| await | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: expect, look, wait |
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| awake | (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
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| awaken | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) make aware | - |
| award | (verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: present |
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| (verb) give as judged due or on the basis of merit | Synonyms: grant |
| awe | (verb) inspire awe in | - |
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| bawl | (verb) cry loudly | - |
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| (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bellow |
| (verb) make a raucous noise | Synonyms: yawp |
| brawl | (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: wrangle |
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| caw | (verb) utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens | - |
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| chaw | (verb) chew without swallowing | - |
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| clapperclaw | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, shout |
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| (verb) claw with the nails | - |
| claw | (verb) attack as if with claws | - |
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| (verb) scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails | - |
| (verb) clutch as if in panic | - |
| (verb) move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging | - |
| crawfish | (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw |
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| crawl | (verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: creep |
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| (verb) swim by doing the crawl | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
| (verb) be full of | - |
| (verb) feel as if crawling with insects | - |
| dawdle | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: linger |
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| (verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | Synonyms: fall back, fall behind, lag |
| (verb) waste time | Synonyms: dally |
| dawn | (verb) become light | - |
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| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
| (verb) appear or develop | - |
| declaw | (verb) remove the claws from | - |
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| dethaw | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dissolve, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
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| draw | (verb) cause to localize at one point | - |
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| (verb) shrink | - |
| (verb) flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching | - |
| (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate |
| (verb) reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die | - |
| (verb) bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition | - |
| (verb) steep; pass through a strainer | - |
| (verb) make, formulate, or derive in the mind | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) select or take in from a given group or region | - |
| (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, describe |
| (verb) finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc. | Synonyms: tie |
| (verb) choose at random | Synonyms: cast |
| (verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: drag, puff |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, describe, line, trace |
| (verb) move or pull so as to cover or uncover something | - |
| (verb) cause to move by pulling | Synonyms: pull |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: attract, draw in, pull, pull in |
| (verb) stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow) | Synonyms: pull back |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: guide, pass, run |
| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: string, thread |
| (verb) represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface | - |
| (verb) earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) engage in drawing | - |
| (verb) write a legal document or paper | - |
| (verb) elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc. | - |
| (verb) take liquid out of a container or well | Synonyms: take out |
| (verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover | Synonyms: get out, pull, pull out, take out |
| (verb) move or go steadily or gradually | - |
| (verb) to obtain a liquid from somewhere | - |
| (verb) cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense | Synonyms: pull |
| (verb) get or derive | Synonyms: reap |
| (verb) remove (a commodity) from (a supply source) | Synonyms: draw off, take out, withdraw |
| (verb) pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him | Synonyms: draw and quarter, quarter |
| (verb) allow a draft | - |
| (verb) require a specified depth for floating | - |
| drawl | (verb) lengthen and slow down or draw out | - |
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| fawn | (verb) have fawns | - |
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| (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, grovel |
| finedraw | (verb) sew together very finely | - |
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| flaw | (verb) add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective | Synonyms: blemish |
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| gawk | (verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gape, gawp, goggle |
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| gawp | (verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gape, gawk, goggle |
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| gnaw | (verb) become ground down or deteriorate | Synonyms: eat at, erode, gnaw at, wear away |
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| (verb) bite or chew on with the teeth | - |
| guffaw | (verb) laugh boisterously | Synonyms: laugh loudly |
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| haw | (verb) utter `haw' | - |
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| hawk | (verb) clear mucus or food from one's throat | Synonyms: clear the throat |
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| (verb) hunt with hawks | - |
| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: huckster, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
| jaw | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| (verb) talk incessantly and tiresomely | Synonyms: rattle on, yack, yack away, yap away |
| (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, manducate, masticate |
| jawbone | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
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| outdraw | (verb) draw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight | - |
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| outlaw | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize |
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| overawe | (verb) subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats) | Synonyms: cow |
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| overdraw | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overstate |
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| (verb) draw more money from than is available | - |
| paw | (verb) touch clumsily | - |
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| (verb) scrape with the paws | - |
| pawn | (verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: hock, soak |
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| prawn | (verb) fish for prawns | - |
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| reawaken | (verb) awaken once again | - |
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| saw | (verb) cut with a saw | - |
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| scrawl | (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scribble |
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| seesaw | (verb) move up and down as if on a seesaw | - |
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| (verb) ride on a plank | Synonyms: teeter-totter, teetertotter |
| (verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: teeter, totter |
| spawn | (verb) lay spawn | - |
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| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: breed, engender |
| sprawl | (verb) sit or lie with one's limbs spread out | - |
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| (verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: straggle |
| squawk | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler |
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| (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, skreigh |
| straw | (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: strew |
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| (verb) cover or provide with or as if with straw | - |
| thaw | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, melt, unfreeze, unthaw |
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| tomahawk | (verb) cut with a tomahawk | - |
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| (verb) kill with a tomahawk | - |
| trawl | (verb) fish with trawlers | - |
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| unthaw | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, melt, thaw, unfreeze |
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| wawl | (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: squall, waul |
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| whipsaw | (verb) saw with a whipsaw | - |
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| (verb) victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations | - |
| withdraw | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequester, sequestrate |
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| (verb) remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract | Synonyms: remove, take, take away |
| (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat |
| (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: swallow, take back, unsay |
| (verb) release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles | Synonyms: disengage |
| (verb) lose interest | Synonyms: retire |
| (verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat |
| (verb) remove (a commodity) from (a supply source) | Synonyms: draw, draw off, take out |
| (verb) cause to be returned | Synonyms: call back, call in, recall |
| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: adjourn, retire |
| (verb) withdraw from active participation | Synonyms: retire |
| (verb) retire gracefully | Synonyms: bow out |
| wrawl | (verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: howl, yammer, yowl |
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| yaw | (verb) deviate erratically from a set course | - |
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| (verb) swerve off course momentarily | - |
| (verb) be wide open | Synonyms: gape, yawn |
| yawl | (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, wail, yaup |
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| yawn | (verb) utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired | - |
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| (verb) be wide open | Synonyms: gape, yaw |
| yawp | (verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: grizzle, whine, yammer |
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| (verb) make a raucous noise | Synonyms: bawl |