| administer | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: dispense |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually | - |
| (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administrate |
| (verb) direct the taking of | - |
| administrate | (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administer |
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| assist | (verb) act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function | - |
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| (verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: attend, attend to, serve, wait on |
| (verb) give help or assistance; be of service | Synonyms: aid, help |
| blacklist | (verb) put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted | - |
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| blister | (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
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| (verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
| bristle | (verb) react in an offended or angry manner | - |
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| (verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: stand up, uprise |
| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, burst |
| (verb) have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles | - |
| christen | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, baptize |
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| cloister | (verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
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| (verb) surround with a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
| coexist | (verb) exist together | Synonyms: cohabit |
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| (verb) coexist peacefully, as of nations | - |
| consist | (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: dwell, lie, lie in |
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| (verb) be composed of | Synonyms: comprise |
| (verb) be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous | - |
| (verb) have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in | - |
| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| delist | (verb) remove (a security) from listing at a stock exchange | - |
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| demist | (verb) free from mist | Synonyms: defog |
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| desist | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: abstain, refrain |
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| distance | (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: outdistance, outstrip |
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| (verb) keep at a distance | - |
| distemper | (verb) paint with distemper | - |
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| distend | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: dilate |
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| (verb) swell from or as if from internal pressure | - |
| (verb) cause to expand as if by internal pressure | - |
| distil | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distill |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, extract |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distill |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| distill | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distil |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, extract |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distil |
| distinguish | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
| (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: signalise, signalize |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
| distort | (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, strain |
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| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: falsify, garble, warp |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, colour, tinge |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, deform, wring |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: twine, twist |
| distract | (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: deflect |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| distrain | (verb) confiscate by distress | - |
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| (verb) levy a distress on | - |
| (verb) legally take something in place of a debt payment | - |
| distress | (verb) cause mental pain to | - |
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| (verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: straiten |
| distribute | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: stagger |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) give to several people | Synonyms: give out, hand out, pass out |
| (verb) release | - |
| (verb) be mathematically distributive | - |
| (verb) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | - |
| (verb) spread throughout a given area | - |
| district | (verb) regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns | Synonyms: zone |
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| distrust | (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: mistrust, suspect |
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| disturb | (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) damage as if by shaking or jarring | - |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: touch |
| (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, commove, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: trouble, upset |
| enlist | (verb) join the military | - |
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| (verb) engage somebody to enter the army | Synonyms: draft, muster in |
| (verb) hire for work or assistance | Synonyms: engage |
| exist | (verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: be |
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| (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: live, subsist, survive |
| fistfight | (verb) fight with the fists | - |
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| foist | (verb) insert surreptitiously or without warrant | - |
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| (verb) to force onto another | - |
| glisten | (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glitter, shine |
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| heist | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burglarize, burgle |
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| hoist | (verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: lift, wind |
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| (verb) raise by using ropes and pulleys | Synonyms: run up |
| (verb) move from one place to another by lifting | - |
| insist | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: assert |
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| (verb) be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge | Synonyms: take a firm stand |
| (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: importune |
| list | (verb) give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of | Synonyms: name |
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| (verb) enumerate | Synonyms: number |
| (verb) tilt to one side | Synonyms: heel |
| (verb) cause to lean to the side | Synonyms: lean |
| (verb) include in a list | - |
| listen | (verb) hear with intention | - |
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| (verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: hear, take heed |
| (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, mind |
| minister | (verb) work as a minister | - |
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| (verb) attend to the wants and needs of others | - |
| mist | (verb) become covered with mist | Synonyms: mist over |
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| (verb) spray finely or cover with mist | - |
| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, obnubilate, obscure |
| mistake | (verb) to make a mistake or be incorrect | Synonyms: err, slip |
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| (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: misidentify |
| mistime | (verb) time incorrectly | - |
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| mistranslate | (verb) translate incorrectly | - |
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| mistreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, step |
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| mistrust | (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: distrust, suspect |
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| moisten | (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, wash |
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| (verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: drizzle |
| moisturise | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturize |
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| moisturize | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturise |
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| outdistance | (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outstrip |
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| persist | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persevere |
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| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, prevail, run |
| preexist | (verb) exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time | - |
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| redistribute | (verb) distribute anew | - |
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| register | (verb) enter into someone's consciousness | - |
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| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, show |
| (verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: file |
| (verb) send by registered mail | - |
| (verb) manipulate the registers of an organ | - |
| (verb) be aware of | Synonyms: record |
| (verb) show in one's face | - |
| (verb) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions | - |
| (verb) enroll to vote | - |
| (verb) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties | Synonyms: cross-file |
| resist | (verb) stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something | Synonyms: hold out, stand firm, withstand |
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| (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: fend, stand |
| (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, baulk, jib |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, protest |
| (verb) elude, especially in a baffling way | Synonyms: defy, refuse |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: refuse, reject |
| roister | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, riot |
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| shortlist | (verb) put someone or something on a short list | - |
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| sophisticate | (verb) make more complex or refined | - |
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| (verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | Synonyms: doctor, doctor up |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, twist, twist around |
| (verb) make less natural or innocent | - |
| subsist | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, survive |
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| transistorise | (verb) equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors | Synonyms: transistorize |
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| transistorize | (verb) equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors | Synonyms: transistorise |
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| twist | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, wrench, wrick |
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| (verb) form into twists | - |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, sophisticate, twist around |
| (verb) turn in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: distort, twine |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, flex, turn |
| (verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: wrench |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
| (verb) do the twist | - |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: curve, wind |
| untwist | (verb) cause to become untwisted | - |
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| whistle | (verb) utter or express by whistling | - |
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| (verb) make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound | Synonyms: sing |
| (verb) give a signal by whistling | - |
| (verb) move with, or as with, a whistling sound | - |
| (verb) move, send, or bring as if by whistling | - |
| (verb) make whistling sounds | - |
| whistlestop | (verb) tour the country in order to solicit votes for an election | - |
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