| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| ablate | (verb) wear away through erosion or vaporization | - |
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| (verb) remove an organ or bodily structure | - |
| abolish | (verb) do away with | Synonyms: get rid of |
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| abseil | (verb) descend by means of a rappel | Synonyms: rappel, rope down |
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| absolve | (verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: free |
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| (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: shrive |
| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| accelerate | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: quicken, speed, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: speed, speed up |
| acclaim | (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: hail, herald |
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| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: applaud, clap, spat |
| acclimate | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimatise, acclimatize |
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| acclimatise | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatize |
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| acclimatize | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatise |
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| accomplish | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: achieve, attain, reach |
| acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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| accumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| acetylate | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
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| (verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
| acetylise | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
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| (verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
| acetylize | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylise |
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| (verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylise |
| acidulate | (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, sour |
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| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| actualise | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualize |
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| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualize, realise, realize, substantiate |
| actualize | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualise |
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| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, realise, realize, substantiate |
| addle | (verb) become rotten | - |
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| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: muddle, puddle |
| adolesce | (verb) become adolescent; pass through adolescence | - |
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| adulate | (verb) flatter in an obsequious manner | - |
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| adulterate | (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: debase, dilute, load, stretch |
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| aerosolise | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
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| (verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
| aerosolize | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
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| (verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
| affiliate | (verb) join in an affiliation | - |
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| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: associate, assort, consort |
| afflict | (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in | Synonyms: smite |
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| (verb) cause great unhappiness for; distress | - |
| agglomerate | (verb) form into one cluster | - |
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| agglutinate | (verb) clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. | - |
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| (verb) string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) | - |
| ail | (verb) be ill or unwell | - |
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| (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: pain, trouble |
| airlift | (verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: lift |
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| airmail | (verb) send or transport by airmail | - |
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| alarm | (verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alert |
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| (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: appal, appall, dismay, horrify |
| alchemise | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemize |
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| alchemize | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemise |
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| alcoholise | (verb) make alcoholic, as by fermenting | Synonyms: alcoholize |
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| (verb) treat or infuse with alcohol | Synonyms: alcoholize |
| alcoholize | (verb) make alcoholic, as by fermenting | Synonyms: alcoholise |
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| (verb) treat or infuse with alcohol | Synonyms: alcoholise |
| (verb) subject to the influence of alcohol | - |
| alert | (verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alarm |
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| alibi | (verb) exonerate by means of an alibi | - |
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| alien | (verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alienate |
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| alienate | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: disaffect, estrange |
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| (verb) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated | - |
| (verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alien |
| alight | (verb) come down | Synonyms: climb down |
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| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: light, perch |
| align | (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: adjust, aline, line up |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: coordinate, ordinate |
| (verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: array |
| (verb) be or come into adjustment with | - |
| aliment | (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: nourish, nutrify |
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| aline | (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: adjust, align, line up |
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| alkalify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalise, alkalize, basify |
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| alkalinise | (verb) make (a substance) alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinize |
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| (verb) become alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinize |
| alkalinize | (verb) make (a substance) alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinise |
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| (verb) become alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinise |
| alkalise | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalize, basify |
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| alkalize | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalise, basify |
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| allay | (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: assuage, quench, slake |
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| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: ease, relieve, still |
| allege | (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: aver, say |
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| allegorise | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
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| (verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
| allegorize | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
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| (verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
| alleviate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: assuage, palliate, relieve |
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| (verb) make easier | Synonyms: ease, facilitate |
| alligator | (verb) crack and acquire the appearance of alligator hide, as from weathering or improper application; of paint and varnishes | - |
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| alliterate | (verb) use alliteration as a form of poetry | - |
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| allocate | (verb) distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose | Synonyms: apportion |
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| allot | (verb) allow to have | Synonyms: accord, grant |
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| (verb) give out | Synonyms: assign, portion |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| allow | (verb) allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: take into account |
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| (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: appropriate, earmark, reserve, set aside |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: countenance, let, permit |
| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: permit, tolerate |
| (verb) let have | Synonyms: grant |
| (verb) grant as a discount or in exchange | - |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: let, permit |
| (verb) allow the other (baseball) team to score | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow for, leave, provide |
| (verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: admit |
| allowance | (verb) put on a fixed allowance, as of food | - |
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| alloy | (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: debase |
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| (verb) make an alloy of | - |
| allude | (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, touch |
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| allure | (verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: tempt |
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| ally | (verb) become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage | - |
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| alphabetise | (verb) arrange in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetize |
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| alphabetize | (verb) arrange in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetise |
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| (verb) provide with an alphabet | - |
| alter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: castrate, neuter, spay |
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| (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: change, vary |
| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: change, modify |
| (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: falsify, interpolate |
| (verb) make an alteration to | - |
| altercate | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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| alternate | (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
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| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
| (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
| (verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
| aluminise | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminize |
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| aluminize | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminise |
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| amalgamate | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: commix, mingle, mix, unify |
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| amble | (verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: mosey |
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| ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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| ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
| 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 |
| analogise | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogize |
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| analogize | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogise |
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| analyse | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyze, canvass, examine, study |
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| (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze, break down, dissect, take apart |
| (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyze, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
| (verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze |
| analyze | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, canvass, examine, study |
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| (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, break down, dissect, take apart |
| (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
| (verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse |
| ancylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ankylose |
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| (verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ankylose |
| anele | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anoint, embrocate, inunct, oil |
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| angle | (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: slant, weight |
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| (verb) fish with a hook | - |
| (verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: fish |
| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: lean, slant, tilt, tip |
| (verb) move or proceed at an angle | - |
| anglicise | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicize |
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| anglicize | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicise |
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| angulate | (verb) make or become angular | - |
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| animalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
| (verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalize |
| animalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
| (verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalise |
| ankylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ancylose |
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| (verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ancylose |
| anneal | (verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling | Synonyms: normalize, temper |
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| annihilate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| annul | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash, void |
| anthologise | (verb) compile an anthology | Synonyms: anthologize |
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| anthologize | (verb) compile an anthology | Synonyms: anthologise |
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| apologise | (verb) acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing | Synonyms: apologize |
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| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologize, excuse, rationalise, rationalize |
| apologize | (verb) acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing | Synonyms: apologise |
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| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, excuse, rationalise, rationalize |
| appal | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
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| (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appall, dismay, horrify |