| acetify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acidify |
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| (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acidify, acidulate, sour |
| acidify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acetify |
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| (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidulate, sour |
| aerify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: gasify, vaporise, vaporize |
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| airlift | (verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: lift |
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| alkalify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalise, alkalize, basify |
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| ammonify | (verb) treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification | - |
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| amplify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: magnify |
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| (verb) increase the volume of | - |
| (verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: blow up, expand, inflate |
| (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
| aurify | (verb) turn golden | - |
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| (verb) transform into gold | - |
| basify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalise, alkalize |
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| beatify | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood | - |
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| (verb) make blessedly happy | - |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
| beautify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| biff | (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: pommel, pummel |
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| bifurcate | (verb) divide into two branches | - |
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| (verb) split or divide into two | - |
| calcify | (verb) turn into lime; become calcified | - |
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| (verb) convert into lime | - |
| (verb) become impregnated with calcium salts | - |
| (verb) become inflexible and unchanging | - |
| carnify | (verb) become muscular or fleshy | - |
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| centrifugate | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifuge |
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| centrifuge | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifugate |
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| certificate | (verb) authorize by certificate | - |
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| (verb) present someone with a certificate | - |
| certify | (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, demonstrate, evidence, manifest |
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| (verb) declare legally insane | - |
| (verb) guarantee payment on; of checks | - |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: endorse, indorse |
| (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: licence, license |
| chondrify | (verb) turn into cartilage | - |
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| citify | (verb) accustom to urban ways | - |
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| clarify | (verb) make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating | - |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clear up, elucidate |
| classify | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, separate, sort, sort out |
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| (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: relegate |
| (verb) declare unavailable, as for security reasons | - |
| codify | (verb) organize into a code or system, such as a body of law | - |
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| coif | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, set |
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| (verb) cover with a coif | - |
| coiffe | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffure, do, dress, set |
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| coiffure | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, do, dress, set |
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| complexify | (verb) make complex | - |
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| (verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: ramify |
| crucify | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, pillory, savage |
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| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
| (verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: mortify, subdue |
| (verb) kill by nailing onto a cross | - |
| dandify | (verb) dress like a dandy | - |
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| decalcify | (verb) remove calcium or lime from | - |
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| (verb) lose calcium or calcium compounds | - |
| decertify | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: derecognise, derecognize |
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| declassify | (verb) lift the restriction on and make available again | - |
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| dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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| dehumidify | (verb) make less humid | - |
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| deify | (verb) exalt to the position of a God | - |
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| (verb) consider as a god or godlike | - |
| demulsify | (verb) break down into components | - |
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| (verb) cause to demulsify | - |
| demystify | (verb) make less mysterious or remove the mystery from | - |
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| denazify | (verb) free from Nazi ideology or detach from Nazi allegiance | - |
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| denitrify | (verb) remove nitrogen from | - |
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| detoxify | (verb) treat for alcohol or drug dependence | Synonyms: detox |
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| (verb) remove poison from | Synonyms: detoxicate |
| devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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| (verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |
| differ | (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: disagree, dissent, take issue |
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| (verb) be different | - |
| differentiate | (verb) become distinct and acquire a different character | - |
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| (verb) become different during development | - |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate |
| (verb) calculate a derivative; take the derivative | - |
| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: distinguish, mark |
| diffract | (verb) undergo diffraction | - |
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| diffuse | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: fan out, spread, spread out |
| dignify | (verb) raise the status of | - |
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| (verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: ennoble |
| disqualify | (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: indispose, unfit |
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| (verb) declare unfit | - |
| disunify | (verb) break up or separate | Synonyms: break apart |
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| diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
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| (verb) make (more) diverse | - |
| (verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
| drift | (verb) be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current | - |
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| (verb) be subject to fluctuation | - |
| (verb) drive slowly and far afield for grazing | - |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, float |
| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: err, stray |
| (verb) move in an unhurried fashion | - |
| (verb) cause to be carried by a current | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: freewheel |
| (verb) vary or move from a fixed point or course | - |
| dulcify | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten |
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| edify | (verb) make understand | Synonyms: enlighten |
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| electrify | (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: wire |
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| (verb) charge (a conductor) with electricity | - |
| (verb) excite suddenly and intensely | - |
| emulsify | (verb) form into or become an emulsion | - |
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| (verb) cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion | - |
| esterify | (verb) change (a compound) into an ester | - |
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| etherify | (verb) change into an ether | - |
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| exemplify | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: illustrate, instance |
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| (verb) be typical of | Synonyms: represent |
| falsify | (verb) falsify knowingly | - |
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| (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: alter, interpolate |
| (verb) prove false | - |
| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, garble, warp |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| fancify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, embellish, prettify |
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| 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 |
| fructify | (verb) produce fruit | Synonyms: set |
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| (verb) become productive or fruitful | - |
| (verb) make productive or fruitful | - |
| gasify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: aerify, vaporise, vaporize |
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| gentrify | (verb) renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations | - |
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| gift | (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: give, present |
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| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, indue, invest |
| glorify | (verb) bestow glory upon | - |
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| (verb) cause to seem more splendid | - |
| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: spiritualize, transfigure |
| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, laud, proclaim |
| gratify | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: indulge, pander |
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| (verb) make happy or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfy |
| horrify | (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, dismay |
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| humidify | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: moisturise, moisturize |
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| humify | (verb) convert (plant remains) into humus | - |
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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 |
| indemnify | (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, recompense, repair |
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| (verb) secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for | - |
| intensify | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: deepen |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, deepen, heighten |
| (verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: escalate, step up |
| (verb) make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark | - |
| interstratify | (verb) arrange rocks in alternating strata | - |
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| jackknife | (verb) dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife | - |
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| jellify | (verb) become jelly | - |
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| (verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jelly |
| jollify | (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, wassail, whoop it up |
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| justify | (verb) adjust the spaces between words | - |
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| (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: vindicate |
| (verb) (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin | - |
| knife | (verb) use a knife on | Synonyms: stab |
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| lapidify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: petrify |
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| lenify | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, mollify, pacify, placate |
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| lifehack | (verb) make one's day-to-day activities more efficient | - |
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| lift | (verb) perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face | Synonyms: face-lift |
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| (verb) remove from a surface | - |
| (verb) put an end to | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) remove (hair) by scalping | - |
| (verb) rise upward, as from pressure or moisture | - |
| (verb) invigorate or heighten | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: elevate, raise |
| (verb) remove from a seedbed or from a nursery | - |
| (verb) take off or away by decreasing | - |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| (verb) call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) make audible | - |
| (verb) take hold of something and move it to a different location | - |
| (verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: hoist, wind |
| (verb) take (root crops) out of the ground | - |
| (verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: airlift |
| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, raise |
| (verb) move upwards | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, move up, rise, uprise |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: plagiarise, plagiarize |
| (verb) pay off (a mortgage) | - |
| (verb) take illegally | Synonyms: rustle |
| (verb) rise up | Synonyms: rear, rise |
| lignify | (verb) convert into wood or cause to become woody | - |
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| liquify | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquefy |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquidize |
| magnify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: amplify |
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| (verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, enlarge |
| (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate |
| manifest | (verb) reveal its presence or make an appearance | - |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, evidence |
| (verb) record in a ship's manifest | - |
| manifold | (verb) make multiple copies of | Synonyms: multiply |
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| (verb) combine or increase by multiplication | Synonyms: multiply |
| metrify | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricise, metricize |
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| (verb) compose in poetic meter | - |
| miff | (verb) cause to be annoyed | - |
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| minify | (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, lessen |
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| misidentify | (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: mistake |
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| modify | (verb) make less severe or harsh or extreme | - |
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| (verb) add a modifier to a constituent | Synonyms: qualify |
| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: alter, change |
| mollify | (verb) make less rigid or softer | - |
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| (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: moderate, season, temper |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, pacify, placate |
| mortify | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, necrose, sphacelate |
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| (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate |
| (verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: crucify, subdue |
| (verb) practice self-denial of one's body and appetites | - |
| mummify | (verb) dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture | Synonyms: dry up |
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| (verb) remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it | - |
| (verb) preserve while making lifeless | - |
| mystify | (verb) make mysterious | - |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| nazify | (verb) cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character | - |
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| nitrify | (verb) treat (soil) with nitrates | - |
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| (verb) treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound | Synonyms: nitrogenise, nitrogenize |
| (verb) convert into nitric acid, nitrous acid, or nitrate, especially with the action of nitrobacteria | - |
| notify | (verb) inform (somebody) of something | Synonyms: advise, apprise, apprize, give notice, send word |
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