| abnegate | (verb) deny or renounce | - |
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| (verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
| (verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
| abridge | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) lessen, diminish, or curtail | - |
| abrogate | (verb) revoke formally | - |
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| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| adjudge | (verb) declare to be | Synonyms: declare, hold |
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| advantage | (verb) give an advantage to | - |
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| affright | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: fright, frighten, scare |
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| age | (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: get on, maturate, mature, senesce |
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| (verb) begin to seem older; get older | - |
| (verb) make older | - |
| agglomerate | (verb) form into one cluster | - |
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| agglutinate | (verb) clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. | - |
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| (verb) string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) | - |
| aggrade | (verb) build up to a level by depositing sediment | - |
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| aggrandise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| aggrandize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| aggravate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate |
| aggregate | (verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: combine |
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| (verb) amount in the aggregate to | - |
| aggress | (verb) take the initiative and go on the offensive | Synonyms: attack |
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| aggrieve | (verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: grieve |
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| (verb) infringe on the rights of | - |
| aggroup | (verb) form a group or group together | Synonyms: group |
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| agitate | (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: budge, shift, stir |
| (verb) move or cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: shake |
| (verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: foment, stir up |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: campaign, crusade, fight, press, push |
| agnise | (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnize, realise, realize, recognise, recognize |
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| agnize | (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnise, realise, realize, recognise, recognize |
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| agonise | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonize |
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| (verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonize |
| agonize | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonise |
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| (verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonise |
| agree | (verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: concord, concur, hold |
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| (verb) consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something | - |
| (verb) achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose | - |
| (verb) be agreeable or suitable | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
| (verb) show grammatical agreement | - |
| airfreight | (verb) transport (cargo) by air | Synonyms: air-freight, air-ship |
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| alight | (verb) come down | Synonyms: climb down |
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| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: light, perch |
| align | (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: adjust, aline, line up |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: coordinate, ordinate |
| (verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: array |
| (verb) be or come into adjustment with | - |
| allege | (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: aver, say |
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| allegorise | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
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| (verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
| allegorize | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
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| (verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
| alligator | (verb) crack and acquire the appearance of alligator hide, as from weathering or improper application; of paint and varnishes | - |
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| amalgamate | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: commix, mingle, mix, unify |
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| anagram | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagrammatise, anagrammatize |
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| anagrammatise | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatize |
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| anagrammatize | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatise |
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| analogise | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogize |
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| analogize | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogise |
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| anger | (verb) make angry | - |
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| (verb) become angry | Synonyms: see red |
| angle | (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: slant, weight |
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| (verb) fish with a hook | - |
| (verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: fish |
| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: lean, slant, tilt, tip |
| (verb) move or proceed at an angle | - |
| anglicise | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicize |
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| anglicize | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicise |
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| anguish | (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: hurt, pain |
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| (verb) suffer great pains or distress | - |
| angulate | (verb) make or become angular | - |
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| antagonise | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonize |
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| (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonize, counteract |
| antagonize | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonise |
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| (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonise, counteract |
| anthologise | (verb) compile an anthology | Synonyms: anthologize |
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| anthologize | (verb) compile an anthology | Synonyms: anthologise |
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| apologise | (verb) acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing | Synonyms: apologize |
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| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologize, excuse, rationalise, rationalize |
| apologize | (verb) acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing | Synonyms: apologise |
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| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, excuse, rationalise, rationalize |
| arbitrage | (verb) practice arbitrage, as in the stock market | - |
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| argue | (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: contend, debate, fence |
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| (verb) give evidence of | Synonyms: indicate |
| (verb) present reasons and arguments | Synonyms: reason |
| argufy | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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| arraign | (verb) accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy | - |
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| (verb) call before a court to answer an indictment | - |
| arrange | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, set |
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| (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: order, put, set up |
| (verb) make arrangements for | Synonyms: fix up |
| (verb) put into a proper or systematic order | Synonyms: set up |
| (verb) adapt for performance in a different way | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format | Synonyms: format |
| (verb) plan, organize, and carry out (an event) | Synonyms: stage |
| arrogate | (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: assume, seize, take over, usurp |
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| (verb) make undue claims to having | Synonyms: assign |
| (verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: claim, lay claim |
| assign | (verb) select something or someone for a specific purpose | Synonyms: set apart, specify |
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| (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, attribute, impute |
| (verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme | Synonyms: attribute |
| (verb) attribute or give | Synonyms: put |
| (verb) transfer one's right to | - |
| (verb) give out | Synonyms: allot, portion |
| (verb) make undue claims to having | Synonyms: arrogate |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: delegate, depute, designate |
| assuage | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, palliate, relieve |
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| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, quench, slake |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| astringe | (verb) become constricted or compressed | - |
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| (verb) constrict or bind or draw together | - |
| astrogate | (verb) navigate in space | - |
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| (verb) guide in interplanetary travel | - |
| augment | (verb) grow or intensify | - |
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| (verb) enlarge or increase | - |
| augur | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) predict from an omen | - |
| autograph | (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: inscribe |
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| avenge | (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: retaliate, revenge |
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| average | (verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
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| (verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
| (verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
| background | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: downplay, play down |
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| backlog | (verb) accumulate and create a backlog | - |
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| badge | (verb) put a badge on | - |
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| badger | (verb) persuade through constant efforts | - |
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| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: beleaguer, bug, pester, tease |
| bag | (verb) put into a bag | - |
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| (verb) capture or kill, as in hunting | - |
| (verb) take unlawfully | Synonyms: pocket |
| (verb) bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge | Synonyms: bulge |
| (verb) hang loosely, like an empty bag | - |
| ballyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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| bandage | (verb) dress by covering or binding | - |
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| (verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bind |
| bang | (verb) strike violently | Synonyms: slam |
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| (verb) close violently | Synonyms: slam |
| (verb) leap, jerk, bang | Synonyms: spang |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| (verb) move noisily | - |
| (verb) to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound | - |
| bargain | (verb) come to terms; arrive at an agreement | - |
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| (verb) negotiate the terms of an exchange | Synonyms: dicker |
| barge | (verb) push one's way | Synonyms: push forward, thrust ahead |
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| (verb) transport by barge on a body of water | - |
| barrage | (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: bombard |
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| bedight | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, deck |
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| bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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| befog | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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| beg | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: implore, pray |
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| (verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: solicit, tap |
| (verb) dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted | - |
| (verb) ask to obtain free | - |
| beget | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| beggar | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: pauperise, pauperize |
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| (verb) be beyond the resources of | - |
| begild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: engild, gild |
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| begin | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: commence, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
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| (verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: commence, lead off, start |
| (verb) begin to speak or say | - |
| (verb) begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language | - |
| (verb) achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative | - |
| (verb) begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object | Synonyms: start |
| (verb) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense | Synonyms: start |
| (verb) be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series | - |
| (verb) have a beginning characterized in some specified way | Synonyms: start |
| (verb) have a beginning, of a temporal event | - |
| begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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| begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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| (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
| beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
| beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
| bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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| belong | (verb) be owned by; be in the possession of | - |
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| (verb) be rightly classified in a class or category | - |
| (verb) be suitable or acceptable | - |
| (verb) be in the right place or situation | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) be a part or adjunct | Synonyms: belong to |
| (verb) be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place) | - |
| benight | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: bedim |
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| (verb) envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness | - |
| (verb) overtake with darkness or night | - |
| besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
| (verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
| bespangle | (verb) dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects | - |
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| (verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: spangle |
| bight | (verb) fasten with a bight | - |
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| bilge | (verb) take in water at the bilge | Synonyms: take in water |
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| (verb) cause to leak | - |
| binge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| (verb) to watch a large amount of media in a single seating | - |
| biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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| blackguard | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, clapperclaw, shout |
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| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast |
| blackleg | (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: fink, rat, scab |
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| blight | (verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: plague |
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| blitzkrieg | (verb) fight a quick and surprising war | - |
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