| applaud | (verb) express that something is worthy of praise | - |
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| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, clap, spat |
| assault | (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, attack, lash out, round, snipe |
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| (verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assail, attack, set on |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
| auction | (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction off, auctioneer |
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| auctioneer | (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction, auction off |
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| audit | (verb) attend academic courses without getting credit | - |
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| (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: inspect, scrutinise, scrutinize |
| audition | (verb) perform in order to get a role | Synonyms: try out |
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| augment | (verb) grow or intensify | - |
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| (verb) enlarge or increase | - |
| augur | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) predict from an omen | - |
| aurify | (verb) turn golden | - |
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| (verb) transform into gold | - |
| auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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| auspicate | (verb) commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck | - |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| authenticate | (verb) establish the authenticity of something | - |
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| author | (verb) be the author of | - |
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| authorise | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorize, clear, pass |
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| (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorize, empower |
| authorize | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, clear, pass |
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| (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, empower |
| autoclave | (verb) subject to the action of an autoclave | - |
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| autograph | (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: inscribe |
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| automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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| automatise | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatize |
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| (verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatize |
| automatize | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatise |
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| (verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatise |
| automobile | (verb) travel in an automobile | - |
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| autopsy | (verb) perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem | - |
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| autotomise | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomize |
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| autotomize | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomise |
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| baulk | (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, jib, resist |
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| beautify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| bedaub | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: besmear |
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| bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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| caterwaul | (verb) utter shrieks, as of cats | Synonyms: yowl |
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| caucus | (verb) meet to select a candidate or promote a policy | - |
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| caulk | (verb) seal with caulking | Synonyms: calk |
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| cause | (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: get, have, induce, make, stimulate |
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| (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: do, make |
| causeway | (verb) pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles | - |
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| (verb) provide with a causeway | - |
| cauterise | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterize |
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| (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterize |
| cauterize | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterise |
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| (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterise |
| caution | (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: admonish, monish |
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| chauffeur | (verb) drive someone in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive around |
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| craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
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| daub | (verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: smear |
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| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: plaster |
| (verb) apply to a surface | - |
| daunt | (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
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| debauch | (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
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| default | (verb) fail to pay up | Synonyms: default on |
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| defraud | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| degauss | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: demagnetise, demagnetize |
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| draught | (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draft |
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| exhaust | (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: beat, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
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| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, expel, release |
| (verb) use up the whole supply of | - |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) deplete | Synonyms: play out, run down, sap, tire |
| fault | (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: blame |
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| flaunt | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, ostentate, show off, swank |
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| gauffer | (verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: goffer |
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| gauge | (verb) measure precisely and against a standard | - |
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| (verb) adapt to a specified measurement | - |
| (verb) mix in specific proportions | - |
| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, guess, judge |
| (verb) determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation | - |
| (verb) rub to a uniform size | - |
| haul | (verb) transport in a vehicle | - |
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| (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: cart, drag, hale |
| haunt | (verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue | Synonyms: ghost, obsess |
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| (verb) follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to | Synonyms: stalk |
| (verb) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place | Synonyms: frequent |
| inaugurate | (verb) be a precursor of | Synonyms: introduce, usher in |
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| (verb) commence officially | Synonyms: kick off |
| (verb) open ceremoniously or dedicate formally | - |
| jaundice | (verb) affect with, or as if with, jaundice | - |
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| (verb) distort adversely | - |
| jaunt | (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: travel, trip |
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| laud | (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, glorify, proclaim |
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| laugh | (verb) produce laughter | Synonyms: express joy, express mirth |
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| launch | (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: plunge |
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| (verb) propel with force | - |
| (verb) launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage | - |
| (verb) get going; give impetus to | Synonyms: set in motion |
| (verb) smoothen the surface of | - |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, found, set up |
| launder | (verb) convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones | - |
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| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: wash |
| maraud | (verb) raid and rove in search of booty | - |
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| maul | (verb) injure badly by beating | Synonyms: mangle |
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| (verb) split (wood) with a maul and wedges | - |
| maunder | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: mumble, mussitate, mutter |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (verb) wander aimlessly | - |
| misgauge | (verb) gauge something incorrectly or improperly | - |
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| nauseate | (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, revolt, sicken |
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| (verb) upset and make nauseated | Synonyms: sicken, turn one's stomach |
| overhaul | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
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| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overtake, pass |
| pauperise | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: beggar, pauperize |
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| pauperize | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: beggar, pauperise |
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| pause | (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: break, intermit |
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| (verb) interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing | Synonyms: hesitate |
| sauce | (verb) add zest or flavor to, make more interesting | - |
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| (verb) dress (food) with a relish | - |
| (verb) behave saucily or impudently towards | - |
| saunter | (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: stroll |
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| saute | (verb) fry briefly over high heat | - |
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| scraunch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scranch |
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| slaughter | (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: massacre, mow down |
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| (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: butcher |
| somersault | (verb) do a somersault | - |
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| staunch | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, stanch, stem |
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| taunt | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, tease, twit |
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| tauten | (verb) become taut or tauter | Synonyms: firm |
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| (verb) make taut or tauter | Synonyms: firm |
| traumatise | (verb) inflict a trauma upon | Synonyms: shock, traumatize |
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| traumatize | (verb) inflict a trauma upon | Synonyms: shock, traumatise |
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| vault | (verb) bound vigorously | - |
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| (verb) jump across or leap over (an obstacle) | Synonyms: overleap |
| vaunt | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout |
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| waul | (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: squall, wawl |
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| yaup | (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, wail, yawl |
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