| beef | (verb) complain | Synonyms: bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
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| befall | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, happen |
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| (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, betide |
| befit | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: beseem, suit |
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| befog | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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| befool | (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
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| (verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: fool, gull |
| befoul | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: defile, foul, maculate |
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| befriend | (verb) become friends with | - |
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| befuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: fuddle |
| benefact | (verb) help as a benefactor | - |
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| benefice | (verb) endow with a benefice | - |
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| beneficiate | (verb) process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
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| benefit | (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: gain, profit |
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| (verb) be beneficial for | Synonyms: do good |
| bottlefeed | (verb) feed (infants) with a bottle | - |
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| brief | (verb) give essential information to someone | - |
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| debrief | (verb) put someone through a debriefing and make him report | - |
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| deface | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: blemish, disfigure |
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| defalcate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| defame | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| defang | (verb) remove the fangs from | - |
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| defat | (verb) remove the fat from | - |
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| default | (verb) fail to pay up | Synonyms: default on |
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| defeat | (verb) win a victory over | Synonyms: get the better of, overcome |
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| (verb) thwart the passage of | Synonyms: kill, shoot down, vote down, vote out |
| defecate | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| defect | (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: desert |
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| defeminise | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminize |
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| defeminize | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminise |
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| defend | (verb) argue or speak in defense of | Synonyms: fend for, support |
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| (verb) state or assert | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) be on the defensive; act against an attack | - |
| (verb) protect against a challenge or attack | Synonyms: guard, hold |
| (verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: champion |
| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: fight, fight back, fight down, oppose |
| (verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: represent |
| defenestrate | (verb) throw through or out of the window | - |
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| defer | (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, bow, give in, submit |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
| defervesce | (verb) experience an abatement of a fever | - |
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| defibrillate | (verb) stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks | - |
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| defibrinate | (verb) remove fibrin from (blood) | - |
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| defile | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, foul, maculate |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: maculate, stain, sully, tarnish |
| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, corrupt, sully, taint |
| define | (verb) give a definition for the meaning of a word | - |
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| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: determine, fix, limit, set, specify |
| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify |
| (verb) determine the nature of | - |
| (verb) show the form or outline of | Synonyms: delineate |
| deflagrate | (verb) burn with great heat and intense light | - |
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| (verb) cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity | - |
| deflate | (verb) become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air | - |
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| (verb) reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices | - |
| (verb) produce deflation in | - |
| (verb) reduce or lessen the size or importance of | Synonyms: puncture |
| (verb) release contained air or gas from | - |
| (verb) collapse by releasing contained air or gas | - |
| deflect | (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: block, parry |
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| (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 |
| deflower | (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: impair, mar, spoil, vitiate |
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| (verb) deprive of virginity | Synonyms: ruin |
| defog | (verb) free from mist | Synonyms: demist |
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| defoliate | (verb) strip the leaves or branches from | - |
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| deforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: disafforest, disforest |
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| deform | (verb) become misshapen | - |
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| (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: distort, strain |
| (verb) assume a different shape or form | Synonyms: change form, change shape |
| (verb) make formless | - |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, flex, turn, twist |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, distort, wring |
| defraud | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| defray | (verb) bear the expenses of | - |
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| defrock | (verb) divest of the frock; of church officials | Synonyms: unfrock |
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| defrost | (verb) make or become free of frost or ice | Synonyms: de-ice, deice |
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| defuse | (verb) remove the triggering device from | - |
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| defy | (verb) challenge | Synonyms: dare |
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| (verb) resist or confront with resistance | Synonyms: hold, hold up, withstand |
| (verb) elude, especially in a baffling way | Synonyms: refuse, resist |
| eff | (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
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| efface | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: obliterate |
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| (verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing | Synonyms: erase, rub out, score out, wipe off |
| (verb) make inconspicuous | - |
| effect | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effectuate, set up |
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| (verb) act so as to bring into existence | - |
| effectuate | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effect, set up |
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| effeminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effeminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effervesce | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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| effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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| (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
| effuse | (verb) give out or emit (also metaphorically) | - |
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| (verb) flow or spill forth | Synonyms: flow out |
| (verb) pour out liberally | Synonyms: pour out |
| forefend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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| heft | (verb) lift or elevate | Synonyms: heave, heave up, heft up |
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| (verb) test the weight of something by lifting it | - |
| liquefy | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquify |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquidise, liquidize, liquify |
| (verb) become liquid | - |
| overrefine | (verb) refine too much or with excess of subtlety | Synonyms: over-refine |
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| prefabricate | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: preassemble |
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| (verb) produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally | - |
| preface | (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, premise |
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| prefer | (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: choose, opt |
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| (verb) like better; value more highly | - |
| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| (verb) give preference to one creditor over another | - |
| prefigure | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) imagine or consider beforehand | - |
| prefix | (verb) attach a prefix to | - |
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| preform | (verb) form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand | - |
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| (verb) form into a shape resembling the final, desired one | - |
| prizefight | (verb) box for a prize or money | - |
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| putrefy | (verb) become putrid; decay with an offensive smell | - |
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| rarefy | (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: attenuate |
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| (verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: sublimate, subtilize |
| (verb) lessen the density or solidity of | - |
| redefine | (verb) give a new or different definition of (a word) | - |
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| (verb) give a new or different definition to | - |
| reef | (verb) roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area | - |
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| (verb) reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef | - |
| (verb) lower and bring partially inboard | - |
| reface | (verb) put a new facing on (a garment) | - |
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| (verb) provide with a new facing | - |
| refashion | (verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, redo, remake |
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| refer | (verb) think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another | - |
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| (verb) have as a meaning | Synonyms: denote |
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, name |
| (verb) use a name to designate | - |
| (verb) seek information from | Synonyms: consult, look up |
| (verb) send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, relate, touch, touch on |
| referee | (verb) evaluate professionally a colleague's work | Synonyms: peer review |
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| (verb) be a referee or umpire in a sports competition | Synonyms: umpire |
| reference | (verb) refer to | Synonyms: cite |
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| refill | (verb) fill something that had previously been emptied | Synonyms: fill again, replenish |
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| refinance | (verb) renew the financing of | - |
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| refine | (verb) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities | Synonyms: rectify |
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| (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: down, fine-tune, polish |
| (verb) treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition | - |
| (verb) attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or intensity by polishing or purifying | - |
| (verb) make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of | - |
| (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, elaborate, rarify |
| refinish | (verb) give a new surface | - |
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| refit | (verb) fit out again | - |
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| reflate | (verb) become inflated again | - |
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| (verb) inflate again | - |
| (verb) raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation | - |
| (verb) experience reflation | - |
| reflect | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) give evidence of the quality of | - |
| (verb) give evidence of a certain behavior | - |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reverberate |
| (verb) manifest or bring back | - |
| (verb) show an image of | - |
| (verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: shine |
| reflectorise | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorize |
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| reflectorize | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorise |
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| refloat | (verb) set afloat again | - |
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| refocus | (verb) put again into focus or focus more sharply | - |
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| (verb) focus anew | - |
| (verb) focus once again | - |
| reforest | (verb) forest anew | - |
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| reforge | (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: recast, remodel |
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| reform | (verb) make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices | - |
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| (verb) break up the molecules of | - |
| (verb) produce by cracking | - |
| (verb) change for the better | Synonyms: see the light, straighten out |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, regenerate |
| (verb) improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition | - |
| reformulate | (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: redevelop |
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| refract | (verb) determine the refracting power of (a lens) | - |
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| (verb) subject to refraction | - |
| refracture | (verb) break (a bone) that was previously broken but mended in an abnormal way | - |
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| refrain | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: abstain, desist |
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| (verb) resist doing something | Synonyms: forbear |
| refresh | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, refreshen |
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| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, freshen up, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: freshen |
| (verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, review |
| refreshen | (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, freshen up, refresh |
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| (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, refresh |
| refrigerate | (verb) cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator | - |
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| (verb) preserve by chilling | - |
| refuel | (verb) take on more fuel, as of a plane, ship, or car | - |
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| (verb) provide with additional fuel, as of aircraft, ships, and cars | - |
| refund | (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, repay, return |
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