abnegate | (verb) deny or renounce | - |
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(verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
(verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
aggregate | (verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: combine |
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(verb) amount in the aggregate to | - |
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 |
beg | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: implore, pray |
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(verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: solicit, tap |
(verb) dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted | - |
(verb) ask to obtain free | - |
beget | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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beggar | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: pauperise, pauperize |
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(verb) be beyond the resources of | - |
begild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: engild, gild |
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begin | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: commence, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
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(verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: commence, lead off, start |
(verb) begin to speak or say | - |
(verb) begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language | - |
(verb) achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative | - |
(verb) begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object | Synonyms: start |
(verb) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense | Synonyms: start |
(verb) be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series | - |
(verb) have a beginning characterized in some specified way | Synonyms: start |
(verb) have a beginning, of a temporal event | - |
begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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(verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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(verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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(verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
(verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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blackleg | (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: fink, rat, scab |
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blitzkrieg | (verb) fight a quick and surprising war | - |
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bootleg | (verb) produce or distribute illegally | - |
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(verb) sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol | - |
categorise | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorize |
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categorize | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorise |
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congregate | (verb) come together, usually for a purpose | - |
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degas | (verb) remove gas from | - |
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degauss | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: demagnetise, demagnetize |
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degenerate | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: deteriorate, devolve, drop |
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deglaze | (verb) dissolve cooking juices or solid food in (a pan) by adding liquid and stirring | - |
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deglycerolise | (verb) remove from glycerol | Synonyms: deglycerolize |
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deglycerolize | (verb) remove from glycerol | Synonyms: deglycerolise |
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degrade | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: cheapen |
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(verb) reduce the level of land, as by erosion | - |
(verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: demean, disgrace, put down, take down |
degrease | (verb) remove grease or oil from (a pan) | - |
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degust | (verb) taste with relish | - |
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delegate | (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, depute, designate |
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(verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: depute |
deregulate | (verb) lift the regulations on | - |
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desegregate | (verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: integrate, mix |
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disintegrate | (verb) break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity | - |
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(verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, decompose |
(verb) cause to undergo fission or lose particles | - |
disregard | (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: ignore, neglect |
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(verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, ignore, push aside |
(verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: cut, ignore, snub |
egest | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: eliminate, excrete, pass |
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egg | (verb) coat with beaten egg | - |
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(verb) throw eggs at | - |
egotrip | (verb) act in a way that attracts attention | - |
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egress | (verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, emerge, go forth, issue |
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elegise | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegize |
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elegize | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegise |
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foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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forego | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, foreswear, forgo, relinquish, waive |
(verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forgo, precede, predate |
foreground | (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: highlight, play up, spotlight |
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illegalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalize, outlaw |
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illegalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, outlaw |
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impregnate | (verb) make pregnant | Synonyms: bang up, knock up, prang up |
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(verb) fertilize and cause to grow | - |
(verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: saturate |
(verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: infuse, instill, tincture |
integrate | (verb) make into a whole or make part of a whole | Synonyms: incorporate |
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(verb) become one; become integrated | - |
(verb) calculate the integral of; calculate by integration | - |
(verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: desegregate, mix |
legalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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legalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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legislate | (verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: pass |
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legitimate | (verb) make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone) | - |
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(verb) show or affirm to be just and legitimate | - |
(verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
legitimatise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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legitimatize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimise, legitimize |
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legitimise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimize |
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legitimize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise |
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miscegenate | (verb) marry or cohabit with a person of another race | - |
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negate | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: neutralise, neutralize, nullify |
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(verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: contradict |
(verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, contravene |
(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, contradict |
negative | (verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: blackball, veto |
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neglect | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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(verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, ignore |
(verb) fail to attend to | - |
(verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: fail |
negociate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negotiate, talk terms |
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(verb) confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement | - |
(verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negotiate |
(verb) transfer by endorsement to another in return for value received | - |
(verb) sell or discount | - |
(verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, manage, pull off |
negotiate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negociate, talk terms |
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(verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negociate |
peg | (verb) stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations | - |
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(verb) fasten or secure with a wooden pin | Synonyms: peg down |
(verb) pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into | - |
(verb) succeed in obtaining a position | Synonyms: nail, nail down |
peregrinate | (verb) travel around, through, or over, especially on foot | - |
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privilege | (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
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regain | (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, recover, retrieve |
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(verb) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost | Synonyms: find |
regale | (verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink | Synonyms: treat |
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regard | (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: consider, reckon, see, view |
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(verb) look at attentively | Synonyms: consider |
(verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: affect, involve |
regenerate | (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: revitalize |
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(verb) undergo regeneration | - |
(verb) form or produce anew | - |
(verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: rejuvenate, restore |
(verb) replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue | - |
(verb) be formed or shaped anew | - |
(verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, reform |
(verb) amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit | - |
(verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: renew |
regift | (verb) give a present that one has received to someone else | - |
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regiment | (verb) assign to a regiment | - |
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(verb) form (military personnel) into a regiment | - |
(verb) subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization | - |
register | (verb) enter into someone's consciousness | - |
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(verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, show |
(verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: file |
(verb) send by registered mail | - |
(verb) manipulate the registers of an organ | - |
(verb) be aware of | Synonyms: record |
(verb) show in one's face | - |
(verb) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions | - |
(verb) enroll to vote | - |
(verb) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties | Synonyms: cross-file |
regorge | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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regram | (verb) To repost on Instagram | - |
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regress | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, relapse, retrogress |
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(verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: retrograde, retrogress |
(verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: retrovert, return, revert, turn back |
(verb) go back to a statistical means | - |
regret | (verb) decline formally or politely | - |
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(verb) express with regret | - |
(verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: repent, rue |
(verb) feel sad about the loss or absence of | - |
regroup | (verb) reorganize into new groups | - |
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(verb) organize anew, as after a setback | Synonyms: reorganise, reorganize |
regrow | (verb) grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption | - |
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regularise | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularize |
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(verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularize, regulate |
regularize | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularise |
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(verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regulate |
regulate | (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: modulate |
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(verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: baffle |
(verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, mould, shape |
(verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regularize |
regurgitate | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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(verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: reproduce |
(verb) feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food | - |
(verb) pour or rush back | - |
reintegrate | (verb) integrate again | - |
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relegate | (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: classify |
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(verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs |
(verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: banish, bar |
(verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, submit |
renegade | (verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: rebel |
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renege | (verb) fail to fulfill a promise or obligation | Synonyms: go back on, renege on, renegue on |
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renegociate | (verb) revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor | Synonyms: renegotiate |
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(verb) negociate anew | Synonyms: renegotiate |
renegotiate | (verb) revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor | Synonyms: renegociate |
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(verb) negociate anew | Synonyms: renegociate |
safeguard | (verb) make safe | - |
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(verb) escort safely | - |
segment | (verb) divide into segments | Synonyms: section |
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(verb) divide or split up | - |
segregate | (verb) separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others | - |
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(verb) divide from the main body or mass and collect | - |
(verb) separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation | - |
segue | (verb) proceed without interruption; in music or talk | - |
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squeegee | (verb) wipe with a squeegee | - |
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telegraph | (verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: cable, wire |
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variegate | (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: motley, vary |
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(verb) change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors | - |
vegetate | (verb) engage in passive relaxation | Synonyms: veg out |
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(verb) propagate asexually | - |
(verb) grow like a plant | - |
(verb) produce vegetation | - |
(verb) establish vegetation on | - |
(verb) grow or spread abnormally | - |
(verb) lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind | - |