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 | - |
bribe | (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: buy, corrupt, grease one's palms |
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brick | (verb) To stop working (of an electronic device) | - |
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bridge | (verb) make a bridge across | - |
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(verb) cross over on a bridge | - |
(verb) connect or reduce the distance between | Synonyms: bridge over |
bridle | (verb) respond to the reins, as of horses | - |
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(verb) put a bridle on | - |
(verb) anger or take offense | - |
brief | (verb) give essential information to someone | - |
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brigade | (verb) form or unite into a brigade | - |
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brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
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(verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
brim | (verb) fill as much as possible | - |
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(verb) be completely full | - |
brine | (verb) soak in brine | - |
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bring | (verb) bring into a different state | Synonyms: land |
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(verb) induce or persuade | - |
(verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: convey, fetch, get |
(verb) be accompanied by | - |
(verb) cause to come into a particular state or condition | - |
(verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: make for, play, work, wreak |
(verb) advance or set forth in court | Synonyms: institute |
(verb) attract the attention of | - |
(verb) take something or somebody with oneself somewhere | Synonyms: convey, take |
(verb) be sold for a certain price | Synonyms: bring in, fetch |
(verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, contribute, impart, lend |
brisk | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk up, brisken |
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brisken | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk, brisk up |
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bristle | (verb) react in an offended or angry manner | - |
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(verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: stand up, uprise |
(verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, burst |
(verb) have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles | - |
debrief | (verb) put someone through a debriefing and make him report | - |
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defibrillate | (verb) stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks | - |
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defibrinate | (verb) remove fibrin from (blood) | - |
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embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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equilibrise | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize |
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equilibrize | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrise |
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fabricate | (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, invent, make up, manufacture |
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(verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, manufacture |
fibrillate | (verb) make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements | - |
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goldbrick | (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, shirk, shrink from |
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(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
hybridise | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridize, interbreed |
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hybridize | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, interbreed |
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imbricate | (verb) overlap | - |
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(verb) place so as to overlap | - |
inebriate | (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, soak, souse |
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(verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: intoxicate, soak |
(verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, thrill, tickle pink |
lubricate | (verb) make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant | - |
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(verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lube |
(verb) have lubricating properties | - |
prefabricate | (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: preassemble |
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(verb) produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally | - |
rubric | (verb) adorn with ruby red color | - |
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rubricate | (verb) sign with a mark instead of a name | - |
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(verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: miniate |
(verb) furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics | - |
(verb) place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint | - |
unbridle | (verb) remove the bridle from (a horse or mule) | - |
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