| consecrate | (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, hallow, sanctify |
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| (verb) dedicate to a deity by a vow | Synonyms: vow |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, dedicate, devote, give |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: ordain, order, ordinate |
| crab | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
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| (verb) fish for crab | - |
| (verb) scurry sideways like a crab | - |
| (verb) direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind | - |
| crack | (verb) break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension | Synonyms: snap |
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| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, check |
| (verb) break partially but keep its integrity | - |
| (verb) cause to become cracked | - |
| (verb) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking | - |
| (verb) break into simpler molecules by means of heat | - |
| (verb) pass through (a barrier) | Synonyms: break through |
| (verb) tell spontaneously | - |
| (verb) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise | - |
| (verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up |
| (verb) make a sharp sound | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a very sharp explosive sound | - |
| (verb) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions | - |
| crackle | (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
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| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
| cradle | (verb) run with the stick | - |
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| (verb) hold gently and carefully | - |
| (verb) wash in a cradle | - |
| (verb) cut grain with a cradle scythe | - |
| (verb) hold or place in or as if in a cradle | - |
| (verb) bring up from infancy | - |
| craft | (verb) make by hand and with much skill | - |
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| cram | (verb) prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam | - |
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| (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, jam, jampack, ram, wad |
| (verb) put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled | - |
| cramp | (verb) suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle | - |
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| (verb) affect with or as if with a cramp | - |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: halter, hamper, strangle |
| (verb) secure with a cramp | - |
| cranch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: craunch, crunch, grind |
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| crane | (verb) stretch (the neck) so as to see better | Synonyms: stretch out |
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| crank | (verb) rotate with a crank | Synonyms: crank up |
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| (verb) bend into the shape of a crank | - |
| (verb) fasten with a crank | - |
| (verb) start by cranking | Synonyms: crank up |
| (verb) travel along a zigzag path | Synonyms: zigzag |
| crap | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, defecate, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| crape | (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink, kink up |
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| (verb) cover or drape with crape | Synonyms: crepe |
| crash | (verb) sleep in a convenient place | Synonyms: doss, doss down |
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| (verb) stop operating | Synonyms: go down |
| (verb) undergo a sudden and severe downturn | - |
| (verb) undergo damage or destruction on impact | Synonyms: ram |
| (verb) break violently or noisily; smash | Synonyms: break apart, break up |
| (verb) cause to crash | - |
| (verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: dash |
| (verb) enter uninvited; informal | Synonyms: barge in, gate-crash |
| (verb) move with, or as if with, a crashing noise | - |
| (verb) fall or come down violently | - |
| (verb) move violently as through a barrier | - |
| (verb) make a sudden loud sound | - |
| (verb) occupy, usually uninvited | - |
| crate | (verb) put into a crate; as for protection | - |
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| craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
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| crave | (verb) plead or ask for earnestly | - |
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| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: hunger, lust, starve, thirst |
| crawfish | (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw |
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| crawl | (verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: creep |
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| (verb) swim by doing the crawl | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
| (verb) be full of | - |
| (verb) feel as if crawling with insects | - |
| crayon | (verb) write, draw, or trace with a crayon | - |
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| craze | (verb) develop a fine network of cracks | - |
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| (verb) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind | Synonyms: madden |
| deconsecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: desecrate, unhallow |
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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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| 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 |
| 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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| macrame | (verb) make knotted patterns | - |
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| 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 | - |
| reconsecrate | (verb) consecrate anew, as after a desecration | - |
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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 |
| 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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| uncrate | (verb) remove from the crate | - |
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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 |
| wisecrack | (verb) make a comment, usually ironic | - |
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