brandish | (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
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(verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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buccaneer | (verb) live like a buccaneer | - |
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can | (verb) preserve in a can or tin | Synonyms: put up, tin |
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(verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
canal | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canalise, canalize |
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canalise | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalize |
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canalize | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalise |
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cancel | (verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: invalidate |
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(verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: delete |
(verb) declare null and void; make ineffective | Synonyms: strike down |
(verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, scratch, scrub |
(verb) make up for | Synonyms: offset, set off |
candle | (verb) examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light | - |
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candy | (verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: glaze, sugarcoat |
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cane | (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: flog, lambast, lambaste |
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canker | (verb) infect with a canker | - |
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(verb) become infected with a canker | - |
cannibalise | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalize |
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(verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalize |
cannibalize | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalise |
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(verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalise |
cannon | (verb) fire a cannon | - |
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(verb) make a cannon | - |
cannonade | (verb) attack with cannons or artillery | - |
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cannulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulise, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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cannulise | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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cannulize | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, canulate, intubate |
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canoe | (verb) travel by canoe | - |
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canonise | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonize, saint |
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(verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonize |
canonize | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonise, saint |
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(verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonise |
canoodle | (verb) fondle or pet affectionately | - |
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canopy | (verb) cover with a canopy | - |
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cant | (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant over, pitch, slant, tilt |
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canter | (verb) ride at a canter | - |
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(verb) go at a canter, of horses | - |
(verb) cause to ride at a cantering pace | - |
cantilever | (verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
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(verb) project as a cantilever | - |
cantillate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: chant, intonate, intone |
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canton | (verb) divide into cantons, of a country | - |
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(verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: billet, quarter |
canulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, intubate |
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canvas | (verb) cover with canvas | - |
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canvass | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, examine, study |
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(verb) solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign | - |
(verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: poll |
caravan | (verb) travel in a caravan | - |
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chairman | (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chair |
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chance | (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, encounter, find, happen |
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(verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
(verb) be the case by chance | - |
chandelle | (verb) climb suddenly and steeply | - |
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change | (verb) undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature | - |
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(verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: alter, modify |
(verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: alter, vary |
(verb) change clothes; put on different clothes | - |
(verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: commute, convert, exchange |
(verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: shift, switch |
(verb) remove or replace the coverings of | - |
(verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: deepen |
(verb) change from one vehicle or transportation line to another | Synonyms: transfer |
(verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: exchange, interchange |
channel | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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(verb) direct the flow of | - |
(verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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(verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
(verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
channelize | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, transfer, transmit, transport |
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(verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
(verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
chant | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, intonate, intone |
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(verb) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | Synonyms: intone, tone |
chicane | (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, cavil |
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(verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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clang | (verb) make a loud noise | Synonyms: clangor |
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clangor | (verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangour |
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(verb) make a loud noise | Synonyms: clang |
clangour | (verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangor |
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clank | (verb) make a clank | - |
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clean | (verb) clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing | Synonyms: cleanse |
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(verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: scavenge |
(verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits | Synonyms: pick |
(verb) remove shells or husks from | - |
(verb) make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from | Synonyms: make clean |
(verb) clean and tidy up the house | Synonyms: clean house, houseclean |
(verb) remove while making clean | - |
(verb) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely | Synonyms: strip |
(verb) deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc. | - |
(verb) be cleanable | - |
cleanse | (verb) clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing | Synonyms: clean |
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(verb) purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins | - |
command | (verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: require |
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(verb) be in command of | - |
(verb) demand as one's due | - |
(verb) exercise authoritative control or power over | Synonyms: control |
(verb) look down on | Synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop |
commandeer | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: highjack, hijack, pirate |
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companion | (verb) be a companion to somebody | Synonyms: accompany, company, keep company |
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company | (verb) be a companion to somebody | Synonyms: accompany, companion, keep company |
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consubstantiate | (verb) become united in substance | - |
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(verb) unite in one common substance | - |
contradance | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance |
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contredanse | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance |
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countenance | (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, let, permit |
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counterbalance | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, countervail, neutralize |
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(verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: oppose |
(verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, even off, even out, even up, make up |
counterchange | (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: interchange, transpose |
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countermand | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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covenant | (verb) enter into a covenant or formal agreement | - |
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(verb) enter into a covenant | - |
cranch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: craunch, crunch, grind |
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crane | (verb) stretch (the neck) so as to see better | Synonyms: stretch out |
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crank | (verb) rotate with a crank | Synonyms: crank up |
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(verb) bend into the shape of a crank | - |
(verb) fasten with a crank | - |
(verb) start by cranking | Synonyms: crank up |
(verb) travel along a zigzag path | Synonyms: zigzag |
dance | (verb) move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance | Synonyms: trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe |
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(verb) move in a graceful and rhythmical way | - |
(verb) skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways | - |
dandify | (verb) dress like a dandy | - |
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dandle | (verb) pet | - |
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(verb) move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees | - |
dangle | (verb) cause to dangle or hang freely | - |
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(verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: drop, swing |
decant | (verb) pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment | Synonyms: pour, pour out |
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defang | (verb) remove the fangs from | - |
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dehumanise | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanize |
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(verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanize |
dehumanize | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanise |
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(verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanise |
demand | (verb) request urgently and forcefully | - |
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(verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: exact |
(verb) summon to court | - |
(verb) ask to be informed of | - |
(verb) lay legal claim to | - |
(verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
demean | (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: degrade, disgrace, put down, take down |
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deplane | (verb) get off an airplane | - |
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derange | (verb) throw into great confusion or disorder | Synonyms: perturb, throw out of kilter |
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(verb) derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane | Synonyms: unbalance |
descant | (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: warble, yodel |
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(verb) talk at great length about something of one's interest | - |
(verb) sing in descant | - |
detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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detransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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disadvantage | (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour |
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disarrange | (verb) disturb the arrangement of | - |
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(verb) destroy the arrangement or order of | - |
disband | (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: dissolve |
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(verb) cause to break up or cease to function | - |
discountenance | (verb) show disapproval by discouraging | - |
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(verb) look with disfavor on | - |
disenchant | (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disillusion |
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disenfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disfranchise |
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disentangle | (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb, comb out |
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(verb) extricate from entanglement | Synonyms: straighten out, unsnarl |
(verb) separate the tangles of | Synonyms: unwind |
(verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, extricate, untangle |
(verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disinvolve |
disfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disenfranchise |
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dismantle | (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: strip |
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(verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, disassemble, take apart |
(verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
disorganise | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganize |
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disorganize | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganise |
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distance | (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: outdistance, outstrip |
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(verb) keep at a distance | - |
emanate | (verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: exhale, give forth |
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(verb) proceed or issue forth, as from a source | - |
emancipate | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: manumit |
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(verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: liberate |
embank | (verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection | - |
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embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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empanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: impanel, panel |
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(verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: impanel |
emplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: enplane |
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enchant | (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, glamour, hex, jinx, witch |
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(verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, entrance, fascinate, trance |
endanger | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: expose, peril, queer, scupper |
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(verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |