| abduct | (verb) pull away from the body | - |
|---|
| (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: kidnap, nobble, snatch |
| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
|---|
| abreact | (verb) discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization | - |
|---|
| abstract | (verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically | - |
|---|
| (verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance | - |
| (verb) give an abstract (of) | - |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| act | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
|---|
| (verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind | Synonyms: act as, play |
| (verb) discharge one's duties | - |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: play, represent |
| (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: play, playact, roleplay |
| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: dissemble, pretend |
| (verb) perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) | Synonyms: move |
| (verb) have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected | Synonyms: work |
| (verb) be suitable for theatrical performance | - |
| action | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
|---|
| (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: litigate, process, sue |
| activate | (verb) make active or more active | - |
|---|
| (verb) make (substances) radioactive | - |
| (verb) aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter | Synonyms: aerate |
| (verb) make more adsorptive | - |
| (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
| actualise | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualize |
|---|
| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualize, realise, realize, substantiate |
| actualize | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualise |
|---|
| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, realise, realize, substantiate |
| actuate | (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
|---|
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: incite, motivate, move, prompt, propel |
| addict | (verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | Synonyms: hook |
|---|
| adduct | (verb) draw a limb towards the body | - |
|---|
| advect | (verb) convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid | - |
|---|
| affect | (verb) act physically on; have an effect upon | - |
|---|
| (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on |
| (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: dissemble, feign, pretend, sham |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: impress, move, strike |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: involve, regard |
| afflict | (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in | Synonyms: smite |
|---|
| (verb) cause great unhappiness for; distress | - |
| attract | (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: draw, draw in, pull, pull in |
|---|
| (verb) exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away | - |
| (verb) be attractive to | Synonyms: appeal |
| auction | (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction off, auctioneer |
|---|
| auctioneer | (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction, auction off |
|---|
| bacterise | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterize |
|---|
| bacterize | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterise |
|---|
| benefact | (verb) help as a benefactor | - |
|---|
| bisect | (verb) cut in half or cut in two | - |
|---|
| cathect | (verb) inject with libidinal energy | - |
|---|
| character | (verb) engrave or inscribe characters on | - |
|---|
| characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
|---|
| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
| characterize | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, qualify |
|---|
| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterise |
| coact | (verb) act together, as of organisms | - |
|---|
| collect | (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: garner, gather, pull together |
|---|
| (verb) get or bring together | Synonyms: pull in |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| (verb) call for and obtain payment of | Synonyms: take in |
| (verb) gather or collect | Synonyms: call for, gather up, pick up |
| collectivise | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivize |
|---|
| collectivize | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivise |
|---|
| compact | (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
|---|
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, pack, wad |
| (verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compress, pack together |
| (verb) have the property of being packable or of compacting easily | Synonyms: pack |
| complect | (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: interconnect, interlink |
|---|
| concoct | (verb) make a concoction (of) by mixing | - |
|---|
| (verb) devise or invent | Synonyms: dream up, hatch, think of, think up |
| (verb) prepare or cook by mixing ingredients | Synonyms: cook up |
| (verb) invent | Synonyms: trump up |
| conduct | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, deport, do |
|---|
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: direct, lead |
| (verb) lead musicians in the performance of | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, convey, impart, transmit |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: direct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) direct the course of; manage or control | Synonyms: carry on, deal |
| confect | (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: comfit, confection |
|---|
| (verb) make or construct | - |
| confection | (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: comfit, confect |
|---|
| conflict | (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: contravene, infringe, run afoul |
|---|
| (verb) be in conflict | - |
| conjecture | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
|---|
| connect | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, link, link up, relate, tie in |
|---|
| (verb) join for the purpose of communication | - |
| (verb) join by means of communication equipment | - |
| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: link, link up, tie |
| (verb) land on or hit solidly | - |
| (verb) plug into an outlet | Synonyms: plug in, plug into |
| (verb) hit or play a ball successfully | - |
| (verb) establish communication with someone | Synonyms: get in touch, touch base |
| (verb) establish a rapport or relationship | - |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: join, link, link up, unite |
| (verb) be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation | - |
| constrict | (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constringe, narrow |
|---|
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, contract, press, squeeze |
| construct | (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: reconstruct, retrace |
|---|
| (verb) draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, make |
| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: fabricate, manufacture |
| (verb) create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts | - |
| (verb) create by linking linguistic units | - |
| contact | (verb) be in or establish communication with | Synonyms: get hold of, get through, reach |
|---|
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, meet, touch |
| contract | (verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: get, take |
|---|
| (verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: narrow |
| (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: shrink |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
| (verb) enter into a contractual arrangement | Synonyms: undertake |
| (verb) make smaller | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, press, squeeze |
| (verb) engage by written agreement | Synonyms: sign, sign on, sign up |
| contradict | (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: negate |
|---|
| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contravene, negate |
| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: controvert, oppose |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, negate |
| convect | (verb) circulate hot air by convection | - |
|---|
| convict | (verb) find or declare guilty | - |
|---|
| correct | (verb) treat a defect | - |
|---|
| (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: rectify, right |
| (verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard | Synonyms: adjust, set |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, objurgate |
| (verb) fall in value | Synonyms: decline, slump |
| (verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: discipline, sort out |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, redress, right |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| counteract | (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonise, antagonize |
|---|
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: countercheck |
| (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counterbalance, countervail, neutralize |
| deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
|---|
| (verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
| decoct | (verb) extract the essence of something by boiling it | - |
|---|
| (verb) steep in hot water | - |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, reduce |
| deconstruct | (verb) interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing | - |
|---|
| deduct | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, derive, infer |
|---|
| (verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: subtract, take off |
| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: recoup, withhold |
| defect | (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: desert |
|---|
| deflect | (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: block, parry |
|---|
| (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: distract |
| (verb) turn aside and away from an initial or intended course | - |
| (verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: bend, turn away |
| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| deject | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
|---|
| depict | (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: describe, draw |
|---|
| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: picture, render, show |
| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: limn, portray |
| derestrict | (verb) make free from restrictions | - |
|---|
| destruct | (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destroy |
|---|
| (verb) destroy (one's own missile or rocket) | - |
| detect | (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: discover, find, notice, observe |
|---|
| detract | (verb) take away a part from; diminish | Synonyms: take away |
|---|
| dictate | (verb) say out loud for the purpose of recording | - |
|---|
| (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: order, prescribe |
| (verb) rule as a dictator | - |
| diffract | (verb) undergo diffraction | - |
|---|
| direct | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
|---|
| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, calculate |
| (verb) command with authority | - |
| (verb) give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, train |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, place, point, target |
| (verb) guide the actors in (plays and films) | - |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, lead |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: send |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) govern or manage | - |
| disaffect | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, estrange |
|---|
| disconnect | (verb) make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten | - |
|---|
| (verb) pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable | Synonyms: unplug |
| disinfect | (verb) destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing | - |
|---|
| disrespect | (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disesteem |
|---|
| (verb) show a lack of respect for | - |
| dissect | (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, break down, take apart |
|---|
| (verb) cut open or cut apart | - |
| distract | (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: deflect |
|---|
| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| district | (verb) regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns | Synonyms: zone |
|---|
| doctor | (verb) give medical treatment to | - |
|---|
| (verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | Synonyms: doctor up, sophisticate |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| effect | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effectuate, set up |
|---|
| (verb) act so as to bring into existence | - |
| effectuate | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effect, set up |
|---|
| eject | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, exhaust, expel, release |
|---|
| (verb) cause to come out in a squirt | Synonyms: force out, squeeze out, squirt |
| (verb) put out or expel from a place | Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, exclude, turf out, turn out |
| (verb) leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule | - |
| elect | (verb) choose | - |
|---|
| (verb) select by a vote for an office or membership | - |
| electioneer | (verb) work actively for a political candidate or a party | - |
|---|
| electrify | (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: wire |
|---|
| (verb) charge (a conductor) with electricity | - |
| (verb) excite suddenly and intensely | - |
| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
|---|
| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| electroplate | (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
|---|
| enact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, reenact |
|---|
| (verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: ordain |
| erect | (verb) construct, build, or erect | Synonyms: put up, raise, rear, set up |
|---|
| (verb) cause to rise up | Synonyms: rear |
| eruct | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, burp |
|---|
| (verb) eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical | Synonyms: spew, spew out |
| evict | (verb) expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process | Synonyms: force out |
|---|
| (verb) expel or eject without recourse to legal process | - |
| exact | (verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: demand |
|---|
| (verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: claim, take |
| expect | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, carry, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
|---|
| (verb) look forward to the birth of a child | - |
| (verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: anticipate |
| (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, look, wait |
| (verb) consider reasonable or due | - |
| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, require |
| expectorate | (verb) discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth | Synonyms: cough out, cough up, spit out, spit up |
|---|
| (verb) clear out the chest and lungs | Synonyms: clear out, drive out |
| extract | (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill |
|---|
| (verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: excerpt, take out |
| (verb) calculate the root of a number | - |
| (verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, pull, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
| (verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: express, press out |
| (verb) separate (a metal) from an ore | - |
| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, evoke |
| (verb) get despite difficulties or obstacles | - |
| factor | (verb) resolve into factors | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
|---|
| (verb) consider as relevant when making a decision | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
| (verb) be a contributing factor | - |
| factorise | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorize |
|---|
| factorize | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorise |
|---|
| fictionalise | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalize, novelise, novelize |
|---|
| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalize, retell |
| fictionalize | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, novelise, novelize |
|---|
| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, retell |
| fluctuate | (verb) be unstable | - |
|---|
| (verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: vacillate, waver |
| (verb) cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern | - |
| fraction | (verb) perform a division | Synonyms: divide |
|---|
| fractionate | (verb) obtain by a fractional process | - |
|---|
| (verb) separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents | - |
| fracture | (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: break |
|---|
| (verb) become fractured | - |
| (verb) violate or abuse | - |
| (verb) break into pieces | - |
| (verb) interrupt, break, or destroy | - |
| fructify | (verb) produce fruit | Synonyms: set |
|---|
| (verb) become productive or fruitful | - |
| (verb) make productive or fruitful | - |
| function | (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: officiate |
|---|
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: go, operate, run, work |
| (verb) serve a purpose, role, or function | Synonyms: serve |
| genuflect | (verb) bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image | - |
|---|
| (verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: kowtow, scrape |
| hectograph | (verb) copy on a duplicator | - |
|---|