| achieve | (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, attain, reach |
|---|
| affranchise | (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: enfranchise |
|---|
| annihilate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
|---|
| anthropomorphise | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphize |
|---|
| anthropomorphize | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphise |
|---|
| apostrophise | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophize |
|---|
| apostrophize | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophise |
|---|
| archive | (verb) put into an archive | Synonyms: file away |
|---|
| bethink | (verb) consider or ponder something carefully | - |
|---|
| (verb) cause oneself to consider something | - |
| bewhisker | (verb) furnish with whiskers | Synonyms: whisker |
|---|
| brachiate | (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
|---|
| bullshit | (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, fake, talk through one's hat |
|---|
| cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
|---|
| cashier | (verb) discharge with dishonor, as in the army | - |
|---|
| (verb) discard or do away with | - |
| catechise | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechize |
|---|
| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechize |
| catechize | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechise |
|---|
| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechise |
| chicane | (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, cavil |
|---|
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
| chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
|---|
| chide | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
|---|
| childproof | (verb) make safe against children | Synonyms: child-proof |
|---|
| chill | (verb) loose heat | Synonyms: cool, cool down |
|---|
| (verb) make cool or cooler | Synonyms: cool, cool down |
| (verb) depress or discourage | - |
| chime | (verb) emit a sound | - |
|---|
| chin | (verb) raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar | Synonyms: chin up |
|---|
| chine | (verb) cut through the backbone of an animal | - |
|---|
| chink | (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: check |
|---|
| (verb) fill the chinks of, as with caulking | - |
| (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: clink, tink, tinkle |
| chip | (verb) break a small piece off from | Synonyms: break off, cut off, knap |
|---|
| (verb) break off (a piece from a whole) | Synonyms: break away, break off, chip off, come off |
| (verb) form by chipping | - |
| (verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: nick |
| (verb) play a chip shot | - |
| chirk | (verb) make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird | - |
|---|
| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
|---|
| chirp | (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirrup, peep |
|---|
| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: tweedle |
| chirr | (verb) make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas | - |
|---|
| chirrup | (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirp, peep |
|---|
| chisel | (verb) carve with a chisel | - |
|---|
| (verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: cheat |
| (verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: cheat, rip off |
| chitchat | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
|---|
| chitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: twitter |
|---|
| chivvy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
|---|
| chivy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
|---|
| cowhide | (verb) flog with a cowhide | - |
|---|
| cushion | (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, soften |
|---|
| dehisce | (verb) burst or split open | - |
|---|
| disenfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disfranchise |
|---|
| disfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disenfranchise |
|---|
| empathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
|---|
| empathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
|---|
| enfranchise | (verb) grant voting rights | - |
|---|
| (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: affranchise |
| exhibit | (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: march, parade |
|---|
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, present, show |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, expose |
| (verb) show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill | - |
| exhilarate | (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
|---|
| fashion | (verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: forge |
|---|
| fetishize | (verb) make a fetish of | - |
|---|
| franchise | (verb) grant a franchise to | - |
|---|
| hibachi | (verb) cook over a hibachi grill | - |
|---|
| hibernate | (verb) sleep during winter | Synonyms: hole up |
|---|
| (verb) be in an inactive or dormant state | - |
| hiccough | (verb) breathe spasmodically, and make a sound | Synonyms: hiccup |
|---|
| hiccup | (verb) breathe spasmodically, and make a sound | Synonyms: hiccough |
|---|
| hide | (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, obliterate, obscure, veil |
|---|
| (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, enshroud, shroud |
| (verb) prevent from being seen or discovered | Synonyms: conceal |
| (verb) be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety | Synonyms: hide out |
| hie | (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
|---|
| higgle | (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, huckster |
|---|
| highjack | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, hijack, pirate |
|---|
| highlight | (verb) apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent | - |
|---|
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, play up, spotlight |
| hightail | (verb) retreat at full speed | Synonyms: high-tail |
|---|
| hijack | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, highjack, pirate |
|---|
| (verb) seize control of | - |
| hike | (verb) walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise | - |
|---|
| (verb) increase | Synonyms: boost, hike up |
| hill | (verb) form into a hill | - |
|---|
| hinder | (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, handicap |
|---|
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| (verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: impede |
| hinge | (verb) attach with a hinge | - |
|---|
| hint | (verb) drop a hint; intimate by a hint | Synonyms: suggest |
|---|
| hire | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, lease, rent, take |
|---|
| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: employ, engage |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, lease, rent |
| hiss | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: sibilate, siss, sizz |
|---|
| (verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: sibilate, siss, sizz |
| (verb) show displeasure, as after a performance or speech | Synonyms: boo |
| (verb) move with a whooshing sound | Synonyms: whoosh |
| hit | (verb) pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to | - |
|---|
| (verb) make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: pip, shoot |
| (verb) hit the intended target or goal | - |
| (verb) deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument | - |
| (verb) hit against; come into sudden contact with | Synonyms: collide with, impinge on, run into, strike |
| (verb) produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) cause to move by striking | - |
| (verb) affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, make, reach |
| (verb) drive something violently into a location | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: attain, reach |
| (verb) cause to experience suddenly | Synonyms: come to, strike |
| (verb) encounter by chance | Synonyms: stumble |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| hitch | (verb) to hook or entangle | Synonyms: catch |
|---|
| (verb) connect to a vehicle: | - |
| (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitchhike, thumb |
| (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hobble, limp |
| (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: buck, jerk |
| hitchhike | (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitch, thumb |
|---|
| hive | (verb) gather into a hive | - |
|---|
| (verb) move together in a hive or as if in a hive | - |
| (verb) store, like bees | - |
| horsewhip | (verb) whip with a whip intended for horses | - |
|---|
| inhibit | (verb) prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something | - |
|---|
| (verb) make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally | - |
| (verb) consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior | Synonyms: bottle up, suppress |
| (verb) limit, block, or decrease the action or function of | - |
| lyophilise | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilize |
|---|
| lyophilize | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilise |
|---|
| machicolate | (verb) supply with projecting galleries | - |
|---|
| machinate | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, conspire |
|---|
| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, organise, organize, prepare |
| machine | (verb) make by machinery | - |
|---|
| (verb) turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery | - |
| moonshine | (verb) distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine | - |
|---|
| mythicise | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicize, mythologise, mythologize |
|---|
| (verb) interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology | Synonyms: mythicize |
| mythicize | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicise, mythologise, mythologize |
|---|
| (verb) interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology | Synonyms: mythicise |
| outshine | (verb) attract more attention and praise than others | - |
|---|
| (verb) shine brighter than | - |
| overachieve | (verb) perform better or achieve a greater degree of success than expected | - |
|---|
| overthink | (verb) to spend to much time considering something and thus reach the wrong conclusion | - |
|---|
| philander | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, romance |
|---|
| (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: womanise, womanize |
| philosophise | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophize |
|---|
| philosophize | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophise |
|---|
| preachify | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, sermonise, sermonize |
|---|
| prohibit | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, proscribe, veto |
|---|
| refashion | (verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, redo, remake |
|---|
| reship | (verb) place on a ship again or transfer to another ship | - |
|---|
| rethink | (verb) change one's mind | - |
|---|
| shield | (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm | Synonyms: screen |
|---|
| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, harbour |
| shift | (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, switch |
|---|
| (verb) move and exchange for another | - |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, switch |
| (verb) move from one setting or context to another | - |
| (verb) change in quality | - |
| (verb) change gears | - |
| (verb) change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change | - |
| (verb) use a shift key on a keyboard | - |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: dislodge, reposition |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, budge, stir |
| (verb) move around | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, tilt, wobble |
| shill | (verb) act as a shill | - |
|---|
| shillyshally | (verb) be uncertain and vague | - |
|---|
| (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, stall |
| shimmer | (verb) give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk | - |
|---|
| (verb) shine with a weak or fitful light | - |
| shimmy | (verb) dance a shimmy | - |
|---|
| (verb) tremble or shake | Synonyms: wobble |
| shin | (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
|---|
| shine | (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, smooth, smoothen |
|---|
| (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, strike |
| (verb) be distinguished or eminent | - |
| (verb) be clear and obvious | - |
| (verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: beam |
| (verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) throw or flash the light of (a lamp) | - |