afford | (verb) be able to spare or give up | - |
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(verb) be the cause or source of | Synonyms: give, yield |
(verb) afford access to | Synonyms: give, open |
(verb) have the financial means to do something or buy something | - |
afforest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: forest |
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chloroform | (verb) anesthetize with chloroform | - |
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comfort | (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: ease |
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(verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: console, solace, soothe |
conform | (verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adapt, adjust |
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(verb) be similar, be in line with | - |
deforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: disafforest, disforest |
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deform | (verb) become misshapen | - |
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(verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: distort, strain |
(verb) assume a different shape or form | Synonyms: change form, change shape |
(verb) make formless | - |
(verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, flex, turn, twist |
(verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, distort, wring |
disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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disforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disafforest |
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dropforge | (verb) forge with a dropforge | - |
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enforce | (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, implement |
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(verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: constrain, impose |
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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inform | (verb) give character or essence to | - |
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(verb) impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to | - |
(verb) act as an informer | - |
misinform | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: mislead |
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outperform | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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perforate | (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: punch |
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(verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: penetrate |
perform | (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, execute |
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(verb) give a performance (of something) | - |
(verb) get (something) done | Synonyms: do |
(verb) perform a function | - |
pitchfork | (verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: fork |
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preform | (verb) form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand | - |
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(verb) form into a shape resembling the final, desired one | - |
reenforce | (verb) make stronger | Synonyms: reinforce |
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reforest | (verb) forest anew | - |
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reforge | (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: recast, remodel |
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reform | (verb) make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices | - |
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(verb) break up the molecules of | - |
(verb) produce by cracking | - |
(verb) change for the better | Synonyms: see the light, straighten out |
(verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, regenerate |
(verb) improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition | - |
reformulate | (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: redevelop |
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reinforce | (verb) make stronger | Synonyms: reenforce |
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(verb) strengthen and support with rewards | Synonyms: reward |
transform | (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transmute, transubstantiate |
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(verb) change from one form or medium into another | Synonyms: translate |
(verb) subject to a mathematical transformation | - |
(verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: metamorphose, transmute |
(verb) increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage) | - |
(verb) change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species | - |
(verb) convert (one form of energy) to another | - |
underperform | (verb) perform too rarely | - |
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(verb) perform less well or with less success than expected | Synonyms: underachieve |
uniform | (verb) provide with uniforms | - |
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uniformise | (verb) make uniform | Synonyms: uniformize |
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uniformize | (verb) make uniform | Synonyms: uniformise |
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