| abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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| abandon | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: desert, desolate, forsake |
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| (verb) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: empty, vacate |
| (verb) forsake, leave behind | - |
| (verb) give up with the intent of never claiming again | Synonyms: give up |
| abase | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify |
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| abash | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: embarrass |
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| abate | (verb) become less in amount or intensity | Synonyms: die away, let up, slack, slack off |
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| (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: slack, slake |
| abbreviate | (verb) shorten | - |
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| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| abdicate | (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | Synonyms: renounce |
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| abduce | (verb) advance evidence for | Synonyms: adduce, cite |
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| abduct | (verb) pull away from the body | - |
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| (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: kidnap, nobble, snatch |
| aberrate | (verb) diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration | - |
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| (verb) diverge from the expected | - |
| abet | (verb) assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing | - |
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| abhor | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abominate, execrate, loathe |
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| abide | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) dwell | Synonyms: bide, stay |
| abjure | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: forswear, recant, resile, retract |
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| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| ablate | (verb) wear away through erosion or vaporization | - |
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| (verb) remove an organ or bodily structure | - |
| abnegate | (verb) deny or renounce | - |
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| (verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
| (verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
| abolish | (verb) do away with | Synonyms: get rid of |
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| abominate | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, execrate, loathe |
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| abort | (verb) terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion | - |
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| (verb) cease development, die, and be aborted | - |
| (verb) terminate before completion | - |
| abound | (verb) be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities | - |
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| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: bristle, burst |
| abrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: scour |
| abrase | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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| abreact | (verb) discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization | - |
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| abridge | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) lessen, diminish, or curtail | - |
| abrogate | (verb) revoke formally | - |
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| abscise | (verb) remove or separate by abscission | - |
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| (verb) shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue | - |
| abscond | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| abseil | (verb) descend by means of a rappel | Synonyms: rappel, rope down |
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| absent | (verb) stay away or leave | Synonyms: remove |
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| absolve | (verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: free |
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| (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: shrive |
| absorb | (verb) cause to become one with | - |
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| (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: assimilate, ingest, take in |
| (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: engage, engross, occupy |
| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: engross, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| (verb) become imbued | - |
| (verb) assimilate or take in | - |
| (verb) take up, as of debts or payments | Synonyms: take over |
| (verb) suck or take up or in | Synonyms: take in |
| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| abstain | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: desist, refrain |
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| (verb) refrain from voting | - |
| abstract | (verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically | - |
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| (verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance | - |
| (verb) give an abstract (of) | - |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| abuse | (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: misuse, pervert |
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| (verb) use wrongly or improperly or excessively | - |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: blackguard, clapperclaw, shout |
| (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat, step |
| abut | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
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| aby | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: abye, atone, expiate |
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| abye | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, atone, expiate |
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| acerbate | (verb) make sour or bitter | - |
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| (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: embitter, envenom |
| adsorb | (verb) accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface | - |
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| adumbrate | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: outline, sketch |
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| (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: insinuate, intimate |
| airbrush | (verb) paint with an airbrush | - |
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| alibi | (verb) exonerate by means of an alibi | - |
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| alphabetise | (verb) arrange in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetize |
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| alphabetize | (verb) arrange in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetise |
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| (verb) provide with an alphabet | - |
| 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 |
| approbate | (verb) accept (documents) as valid | - |
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| (verb) approve or sanction officially | - |
| arbitrage | (verb) practice arbitrage, as in the stock market | - |
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| arbitrate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: intercede, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| arborise | (verb) branch out like trees | Synonyms: arborize |
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| arborize | (verb) branch out like trees | Synonyms: arborise |
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| ascribe | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: assign, attribute, impute |
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| assemble | (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together |
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| (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: foregather, forgather, gather, meet |
| (verb) get people together | Synonyms: gather, get together |
| assibilate | (verb) change into a sibilant | - |
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| (verb) insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) | - |
| attribute | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, impute |
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| (verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme | Synonyms: assign |
| automobile | (verb) travel in an automobile | - |
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| baa | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: blat, blate, bleat |
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| babbitt | (verb) line with a Babbitt metal | - |
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| babble | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: blather, blether, blither, smatter |
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| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
| (verb) utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way | - |
| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
| baby | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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| babysit | (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, sit |
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| (verb) take watchful responsibility for | Synonyms: baby-sit |
| bach | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bachelor |
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| bachelor | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bach |
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| back | (verb) establish as valid or genuine | Synonyms: back up |
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| (verb) strengthen by providing with a back or backing | - |
| (verb) shift to a counterclockwise direction | - |
| (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: bet on, gage, game, punt, stake |
| (verb) travel backward | - |
| (verb) cause to travel backward | - |
| (verb) support financial backing for | - |
| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: endorse, indorse, second |
| (verb) be in back of | - |
| backbite | (verb) say mean things | Synonyms: bitch |
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| backcross | (verb) mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents | - |
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| backdate | (verb) make effective from an earlier date | - |
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| backfire | (verb) set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire | - |
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| (verb) emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire | - |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backlash, recoil |
| background | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: downplay, play down |
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| backhand | (verb) hit a tennis ball backhand | - |
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| backlash | (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, recoil |
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| backlog | (verb) accumulate and create a backlog | - |
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| backpack | (verb) hike with a backpack | Synonyms: pack |
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| backpedal | (verb) modify one's opinion, make it less strong | - |
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| (verb) pedal backwards on a bicycle | - |
| (verb) step backwards, in boxing | - |
| backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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| backslap | (verb) display excessive cordiality (towards) | - |
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| backslide | (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: lapse |
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| backspace | (verb) hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard | - |
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| backstitch | (verb) do backstitches | - |
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| backstop | (verb) act as a backstop | - |
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| backstroke | (verb) swim on one's back | - |
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| backtrack | (verb) retrace one's course | Synonyms: double back, turn back |
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| bacterise | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterize |
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| bacterize | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterise |
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| badge | (verb) put a badge on | - |
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| badger | (verb) persuade through constant efforts | - |
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| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: beleaguer, bug, pester, tease |
| badmouth | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: drag through the mud, malign, traduce |
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| baffle | (verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: regulate |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| bag | (verb) put into a bag | - |
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| (verb) capture or kill, as in hunting | - |
| (verb) take unlawfully | Synonyms: pocket |
| (verb) bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge | Synonyms: bulge |
| (verb) hang loosely, like an empty bag | - |
| bail | (verb) remove (water) from a vessel with a container | - |
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| (verb) empty (a vessel) by bailing | - |
| (verb) secure the release of (someone) by providing security | - |
| (verb) deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period | - |
| (verb) release after a security has been paid | - |
| bait | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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| (verb) attack with dogs or set dogs upon | - |
| (verb) lure, entice, or entrap with bait | - |
| bake | (verb) cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven | - |
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| (verb) heat by a natural force | Synonyms: broil |
| (verb) prepare with dry heat in an oven | - |
| (verb) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | Synonyms: broil |
| balance | (verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: poise |
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| (verb) compute credits and debits of an account | - |
| (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize |
| (verb) be in equilibrium | - |
| bald | (verb) grow bald; lose hair on one's head | - |
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| bale | (verb) make into a bale | - |
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