| importune | (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: insist |
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| impose | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, inflict, visit |
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| (verb) impose and collect | Synonyms: levy |
| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: constrain, enforce |
| impound | (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: pound |
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| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, seize, sequester |
| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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| (verb) make poor | - |
| imprecate | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, cuss, swear |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, maledict |
| impregnate | (verb) make pregnant | Synonyms: bang up, knock up, prang up |
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| (verb) fertilize and cause to grow | - |
| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: saturate |
| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: infuse, instill, tincture |
| impress | (verb) dye (fabric) before it is spun | Synonyms: yarn-dye |
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| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: ingrain, instill |
| (verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: imprint |
| (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: shanghai |
| (verb) reproduce by printing | Synonyms: print |
| (verb) impress positively | - |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, move, strike |
| imprint | (verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: impress |
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| (verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind | Synonyms: form |
| imprison | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| (verb) confine as if in a prison | - |
| improve | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, meliorate |
| improvise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvize |
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| (verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: extemporize |
| improvize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvise |
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| impugn | (verb) attack as false or wrong | - |
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| impute | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, attribute |
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| (verb) attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source | - |
| incriminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, impeach |
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| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, inculpate |
| intimate | (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: adumbrate, insinuate |
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| (verb) imply as a possibility | Synonyms: suggest |
| intimidate | (verb) make timid or fearful | - |
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| (verb) to compel or deter by or as if by threats | - |
| jimmy | (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: lever, prise, prize, pry |
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| legitimate | (verb) make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone) | - |
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| (verb) show or affirm to be just and legitimate | - |
| (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
| legitimatise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimatize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimize |
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| legitimize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise |
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| limber | (verb) cause to become limber | - |
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| (verb) attach the limber | Synonyms: limber up |
| lime | (verb) cover with lime so as to induce growth | - |
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| (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: birdlime |
| limit | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: circumscribe, confine to |
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| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, restrict, throttle, trammel |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, set, specify |
| limn | (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, portray |
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| (verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: delineate, outline |
| limp | (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hitch, hobble |
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| (verb) proceed slowly or with difficulty | - |
| maim | (verb) injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation | - |
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| maximise | (verb) make as big or large as possible | Synonyms: maximize |
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| (verb) make the most of | Synonyms: maximize |
| maximize | (verb) make as big or large as possible | Synonyms: maximise |
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| (verb) make the most of | Synonyms: maximise |
| mime | (verb) act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only | Synonyms: pantomime |
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| (verb) imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect | Synonyms: mimic |
| mimeo | (verb) print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph | Synonyms: mimeograph |
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| mimeograph | (verb) print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph | Synonyms: mimeo |
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| mimic | (verb) imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect | Synonyms: mime |
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| minimise | (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimize |
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| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimize, understate |
| minimize | (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimise |
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| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, denigrate, derogate |
| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimise, understate |
| misestimate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
| mistime | (verb) time incorrectly | - |
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| optimise | (verb) act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world | Synonyms: optimize |
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| (verb) make optimal; get the most out of; use best | Synonyms: optimize |
| (verb) modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost | Synonyms: optimize |
| optimize | (verb) act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world | Synonyms: optimise |
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| (verb) make optimal; get the most out of; use best | Synonyms: optimise |
| (verb) modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost | Synonyms: optimise |
| overestimate | (verb) make too high an estimate of | Synonyms: overrate |
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| (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overvalue |
| oversimplify | (verb) simplify to an excessive degree | - |
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| pantomime | (verb) act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only | Synonyms: mime |
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| pimp | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, procure |
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| prim | (verb) dress primly | Synonyms: prim out, prim up |
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| (verb) contract one's lips | - |
| (verb) assume a prim appearance | - |
| prime | (verb) insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing | - |
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| (verb) fill with priming liquid | - |
| (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: ground, undercoat |
| primp | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, plume, preen |
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| proclaim | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, promulgate |
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| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, glorify, laud |
| (verb) declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles | - |
| (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: predicate |
| raiment | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, tog |
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| reanimate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| reclaim | (verb) make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state | - |
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| (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, tame |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: rectify, reform, regenerate |
| (verb) claim back | Synonyms: repossess |
| (verb) reuse (materials from waste products) | Synonyms: recover |
| recriminate | (verb) return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return | - |
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| regiment | (verb) assign to a regiment | - |
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| (verb) form (military personnel) into a regiment | - |
| (verb) subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization | - |
| reimburse | (verb) pay back for some expense incurred | - |
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| (verb) reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | Synonyms: recoup |
| reimpose | (verb) impose anew | - |
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| reprimand | (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, criminate |
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| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, scold, take to task, trounce |
| resublime | (verb) sublime (a compound) once again | - |
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| rim | (verb) roll around the rim of | - |
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| (verb) furnish with a rim | - |
| (verb) run around the rim of | - |
| rime | (verb) compose rhymes | Synonyms: rhyme |
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| (verb) be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable | Synonyms: rhyme |
| scrimmage | (verb) practice playing (a sport) | - |
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| scrimp | (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
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| scrimshank | (verb) avoid work | - |
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| sediment | (verb) settle as sediment | - |
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| (verb) deposit as a sediment | - |
| sentimentalise | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalize, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalize |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalize |
| sentimentalize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| sentimentise | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentize |
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| sentimentize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentise |
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| shimmer | (verb) give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk | - |
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| (verb) shine with a weak or fitful light | - |
| shimmy | (verb) dance a shimmy | - |
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| (verb) tremble or shake | Synonyms: wobble |
| shrimp | (verb) fish for shrimp | - |
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| simmer | (verb) boil slowly at low temperature | - |
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| simper | (verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: smirk |
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| simplify | (verb) make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent | - |
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| simulate | (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, feign, sham |
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| (verb) create a representation or simulation of | Synonyms: model |
| (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, imitate |
| skim | (verb) read superficially | Synonyms: skim over |
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| (verb) move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of | Synonyms: skim over |
| (verb) remove from the surface | Synonyms: cream, cream off, skim off |
| (verb) cause to skip over a surface | Synonyms: skip, skitter |
| (verb) coat (a liquid) with a layer | - |
| (verb) travel on the surface of water | Synonyms: plane |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, rake, run down, scan |
| skimcoat | (verb) coat with a mixture of gypsum and spackle | - |
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| skimp | (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: scrimp, stint |
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| (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: scant, stint |
| (verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | Synonyms: scant |
| (verb) limit in quality or quantity | Synonyms: scant |
| slim | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slenderize, slim down, thin |
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| slime | (verb) cover or stain with slime | - |
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| stimulate | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up |
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| (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: excite |
| (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: provoke |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, make |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, rush |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stir |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: excite, stir |
| sublimate | (verb) vaporize and then condense right back again | Synonyms: sublime |
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| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, purify |
| (verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: rarefy, subtilize |
| (verb) change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting | Synonyms: sublime |
| (verb) direct energy or urges into useful activities | - |
| sublime | (verb) vaporize and then condense right back again | Synonyms: sublimate |
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| (verb) change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting | Synonyms: sublimate |
| superimpose | (verb) place on top of | Synonyms: lay over, superpose |
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| swim | (verb) travel through water | - |
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| (verb) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom | Synonyms: float |
| (verb) move as if gliding through water | - |
| (verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid | Synonyms: drown |
| (verb) be dizzy or giddy | - |
| time | (verb) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time | Synonyms: clock |
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| (verb) regulate or set the time of | - |
| (verb) adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time | - |
| (verb) assign a time for an activity or event | - |
| (verb) set the speed, duration, or execution of | - |
| trim | (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down |
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| (verb) adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used | - |
| (verb) cut closely | Synonyms: shave |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip |
| (verb) remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size | Synonyms: pare |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, garnish |
| (verb) decorate, as with ornaments | - |
| (verb) be in equilibrium during a flight | - |
| (verb) balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces | - |
| underestimate | (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: lowball |
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| (verb) make too low an estimate of | Synonyms: underrate |
| (verb) assign too low a value to | Synonyms: undervalue |
| victimise | (verb) punish unjustly | Synonyms: victimize |
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| (verb) make a victim of | Synonyms: victimize |
| victimize | (verb) punish unjustly | Synonyms: victimise |
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| (verb) make a victim of | Synonyms: victimise |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle |
| whimper | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, pule, wail |
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