| indicate | (verb) to state or express briefly | - |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, point, signal |
| (verb) give evidence of | Synonyms: argue |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, point, show |
| (verb) suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine | - |
| indict | (verb) accuse formally of a crime | - |
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| inflict | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, impose, visit |
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| intercommunicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: communicate |
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| (verb) be interconnected, afford passage | - |
| interdict | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| (verb) destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication | - |
| intoxicate | (verb) have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug | - |
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| (verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: inebriate, soak |
| (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: elate, lift up, pick up, uplift |
| invoice | (verb) send a bill to | - |
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| italicise | (verb) print in italics | Synonyms: italicize |
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| italicize | (verb) print in italics | Synonyms: italicise |
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| jaundice | (verb) affect with, or as if with, jaundice | - |
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| (verb) distort adversely | - |
| kick | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
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| (verb) make a goal | - |
| (verb) stop consuming | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) strike with the foot | - |
| (verb) drive or propel with the foot | - |
| (verb) spring back, as from a forceful thrust | Synonyms: kick back, recoil |
| (verb) thrash about or strike out with the feet | - |
| (verb) kick a leg up | - |
| laicise | (verb) reduce to lay status | Synonyms: laicize |
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| laicize | (verb) reduce to lay status | Synonyms: laicise |
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| lexicalise | (verb) make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language | Synonyms: lexicalize |
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| lexicalize | (verb) make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language | Synonyms: lexicalise |
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| licence | (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, license |
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| license | (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, licence |
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| lick | (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, puzzle out, solve, work, work out |
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| (verb) take up with the tongue | Synonyms: lap, lap up |
| (verb) pass the tongue over | Synonyms: lap |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, thrash |
| lipstick | (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
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| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| lubricate | (verb) make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant | - |
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| (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lube |
| (verb) have lubricating properties | - |
| lyric | (verb) write lyrics for (a song) | - |
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| machicolate | (verb) supply with projecting galleries | - |
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| maledict | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate |
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| manicure | (verb) care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
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| (verb) trim carefully and neatly | - |
| masticate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, manducate |
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| (verb) grind and knead | - |
| matriculate | (verb) enroll as a student | - |
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| medicate | (verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicine |
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| (verb) impregnate with a medicinal substance | - |
| medicine | (verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicate |
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| metricate | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricise, metricize, metrify |
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| metricise | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricize, metrify |
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| (verb) express in the metric system | Synonyms: metricize |
| metricize | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricise, metrify |
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| (verb) express in the metric system | Synonyms: metricise |
| microcopy | (verb) photocopy printed or other graphic matter so that it is reduced in size | - |
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| microfilm | (verb) record on microfilm | - |
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| microwave | (verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven | Synonyms: micro-cook, nuke, zap |
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| micturate | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| mimic | (verb) imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect | Synonyms: mime |
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| mortice | (verb) join by a tenon and mortise | Synonyms: mortise |
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| (verb) cut a hole for a tenon in | Synonyms: mortise |
| mythicise | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicize, mythologise, mythologize |
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| (verb) interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology | Synonyms: mythicize |
| mythicize | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicise, mythologise, mythologize |
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| (verb) interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology | Synonyms: mythicise |
| nick | (verb) mate successfully; of livestock | - |
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| (verb) divide or reset the tail muscles of | - |
| (verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: chip |
| (verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: snick |
| nickel | (verb) plate with nickel | - |
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| nicker | (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
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| nickname | (verb) give a nickname to | Synonyms: dub |
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| nictate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictitate, wink |
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| nictitate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictate, wink |
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| nitpick | (verb) be overly critical; criticize minor details | - |
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| notice | (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: comment, point out, remark |
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| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: acknowledge |
| (verb) notice or perceive | Synonyms: mark, note |
| (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, discover, find, observe |
| officer | (verb) direct or command as an officer | - |
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| officialise | (verb) make official | Synonyms: officialize |
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| officialize | (verb) make official | Synonyms: officialise |
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| officiate | (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: function |
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| (verb) act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding | - |
| overprice | (verb) price excessively high | - |
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| panic | (verb) be overcome by a sudden fear | - |
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| (verb) cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic | - |
| participate | (verb) become a participant; be involved in | Synonyms: enter |
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| (verb) share in something | Synonyms: take part |
| particularise | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularize, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| particularize | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| pedicure | (verb) care for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
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| pick | (verb) remove in small bits | - |
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| (verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) select carefully from a group | - |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: blame, find fault |
| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, piece |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, peck |
| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pluck |
| (verb) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pluck, plunk |
| (verb) provoke | - |
| (verb) pay for something | Synonyms: foot |
| (verb) pilfer or rob | - |
| picket | (verb) fasten with a picket | - |
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| (verb) serve as pickets or post pickets | - |
| pickle | (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
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| picnic | (verb) eat alfresco, in the open air | - |
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| picture | (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, render, show |
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| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| plasticise | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticize |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticize |
| plasticize | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticise |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticise |
| plicate | (verb) fold into pleats | Synonyms: pleat |
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| polemicise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicize, polemise, polemize |
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| polemicize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemise, polemize |
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| police | (verb) maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol | Synonyms: patrol |
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| politicise | (verb) give a political character to | Synonyms: politicize |
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| politicize | (verb) give a political character to | Synonyms: politicise |
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| politick | (verb) engage in political activities | - |
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| pontificate | (verb) talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner | - |
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| (verb) administer a pontifical office | - |
| poultice | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: plaster |
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| practice | (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practise |
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| (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practise, rehearse |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, exercise, practise |
| (verb) avail oneself to | Synonyms: apply, use |
| (verb) engage in or perform | Synonyms: commit |
| predicate | (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: proclaim |
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| (verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: connote |
| (verb) make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition | - |
| predict | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| prefabricate | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: preassemble |
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| (verb) produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally | - |
| prejudice | (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prepossess |
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| (verb) disadvantage by prejudice | - |
| prevaricate | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, tergiversate |
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| price | (verb) ascertain or learn the price of | - |
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| (verb) determine the price of | - |
| prick | (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prickle |
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| (verb) deliver a sting to | Synonyms: bite, sting |
| (verb) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick | Synonyms: goad |
| (verb) to cause a sharp emotional pain | - |
| (verb) to stick up | Synonyms: cock up, prick up |
| (verb) cause a stinging pain | Synonyms: sting, twinge |
| (verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prickle |
| prickle | (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prick |
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| (verb) cause a stinging or tingling sensation | Synonyms: tingle |
| (verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prick |
| prognosticate | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage |
| publicise | (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, bare, publicize |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, publicize |
| publicize | (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, bare, publicise |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, publicise |
| pumice | (verb) rub with pumice, in order to clean or to smoothen | - |
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| quadruplicate | (verb) reproduce fourfold | - |
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| quicken | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) show signs of life | - |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: invigorate |
| (verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed, speed up |
| (verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: whet |
| quickstep | (verb) perform a quickstep | - |
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| radicalize | (verb) make more radical in social or political outlook | - |
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| reconvict | (verb) convict anew | - |
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| rededicate | (verb) dedicate anew | - |
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| reduplicate | (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, repeat, replicate |
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| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: geminate |
| rejoice | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, jubilate, triumph |
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| (verb) feel happiness or joy | Synonyms: joy |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: triumph, wallow |
| relyric | (verb) write new lyrics for (a song) | - |
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| replicate | (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, reduplicate, repeat |
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| (verb) reproduce or make an exact copy of | Synonyms: copy |
| (verb) bend or turn backward | Synonyms: retroflex |
| restrict | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, throttle, trammel |
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| (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, curtail, cut back |
| (verb) place under restrictions; limit access to by law | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) prevent (information) from being circulated or disclosed | - |
| retick | (verb) sew | Synonyms: tick |
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| reticulate | (verb) divide so as to form a network | - |
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| (verb) distribute by a network, as of water or electricity | - |
| (verb) form a net or a network | - |
| rice | (verb) sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice | - |
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