accredit | (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: credit |
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(verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
(verb) provide or send (envoys or ambassadors) with official credentials | - |
acquit | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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(verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
admit | (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: acknowledge |
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(verb) admit into a group or community | Synonyms: accept, take, take on |
(verb) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of | Synonyms: include, let in |
(verb) allow to enter; grant entry to | Synonyms: allow in, intromit, let in |
(verb) give access or entrance to | - |
(verb) serve as a means of entrance | - |
(verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: accommodate, hold |
(verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: allow |
agitate | (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
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(verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
(verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: budge, shift, stir |
(verb) move or cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: shake |
(verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: foment, stir up |
(verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: campaign, crusade, fight, press, push |
alliterate | (verb) use alliteration as a form of poetry | - |
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ambition | (verb) have as one's ambition | - |
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arbitrage | (verb) practice arbitrage, as in the stock market | - |
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arbitrate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: intercede, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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attitudinise | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinize |
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attitudinize | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinise |
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audit | (verb) attend academic courses without getting credit | - |
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(verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: inspect, scrutinise, scrutinize |
audition | (verb) perform in order to get a role | Synonyms: try out |
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await | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: expect, look, wait |
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babbitt | (verb) line with a Babbitt metal | - |
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babysit | (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, sit |
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(verb) take watchful responsibility for | Synonyms: baby-sit |
backbite | (verb) say mean things | Synonyms: bitch |
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backstitch | (verb) do backstitches | - |
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bait | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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(verb) attack with dogs or set dogs upon | - |
(verb) lure, entice, or entrap with bait | - |
befit | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: beseem, suit |
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belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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(verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
(verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
benefit | (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: gain, profit |
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(verb) be beneficial for | Synonyms: do good |
bewitch | (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
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(verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: enchant, glamour, hex, jinx, witch |
(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
bitch | (verb) say mean things | Synonyms: backbite |
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(verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
bite | (verb) to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws | Synonyms: seize with teeth |
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(verb) penetrate or cut, as with a knife | - |
(verb) deliver a sting to | Synonyms: prick, sting |
(verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: burn, sting |
bitt | (verb) secure with a bitt | - |
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bitter | (verb) make bitter | - |
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bituminise | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminize |
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bituminize | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminise |
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blither | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, smatter |
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blitz | (verb) attack suddenly and without warning | - |
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blitzkrieg | (verb) fight a quick and surprising war | - |
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bruit | (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: rumor, rumour |
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bullshit | (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, fake, talk through one's hat |
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capacitate | (verb) make capable | - |
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(verb) cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg | - |
(verb) make legally capable or qualify in law | - |
capitalise | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalize |
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(verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalize, take advantage |
(verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalize |
capitalize | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalise |
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(verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalise, take advantage |
(verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalise |
capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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chitchat | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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chitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: twitter |
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circuit | (verb) make a circuit | - |
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cite | (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, mention, name, refer |
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(verb) commend | Synonyms: mention |
(verb) repeat a passage from | Synonyms: quote |
(verb) refer to for illustration or proof | Synonyms: quote |
(verb) advance evidence for | Synonyms: abduce, adduce |
(verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | Synonyms: summon, summons |
(verb) refer to | Synonyms: reference |
citify | (verb) accustom to urban ways | - |
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citrate | (verb) cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
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clitter | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: stridulate |
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cogitate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cerebrate, think |
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(verb) consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind | - |
cohabit | (verb) share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple | Synonyms: live together, shack up |
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(verb) exist together | Synonyms: coexist |
comfit | (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: confect, confection |
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commit | (verb) make a set of changes permanent | - |
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(verb) transfer to another place so something can be kept or preserved | - |
(verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: consecrate, dedicate, devote, give |
(verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: confide, entrust, intrust, trust |
(verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
(verb) make an investment | Synonyms: invest, place, put |
(verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: perpetrate, pull |
(verb) engage in or perform | Synonyms: practice |
condition | (verb) apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny | - |
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(verb) put into a better state | - |
(verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: qualify, specify, stipulate |
(verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, discipline, train |
(verb) establish a conditioned response | - |
constitute | (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: establish, found, institute, plant |
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(verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, name, nominate |
(verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, make up, represent |
(verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: form, make |
constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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constitutionalize | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalise |
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(verb) take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal | - |
(verb) provide with a constitution, as of a country | - |
copyedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyread, subedit |
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counterfeit | (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: fake, forge |
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credit | (verb) have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of | - |
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(verb) give someone credit for something | - |
(verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: accredit |
(verb) enter as credit | - |
crepitate | (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crackle |
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criticise | (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticize, knock, pick apart |
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(verb) act as a critic | Synonyms: criticize |
criticize | (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticise, knock, pick apart |
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(verb) act as a critic | Synonyms: criticise |
critique | (verb) appraise critically | Synonyms: review |
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debilitate | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: drain, enfeeble |
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debit | (verb) enter as debit | - |
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decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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(verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
delimit | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimitate, demarcate |
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(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimitate, delineate, specify |
(verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: subtend |
delimitate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, demarcate |
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(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delineate, specify |
demilitarise | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarize |
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(verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarize, disarm |
demilitarize | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarise |
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(verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarise, disarm |
denitrify | (verb) remove nitrogen from | - |
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deposit | (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: lodge, stick, wedge |
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(verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: fix, posit, situate |
(verb) put into a bank account | Synonyms: bank |
derequisition | (verb) release from government control | - |
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desensitise | (verb) make insensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
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(verb) cause not to be sensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
desensitize | (verb) make insensitive | Synonyms: desensitise |
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(verb) cause not to be sensitive | Synonyms: desensitise |
detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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detransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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devitalize | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalise |
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devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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(verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |
digitalise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalize, digitise, digitize |
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digitalize | (verb) administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects | - |
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(verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitise, digitize |
digitise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitalize, digitize |
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digitize | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitalize, digitise |
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discomfit | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discompose, disconcert, untune, upset |
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discredit | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: disbelieve |
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(verb) cause to be distrusted or disbelieved | - |
(verb) damage the reputation of | Synonyms: disgrace |
disinherit | (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disown |
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dispirit | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, get down |
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disunite | (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: divide, part, separate |
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(verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, divorce |
ditch | (verb) crash or crash-land | - |
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(verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: trench |
(verb) make an emergency landing on water | - |
(verb) forsake | - |
(verb) throw away | Synonyms: chuck |
(verb) sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly | Synonyms: dump |
dither | (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: flap, pother |
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(verb) act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain | - |
ditto | (verb) repeat an action or statement | - |
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dynamite | (verb) blow up with dynamite | - |
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edit | (verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting | Synonyms: redact |
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(verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: cut, edit out |
(verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, delete |
(verb) supervise the publication of | - |
editorialise | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialize |
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editorialize | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialise |
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elicit | (verb) derive by reason | - |
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(verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, evoke, extract |
(verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
embitter | (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, envenom |
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embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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emit | (verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: breathe, pass off |
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(verb) express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) | Synonyms: let loose, let out, utter |
(verb) give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc. | Synonyms: give off, give out |
entitle | (verb) give a title to | Synonyms: title |
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(verb) give the right to | - |
(verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: ennoble, gentle |
epitomise | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomize, typify |
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epitomize | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomise, typify |
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