flour | (verb) convert grain into flour | - |
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(verb) cover with flour | - |
flourish | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, thrive |
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(verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, wave |
(verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: fly high, prosper, thrive |
flout | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, gibe, jeer, scoff |
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(verb) treat with contemptuous disregard | Synonyms: scoff |
flow | (verb) undergo menstruation | Synonyms: menstruate |
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(verb) cover or swamp with water | - |
(verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: fall, hang |
(verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, feed, run |
(verb) move or progress freely as if in a stream | Synonyms: flux |
(verb) cause to flow | - |
(verb) be abundantly present | - |
flower | (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
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flub | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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fluctuate | (verb) be unstable | - |
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(verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: vacillate, waver |
(verb) cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern | - |
fluff | (verb) ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect | Synonyms: tease |
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(verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: ruffle |
(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
flummox | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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flump | (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
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(verb) fall heavily | Synonyms: flump down |
flunk | (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: bomb, fail, flush it |
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fluoresce | (verb) exhibit or undergo fluorescence | - |
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fluoridate | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridise, fluoridize |
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fluoridise | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridize |
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fluoridize | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridise |
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flurry | (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, disconcert, put off |
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(verb) move in an agitated or confused manner | - |
flush | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, redden |
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(verb) cause to flow through something | - |
(verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: purge, scour |
(verb) irrigate with water from a sluice | Synonyms: sluice |
(verb) cause to flow or flood with or as if with water | - |
(verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, level |
(verb) glow or cause to glow with warm color or light | - |
fluster | (verb) cause to be nervous or upset | - |
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(verb) be flustered; behave in a confused manner | - |
flute | (verb) form flutes in | - |
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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 | - |
flux | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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(verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: liquefy, liquify |
(verb) move or progress freely as if in a stream | Synonyms: flow |
fly | (verb) decrease rapidly and disappear | Synonyms: vanish, vaporize |
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(verb) change quickly from one emotional state to another | - |
(verb) transport by aeroplane | - |
(verb) hit a fly | - |
(verb) travel through the air; be airborne | Synonyms: wing |
(verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: aviate, pilot |
(verb) move quickly or suddenly | - |
(verb) run away quickly | Synonyms: flee, take flight |
(verb) travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft | - |
(verb) travel in an airplane | - |
(verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fell, vanish |
(verb) cause to fly or float | - |
(verb) be dispersed or disseminated | - |
(verb) display in the air or cause to float | - |
flyfish | (verb) fish with flies as lures | Synonyms: fly-fish |
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foal | (verb) give birth to a foal | - |
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foam | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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fob | (verb) deceive somebody | Synonyms: flim-flam, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick |
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focalise | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalize, focus |
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(verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalize, focus, sharpen |
(verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalize, focus |
(verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalize, localise, localize |
focalize | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus |
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(verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus, sharpen |
(verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focus |
(verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, localise, localize |
focus | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize |
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(verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, sharpen |
(verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, pore, rivet |
(verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focalize |
(verb) cause to converge on or toward a central point | - |
fodder | (verb) give fodder (to domesticated animals) | - |
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fog | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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foil | (verb) cover or back with foil | - |
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(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
(verb) enhance by contrast | - |
foist | (verb) insert surreptitiously or without warrant | - |
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(verb) to force onto another | - |
fold | (verb) incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating | - |
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(verb) become folded or folded up | Synonyms: fold up |
(verb) bend or lay so that one part covers the other | Synonyms: fold up, turn up |
(verb) confine in a fold, like sheep | Synonyms: pen up |
(verb) cease to operate or cause to cease operating | Synonyms: close, close down, close up, shut down |
foliate | (verb) grow leaves | - |
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(verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: page, paginate |
(verb) coat or back with metal foil | - |
(verb) hammer into thin flat foils | - |
(verb) decorate with leaves | - |
follback | (verb) to return someone's following of you on a social media platform | - |
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follow | (verb) behave in accordance or in agreement with | Synonyms: conform to |
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(verb) keep informed | Synonyms: keep abreast, keep up |
(verb) keep to | Synonyms: stick to, stick with |
(verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something | Synonyms: trace |
(verb) grasp the meaning | - |
(verb) imitate in behavior; take as a model | Synonyms: take after |
(verb) perform an accompaniment to | Synonyms: accompany, play along |
(verb) to travel behind, go after, come after | - |
(verb) travel along a certain course | Synonyms: travel along |
(verb) follow in or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: pursue |
(verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: surveil, survey |
(verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, espouse |
(verb) to subscribe to someone's updates on social media | - |
(verb) to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media | - |
(verb) act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes | Synonyms: abide by, comply |
(verb) be the successor (of) | Synonyms: come after, succeed |
(verb) follow with the eyes or the mind | Synonyms: keep an eye on, observe, watch, watch over |
(verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: be |
(verb) accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of | - |
(verb) adhere to or practice | - |
(verb) be later in time | Synonyms: postdate |
(verb) come after in time, as a result | Synonyms: come after |
(verb) be next | - |
(verb) to bring something about at a later time than | - |
(verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: come |
(verb) come as a logical consequence; follow logically | Synonyms: fall out |
foment | (verb) bathe with warm water or medicated lotions | - |
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(verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: agitate, stir up |
fondle | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: caress |
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fool | (verb) indulge in horseplay | Synonyms: arse around, fool around, horse around |
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(verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
(verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
(verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: befool, gull |
foolproof | (verb) proof against human misuse or error | Synonyms: goof-proof, goofproof |
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foot | (verb) add a column of numbers | Synonyms: foot up |
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(verb) walk | Synonyms: hoof, hoof it, leg it |
(verb) pay for something | Synonyms: pick |
footle | (verb) act foolishly, as by talking nonsense | - |
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(verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
footnote | (verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments | Synonyms: annotate |
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footslog | (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge |
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forage | (verb) wander and feed | - |
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(verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: scrounge |
foray | (verb) briefly enter enemy territory | - |
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(verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
forbear | (verb) resist doing something | Synonyms: refrain |
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(verb) refrain from doing | Synonyms: hold back |
forbid | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent |
force | (verb) impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably | Synonyms: thrust |
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(verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: squeeze, wedge |
(verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: drive, ram |
(verb) take by force | Synonyms: storm |
(verb) do forcibly; exert force | - |
(verb) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate | Synonyms: impel |
(verb) move with force | Synonyms: push |
(verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, hale, pressure, squeeze |
ford | (verb) cross a river where it's shallow | - |
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forearm | (verb) arm in advance of a confrontation | - |
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forebode | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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forecast | (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, reckon |
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(verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: calculate |
(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
foreclose | (verb) subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage | - |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, forestall, preclude, prevent |
foredate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: antedate, predate |
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foredoom | (verb) doom beforehand | - |
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forefend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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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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foreknow | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, previse |
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foreordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: predestine, preordain |
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(verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: predestinate, predestine |
foresee | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foreknow, previse |
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(verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: envision |
(verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, forestall |
foreshadow | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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(verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
foreshow | (verb) foretell by divine inspiration | - |
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forest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: afforest |
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forestall | (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, foresee |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, preclude, prevent |
foreswear | (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: quit, relinquish, renounce |
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(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, forgo, relinquish, waive |
foretell | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
(verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald |
forewarn | (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: previse |
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forfeit | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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forfend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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forgather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, gather, meet |
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forge | (verb) create by hammering | Synonyms: hammer |
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(verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: counterfeit, fake |
(verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: fashion |
(verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: form, mold, mould, shape, work |
(verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, invent |
(verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: spirt, spurt |
(verb) move ahead steadily | - |
forget | (verb) be unable to remember | Synonyms: blank out, block, draw a blank |
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(verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering | Synonyms: bury |
(verb) leave behind unintentionally | Synonyms: leave |
(verb) forget to do something | - |
forgive | (verb) stop blaming or grant forgiveness | - |
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(verb) absolve from payment | - |
forgo | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, relinquish, waive |
(verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, precede, predate |
fork | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, furcate, ramify, separate |
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(verb) shape like a fork | - |
(verb) place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces | - |
(verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: pitchfork |
form | (verb) give shape or form to | Synonyms: shape |
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(verb) assume a form or shape | - |
(verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, mold, mould, shape, work |
(verb) create (as an entity) | Synonyms: organise, organize |
(verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind | Synonyms: imprint |
(verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: constitute, make |
(verb) develop into a distinctive entity | Synonyms: spring, take form, take shape |
formalise | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalize |
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(verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalize, validate |
formalize | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalise |
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(verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalise, validate |
format | (verb) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data | Synonyms: initialise, initialize |
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(verb) determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science) | - |
(verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format | Synonyms: arrange |
formicate | (verb) crawl about like ants | - |
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formularise | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularize |
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formularize | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularise |
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formulate | (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, give voice, phrase, word |
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(verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: develop, explicate |
(verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, invent |
(verb) prepare according to a formula | - |
fornicate | (verb) have sex without being married | - |
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forsake | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, desolate |
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forswear | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, recant, resile, retract |
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fort | (verb) station (troops) in a fort | - |
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(verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fortify |
(verb) gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense | Synonyms: fort up |
fortify | (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: lace, spike |
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(verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, strengthen |
(verb) add nutrients to | - |
(verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: arm, build up, gird |
(verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fort |
forward | (verb) send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit | Synonyms: send on |
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fossilise | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilize |
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(verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilize |
fossilize | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilise |
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(verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilise |
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 | - |
foul | (verb) become soiled and dirty | - |
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(verb) make unclean | - |
(verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, defile, maculate |
(verb) make impure | Synonyms: contaminate, pollute |
(verb) commit a foul; break the rules | - |
(verb) hit a foul ball | - |
(verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, crap up |
found | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, ground |
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(verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, institute, plant |
(verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, launch, set up |
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 |