| beep | (verb) call, summon, or alert with a beeper | - |
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| (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: blare, claxon, honk, toot |
| beeswax | (verb) cover with beeswax | - |
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| beetle | (verb) beat with a beetle | - |
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| (verb) fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle | - |
| (verb) be suspended over or hang over | Synonyms: overhang |
| befall | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, happen |
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| (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, betide |
| befit | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: beseem, suit |
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| befog | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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| befool | (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
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| (verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: fool, gull |
| befoul | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: defile, foul, maculate |
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| befriend | (verb) become friends with | - |
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| befuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: fuddle |
| beg | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: implore, pray |
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| (verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: solicit, tap |
| (verb) dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted | - |
| (verb) ask to obtain free | - |
| beget | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| beggar | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: pauperise, pauperize |
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| (verb) be beyond the resources of | - |
| begild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: engild, gild |
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| begin | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: commence, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
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| (verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: commence, lead off, start |
| (verb) begin to speak or say | - |
| (verb) begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language | - |
| (verb) achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative | - |
| (verb) begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object | Synonyms: start |
| (verb) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense | Synonyms: start |
| (verb) be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series | - |
| (verb) have a beginning characterized in some specified way | Synonyms: start |
| (verb) have a beginning, of a temporal event | - |
| begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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| begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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| (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
| beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
| behave | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: comport |
| behead | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: decapitate, decollate |
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| behold | (verb) see with attention | Synonyms: lay eyes on |
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| behoove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behove |
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| behove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behoove |
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| bejewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: jewel |
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| belabor | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabour |
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| (verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabour |
| (verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabour |
| belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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| (verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
| (verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
| belay | (verb) fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | - |
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| (verb) turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him | - |
| belch | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: bubble, burp, eruct |
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| (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: erupt, extravasate |
| beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
| belie | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: misrepresent |
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| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
| believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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| (verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
| (verb) credit with veracity | - |
| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
| belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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| (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
| bell | (verb) attach a bell to | - |
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| bellow | (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bawl |
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| (verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: roar |
| belly | (verb) swell out or bulge out | Synonyms: belly out |
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| bellyache | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
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| bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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| belong | (verb) be owned by; be in the possession of | - |
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| (verb) be rightly classified in a class or category | - |
| (verb) be suitable or acceptable | - |
| (verb) be in the right place or situation | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) be a part or adjunct | Synonyms: belong to |
| (verb) be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place) | - |
| belt | (verb) deliver a blow to | - |
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| (verb) fasten with a belt | - |
| (verb) sing loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: belt out |
| bemire | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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| bemoan | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bewail, deplore, lament |
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| bemock | (verb) treat with contempt | Synonyms: mock |
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| bemuse | (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bewilder, discombobulate, throw |
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| bench | (verb) To lift a weight using a bench press | - |
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| (verb) To exercise using a bench press | - |
| (verb) exhibit on a bench | - |
| (verb) take out of a game; of players | - |
| bend | (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: deform, flex, turn, twist |
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| (verb) bend a joint | Synonyms: flex |
| (verb) form a curve | Synonyms: flex |
| (verb) change direction | - |
| (verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: deflect, turn away |
| (verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bow, crouch, stoop |
| benday | (verb) reproduce by the Benday process | - |
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| benefact | (verb) help as a benefactor | - |
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| benefice | (verb) endow with a benefice | - |
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| beneficiate | (verb) process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
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| benefit | (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: gain, profit |
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| (verb) be beneficial for | Synonyms: do good |
| benficiate | (verb) subject to a reduction process | - |
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| benight | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: bedim |
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| (verb) envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness | - |
| (verb) overtake with darkness or night | - |
| benumb | (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: blunt, dull, numb |
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| beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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| bequeath | (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: leave, will |
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| berate | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| bereave | (verb) deprive through death | - |
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| berry | (verb) pick or gather berries | - |
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| berth | (verb) secure in or as if in a berth or dock | Synonyms: moor, tie up |
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| (verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: moor, wharf |
| (verb) provide with a berth | - |
| beseech | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, bid, conjure, entreat, press |
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| beseem | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: befit, suit |
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| beset | (verb) assail or attack on all sides: | Synonyms: set upon |
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| (verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: encrust, incrust |
| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
| beshrew | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
| (verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
| besmear | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: bedaub |
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| besmirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| (verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: smirch |
| besot | (verb) make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation | Synonyms: stupefy |
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| bespangle | (verb) dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects | - |
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| (verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: spangle |
| bespatter | (verb) spot, splash, or soil | Synonyms: spatter |
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| bespeak | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, call for, quest, request |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: betoken, indicate, point, signal |
| bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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| bespot | (verb) mark with, or as if with, spots | - |
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| besprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
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| best | (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: outdo, outflank, scoop, trump |
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| bestialise | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialize |
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| bestialize | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialise |
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| bestir | (verb) become active | Synonyms: rouse |
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| bestow | (verb) present | Synonyms: confer |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bring, contribute, impart, lend |
| (verb) give as a gift | - |
| bestrew | (verb) cover by strewing | - |
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| bestride | (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount, mount up |
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| bet | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, calculate, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
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| (verb) maintain with or as if with a bet | Synonyms: wager |
| (verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: play, wager |
| bethink | (verb) consider or ponder something carefully | - |
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| (verb) cause oneself to consider something | - |
| betide | (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
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| betoken | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, indicate, point, signal |
| betray | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: bewray |
| (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: deceive, lead astray |
| (verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: fail |
| (verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: sell |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
| betroth | (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, engage, plight |
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| better | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, improve, meliorate |
| (verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: break |
| bevel | (verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: chamfer |
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| bewail | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, deplore, lament |
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| beware | (verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: mind |
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| bewhisker | (verb) furnish with whiskers | Synonyms: whisker |
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| bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |
| bewitch | (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
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| (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: enchant, glamour, hex, jinx, witch |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| bewray | (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: betray |
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| bias | (verb) cause to be biased | Synonyms: predetermine |
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| (verb) influence in an unfair way | - |
| bib | (verb) drink moderately but regularly | Synonyms: tipple |
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| bicker | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| bicycle | (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bike, cycle, pedal, wheel |
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| bid | (verb) ask someone in a friendly way to do something | Synonyms: invite |
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| (verb) invoke upon | Synonyms: wish |
| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, conjure, entreat, press |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: offer, tender |
| (verb) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands | Synonyms: call |
| (verb) make a serious effort to attain something | - |
| bide | (verb) dwell | Synonyms: abide, stay |
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