| achieve | (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, attain, reach |
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| aggrieve | (verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: grieve |
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| (verb) infringe on the rights of | - |
| asseverate | (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, maintain |
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| believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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| (verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
| (verb) credit with veracity | - |
| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
| bevel | (verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: chamfer |
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| brevet | (verb) promote somebody by brevet, in the military | - |
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| cantilever | (verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
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| (verb) project as a cantilever | - |
| devein | (verb) remove the dark dorsal vein of (a shrimp) | - |
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| develop | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment | - |
| (verb) cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development | Synonyms: make grow |
| (verb) happen | Synonyms: break, recrudesce |
| (verb) change the use of and make available or usable | Synonyms: build up |
| (verb) be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest | - |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, evolve |
| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
| (verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: grow |
| (verb) expand in the form of a series | - |
| (verb) elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme | - |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: educate, prepare, train |
| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: explicate, formulate |
| (verb) move into a strategically more advantageous position | - |
| (verb) move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions | - |
| (verb) superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: evolve, germinate |
| (verb) make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation | - |
| (verb) generate gradually | - |
| (verb) make visible by means of chemical solutions | - |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
| disbelieve | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: discredit |
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| dishevel | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: tangle, tousle |
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| dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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| even | (verb) become even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
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| (verb) make even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even out, flush, level |
| eventuate | (verb) come out in the end | - |
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| evert | (verb) turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward | - |
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| grieve | (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: sorrow |
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| (verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: aggrieve |
| level | (verb) become level or even | Synonyms: level off |
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| (verb) talk frankly with; lay it on the line | - |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, point |
| (verb) aim at | - |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, flush |
| (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: dismantle, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
| lever | (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, prise, prize, pry |
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| leverage | (verb) provide with leverage | - |
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| (verb) supplement with leverage | - |
| misbelieve | (verb) hold a false or unorthodox belief | - |
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| overachieve | (verb) perform better or achieve a greater degree of success than expected | - |
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| peeve | (verb) cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful | - |
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| perseverate | (verb) repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus | - |
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| persevere | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persist |
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| prevent | (verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: keep |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude |
| redevelop | (verb) change the plans for the use of (land) | - |
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| (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: reformulate |
| (verb) develop for a second time, in order to improve the contrast, colour, etc., of a negative or print | - |
| reeve | (verb) fasten by passing through a hole or around something | - |
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| (verb) pass through a hole or opening | - |
| (verb) pass a rope through | - |
| relieve | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, palliate |
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| (verb) provide relief for | Synonyms: remedy |
| (verb) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive | Synonyms: lighten |
| (verb) relieve oneself of troubling information | Synonyms: unbosom |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, exempt, let off |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, ease, still |
| (verb) take by stealing | - |
| (verb) free from a burden, evil, or distress | - |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: salvage, salve, save |
| (verb) free someone temporarily from his or her obligations | Synonyms: take over |
| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: exempt, free |
| reprieve | (verb) relieve temporarily | - |
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| (verb) postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution | Synonyms: respite |
| retrieve | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, think |
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| (verb) run after, pick up, and bring to the master | - |
| (verb) go for and bring back | - |
| (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, recover, regain |
| reveal | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, uncover, unwrap |
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| (verb) make manifest | Synonyms: bring out, unveil |
| (verb) disclose directly or through prophets | - |
| revel | (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: delight, enjoy |
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| (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, wassail, whoop it up |
| revenge | (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, retaliate |
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| reverberate | (verb) treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace | - |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, resound, ring |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves | - |
| (verb) have a long or continuing effect | - |
| revere | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, reverence, venerate |
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| (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, idolize, worship |
| reverence | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, venerate |
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| reverse | (verb) change to the contrary | Synonyms: change by reversal, turn |
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| (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: invert, turn back |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: invert |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, revoke, vacate |
| revert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, return, turn back |
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| (verb) undergo reversion, as in a mutation | - |
| revet | (verb) face with a layer of stone or concrete or other supporting material so as to retain | - |
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| (verb) construct a revetment | - |
| sever | (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: discerp, lop |
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| (verb) set or keep apart | Synonyms: break up |
| severalise | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) distinguish or separate | Synonyms: severalize |
| severalize | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) distinguish or separate | Synonyms: severalise |
| sieve | (verb) distinguish and separate out | Synonyms: sift |
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| (verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sift, strain |
| (verb) check and sort carefully | Synonyms: sift |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen, screen out, sort |
| thieve | (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, hook, knock off, snitch |
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| underachieve | (verb) perform less well or with less success than expected | Synonyms: underperform |
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| underdevelop | (verb) process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature | - |
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