| evert | (verb) turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward | - |
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| eviscerate | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: disembowel, draw |
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| (verb) remove the contents of | - |
| (verb) take away a vital or essential part of | - |
| (verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: resect |
| exacerbate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate |
| exaggerate | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| (verb) do something to an excessive degree | Synonyms: overdo |
| exasperate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate |
| (verb) make furious | Synonyms: incense, infuriate |
| excerpt | (verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: extract, take out |
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| exenterate | (verb) remove the contents of (an organ) | - |
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| exercise | (verb) do physical exercise | Synonyms: work out |
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| (verb) give a workout to | Synonyms: work, work out |
| (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, practice, practise |
| (verb) put to use | Synonyms: exert |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, practice, practise |
| exert | (verb) put to use | Synonyms: exercise |
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| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: maintain, wield |
| (verb) make a great effort at a mental or physical task | - |
| exonerate | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate |
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| experience | (verb) undergo | Synonyms: have |
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| (verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: know, live |
| (verb) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind | Synonyms: feel |
| (verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: get, have, receive |
| (verb) undergo or live through a difficult experience | Synonyms: go through, see |
| experiment | (verb) to conduct a test or investigation | - |
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| (verb) try something new, as in order to gain experience | Synonyms: try out |
| exsert | (verb) thrust or extend out | Synonyms: extend, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out |
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| exteriorise | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorize, externalise, externalize, objectify |
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| exteriorize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, externalise, externalize, objectify |
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| (verb) bring outside the body for surgery, of organs | Synonyms: bring outside |
| exterminate | (verb) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many | Synonyms: kill off |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, extirpate, root out, uproot |
| externalise | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalize, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalize, project |
| externalize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, project |
| exuberate | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exult, jubilate, rejoice, triumph |
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| falter | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, stammer, stutter |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, stumble |
| (verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: waver |
| (verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: waver |
| father | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| feather | (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
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| (verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) cover or fit with feathers | - |
| (verb) join tongue and groove, in carpentry | - |
| featherbed | (verb) hire more workers than are necessary | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| federalise | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
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| (verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalize |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
| federalize | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
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| (verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalise |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
| federate | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federalize |
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| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federalize |
| ferment | (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: sour, turn, work |
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| (verb) cause to undergo fermentation | Synonyms: work |
| (verb) work up into agitation or excitement | - |
| (verb) be in an agitated or excited state | - |
| ferret | (verb) search and discover through persistent investigation | Synonyms: ferret out |
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| (verb) hunt with ferrets | - |
| (verb) hound or harry relentlessly | - |
| ferry | (verb) travel by ferry | - |
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| (verb) transport by ferry | - |
| (verb) transport from one place to another | - |
| fertilise | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize, inseminate |
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| (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilize |
| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize |
| fertilize | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, inseminate |
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| (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilise |
| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise |
| fester | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: maturate, suppurate |
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| fetter | (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: shackle |
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| filibuster | (verb) obstruct deliberately by delaying | - |
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| filter | (verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter out, filtrate, separate out, strain |
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| (verb) pass through | Synonyms: percolate, permeate, sink in |
| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
| financier | (verb) conduct financial operations | - |
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| finger | (verb) indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments | - |
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| (verb) feel or handle with the fingers | Synonyms: thumb |
| (verb) search for on the computer | - |
| (verb) examine by touch | Synonyms: feel |
| fingerprint | (verb) take an impression of a person's fingerprints | - |
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| fingerspell | (verb) communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language | Synonyms: finger-spell |
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| flabbergast | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: boggle, bowl over |
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| flatter | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: blandish |
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| fleer | (verb) to smirk contemptuously | - |
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| flicker | (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flitter, flutter, quiver, waver |
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| (verb) flash intermittently | Synonyms: flick |
| (verb) shine unsteadily | Synonyms: flick |
| flitter | (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flutter, quiver, waver |
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| flounder | (verb) walk with great difficulty | Synonyms: stagger |
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| (verb) behave awkwardly; have difficulties | - |
| flower | (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
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| fluster | (verb) cause to be nervous or upset | - |
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| (verb) be flustered; behave in a confused manner | - |
| flutter | (verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: bat |
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| (verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: palpitate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, quiver, waver |
| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, fleet, flit |
| (verb) flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements | - |
| fodder | (verb) give fodder (to domesticated animals) | - |
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| foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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| forgather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, gather, meet |
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| foster | (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: nurture |
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| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, further |
| (verb) bring up under fosterage; of children | - |
| founder | (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, give, give way |
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| (verb) sink below the surface | - |
| (verb) stumble and nearly fall | - |
| (verb) fail utterly; collapse | Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, flop |
| fraternise | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternize |
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| fraternize | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternise |
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| fritter | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| further | (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, promote |
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| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, foster |
| garner | (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, gather, pull together |
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| (verb) store grain | - |
| (verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | Synonyms: earn, win |
| garter | (verb) fasten with or as if with a garter | - |
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| gather | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up |
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| (verb) increase or develop | Synonyms: gain |
| (verb) conclude from evidence | - |
| (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, garner, pull together |
| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: pucker, tuck |
| (verb) look for (food) in nature | - |
| (verb) draw and bring closer | - |
| (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, meet |
| (verb) get people together | Synonyms: assemble, get together |
| gauffer | (verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: goffer |
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| general | (verb) command as a general | - |
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| generalise | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalize |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalize |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalize, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generalize | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalise |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalise |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generate | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, get, mother, sire |
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| (verb) produce, create | Synonyms: bring forth |
| (verb) produce (energy) | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: give, render, return, yield |
| germinate | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| (verb) cause to grow or sprout | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| gerrymander | (verb) divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts | - |
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| geyser | (verb) to overflow like a geyser | - |
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| gibber | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) chatter inarticulately; of monkeys | - |
| ginger | (verb) add ginger to in order to add flavor | - |
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| glimmer | (verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: gleam |
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| glitter | (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, shine |
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| glower | (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, lour, lower |
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| (verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glare |
| glycerolise | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolize |
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| glycerolize | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolise |
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| goffer | (verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: gauffer |
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| govern | (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: rule |
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| (verb) direct or strongly influence the behavior of | - |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: order, regularise, regularize, regulate |
| (verb) require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood | - |
| gutter | (verb) provide with gutters | - |
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| (verb) wear or cut gutters into | - |
| (verb) flow in small streams | - |
| (verb) burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker | - |
| halter | (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, hamper, strangle |
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| (verb) hang with a halter | - |
| hammer | (verb) beat with or as if with a hammer | - |
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| (verb) create by hammering | Synonyms: forge |
| hamper | (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, halter, strangle |
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| (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: handicap, hinder |
| hanker | (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: long, yearn |
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| harbinger | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, herald |
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| headquarter | (verb) provide with headquarters | - |
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| herald | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, harbinger |
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| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: acclaim, hail |
| (verb) greet enthusiastically or joyfully | Synonyms: hail |
| herd | (verb) move together, like a herd | - |
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| (verb) cause to herd, drive, or crowd together | Synonyms: crowd |
| (verb) keep, move, or drive animals | - |
| heterodyne | (verb) combine (a radio frequency wave) with a locally generated wave of a different frequency so as to produce a new frequency equal to the sum or the difference between the two | - |
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| hibernate | (verb) sleep during winter | Synonyms: hole up |
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| (verb) be in an inactive or dormant state | - |
| hinder | (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, handicap |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| (verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: impede |
| holler | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, squawk |
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| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) shout out | Synonyms: holler out |
| homer | (verb) hit a home run | - |
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| hoover | (verb) clean with a vacuum cleaner | Synonyms: vacuum-clean, vacuum |
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| hover | (verb) hang in the air; fly or be suspended above | - |
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| (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: levitate |
| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: oscillate, vacillate, vibrate |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: linger |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: brood, bulk large, loom |
| huckster | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, higgle |
| hunger | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: famish, starve |
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| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, lust, starve, thirst |
| (verb) feel the need to eat | - |
| hunker | (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat |
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| hyperbolise | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| hyperbolize | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| hyperextend | (verb) extend a joint beyond its normal range | - |
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| hypertrophy | (verb) undergo hypertrophy | - |
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