formularise | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularize |
---|
formularize | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularise |
---|
formulate | (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, give voice, phrase, word |
---|
(verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: develop, explicate |
(verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, invent |
(verb) prepare according to a formula | - |
freelance | (verb) work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer | - |
---|
fusillade | (verb) attack with fusillade | - |
---|
garland | (verb) adorn with bands of flowers or leaves | - |
---|
gelatinise | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinize |
---|
(verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinize |
gelatinize | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
---|
(verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
(verb) coat with gelatin | - |
gesticulate | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesture, motion |
---|
glaciate | (verb) become frozen and covered with glaciers | - |
---|
(verb) cover with ice or snow or a glacier | - |
gladden | (verb) become glad or happy | - |
---|
(verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: joy |
glamorise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, glamourize |
---|
glamorize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamourise, glamourize |
---|
(verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamourise, romanticise, romanticize |
glamour | (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, hex, jinx, witch |
---|
glamourise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourize |
---|
(verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, romanticise, romanticize |
glamourize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourise |
---|
glance | (verb) hit at an angle | - |
---|
(verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glint, peek |
glare | (verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glower |
---|
(verb) shine intensely | - |
(verb) be sharply reflected | - |
glass | (verb) become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance | Synonyms: glass over, glaze, glaze over |
---|
(verb) put in a glass container | - |
(verb) enclose with glass | Synonyms: glass in |
(verb) scan (game in the forest) with binoculars | - |
(verb) furnish with glass | Synonyms: glaze |
glaze | (verb) become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance | Synonyms: glass, glass over, glaze over |
---|
(verb) coat with a glaze | - |
(verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: candy, sugarcoat |
(verb) furnish with glass | Synonyms: glass |
goldplate | (verb) plate with gold | Synonyms: gold-plate, gold plate |
---|
granulate | (verb) form granulating tissue | - |
---|
(verb) form into grains | Synonyms: grain |
(verb) become granular | Synonyms: grain |
horripilate | (verb) cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps | - |
---|
(verb) have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps | - |
hydroplane | (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: seaplane |
---|
hyperventilate | (verb) breathe excessively hard and fast | - |
---|
(verb) produce hyperventilation in | - |
immolate | (verb) offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction | - |
---|
implant | (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: plant |
---|
(verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, plant |
(verb) become attached to and embedded in the uterus | - |
inflame | (verb) become inflamed; get sore | - |
---|
(verb) cause inflammation in | - |
(verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, stir up, wake |
(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, kindle |
(verb) catch fire | Synonyms: kindle |
inflate | (verb) fill with gas or air | Synonyms: blow up |
---|
(verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: amplify, blow up, expand |
(verb) become inflated | Synonyms: balloon, billow |
(verb) increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value | - |
(verb) cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit | - |
inlay | (verb) decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal | - |
---|
inoculate | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, immunize, vaccinate |
---|
(verb) insert a bud for propagation | - |
(verb) impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune | - |
(verb) introduce a microorganism into | - |
(verb) introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of | - |
inosculate | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: anastomose |
---|
(verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: anastomose |
insolate | (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: solarise, solarize, sun |
---|
insufflate | (verb) blow or breathe hard on or into | - |
---|
(verb) treat by blowing a powder or vapor into a bodily cavity | - |
(verb) breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit | - |
insulate | (verb) place or set apart | Synonyms: isolate |
---|
(verb) protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material | - |
intercalate | (verb) insert (days) in a calendar | - |
---|
interlace | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, intertwine, lace, twine |
---|
(verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlock, lock |
interlard | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: intersperse |
---|
interpellate | (verb) question formally about policy or government business | - |
---|
interpolate | (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: alter, falsify |
---|
(verb) estimate the value of something based on known values | Synonyms: extrapolate |
interrelate | (verb) place into a mutual relationship | - |
---|
(verb) be in a relationship with | Synonyms: relate |
invigilate | (verb) watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) | Synonyms: proctor |
---|
isolate | (verb) place or set apart | Synonyms: insulate |
---|
(verb) obtain in pure form | - |
(verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: keep apart, sequester, sequestrate, set apart |
(verb) separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them | - |
jubilate | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, rejoice, triumph |
---|
(verb) celebrate a jubilee | - |
label | (verb) distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions | - |
---|
(verb) distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom | - |
(verb) assign a label to; designate with a label | - |
(verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: judge, pronounce |
(verb) attach a tag or label to | Synonyms: mark, tag |
labialise | (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialize, round |
---|
labialize | (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, round |
---|
labor | (verb) undergo the efforts of childbirth | Synonyms: labour |
---|
(verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labour, moil, toil, travail |
(verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labour, push, tug |
labour | (verb) undergo the efforts of childbirth | Synonyms: labor |
---|
(verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, moil, toil, travail |
(verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, push, tug |
lace | (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: fortify, spike |
---|
(verb) draw through eyes or holes | Synonyms: lace up |
(verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, twine |
(verb) do lacework | - |
(verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: braid, plait |
lacerate | (verb) cut or tear irregularly | - |
---|
(verb) deeply hurt the feelings of; distress | - |
lack | (verb) be without | Synonyms: miss |
---|
(verb) To be insufficiently prepared | - |
lacquer | (verb) coat with lacquer | - |
---|
lactate | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
---|
ladder | (verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: run |
---|
lade | (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: laden, load, load up |
---|
(verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: laden, ladle |
laden | (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, ladle |
---|
(verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, load, load up |
ladle | (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, laden |
---|
(verb) put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle | - |
lag | (verb) throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins | - |
---|
(verb) cover with lagging to prevent heat loss | - |
(verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | Synonyms: dawdle, fall back, fall behind |
(verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, put away, put behind bars, remand |
laicise | (verb) reduce to lay status | Synonyms: laicize |
---|
laicize | (verb) reduce to lay status | Synonyms: laicise |
---|
lallygag | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
---|
lam | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, thrash, thresh |
---|
(verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
lamb | (verb) give birth to a lamb | - |
---|
lambast | (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, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
---|
(verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
lambaste | (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, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
---|
(verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
lame | (verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg | Synonyms: cripple |
---|
lament | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, deplore |
---|
(verb) express grief verbally | Synonyms: keen |
laminate | (verb) cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material | - |
---|
(verb) press or beat (metals) into thin sheets | - |
(verb) split (wood) into thin sheets | - |
(verb) create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material | - |
lampoon | (verb) ridicule with satire | Synonyms: satirise, satirize |
---|
lance | (verb) open by piercing with a lancet | - |
---|
(verb) pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight | - |
(verb) move quickly, as if by cutting one's way | - |
land | (verb) bring into a different state | Synonyms: bring |
---|
(verb) reach or come to rest | Synonyms: set down |
(verb) cause to come to the ground | Synonyms: bring down, put down |
(verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: set ashore, shore |
(verb) bring ashore | - |
(verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: down, shoot down |
(verb) deliver (a blow) | - |
landscape | (verb) do landscape gardening | - |
---|
(verb) embellish with plants | - |
languish | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: fade |
---|
(verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: pine away, waste |
(verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, pine, yearn, yen |
lap | (verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lave, wash |
---|
(verb) take up with the tongue | Synonyms: lap up, lick |
(verb) pass the tongue over | Synonyms: lick |
(verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: swish, swoosh, swosh |
(verb) lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another | - |
lapidate | (verb) kill by throwing stones at | Synonyms: stone |
---|
(verb) throw stones at | - |
lapidify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: petrify |
---|
lapse | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress |
---|
(verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: backslide |
(verb) end, at least for a long time | - |
(verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
(verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: pass, sink |
(verb) let slip | - |
lard | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, pad |
---|
(verb) prepare or cook with lard | - |
lark | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
---|
larn | (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: acquire, learn |
---|
larrup | (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: paddle, spank |
---|
lash | (verb) strike as if by whipping | Synonyms: whip |
---|
(verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
(verb) bind with a rope, chain, or cord | - |
(verb) lash or flick about sharply | - |
lasso | (verb) catch with a lasso | Synonyms: rope |
---|
last | (verb) persist for a specified period of time | Synonyms: endure |
---|
(verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, live, live on, survive |
latch | (verb) fasten with a latch | - |
---|
lateralize | (verb) move or displace to one side so as to make lateral | - |
---|
lather | (verb) rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning | Synonyms: soap |
---|
(verb) exude sweat or lather | - |
(verb) form a lather | - |
(verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
latinise | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicise, catholicize, latinize |
---|
latinize | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicise, catholicize, latinise |
---|
laud | (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, glorify, proclaim |
---|
laugh | (verb) produce laughter | Synonyms: express joy, express mirth |
---|
launch | (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: plunge |
---|
(verb) propel with force | - |
(verb) launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage | - |
(verb) get going; give impetus to | Synonyms: set in motion |
(verb) smoothen the surface of | - |
(verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, found, set up |
launder | (verb) convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones | - |
---|
(verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: wash |
lave | (verb) cleanse (one's body) with soap and water | Synonyms: wash |
---|
(verb) wash one's face and hands | Synonyms: wash up |
(verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lap, wash |
lavish | (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: shower |
---|
lay | (verb) put in a horizontal position | Synonyms: put down, repose |
---|
(verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: place, pose, position, put, set |
(verb) lay eggs | - |
(verb) prepare or position for action or operation | - |
(verb) impose as a duty, burden, or punishment | - |
layer | (verb) make or form a layer | - |
---|
laze | (verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: idle, slug, stagnate |
---|
legislate | (verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: pass |
---|