ennoble | (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: entitle, gentle |
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(verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: dignify |
establish | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, prove, shew, show |
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(verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: lay down, make |
(verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, found, ground |
(verb) place | Synonyms: instal, install, set up |
(verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, found, institute, plant |
(verb) bring about | Synonyms: give |
(verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: build |
(verb) set up or found | Synonyms: found, launch, set up |
fumble | (verb) drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder | - |
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(verb) feel about uncertainly or blindly | Synonyms: grope |
(verb) handle clumsily | - |
(verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: blunder |
(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
gabble | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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gamble | (verb) play games for money | - |
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(verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
garble | (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, falsify, warp |
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gobble | (verb) make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys | - |
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(verb) eat hastily without proper chewing | Synonyms: bolt |
grumble | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, murmur, mutter |
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(verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grouch, scold |
(verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, rumble |
(verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: rumble |
hobble | (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hopple |
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(verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hitch, limp |
(verb) hamper the action or progress of | - |
humble | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humiliate, mortify |
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(verb) cause to be unpretentious | - |
jumble | (verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: scramble, throw together |
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(verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: confuse, mix up |
(verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: mingle |
marble | (verb) paint or stain like marble | - |
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marbleise | (verb) make something look like marble | Synonyms: marbleize |
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marbleize | (verb) make something look like marble | Synonyms: marbleise |
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mumble | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mussitate, mutter |
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(verb) grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty | Synonyms: gum |
nibble | (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: pick, piece |
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(verb) bite off very small pieces | - |
(verb) bite gently | - |
nobble | (verb) disable by drugging | - |
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(verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, kidnap, snatch |
(verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
obligate | (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, oblige |
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(verb) commit in order to fulfill an obligation | - |
(verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, oblige |
oblige | (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, obligate |
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(verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: accommodate |
(verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, obligate |
obliterate | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: efface |
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(verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obscure, veil |
(verb) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | Synonyms: kill, wipe out |
(verb) do away with completely, without leaving a trace | - |
preamble | (verb) make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document | - |
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preassemble | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: prefabricate |
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publicise | (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, bare, publicize |
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(verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, publicize |
publicize | (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, bare, publicise |
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(verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, publicise |
publish | (verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, issue, put out, release |
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(verb) have (one's work) issued for publication | - |
(verb) put into print | Synonyms: print |
quibble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, squabble |
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(verb) evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections | - |
ramble | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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(verb) continue talking or writing in a desultory manner | Synonyms: jog, ramble on |
reassemble | (verb) assemble once again, after taking something apart | - |
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redouble | (verb) double in magnitude, extent, or intensity | - |
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(verb) make twice as great or intense | - |
(verb) double again | - |
reestablish | (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reinstate, restore |
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republish | (verb) revive (a cancelled will or a libel) | - |
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(verb) publish again | - |
resemble | (verb) appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to | - |
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resublime | (verb) sublime (a compound) once again | - |
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rumble | (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, grumble |
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(verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: grumble |
sandblast | (verb) grind with a sandblast | - |
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scrabble | (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scribble |
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(verb) feel searchingly | Synonyms: grope for |
scramble | (verb) make unintelligible | - |
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(verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: jumble, throw together |
(verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: beat |
(verb) to move hurriedly | - |
(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
scribble | (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scrabble |
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(verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scrawl |
shamble | (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shuffle |
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squabble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble |
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stable | (verb) shelter in a stable | - |
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stumble | (verb) make an error | Synonyms: slip up, trip up |
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(verb) miss a step and fall or nearly fall | Synonyms: trip |
(verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, falter |
(verb) encounter by chance | Synonyms: hit |
sublease | (verb) lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person | Synonyms: sublet |
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sublet | (verb) lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person | Synonyms: sublease |
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sublimate | (verb) vaporize and then condense right back again | Synonyms: sublime |
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(verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, purify |
(verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: rarefy, subtilize |
(verb) change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting | Synonyms: sublime |
(verb) direct energy or urges into useful activities | - |
sublime | (verb) vaporize and then condense right back again | Synonyms: sublimate |
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(verb) change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting | Synonyms: sublimate |
subluxate | (verb) sprain or dislocate slightly | - |
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table | (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: tabularise, tabularize, tabulate |
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(verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve |
treble | (verb) increase threefold | Synonyms: triple |
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(verb) sing treble | - |
tremble | (verb) move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways | - |
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trouble | (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: ail, pain |
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(verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, unhinge |
(verb) move deeply | Synonyms: disturb, upset |
(verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out |
(verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: bother, inconvenience oneself, trouble oneself |
troubleshoot | (verb) solve problems | Synonyms: trouble-shoot |
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tumble | (verb) do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully | - |
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(verb) fall suddenly and sharply | - |
(verb) suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat | - |
(verb) put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying | - |
(verb) understand, usually after some initial difficulty | Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, twig |
(verb) throw together in a confused mass | - |
(verb) fall down, as if collapsing | Synonyms: topple |
(verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, crumple |
(verb) roll over and over, back and forth | - |
(verb) cause to topple or tumble by pushing | Synonyms: tip, topple |
(verb) fly around | Synonyms: whirl, whirl around |
unblock | (verb) make (assets) available | Synonyms: free, release, unfreeze |
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(verb) play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding | - |
(verb) clear or remove an obstruction from | - |
unscramble | (verb) make intelligible | - |
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(verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unknot, unpick, unravel, untangle |
wamble | (verb) move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion | Synonyms: waggle |
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warble | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, trill |
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(verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: descant, yodel |
wobble | (verb) move unsteadily | Synonyms: coggle |
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(verb) tremble or shake | Synonyms: shimmy |
(verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, shift, tilt |