| decrease | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: diminish, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: lessen, minify |
| decree | (verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: rule |
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| (verb) issue a decree | - |
| decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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| (verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
| decrescendo | (verb) grow quieter | - |
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| decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| decriminalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| decry | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate |
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| decrypt | (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decipher, decode |
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| democratise | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
| democratize | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
| desacralize | (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: secularize |
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| describe | (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
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| (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, draw |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, report |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, draw, line, trace |
| descry | (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: espy, spot, spy |
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| desecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: deconsecrate, unhallow |
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| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: outrage, profane, violate |
| discredit | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: disbelieve |
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| (verb) cause to be distrusted or disbelieved | - |
| (verb) damage the reputation of | Synonyms: disgrace |
| discriminate | (verb) recognize or perceive the difference | Synonyms: know apart |
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| (verb) distinguish | - |
| (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: separate, single out |
| encrimson | (verb) make crimson | - |
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| encroach | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: impinge, infringe |
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| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: entrench, impinge, trench |
| encrust | (verb) form a crust or a hard layer | Synonyms: incrust |
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| (verb) cover or coat with a crust | Synonyms: incrust |
| (verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: beset, incrust |
| encrypt | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, inscribe, write in code |
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| excrete | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, pass |
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| excruciate | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: rack, torment, torture |
| execrate | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate |
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| (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, abominate, loathe |
| handcraft | (verb) make something by hand | - |
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| increase | (verb) become bigger or greater in amount | - |
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| (verb) make bigger or more | - |
| incriminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, impeach |
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| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, inculpate |
| incrust | (verb) form a crust or a hard layer | Synonyms: encrust |
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| (verb) cover or coat with a crust | Synonyms: encrust |
| (verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: beset, encrust |
| inscribe | (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: autograph |
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| (verb) address, (a work of literature) in a style less formal than a dedication | - |
| (verb) write, engrave, or print as a lasting record | - |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, write in code |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, scratch |
| (verb) draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible | - |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, raise, recruit |
| macrame | (verb) make knotted patterns | - |
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| massacre | (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: mow down, slaughter |
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| microcopy | (verb) photocopy printed or other graphic matter so that it is reduced in size | - |
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| microfilm | (verb) record on microfilm | - |
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| microwave | (verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven | Synonyms: micro-cook, nuke, zap |
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| miscreate | (verb) shape or form or make badly | - |
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| necrose | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, mortify, sphacelate |
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| outcrop | (verb) appear on the surface, come to the surface on the ground | - |
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| outcry | (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, shout |
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| (verb) shout louder than | Synonyms: outshout |
| overcrop | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcultivate |
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| overcrowd | (verb) crowd together too much | - |
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| (verb) cause to crowd together too much | - |
| prescribe | (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, order |
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| (verb) (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription | - |
| (verb) recommend as beneficial | - |
| procrastinate | (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, stall |
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| (verb) postpone or delay needlessly | - |
| procreate | (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: multiply, reproduce |
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| proscribe | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, veto |
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| reconsecrate | (verb) consecrate anew, as after a desecration | - |
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| recreate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind | Synonyms: re-create |
| (verb) produce or make another of | Synonyms: re-create |
| (verb) make a replica of | Synonyms: copy, re-create |
| (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, embolden, hearten |
| (verb) engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion | Synonyms: play |
| recriminate | (verb) return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return | - |
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| recrudesce | (verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, erupt |
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| (verb) happen | Synonyms: break, develop |
| recruit | (verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: levy, raise |
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| (verb) seek to employ | - |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, inscribe, raise |
| sacrifice | (verb) kill or destroy | - |
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| (verb) endure the loss of | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals | - |
| (verb) sell at a loss | - |
| scrabble | (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scribble |
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| (verb) feel searchingly | Synonyms: grope for |
| scrag | (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, garrotte |
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| (verb) wring the neck of | Synonyms: choke |
| scram | (verb) leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form | Synonyms: bugger off, buzz off, fuck off, get |
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| 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 |
| scranch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scraunch |
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| scrap | (verb) make into scrap or refuse | - |
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| (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, dispute, quarrel |
| (verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: junk, trash |
| scrape | (verb) scratch repeatedly | Synonyms: grate |
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| (verb) bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of | Synonyms: skin |
| (verb) cut the surface of; wear away the surface of | Synonyms: scratch, scratch up |
| (verb) gather (money or other resources) together over time | Synonyms: come up, scrape up, scratch |
| (verb) make by scraping | - |
| (verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: genuflect, kowtow |
| scratch | (verb) cut the surface of; wear away the surface of | Synonyms: scrape, scratch up |
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| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, rub |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, inscribe |
| (verb) gather (money or other resources) together over time | Synonyms: come up, scrape, scrape up |
| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, expunge, strike |
| (verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: itch, rub |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scrub |
| scraunch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scranch |
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| scrawl | (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scribble |
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| screak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screech, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
| scream | (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
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| (verb) utter or declare in a very loud voice | Synonyms: yell |
| (verb) make a loud, piercing sound | - |
| screech | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, skreak, squeak, whine |
| screen | (verb) examine methodically | - |
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| (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm | Synonyms: shield |
| (verb) prevent from entering | Synonyms: block out |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: riddle |
| (verb) project onto a screen for viewing | - |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen out, sieve, sort |
| (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: test |
| screenshot | (verb) to capture an image from a computer's display | - |
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| screw | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, shaft |
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| (verb) tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions | - |
| (verb) cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion | Synonyms: drive in |
| (verb) turn like a screw | - |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, sleep together, sleep with |
| scribble | (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scrabble |
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| (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scrawl |
| scribe | (verb) score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking | - |
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| scrimmage | (verb) practice playing (a sport) | - |
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| scrimp | (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
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| scrimshank | (verb) avoid work | - |
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| script | (verb) write a script for | - |
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| scroll | (verb) move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen | - |
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| scrounge | (verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: forage |
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| (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, schnorr, shnorr |
| scrub | (verb) wash thoroughly | Synonyms: scrub up |
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| (verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scour |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scratch |
| scrunch | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, thud |
| scruple | (verb) have doubts about | - |
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| (verb) raise scruples | - |
| (verb) hesitate on moral grounds | - |
| scrutinise | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, inspect, scrutinize |
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| (verb) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail | Synonyms: scrutinize, size up, take stock |
| scrutinize | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, inspect, scrutinise |
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| (verb) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail | Synonyms: scrutinise, size up, take stock |
| scry | (verb) divine by gazing into crystals | - |
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| secrete | (verb) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids | Synonyms: release |
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| (verb) place out of sight; keep secret | - |
| silkscreen | (verb) print by silkscreen | - |
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| subscribe | (verb) mark with one's signature; write one's name (on) | Synonyms: sign |
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| (verb) adopt as a belief | Synonyms: support |
| (verb) receive or obtain regularly | Synonyms: subscribe to, take |
| (verb) offer to buy, as of stocks and shares | - |
| (verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: pledge |
| superscribe | (verb) write on the outside or upper part of | - |
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| (verb) write on the top or outside | - |
| syncretise | (verb) become fused | Synonyms: syncretize |
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| (verb) unite (beliefs or conflicting principles) | Synonyms: syncretize |
| syncretize | (verb) become fused | Synonyms: syncretise |
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| (verb) unite (beliefs or conflicting principles) | Synonyms: syncretise |
| transcribe | (verb) convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA | - |
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| (verb) rewrite in a different script | Synonyms: transliterate |
| (verb) write out from speech, notes, etc. | - |
| (verb) make a phonetic transcription of | - |
| (verb) rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended | - |
| uncrate | (verb) remove from the crate | - |
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| uncross | (verb) change from a crossed to an uncrossed position | - |
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| 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 |
| unscrew | (verb) loosen something by unscrewing it | - |
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| (verb) loosen by turning | - |
| velcro | (verb) fasten with Velcro | - |
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| wisecrack | (verb) make a comment, usually ironic | - |
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