abide | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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(verb) dwell | Synonyms: bide, stay |
abrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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(verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: scour |
accede | (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: bow, defer, give in, submit |
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(verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: acquiesce, assent |
(verb) take on duties or office | Synonyms: enter |
aggrade | (verb) build up to a level by depositing sediment | - |
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allude | (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, touch |
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ambuscade | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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antecede | (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antedate, forego, forgo, precede, predate |
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backslide | (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: lapse |
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barde | (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, caparison, dress up |
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barricade | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
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(verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
bedeck | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedight, deck |
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bedevil | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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(verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
bedew | (verb) cover with drops of dew or as with dew | - |
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bestride | (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount, mount up |
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betide | (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
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bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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(verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |
bide | (verb) dwell | Synonyms: abide, stay |
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biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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(verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
blockade | (verb) impose a blockade on | Synonyms: seal off |
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(verb) obstruct access to | Synonyms: block off |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, stop |
(verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
blunder | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate |
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(verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
(verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: boob, drop the ball, goof, sin |
bode | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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bonderize | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderise |
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border | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
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(verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: environ, ring, skirt, surround |
(verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: frame, frame in |
(verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: edge |
(verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: bound |
brigade | (verb) form or unite into a brigade | - |
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broaden | (verb) become broader | - |
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(verb) make broader | - |
(verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: extend, widen |
(verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, diversify |
broadside | (verb) collide with the broad side of | - |
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brocade | (verb) weave a design into (textiles) | - |
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broider | (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: embroider |
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burden | (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: charge, saddle |
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(verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down |
calender | (verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
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cannonade | (verb) attack with cannons or artillery | - |
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cascade | (verb) arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible | - |
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(verb) rush down in big quantities, like a cascade | Synonyms: cascade down |
cede | (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: deliver, give up, surrender |
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(verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: concede, grant, yield |
chandelle | (verb) climb suddenly and steeply | - |
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chide | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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code | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
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(verb) attach a code to | - |
coincide | (verb) happen simultaneously | Synonyms: concur |
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(verb) go with, fall together | Synonyms: co-occur, cooccur |
(verb) be the same | - |
collide | (verb) crash together with violent impact | Synonyms: clash |
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(verb) cause to collide | - |
(verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: clash, jar |
collude | (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: conspire |
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commandeer | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: highjack, hijack, pirate |
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concede | (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: confess, profess |
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(verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: grant, yield |
(verb) acknowledge defeat | - |
(verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, grant, yield |
conclude | (verb) decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion | Synonyms: reason, reason out |
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(verb) bring to a close | - |
(verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: resolve |
(verb) reach agreement on | - |
(verb) come to a close | Synonyms: close |
condemn | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: decry, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate |
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(verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law | Synonyms: doom, sentence |
(verb) declare or judge unfit for use or habitation | - |
(verb) demonstrate the guilt of (someone) | - |
(verb) appropriate (property) for public use | - |
(verb) compel or force into a particular state or activity | - |
condense | (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, digest |
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(verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: distil, distill |
(verb) cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid | - |
(verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, contract |
(verb) remove water from | - |
(verb) become more compact or concentrated | - |
(verb) develop due to condensation | - |
condescend | (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
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(verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: deign, descend |
(verb) behave in a patronizing and condescending manner | - |
(verb) debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way | Synonyms: lower oneself, stoop |
confederate | (verb) form a group or unite | Synonyms: band together |
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(verb) form a confederation with; of nations | - |
confide | (verb) reveal in private; tell confidentially | - |
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(verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, entrust, intrust, trust |
consider | (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: reckon, regard, see, view |
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(verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: deal, look at, take |
(verb) regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem | - |
(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, conceive, think |
(verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: count, weigh |
(verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: debate, deliberate, moot, turn over |
(verb) give careful consideration to | Synonyms: study |
(verb) look at attentively | Synonyms: regard |
(verb) look at carefully; study mentally | Synonyms: look at, view |
corrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, abrase, rub down, rub off |
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corrode | (verb) become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid | Synonyms: rust |
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(verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: eat, rust |
cowhide | (verb) flog with a cowhide | - |
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crusade | (verb) go on a crusade; fight a holy war | - |
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(verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, fight, press, push |
deaccession | (verb) sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works | - |
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deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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(verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
deaden | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | - |
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(verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: blunt |
(verb) lessen the momentum or velocity of | - |
(verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit | - |
(verb) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | - |
(verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, dampen |
(verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: girdle |
deaerate | (verb) remove air or gas from | Synonyms: de-aerate |
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deaf | (verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deafen |
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deafen | (verb) make soundproof | - |
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(verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deaf |
(verb) be unbearably loud | - |
deal | (verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: consider, look at, take |
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(verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, handle, plow, treat |
(verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: sell, trade |
(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
(verb) distribute cards to the players in a game | - |
(verb) give (a specific card) to a player | - |
(verb) give out as one's portion or share | Synonyms: apportion, divvy up, portion out, share |
(verb) sell (especially of illegal material) | - |
(verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
(verb) direct the course of; manage or control | Synonyms: carry on, conduct |
(verb) behave in a certain way towards others | - |
(verb) take action with respect to (someone or something) | - |
(verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, handle, manage |
deaminate | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminize |
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deaminize | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminate |
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debar | (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: bar, exclude |
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(verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
(verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | Synonyms: suspend |
debark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: disembark, set down |
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debase | (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: alloy |
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(verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, dilute, load, stretch |
(verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
debate | (verb) argue with one another | - |
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(verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: deliberate |
(verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, contend, fence |
(verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, deliberate, moot, turn over |
debauch | (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
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debilitate | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: drain, enfeeble |
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debit | (verb) enter as debit | - |
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debone | (verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: bone |
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debouch | (verb) pass out or emerge; especially of rivers | - |
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(verb) march out (as from a defile) into open ground | Synonyms: march out |
debrief | (verb) put someone through a debriefing and make him report | - |
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debug | (verb) locate and correct errors in a computer program code | - |
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debunk | (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: expose |
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debut | (verb) appear for the first time in public | - |
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(verb) make one's debut | - |
(verb) present for the first time to the public | - |
decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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decalcify | (verb) remove calcium or lime from | - |
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(verb) lose calcium or calcium compounds | - |
decamp | (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: skip, vamoose |
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(verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, bolt, go off, make off, run off |
(verb) leave a camp | Synonyms: break camp |
decant | (verb) pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment | Synonyms: pour, pour out |
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decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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decarbonate | (verb) remove carbon dioxide from | - |
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decarbonise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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decarbonize | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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decarboxylate | (verb) lose a carboxyl group | - |
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(verb) remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound) | - |
decarburise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburize, decoke |
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decarburize | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburise, decoke |
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decay | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, dilapidate |
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(verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decompose, disintegrate |
(verb) undergo decay or decomposition | - |
decease | (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
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deceive | (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: betray, lead astray |
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(verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, delude, lead on |
decelerate | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: retard, slow, slow down, slow up |
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(verb) reduce the speed of | Synonyms: slow down |
decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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decentralize | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, deconcentrate |
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decerebrate | (verb) remove the cerebrum from (a human body) | - |
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decertify | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: derecognise, derecognize |
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dechlorinate | (verb) remove chlorine from (water) | - |
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decide | (verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something | Synonyms: determine, make up one's mind |
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(verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, resolve, settle |
(verb) cause to decide | - |
(verb) influence or determine | - |
decimalise | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalize |
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(verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalize |
decimalize | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalise |
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(verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalise |
decimate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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(verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies | - |