| decease | (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
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| declassify | (verb) lift the restriction on and make available again | - |
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| decrease | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: diminish, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: lessen, minify |
| degas | (verb) remove gas from | - |
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| degrease | (verb) remove grease or oil from (a pan) | - |
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| demasculinise | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| demasculinize | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, emasculate |
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| devastate | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
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| (verb) overwhelm or overpower | - |
| disassemble | (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, dismantle, take apart |
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| disassociate | (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
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| discase | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| disembarrass | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: free, rid |
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| displease | (verb) give displeasure to | - |
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| ease | (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: comfort |
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| (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, facilitate |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, relieve, still |
| (verb) move gently or carefully | - |
| emasculate | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize |
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| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: castrate |
| embarrass | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: abash |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| emphasise | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasize, underline, underscore |
| emphasize | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore |
| encase | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: case, incase |
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| encompass | (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, embrace |
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| erase | (verb) remove from memory or existence | Synonyms: wipe out |
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| (verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information | Synonyms: delete |
| (verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing | Synonyms: efface, rub out, score out, wipe off |
| exasperate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate |
| (verb) make furious | Synonyms: incense, infuriate |
| extravasate | (verb) cause molten material, such as lava, to pour forth | - |
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| (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, erupt |
| (verb) force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel | - |
| fantasise | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasize, fantasy |
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| (verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasize |
| fantasize | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasy |
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| (verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasise |
| fantasy | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasize |
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| fascinate | (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: grip, spellbind, transfix |
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| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, trance |
| (verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: intrigue |
| fashion | (verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: forge |
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| fast | (verb) abstain from eating | - |
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| (verb) abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons | - |
| fasten | (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: tighten |
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| (verb) become fixed or fastened | - |
| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fix, secure |
| (verb) attach to | - |
| feast | (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, junket |
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| (verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, junket |
| (verb) gratify | Synonyms: feed |
| flabbergast | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: boggle, bowl over |
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| flash | (verb) appear briefly | - |
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| (verb) emit a brief burst of light | - |
| (verb) make known or cause to appear with great speed | - |
| (verb) protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle |
| (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank |
| (verb) expose or show briefly | - |
| forecast | (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, reckon |
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| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| fricassee | (verb) make a fricassee of by cooking | - |
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| gas | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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| (verb) attack with gas; subject to gas fumes | - |
| gasconade | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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| gash | (verb) cut open | Synonyms: slash |
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| gasify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: aerify, vaporise, vaporize |
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| gasp | (verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: heave, pant, puff |
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| glass | (verb) become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance | Synonyms: glass over, glaze, glaze over |
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| (verb) put in a glass container | - |
| (verb) enclose with glass | Synonyms: glass in |
| (verb) scan (game in the forest) with binoculars | - |
| (verb) furnish with glass | Synonyms: glaze |
| gnash | (verb) grind together, of teeth | - |
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| grasp | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grok, savvy |
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| (verb) hold firmly | Synonyms: hold on |
| grass | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) shoot down, of birds | - |
| (verb) feed with grass | - |
| (verb) cover with grass | Synonyms: grass over |
| (verb) spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach | - |
| grease | (verb) lubricate with grease | - |
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| handwash | (verb) wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine | Synonyms: hand-wash |
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| harass | (verb) exhaust by attacking repeatedly | - |
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| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
| hash | (verb) chop up | - |
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| hasp | (verb) secure or lock with a hasp | - |
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| hassle | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, molest, plague, provoke |
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| hasten | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: induce, rush, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: expedite |
| incase | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: case, encase |
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| increase | (verb) become bigger or greater in amount | - |
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| (verb) make bigger or more | - |
| lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
| lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
| lash | (verb) strike as if by whipping | Synonyms: whip |
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| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) bind with a rope, chain, or cord | - |
| (verb) lash or flick about sharply | - |
| lasso | (verb) catch with a lasso | Synonyms: rope |
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| last | (verb) persist for a specified period of time | Synonyms: endure |
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| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, live, live on, survive |
| lease | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, rent, take |
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| (verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: let, rent |
| (verb) let for money | Synonyms: rent |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, hire, rent |
| leash | (verb) fasten with a rope | Synonyms: rope |
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| masculinise | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinize, virilise, virilize |
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| masculinize | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, virilise, virilize |
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| (verb) give a masculine appearance or character to | - |
| mash | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, grind |
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| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, philander, romance |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| mask | (verb) put a mask on or cover with a mask | - |
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| (verb) shield from light | Synonyms: block out |
| (verb) cover with a sauce | - |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: cloak, dissemble |
| (verb) make unrecognizable | Synonyms: disguise |
| masquerade | (verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not | - |
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| (verb) take part in a masquerade | - |
| mass | (verb) join together into a mass or collect or form a mass | - |
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| massacre | (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: mow down, slaughter |
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| massage | (verb) give a massage to | - |
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| (verb) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes | Synonyms: knead, rub down |
| master | (verb) have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of | Synonyms: control |
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| (verb) be or become completely proficient or skilled in | Synonyms: get the hang |
| (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, overcome, subdue, surmount |
| (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: dominate |
| mastermind | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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| masticate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, manducate |
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| (verb) grind and knead | - |
| masturbate | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, she-bop, wank |
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| (verb) stimulate sexually | - |
| measure | (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: quantify |
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| (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure out, mensurate |
| (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, valuate, value |
| (verb) have certain dimensions | - |
| metastasise | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasize |
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| metastasize | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasise |
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| miscast | (verb) cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role | - |
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| nasale | (verb) speak in a nasal voice | - |
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| nasalise | (verb) pronounce with a lowered velum | Synonyms: nasalize |
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| (verb) speak nasally or through the nose | Synonyms: nasalize |
| nasalize | (verb) pronounce with a lowered velum | Synonyms: nasalise |
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| (verb) speak nasally or through the nose | Synonyms: nasalise |
| occasion | (verb) give occasion to | - |
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| outclass | (verb) cause to appear in a lower class | - |
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| outlast | (verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlive, survive |
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| overcast | (verb) sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next | - |
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| (verb) sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches | - |
| (verb) make overcast or cloudy | Synonyms: cloud |
| overemphasise | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasize, overstress |
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| overemphasize | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overstress |
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| overmaster | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overpower, overwhelm |
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| paraphrase | (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: rephrase, reword |
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| pass | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, excrete |
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| (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass off, take place |
| (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass off |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, authorize, clear |
| (verb) transmit information | Synonyms: communicate, pass along, pass on, put across |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, run |
| (verb) go across or through | - |
| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, overtake |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, sink |
| (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, slide by, slip away, slip by |
| (verb) cause to pass | Synonyms: make pass |
| (verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass by, surpass, travel by |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass on, reach, turn over |
| (verb) throw (a ball) to another player | - |
| (verb) transfer to another; of rights or property | - |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, return |
| (verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: legislate |
| (verb) go unchallenged; be approved | Synonyms: clear |
| (verb) accept or judge as acceptable | - |
| (verb) go successfully through a test or a selection process | Synonyms: make it |
| (verb) allow to go without comment or censure | - |
| (verb) use up a period of time in a specific way | Synonyms: spend |
| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, top, transcend |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, run |
| paste | (verb) hit with the fists | - |
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| (verb) join or attach with or as if with glue | Synonyms: glue |
| (verb) cover the surface of | - |
| pasteurise | (verb) heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms | Synonyms: pasteurize |
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| pasteurize | (verb) heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms | Synonyms: pasteurise |
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| pasture | (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, graze, range |
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| (verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: crop, graze |
| phase | (verb) adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition | - |
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| (verb) arrange in phases or stages | - |
| phrase | (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, formulate, give voice, word |
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| (verb) divide, combine, or mark into phrases | - |
| plash | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
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| (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: pleach |
| plaster | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: poultice |
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| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: daub |
| (verb) apply a heavy coat to | Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
| (verb) apply a plaster cast to | - |
| (verb) affix conspicuously | - |
| (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: beplaster |
| plasticise | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticize |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticize |
| plasticize | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticise |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticise |
| plastinate | (verb) preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes | - |
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| please | (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: delight |
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| (verb) be the will of or have the will (to) | - |
| (verb) give satisfaction | - |