| abide | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) dwell | Synonyms: bide, stay |
| 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 | - |
| acidify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acetify |
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| (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidulate, sour |
| acidulate | (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, sour |
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| aid | (verb) improve the condition of | Synonyms: help |
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| (verb) give help or assistance; be of service | Synonyms: assist, help |
| avoid | (verb) stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something | - |
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| (verb) refrain from certain foods or beverages | Synonyms: keep off |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, invalidate, nullify, quash, void |
| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| (verb) refrain from doing something | - |
| backslide | (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: lapse |
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| bestride | (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount, mount up |
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| betide | (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
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| bid | (verb) ask someone in a friendly way to do something | Synonyms: invite |
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| (verb) invoke upon | Synonyms: wish |
| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, conjure, entreat, press |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: offer, tender |
| (verb) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands | Synonyms: call |
| (verb) make a serious effort to attain something | - |
| bide | (verb) dwell | Synonyms: abide, stay |
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| blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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| (verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
| braid | (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: pleach |
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| (verb) decorate with braids or ribbons | - |
| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: lace, plait |
| bridge | (verb) make a bridge across | - |
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| (verb) cross over on a bridge | - |
| (verb) connect or reduce the distance between | Synonyms: bridge over |
| bridle | (verb) respond to the reins, as of horses | - |
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| (verb) put a bridle on | - |
| (verb) anger or take offense | - |
| broadside | (verb) collide with the broad side of | - |
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| broider | (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: embroider |
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| 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 |
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| coincide | (verb) happen simultaneously | Synonyms: concur |
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| (verb) go with, fall together | Synonyms: co-occur, cooccur |
| (verb) be the same | - |
| collide | (verb) crash together with violent impact | Synonyms: clash |
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| (verb) cause to collide | - |
| (verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: clash, jar |
| confide | (verb) reveal in private; tell confidentially | - |
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| (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, entrust, intrust, trust |
| consider | (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: reckon, regard, see, view |
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| (verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: deal, look at, take |
| (verb) regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem | - |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, conceive, think |
| (verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: count, weigh |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: debate, deliberate, moot, turn over |
| (verb) give careful consideration to | Synonyms: study |
| (verb) look at attentively | Synonyms: regard |
| (verb) look at carefully; study mentally | Synonyms: look at, view |
| consolidate | (verb) unite into one | - |
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| (verb) bring together into a single whole or system | - |
| (verb) make firm or secure; strengthen | - |
| (verb) make or form into a solid or hardened mass | - |
| (verb) form into a solid mass or whole | - |
| cowhide | (verb) flog with a cowhide | - |
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| decide | (verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something | Synonyms: determine, make up one's mind |
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| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, resolve, settle |
| (verb) cause to decide | - |
| (verb) influence or determine | - |
| dehumidify | (verb) make less humid | - |
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| deoxidise | (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidize, reduce |
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| deoxidize | (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidise, reduce |
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| deride | (verb) treat or speak of with contempt | - |
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| didder | (verb) move with or as if with a tremor | Synonyms: shake |
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| diddle | (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: fiddle, play, toy |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| dilapidate | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, decay |
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| (verb) bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse | - |
| divide | (verb) perform a division | Synonyms: fraction |
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| (verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: part, separate |
| (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, part, separate |
| (verb) make a division or separation | Synonyms: separate |
| (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, separate, split, split up |
| (verb) act as a barrier between; stand between | Synonyms: separate |
| elide | (verb) leave or strike out | - |
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| elucidate | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clarify, clear up |
| embroider | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, lard, pad |
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| (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: broider |
| evidence | (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, manifest |
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| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, prove, show, testify |
| (verb) give evidence | Synonyms: tell |
| fiddle | (verb) try to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinker |
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| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, play, toy |
| (verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: monkey, tamper |
| (verb) play the violin or fiddle | - |
| (verb) play on a violin | - |
| (verb) commit fraud and steal from one's employer | - |
| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: goldbrick, shirk, shrink from |
| fidget | (verb) move restlessly | - |
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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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| 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 |
| glide | (verb) move smoothly and effortlessly | - |
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| (verb) fly in or as if in a glider plane | - |
| (verb) cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly | - |
| griddle | (verb) cook on a griddle | - |
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| guide | (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, pass, run |
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| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, direct, lead, take |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) use as a guide | Synonyms: guide on |
| (verb) be a guiding or motivating force or drive | Synonyms: steer |
| hide | (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, obliterate, obscure, veil |
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| (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 |
| holiday | (verb) spend or take a vacation | Synonyms: vacation |
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| humidify | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: moisturise, moisturize |
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| hybridise | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridize, interbreed |
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| hybridize | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, interbreed |
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| idealise | (verb) consider or render as ideal | Synonyms: idealize |
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| (verb) form ideals | Synonyms: idealize |
| idealize | (verb) consider or render as ideal | Synonyms: idealise |
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| (verb) form ideals | Synonyms: idealise |
| ideate | (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, imagine |
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| identify | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: place |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, key, key out, name |
| (verb) consider to be equal or the same | - |
| (verb) conceive of as united or associated | - |
| (verb) consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else | - |
| (verb) give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property | Synonyms: name |
| idle | (verb) run disconnected or idle | Synonyms: tick over |
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| (verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: laze, slug, stagnate |
| idolise | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolize, revere, worship |
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| idolize | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, revere, worship |
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| individualise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualize, personalise, personalize |
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| (verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualize |
| individualize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, personalise, personalize |
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| (verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualise |
| individuate | (verb) give individual shape or form to | - |
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| (verb) give individual character to | - |
| intimidate | (verb) make timid or fearful | - |
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| (verb) to compel or deter by or as if by threats | - |
| invalid | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, incapacitate |
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| (verb) force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen | - |
| invalidate | (verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective | Synonyms: vitiate, void |
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| (verb) show to be invalid | Synonyms: nullify |
| (verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: cancel |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, nullify, quash, void |
| iridesce | (verb) be iridescent | - |
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| joyride | (verb) ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it | Synonyms: tool, tool around |
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| kid | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, jolly, josh |
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| (verb) tell false information to for fun | Synonyms: pull the leg of |
| kidnap | (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, nobble, snatch |
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| lapidate | (verb) kill by throwing stones at | Synonyms: stone |
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| (verb) throw stones at | - |
| lapidify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: petrify |
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| liquidate | (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, neutralise, neutralize, waste |
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| (verb) eliminate by paying off (debts) | Synonyms: pay off |
| (verb) convert into cash | - |
| (verb) settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off | - |
| liquidise | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidize, liquify |
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| liquidize | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquify |
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| (verb) sell or get rid of all one's merchandise | Synonyms: sell out, sell up |
| middle | (verb) put in the middle | - |
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| misguide | (verb) give bad advice to | Synonyms: misadvise |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misdirect, mislead |
| misidentify | (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: mistake |
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| occidentalise | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalize, westernise, westernize |
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| occidentalize | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, westernise, westernize |
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| outbid | (verb) bid higher than others | - |
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| (verb) bid over an opponent's bid when one's partner has not bid or doubled | - |
| outride | (verb) ride better, faster, or further than | - |
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| (verb) hang on during a trial of endurance | Synonyms: last out, ride out, stay |
| overbid | (verb) bid more than the object is worth | - |
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| (verb) to bid for more tricks than one can expect to win | - |
| override | (verb) rule against | Synonyms: overrule, overthrow, overturn, reverse |
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| (verb) ride (a horse) too hard | - |
| (verb) counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle) | - |
| (verb) prevail over | - |
| oxidate | (verb) add oxygen to or combine with oxygen | Synonyms: oxidise, oxidize |
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| (verb) enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide | Synonyms: oxidise, oxidize |
| oxidise | (verb) add oxygen to or combine with oxygen | Synonyms: oxidate, oxidize |
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| (verb) enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide | Synonyms: oxidate, oxidize |
| oxidize | (verb) add oxygen to or combine with oxygen | Synonyms: oxidate, oxidise |
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| (verb) enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide | Synonyms: oxidate, oxidise |
| peroxide | (verb) bleach with peroxide | - |
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| piddle | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away |
| preside | (verb) act as president | - |
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| pride | (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: congratulate, plume |
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| provide | (verb) take measures in preparation for | - |
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| (verb) determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation | - |
| (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: cater, ply, supply |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, render, supply |
| (verb) supply means of subsistence; earn a living | Synonyms: bring home the bacon |
| (verb) mount or put up | Synonyms: offer, put up |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow, allow for, leave |
| pyramid | (verb) increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base | - |
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| (verb) arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid | - |
| (verb) enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts | - |
| (verb) use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal | - |
| raid | (verb) search for something needed or desired | - |
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| (verb) enter someone else's territory and take spoils | Synonyms: foray into |
| (verb) take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock | - |
| (verb) search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on | Synonyms: bust |
| recidivate | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, regress, relapse, retrogress |
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| reconsider | (verb) consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing | - |
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| (verb) consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it | - |
| reside | (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, shack |
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| (verb) live (in a certain place) | Synonyms: lodge in, occupy |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: repose, rest |
| rid | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: disembarrass, free |
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| riddle | (verb) explain a riddle | - |
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| (verb) set a difficult problem or riddle | - |
| (verb) speak in riddles | - |
| (verb) pierce with many holes | - |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade |
| ride | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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| (verb) keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot | - |
| (verb) copulate with | Synonyms: mount |
| (verb) be carried or travel on or in a vehicle | - |
| (verb) sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions | Synonyms: sit |
| (verb) move like a floating object | - |
| (verb) climb up on the body | - |
| (verb) sit on and control a vehicle | - |
| (verb) ride over, along, or through | - |
| (verb) continue undisturbed and without interference | - |
| (verb) lie moored or anchored | - |
| (verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: drive |
| (verb) be sustained or supported or borne | - |
| (verb) be contingent on | Synonyms: depend on, depend upon, devolve on, hinge on, hinge upon, turn on |
| ridge | (verb) form into a ridge | - |
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| (verb) spade into alternate ridges and troughs | - |
| (verb) throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides | - |
| (verb) plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip | - |
| (verb) extend in ridges | - |
| ridicule | (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast |
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