| aggrandise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| anodise | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodize |
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| bastardise | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardize |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardize |
| deoxidise | (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidize, reduce |
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| disembark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: debark, set down |
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| disembarrass | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: free, rid |
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| disembody | (verb) free from a body or physical form or reality | - |
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| disembowel | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: draw, eviscerate |
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| disembroil | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disentangle, disinvolve |
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| disenable | (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate |
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| disenchant | (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disillusion |
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| disencumber | (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disentangle, extricate, untangle |
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| disenfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disfranchise |
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| disengage | (verb) become free | - |
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| (verb) release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles | Synonyms: withdraw |
| (verb) free or remove obstruction from | Synonyms: free |
| disentangle | (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb, comb out |
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| (verb) extricate from entanglement | Synonyms: straighten out, unsnarl |
| (verb) separate the tangles of | Synonyms: unwind |
| (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, extricate, untangle |
| (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disinvolve |
| disestablish | (verb) deprive (an established church) of its status | - |
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| disesteem | (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disrespect |
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| fluoridise | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridize |
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| gormandise | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| hybridise | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridize, interbreed |
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| iodise | (verb) treat with iodine so as to prevent infection | Synonyms: iodize |
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| (verb) treat with iodine | Synonyms: iodize |
| jeopardise | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
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| liquidise | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidize, liquify |
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| melodise | (verb) supply a melody for | Synonyms: melodize |
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| merchandise | (verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: trade |
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| oxidise | (verb) add oxygen to or combine with oxygen | Synonyms: oxidate, oxidize |
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| (verb) enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide | Synonyms: oxidate, oxidize |
| propagandise | (verb) spread by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |
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| (verb) subject to propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |
| rhapsodise | (verb) say (something) with great enthusiasm | Synonyms: rhapsodize |
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| (verb) recite a rhapsody | Synonyms: rhapsodize |
| ruggedise | (verb) produce in a version designed to withstand rough usage | Synonyms: ruggedize |
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| standardise | (verb) cause to conform to standard or norm | Synonyms: standardize |
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| (verb) evaluate by comparing with a standard | Synonyms: standardize |
| subsidise | (verb) support through subsidies | Synonyms: subsidize |
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| (verb) secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces | Synonyms: subsidize |