| cackel | (verb) make a cackling sound | - |
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| cackle | (verb) emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing | - |
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| (verb) squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens | - |
| (verb) talk or utter in a cackling manner | - |
| (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: gaggle |
| cake | (verb) form a coat over | Synonyms: coat |
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| cakewalk | (verb) perform the cakewalk dance | - |
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| calk | (verb) injure with a calk | - |
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| (verb) seal with caulking | Synonyms: caulk |
| (verb) provide with calks | - |
| canker | (verb) infect with a canker | - |
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| (verb) become infected with a canker | - |
| carjack | (verb) take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it | - |
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| cark | (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
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| casket | (verb) enclose in a casket | - |
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| caulk | (verb) seal with caulking | Synonyms: calk |
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| chalk | (verb) write, draw, or trace with chalk | - |
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| check | (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: delay, retard |
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| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, crack |
| (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: chink |
| (verb) arrest the motion (of something) abruptly | - |
| (verb) examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition | Synonyms: check into, check out, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick off |
| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
| (verb) verify by consulting a source or authority | - |
| (verb) write out a check on a bank account | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) place into check | - |
| (verb) decline to initiate betting | - |
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: checker, chequer |
| (verb) stop in a chase especially when scent is lost | - |
| (verb) abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey | - |
| (verb) stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution | - |
| (verb) hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping | - |
| (verb) consign for shipment on a vehicle | - |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: condition, discipline, train |
| (verb) make an examination or investigation | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) be verified or confirmed; pass inspection | Synonyms: check out |
| checker | (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: chequer |
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| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, chequer |
| checkmate | (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: mate |
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| checkrow | (verb) plant in checkrows | - |
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| cheek | (verb) speak impudently to | - |
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| chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
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| chink | (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: check |
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| (verb) fill the chinks of, as with caulking | - |
| (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: clink, tink, tinkle |
| chirk | (verb) make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird | - |
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| chock | (verb) support on chocks | - |
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| (verb) secure with chocks | - |
| choke | (verb) breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion | - |
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| (verb) cause to retch or choke | Synonyms: gag |
| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: gag, strangle, suffocate |
| (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: strangle |
| (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: throttle |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: fret, gag |
| (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, crap up, foul |
| (verb) wring the neck of | Synonyms: scrag |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate |
| (verb) check or slow down the action or effect of | - |
| (verb) fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation | - |
| chuck | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) throw carelessly | Synonyms: toss |
| (verb) pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin | Synonyms: pat |
| (verb) throw away | Synonyms: ditch |
| chuckle | (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chortle, laugh softly |
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| chunk | (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: collocate, lump |
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| (verb) put together indiscriminately | Synonyms: lump |
| clack | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: click, cluck |
| (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clatter |
| clank | (verb) make a clank | - |
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| clerk | (verb) work as a clerk, as in the legal business | - |
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| click | (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
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| (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: clack, cluck |
| (verb) produce a click | - |
| (verb) cause to make a snapping sound | Synonyms: flick, snap |
| (verb) move or strike with a noise | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a clicking or ticking sound | Synonyms: tick |
| (verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: chatter |
| clink | (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, tink, tinkle |
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| (verb) make a high sound typical of glass | - |
| clinker | (verb) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning | - |
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| (verb) clear out the cinders and clinker from | - |
| cloak | (verb) cover with or as if with a cloak | - |
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| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: clothe, drape, robe |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: dissemble, mask |
| clock | (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: time |
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| cluck | (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: clack, click |
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| clunk | (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clump, plunk |
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| cock | (verb) set the trigger of a firearm back for firing | - |
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| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: prance, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
| (verb) tilt or slant to one side | - |
| cocker | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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| cockle | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: crumple, knit, pucker, rumple |
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| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| coke | (verb) become coke | - |
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| coldcock | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: deck, dump, floor, knock down |
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| coldwork | (verb) shape (metal) without heat | Synonyms: cold work |
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| conk | (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: faint, pass out, swoon |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) hit, especially on the head | - |
| (verb) come to a stop | Synonyms: stall |
| convoke | (verb) call together | Synonyms: convene |
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| cook | (verb) transform and make suitable for consumption by heating | - |
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| (verb) transform by heating | - |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: fix, make, prepare, ready |
| (verb) prepare a hot meal | - |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| cork | (verb) stuff with cork | - |
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| (verb) close a bottle with a cork | Synonyms: cork up |
| corkscrew | (verb) move in a spiral or zigzag course | Synonyms: spiral |
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| counterattack | (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterstrike |
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| countercheck | (verb) check a second time | - |
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| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: counteract |
| countersink | (verb) insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink) | Synonyms: set |
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| counterstrike | (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterattack |
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| crack | (verb) break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension | Synonyms: snap |
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| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, check |
| (verb) break partially but keep its integrity | - |
| (verb) cause to become cracked | - |
| (verb) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking | - |
| (verb) break into simpler molecules by means of heat | - |
| (verb) pass through (a barrier) | Synonyms: break through |
| (verb) tell spontaneously | - |
| (verb) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise | - |
| (verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up |
| (verb) make a sharp sound | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a very sharp explosive sound | - |
| (verb) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions | - |
| crackle | (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
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| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
| crank | (verb) rotate with a crank | Synonyms: crank up |
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| (verb) bend into the shape of a crank | - |
| (verb) fasten with a crank | - |
| (verb) start by cranking | Synonyms: crank up |
| (verb) travel along a zigzag path | Synonyms: zigzag |
| creak | (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
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| crick | (verb) twist (a body part) into a strained position | - |
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| cricket | (verb) play cricket | - |
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| crinkle | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| croak | (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
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| (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: gnarl, grumble, murmur, mutter |
| (verb) utter a hoarse sound, like a raven | Synonyms: cronk |
| crock | (verb) soil with or as with crock | - |
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| (verb) release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric | - |
| cronk | (verb) utter a hoarse sound, like a raven | Synonyms: croak |
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| (verb) cry like a goose | Synonyms: honk |
| crook | (verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: curve |
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| cuckold | (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, wander |
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| cuckoo | (verb) repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call | - |
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| darken | (verb) become dark or darker | - |
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| (verb) make dark or darker | - |
| (verb) tarnish or stain | - |
| datemark | (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, dateline |
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| debark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: disembark, set down |
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| debunk | (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: expose |
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| deck | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: coldcock, dump, floor, knock down |
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| (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, bedight |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
| decoke | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize |
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| defrock | (verb) divest of the frock; of church officials | Synonyms: unfrock |
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| detick | (verb) free (a pet) of ticks | - |
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| detusk | (verb) remove the tusks of animals | Synonyms: tusk |
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| dicker | (verb) negotiate the terms of an exchange | Synonyms: bargain |
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| dike | (verb) enclose with a dike | Synonyms: dyke |
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| disembark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: debark, set down |
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| disk | (verb) draw a harrow over (land) | Synonyms: harrow |
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| dislike | (verb) have or feel a dislike or distaste for | - |
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| dock | (verb) maneuver into a dock | - |
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| (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: bob, tail |
| (verb) come into dock | - |
| (verb) deduct from someone's wages | - |
| (verb) deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty | - |
| docket | (verb) make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list | - |
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| (verb) place on the docket for legal action | - |
| drink | (verb) be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to | Synonyms: drink in |
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| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: imbibe |
| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, fuddle, hit the bottle |
| (verb) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic | Synonyms: tope |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: pledge, salute, toast, wassail |
| dropkick | (verb) make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick | Synonyms: drop-kick |
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| (verb) drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| drydock | (verb) maneuver (a ship) into a drydock | Synonyms: dry-dock |
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| duck | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away | - |
| (verb) submerge or plunge suddenly | - |
| (verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: dip, douse |
| dunk | (verb) dip into a liquid while eating | Synonyms: dip |
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| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, plunge, souse |
| (verb) make a dunk shot, in basketball | - |
| dusk | (verb) become dusk | - |
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| dyke | (verb) enclose with a dike | Synonyms: dike |
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| earmark | (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, appropriate, reserve, set aside |
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| embank | (verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection | - |
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| embark | (verb) set out on (an enterprise or subject of study) | Synonyms: enter |
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| (verb) go on board | Synonyms: ship |
| (verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: venture |
| enkindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, inflame, kindle |
| ensky | (verb) exalt to the skies; lift to the skies or to heaven with praise | - |
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| evoke | (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: paint a picture, suggest |
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| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, kick up, provoke |
| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, extract |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| fake | (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, talk through one's hat |
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| (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: counterfeit, forge |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| fink | (verb) confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure | Synonyms: confess, squeal |
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| (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
| flake | (verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces | Synonyms: flake off, peel, peel off |
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| (verb) cover with flakes or as if with flakes | - |
| (verb) form into flakes | - |
| flank | (verb) be located at the sides of something or somebody | - |
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| fleck | (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, blot, spot |
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| flick | (verb) remove with a flick (of the hand) | - |
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| (verb) touch or hit with a light, quick blow | - |
| (verb) cause to make a snapping sound | Synonyms: click, snap |
| (verb) throw or toss with a quick motion | Synonyms: jerk |
| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: riffle, ruffle |
| (verb) cause to move with a flick | Synonyms: flip |
| (verb) flash intermittently | Synonyms: flicker |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flip, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb |
| (verb) shine unsteadily | Synonyms: flicker |
| flicker | (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flitter, flutter, quiver, waver |
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| (verb) flash intermittently | Synonyms: flick |
| (verb) shine unsteadily | Synonyms: flick |
| flock | (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, constellate |
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| (verb) move as a crowd or in a group | - |
| flunk | (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: bomb, fail, flush it |
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