age | (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: get on, maturate, mature, senesce |
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(verb) begin to seem older; get older | - |
(verb) make older | - |
agglomerate | (verb) form into one cluster | - |
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agglutinate | (verb) clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. | - |
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(verb) string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) | - |
aggrade | (verb) build up to a level by depositing sediment | - |
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aggrandise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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aggrandize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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aggravate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate, worsen |
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(verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate |
aggregate | (verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: combine |
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(verb) amount in the aggregate to | - |
aggress | (verb) take the initiative and go on the offensive | Synonyms: attack |
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aggrieve | (verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: grieve |
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(verb) infringe on the rights of | - |
agitate | (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
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(verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
(verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: budge, shift, stir |
(verb) move or cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: shake |
(verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: foment, stir up |
(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: campaign, crusade, fight, press, push |
agnise | (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnize, realise, realize, recognise, recognize |
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agnize | (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnise, realise, realize, recognise, recognize |
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agonise | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonize |
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(verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonize |
agonize | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonise |
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(verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonise |
agree | (verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: concord, concur, hold |
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(verb) consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something | - |
(verb) achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose | - |
(verb) be agreeable or suitable | - |
(verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
(verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
(verb) show grammatical agreement | - |
airfreight | (verb) transport (cargo) by air | Synonyms: air-freight, air-ship |
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alchemise | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemize |
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alchemize | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemise |
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alcoholise | (verb) make alcoholic, as by fermenting | Synonyms: alcoholize |
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(verb) treat or infuse with alcohol | Synonyms: alcoholize |
alcoholize | (verb) make alcoholic, as by fermenting | Synonyms: alcoholise |
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(verb) treat or infuse with alcohol | Synonyms: alcoholise |
(verb) subject to the influence of alcohol | - |
alert | (verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alarm |
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alien | (verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alienate |
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alienate | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: disaffect, estrange |
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(verb) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated | - |
(verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alien |
aliment | (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: nourish, nutrify |
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aline | (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: adjust, align, line up |
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alkalinise | (verb) make (a substance) alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinize |
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(verb) become alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinize |
alkalinize | (verb) make (a substance) alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinise |
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(verb) become alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinise |
alkalise | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalize, basify |
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alkalize | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalise, basify |
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allege | (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: aver, say |
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allegorise | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
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(verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
allegorize | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
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(verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
alleviate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: assuage, palliate, relieve |
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(verb) make easier | Synonyms: ease, facilitate |
alliterate | (verb) use alliteration as a form of poetry | - |
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allocate | (verb) distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose | Synonyms: apportion |
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allowance | (verb) put on a fixed allowance, as of food | - |
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allude | (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, touch |
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allure | (verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: tempt |
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alphabetise | (verb) arrange in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetize |
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alphabetize | (verb) arrange in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetise |
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(verb) provide with an alphabet | - |
alter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: castrate, neuter, spay |
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(verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: change, vary |
(verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: change, modify |
(verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: falsify, interpolate |
(verb) make an alteration to | - |
altercate | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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alternate | (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
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(verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
(verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
(verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
(verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
aluminise | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminize |
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aluminize | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminise |
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amalgamate | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: commix, mingle, mix, unify |
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amaze | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: astonish, astound |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
amble | (verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: mosey |
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ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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ambuscade | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
amend | (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair |
(verb) make amendments to | - |
amerce | (verb) punish with an arbitrary penalty | - |
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(verb) punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court | - |
ammoniate | (verb) treat with ammonia | - |
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amnesty | (verb) grant a pardon to (a group of people) | - |
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amortise | (verb) liquidate gradually | Synonyms: amortize |
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amortize | (verb) liquidate gradually | Synonyms: amortise |
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amputate | (verb) remove surgically | Synonyms: cut off |
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amuse | (verb) make (somebody) laugh | - |
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(verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: disport, divert |
anaesthetise | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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anaesthetize | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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anagrammatise | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatize |
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anagrammatize | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatise |
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analogise | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogize |
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analogize | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogise |
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analyse | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyze, canvass, examine, study |
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(verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze, break down, dissect, take apart |
(verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyze, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
(verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze |
analyze | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, canvass, examine, study |
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(verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, break down, dissect, take apart |
(verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
(verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse |
anastomose | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: inosculate |
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(verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: inosculate |
anathematise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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anathematize | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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anathemise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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(verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
anathemize | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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(verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, comminate, execrate |
anatomise | (verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomize |
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anatomize | (verb) analyze down to the smallest detail | - |
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(verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomise |
ancylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ankylose |
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(verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ankylose |
anele | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anoint, embrocate, inunct, oil |
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anesthetise | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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anesthetize | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, put out, put under |
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anger | (verb) make angry | - |
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(verb) become angry | Synonyms: see red |
angle | (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: slant, weight |
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(verb) fish with a hook | - |
(verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: fish |
(verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: lean, slant, tilt, tip |
(verb) move or proceed at an angle | - |
anglicise | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicize |
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anglicize | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicise |
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angulate | (verb) make or become angular | - |
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animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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(verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
animalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalize |
animalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalise |
animate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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(verb) make lively | Synonyms: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up |
(verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animise, animize |
(verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
animise | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animize |
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animize | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animise |
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ankylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ancylose |
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(verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ancylose |
anneal | (verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling | Synonyms: normalize, temper |
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annex | (verb) add an extra part to | - |
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(verb) take (territory) as if by conquest | - |
annihilate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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annotate | (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: comment, gloss |
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(verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments | Synonyms: footnote |
announce | (verb) make known; make an announcement | Synonyms: denote |
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(verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: annunciate, foretell, harbinger, herald |
(verb) announce publicly or officially | Synonyms: declare |
(verb) give the names of | - |
annunciate | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, foretell, harbinger, herald |
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anodise | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodize |
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anodize | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodise |
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answer | (verb) give the correct answer or solution to | - |
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(verb) respond to a signal | - |
(verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: resolve |
(verb) react to a stimulus or command | - |
(verb) react verbally | Synonyms: reply, respond |
(verb) give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) | - |
(verb) be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of | - |
(verb) match or correspond | - |
(verb) be liable or accountable | - |
(verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: do, serve, suffice |