp | - |
| cream | (verb) add cream to one's coffee, for example | - |
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| (verb) make creamy by beating | - |
| (verb) remove from the surface | Synonyms: cream off, skim, skim off |
| (verb) put on cream, as on one's face or body | - |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, drub, lick, thrash |
| creampie | (verb) The act of ejaculating inside another person | - |
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| dam | (verb) obstruct with, or as if with, a dam | Synonyms: dam up |
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| damage | (verb) inflict damage upon | - |
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| (verb) suffer or be susceptible to damage | - |
| damascene | (verb) inlay metal with gold and silver | - |
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| damn | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, imprecate, maledict |
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| damp | (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, dampen, soften, weaken |
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| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: dampen, deaden |
| (verb) restrain or discourage | - |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: dampen, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
| dampen | (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, soften, weaken |
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| (verb) make moist | Synonyms: moisten, wash |
| (verb) check; keep in check (a fire) | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, deaden |
| (verb) reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves) | - |
| (verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: stifle |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
| daydream | (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: dream, stargaze, woolgather |
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| (verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: moon |
| deaminate | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminize |
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| deaminize | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminate |
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| decamp | (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: skip, vamoose |
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| (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, bolt, go off, make off, run off |
| (verb) leave a camp | Synonyms: break camp |
| decontaminate | (verb) rid of contamination | - |
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| defame | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| desquamate | (verb) peel off in scales | Synonyms: peel off |
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| diagram | (verb) make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed | Synonyms: plot |
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| disambiguate | (verb) state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from | - |
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| dramatise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| (verb) represent something in a dramatic manner | Synonyms: dramatize |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: adopt, dramatize |
| dramatize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| (verb) represent something in a dramatic manner | Synonyms: dramatise |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: adopt, dramatise |
| dream | (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: daydream, stargaze, woolgather |
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| (verb) experience while sleeping | - |
| dynamise | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamize |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamize |
| dynamite | (verb) blow up with dynamite | - |
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| dynamize | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamise |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamise |
| enamel | (verb) coat, inlay, or surface with enamel | - |
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| enamor | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| enamour | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| encamp | (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, tent |
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| examine | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvass, study |
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| (verb) question closely | - |
| (verb) question or examine thoroughly and closely | Synonyms: probe |
| (verb) observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect | Synonyms: see |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, prove, test, try, try out |
| familiarise | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarize |
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| familiarize | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarise |
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| famish | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: hunger, starve |
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| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: starve |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: starve |
| flambe | (verb) pour liquor over and ignite (a dish) | - |
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| flame | (verb) criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium | - |
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| (verb) be in flames or aflame | - |
| (verb) shine with a sudden light | Synonyms: flare |
| foam | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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| frame | (verb) make up plans or basic details for | Synonyms: compose, draw up |
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| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, put, redact |
| (verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: border, frame in |
| (verb) construct by fitting or uniting parts together | Synonyms: frame up |
| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, set up |
| (verb) enclose in a frame, as of a picture | - |
| gamble | (verb) play games for money | - |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| gambol | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| game | (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, punt, stake |
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| glamorise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, glamourize |
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| glamorize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamourise, glamourize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamourise, romanticise, romanticize |
| glamour | (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, hex, jinx, witch |
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| glamourise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, romanticise, romanticize |
| glamourize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourise |
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| gleam | (verb) to shine with faint or brief light | - |
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| (verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: glimmer |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: glint, glisten, glitter, shine |
| ham | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham it up, overact, overplay |
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| hammer | (verb) beat with or as if with a hammer | - |
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| (verb) create by hammering | Synonyms: forge |
| hamper | (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, halter, strangle |
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| (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: handicap, hinder |
| hamstring | (verb) cripple by cutting the hamstring | - |
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| (verb) make ineffective or powerless | - |
| handstamp | (verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: rubberstamp |
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| inflame | (verb) become inflamed; get sore | - |
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| (verb) cause inflammation in | - |
| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, stir up, wake |
| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, kindle |
| (verb) catch fire | Synonyms: kindle |
| jam | (verb) interfere with or prevent the reception of signals | Synonyms: block |
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| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jampack, ram, wad |
| (verb) get stuck and immobilized | - |
| (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
| (verb) crush or bruise | Synonyms: crush |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: mob, pack, pile, throng |
| (verb) push down forcibly | - |