| abbreviate | (verb) shorten | - |
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| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| alleviate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: assuage, palliate, relieve |
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| (verb) make easier | Synonyms: ease, facilitate |
| bedevil | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
| bolshevise | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevize, communise, communize |
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| bolshevize | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, communise, communize |
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| deviate | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: divert |
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| (verb) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, diverge, vary |
| devil | (verb) coat or stuff with a spicy paste | - |
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| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| devilise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilize, diabolise, diabolize |
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| devilize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, diabolise, diabolize |
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| devise | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare |
| (verb) give by will, especially real property | - |
| devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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| devitalize | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalise |
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| devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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| (verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |
| evict | (verb) expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process | Synonyms: force out |
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| (verb) expel or eject without recourse to legal process | - |
| evidence | (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, manifest |
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| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, prove, show, testify |
| (verb) give evidence | Synonyms: tell |
| evince | (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: express, show |
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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 |
| levitate | (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: hover |
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| (verb) cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity | - |
| preview | (verb) watch (a movie or play) before it is released to the general public | - |
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| previse | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foreknow, foresee |
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| (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: forewarn |
| review | (verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: reexamine |
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| (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, retrospect |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, survey |
| (verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, refresh |
| (verb) appraise critically | Synonyms: critique |
| revile | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, vilify, vituperate |
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| revise | (verb) make revisions in | - |
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| (verb) revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving | Synonyms: retool |
| revisit | (verb) visit again | - |
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| revitalise | (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalize |
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| revitalize | (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: regenerate |
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| (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalise |
| revive | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) cause to regain consciousness | Synonyms: resuscitate |
| (verb) return to consciousness | Synonyms: come to, resuscitate |
| (verb) be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength | - |
| (verb) restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state | Synonyms: resurrect |
| revivify | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, vivify |
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| televise | (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: telecast |
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