| emboss | (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: boss, stamp |
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| embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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| embrace | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, espouse, sweep up |
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| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: bosom, hug, squeeze |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, encompass |
| embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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| embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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| embrocate | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, inunct, oil |
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| embroider | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, lard, pad |
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| (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: broider |
| embroil | (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
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| embrown | (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: brown |
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| (verb) cause to darken | - |
| emcee | (verb) act as a master of ceremonies | Synonyms: compere |
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| emend | (verb) make improvements or corrections to | - |
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| emerge | (verb) come out into view, as from concealment | - |
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| (verb) become known or apparent | - |
| (verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, egress, go forth, issue |
| (verb) come up to the surface of or rise | - |
| (verb) happen or occur as a result of something | Synonyms: come forth |
| emigrate | (verb) leave one's country of residence for a new one | - |
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| emit | (verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: breathe, pass off |
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| (verb) express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) | Synonyms: let loose, let out, utter |
| (verb) give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc. | Synonyms: give off, give out |
| emote | (verb) give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role | - |
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| empale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: impale, spike, transfix |
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| empanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: impanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: impanel |
| empathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| empathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| emphasise | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasize, underline, underscore |
| emphasize | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore |
| emplace | (verb) put into place or position | - |
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| (verb) provide a new emplacement for guns | - |
| emplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: enplane |
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| employ | (verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: apply, use, utilise, utilize |
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| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: engage, hire |
| empower | (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, authorize |
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| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: endow, endue, gift, indue, invest |
| empty | (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: evacuate, void |
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| (verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: discharge |
| (verb) make void or empty of contents | - |
| (verb) remove the contents of a container | - |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: abandon, vacate |
| empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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| emulate | (verb) compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with | - |
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| (verb) strive to equal or match, especially by imitating | - |
| (verb) imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software | - |
| emulsify | (verb) form into or become an emulsion | - |
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| (verb) cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion | - |
| esteem | (verb) look on as or consider | Synonyms: be known as, know as, look on, look upon, regard as, repute, take to be, think of |
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| (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: prise, prize, respect, value |
| euphemise | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemize |
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| euphemize | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemise |
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| exemplify | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: illustrate, instance |
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| (verb) be typical of | Synonyms: represent |
| exempt | (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, let off, relieve |
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| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: free, relieve |
| extemporise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporize, improvise, improvize |
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| extemporize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, improvise, improvize |
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| (verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: improvise |
| feminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminize, womanize |
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| (verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminize |
| feminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminise, womanize |
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| (verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminise |
| geminate | (verb) arrange or combine in pairs | - |
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| (verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: reduplicate |
| haemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: hemagglutinate |
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| hem | (verb) utter `hem' or `ahem' | - |
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| (verb) fold over and sew together to provide with a hem | - |
| hemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: haemagglutinate |
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| hemorrhage | (verb) lose blood from one's body | Synonyms: bleed, shed blood |
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| hemstitch | (verb) sew with hemstitches | - |
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| implement | (verb) pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue | Synonyms: carry out, follow out, follow through, follow up, go through with, put through |
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| (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, enforce |
| (verb) apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design | - |
| indemnify | (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, recompense, repair |
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| (verb) secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for | - |
| ingeminate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
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| inseminate | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, fertilize |
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| (verb) place seeds in or on (the ground) | Synonyms: sow, sow in |
| itemise | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: enumerate, itemize, recite |
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| (verb) place on a list of items | Synonyms: itemize |
| itemize | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: enumerate, itemise, recite |
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| (verb) place on a list of items | Synonyms: itemise |
| memorialise | (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialize |
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| (verb) address in a memorial | Synonyms: memorialize |
| memorialize | (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise |
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| (verb) address in a memorial | Synonyms: memorialise |
| memorise | (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, learn, memorize |
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| memorize | (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, learn, memorise |
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| misdemean | (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misconduct |
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| misremember | (verb) remember incorrectly | - |
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| overemphasise | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasize, overstress |
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| overemphasize | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overstress |
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| polemicise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicize, polemise, polemize |
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| polemicize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemise, polemize |
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| polemise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemize |
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| polemize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemise |
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| preassemble | (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: prefabricate |
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| preempt | (verb) acquire for oneself before others can do so | - |
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| (verb) make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge | - |
| (verb) gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land) | - |
| (verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: displace |
| premeditate | (verb) consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand | - |
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| (verb) think or reflect beforehand or in advance | - |
| premier | (verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
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| (verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
| premiere | (verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
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| (verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
| premise | (verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premiss |
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| (verb) set forth beforehand, often as an explanation | - |
| (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, preface |
| premiss | (verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premise |
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| reassemble | (verb) assemble once again, after taking something apart | - |
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| redeem | (verb) convert into cash; of commercial papers | - |
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| (verb) pay off (loans or promissory notes) | Synonyms: pay off |
| (verb) exchange or buy back for money; under threat | Synonyms: ransom |
| (verb) to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange | - |
| (verb) restore the honor or worth of | - |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: deliver, save |
| remain | (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state | Synonyms: rest, stay |
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| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, stay, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: continue, stay, stay on |
| (verb) be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc. | - |
| remainder | (verb) sell cheaply as remainders | - |
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| remake | (verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, redo, refashion |
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| remand | (verb) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision | Synonyms: remit, send back |
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| (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars |
| remark | (verb) make mention of | Synonyms: mention, note, observe |
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| (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: comment, notice, point out |
| remarry | (verb) marry, not for the first time | - |
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| remediate | (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remedy, repair |
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| remedy | (verb) provide relief for | Synonyms: relieve |
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| (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remediate, repair |
| remember | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, retrieve, think |
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| (verb) keep in mind for attention or consideration | Synonyms: think of |
| (verb) recapture the past; indulge in memories | Synonyms: think back |
| (verb) exercise, or have the power of, memory | - |
| (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: commemorate |
| (verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: commend |
| (verb) mention favorably, as in prayer | - |
| (verb) show appreciation to | - |
| remilitarise | (verb) militarize anew | Synonyms: remilitarize |
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| remilitarize | (verb) militarize anew | Synonyms: remilitarise |
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| remind | (verb) put in the mind of someone | - |
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| (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: cue, prompt |
| reminisce | (verb) recall the past | - |
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| remit | (verb) make slack as by lessening tension or firmness | Synonyms: slacken |
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| (verb) diminish or abate | - |
| (verb) release from (claims, debts, or taxes) | - |
| (verb) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision | Synonyms: remand, send back |
| (verb) forgive | - |
| (verb) send (money) in payment | - |
| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, set back, shelve, table |
| remodel | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: reconstruct, redo |
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| (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: recast, reforge |
| remold | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remould, retread |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: recast, remould |
| (verb) shape again or shape differently | Synonyms: reshape |
| remonstrate | (verb) argue in protest or opposition | - |
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| (verb) present and urge reasons in opposition | Synonyms: point out |
| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| remould | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, retread |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: recast, remold |
| remount | (verb) provide with fresh horses | - |
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| (verb) mount again, as after disassembling something | - |
| (verb) mount again | - |
| remove | (verb) remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract | Synonyms: take, take away, withdraw |
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| (verb) stay away or leave | Synonyms: absent |
| (verb) get rid of something abstract | Synonyms: take away |
| (verb) shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) dispose of | Synonyms: get rid of |
| (verb) remove from a position or an office | - |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, slay |
| (verb) cause to leave | Synonyms: move out, take out |
| remunerate | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, recompense |
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| resemble | (verb) appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to | - |
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| schematise | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematize |
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| schematize | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematise |
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| (verb) formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula | - |
| scheme | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: connive, intrigue |
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| (verb) devise a system or form a scheme for | - |
| seem | (verb) give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect | Synonyms: appear, look |
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| (verb) (of a proposition) seem to be true, probable, or apparent | Synonyms: appear |
| semaphore | (verb) convey by semaphore, of information | - |
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| (verb) send signals by or as if by semaphore | - |
| solemnise | (verb) make solemn and grave | Synonyms: solemnize |
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| (verb) observe or perform with dignity or gravity | Synonyms: solemnize |
| (verb) perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies | Synonyms: solemnize |
| solemnize | (verb) make solemn and grave | Synonyms: solemnise |
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| (verb) observe or perform with dignity or gravity | Synonyms: solemnise |
| (verb) perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies | Synonyms: solemnise |