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 |
alibi | (verb) exonerate by means of an alibi | - |
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ambition | (verb) have as one's ambition | - |
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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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assibilate | (verb) change into a sibilant | - |
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(verb) insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) | - |
automobile | (verb) travel in an automobile | - |
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babbitt | (verb) line with a Babbitt metal | - |
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backbite | (verb) say mean things | Synonyms: bitch |
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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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biff | (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: pommel, pummel |
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bifurcate | (verb) divide into two branches | - |
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(verb) split or divide into two | - |
bight | (verb) fasten with a bight | - |
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bike | (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, cycle, pedal, wheel |
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bilge | (verb) take in water at the bilge | Synonyms: take in water |
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(verb) cause to leak | - |
bilk | (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: elude, evade |
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(verb) evade payment to | - |
(verb) cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money | - |
(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
bill | (verb) advertise especially by posters or placards | - |
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(verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: placard |
(verb) demand payment | Synonyms: charge |
billet | (verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: canton, quarter |
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billow | (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: balloon, inflate |
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(verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: heave, surge |
(verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: wallow |
(verb) move with great difficulty | - |
bin | (verb) store in bins | - |
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bind | (verb) cause to be constipated | Synonyms: constipate |
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(verb) form a chemical bond with | - |
(verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: hold, obligate, oblige |
(verb) make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope | - |
(verb) fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord | Synonyms: tie |
(verb) provide with a binding | - |
(verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to |
(verb) secure with or as if with ropes | Synonyms: tie down, tie up, truss |
(verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bandage |
(verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bond, tie |
binge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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(verb) to watch a large amount of media in a single seating | - |
bioassay | (verb) subject to a bio-assay | - |
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biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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birch | (verb) whip with a birch twig | - |
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bird | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: birdwatch |
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birdie | (verb) shoot in one stroke under par | - |
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birdlime | (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: lime |
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birdnest | (verb) gather birdnests | Synonyms: bird-nest |
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birdwatch | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: bird |
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birl | (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: spin, twirl, whirl |
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(verb) cause a floating log to rotate by treading | Synonyms: birle |
birle | (verb) cause a floating log to rotate by treading | Synonyms: birl |
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birr | (verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: purr, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz |
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birth | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, deliver, give birth, have |
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bisect | (verb) cut in half or cut in two | - |
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bitch | (verb) say mean things | Synonyms: backbite |
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(verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
bite | (verb) to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws | Synonyms: seize with teeth |
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(verb) penetrate or cut, as with a knife | - |
(verb) deliver a sting to | Synonyms: prick, sting |
(verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: burn, sting |
bitt | (verb) secure with a bitt | - |
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bitter | (verb) make bitter | - |
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bituminise | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminize |
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bituminize | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminise |
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bivouac | (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: camp, camp out, encamp, tent |
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bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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cabin | (verb) confine to a small space, such as a cabin | - |
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cohabit | (verb) share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple | Synonyms: live together, shack up |
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(verb) exist together | Synonyms: coexist |
combine | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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(verb) put or add together | Synonyms: compound |
(verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: compound |
(verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: aggregate |
(verb) add together from different sources | - |
(verb) join for a common purpose or in a common action | - |
(verb) have or possess in combination | Synonyms: unite |
debilitate | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: drain, enfeeble |
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debit | (verb) enter as debit | - |
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demobilise | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilize |
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(verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilize, inactivate |
demobilize | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilise |
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(verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, inactivate |
destabilise | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
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(verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
destabilize | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
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(verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
disambiguate | (verb) state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from | - |
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embitter | (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, envenom |
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exhibit | (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: march, parade |
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(verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, present, show |
(verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, expose |
(verb) show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill | - |
forbid | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent |
furbish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, burnish |
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habilitate | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, raiment, tog |
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(verb) qualify for teaching at a university in Europe | - |
habit | (verb) put a habit on | - |
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habituate | (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) | Synonyms: accustom |
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(verb) take or consume (regularly or habitually) | Synonyms: use |
harbinger | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, herald |
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imbibe | (verb) receive into the mind and retain | - |
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(verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: drink |
(verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilate |
(verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
immobilise | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilize |
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(verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilize |
(verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilize |
(verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilize |
(verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilize, pin, trap |
(verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilize |
immobilize | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilise |
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(verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilise |
(verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
(verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilise |
(verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilise, pin, trap |
(verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
inhabit | (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, live, populate |
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(verb) be present in | - |
(verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: dwell |
inhibit | (verb) prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something | - |
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(verb) make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally | - |
(verb) consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior | Synonyms: bottle up, suppress |
(verb) limit, block, or decrease the action or function of | - |
jackrabbit | (verb) go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement | - |
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jubilate | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, rejoice, triumph |
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(verb) celebrate a jubilee | - |
kibbitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibitz |
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kibitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibbitz |
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labialise | (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialize, round |
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labialize | (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, round |
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mobilise | (verb) cause to move around | Synonyms: mobilize |
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(verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: marshal, mobilize, summon |
(verb) get ready for war | Synonyms: mobilize |
(verb) call to arms; of military personnel | Synonyms: call up, mobilize, rally |
mobilize | (verb) cause to move around | Synonyms: mobilise |
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(verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: marshal, mobilise, summon |
(verb) get ready for war | Synonyms: mobilise |
(verb) call to arms; of military personnel | Synonyms: call up, mobilise, rally |
motorbike | (verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: cycle, motorcycle |
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obnubilate | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, confuse, obscure |
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(verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obscure |
orbit | (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, revolve |
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outbid | (verb) bid higher than others | - |
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(verb) bid over an opponent's bid when one's partner has not bid or doubled | - |
overbid | (verb) bid more than the object is worth | - |
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(verb) to bid for more tricks than one can expect to win | - |
prohibit | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, proscribe, veto |
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rabbit | (verb) hunt rabbits | - |
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rebind | (verb) provide with a new binding | - |
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recombine | (verb) undergo genetic recombination | - |
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(verb) cause genetic recombination | - |
(verb) to combine or put together again | - |
refurbish | (verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, renovate |
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rehabilitate | (verb) help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute | - |
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(verb) reinstall politically | - |
(verb) restore to a state of good condition or operation | - |
rubbish | (verb) attack strongly | - |
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rubify | (verb) make ruby red | - |
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sensibilise | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilize, sensify, sensitise, sensitize |
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sensibilize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensify, sensitise, sensitize |
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sibilate | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: hiss, siss, sizz |
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(verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: hiss, siss, sizz |
(verb) utter a sibilant | - |
(verb) pronounce with an initial sibilant | - |
snowmobile | (verb) ride a snowmobile | - |
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spellbind | (verb) put into a trance | Synonyms: entrance |
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(verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize |
(verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, grip, transfix |
stabilise | (verb) become stable or more stable | Synonyms: stabilize |
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(verb) make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium | Synonyms: stabilize |
(verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilize, steady |
stabilize | (verb) become stable or more stable | Synonyms: stabilise |
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(verb) make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium | Synonyms: stabilise |
(verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilise, steady |