| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| black | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: blacken, melanise, melanize |
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| blackball | (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
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| (verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: negative, veto |
| blackberry | (verb) pick or gather blackberries | - |
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| blacken | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, melanise, melanize |
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| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: char, scorch, sear |
| blackguard | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, clapperclaw, shout |
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| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast |
| blackjack | (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackmail, pressure |
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| blacklead | (verb) cover with graphite | - |
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| blackleg | (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: fink, rat, scab |
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| blacklist | (verb) put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted | - |
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| blackmail | (verb) obtain through threats | - |
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| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, pressure |
| blacktop | (verb) coat with blacktop | - |
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| blackwash | (verb) color with blackwash | - |
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| (verb) bring (information) out of concealment | - |
| 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 |
| displace | (verb) cause to move, usually with force or pressure | - |
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| (verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense | Synonyms: move |
| (verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: preempt |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| emplace | (verb) put into place or position | - |
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| (verb) provide a new emplacement for guns | - |
| enlace | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine |
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| glaciate | (verb) become frozen and covered with glaciers | - |
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| (verb) cover with ice or snow or a glacier | - |
| interlace | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, intertwine, lace, twine |
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| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlock, lock |
| lace | (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: fortify, spike |
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| (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 | - |
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| (verb) deeply hurt the feelings of; distress | - |
| lack | (verb) be without | Synonyms: miss |
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| (verb) To be insufficiently prepared | - |
| lacquer | (verb) coat with lacquer | - |
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| lactate | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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| misplace | (verb) place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position | - |
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| (verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again | Synonyms: mislay |
| placard | (verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: bill |
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| (verb) post in a public place | - |
| placate | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify |
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| place | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: identify |
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| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal | Synonyms: come in, come out |
| (verb) estimate | Synonyms: put, set |
| (verb) sing a note with the correct pitch | - |
| (verb) to arrange for | - |
| (verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: post, send, station |
| (verb) finish second or better in a horse or dog race | - |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, point, target |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, pose, position, put, set |
| (verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, localize, set |
| (verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: locate, site |
| (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, invest, put |
| (verb) assign to (a job or a home) | - |
| (verb) place somebody in a particular situation or location | - |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, localize |
| relace | (verb) lace again | - |
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| replace | (verb) substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected) | - |
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| (verb) put something back where it belongs | Synonyms: put back |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, interchange, substitute |
| (verb) take the place or move into the position of | Synonyms: supersede, supervene upon, supplant |
| shellac | (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellack |
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| shellack | (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellac |
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| slack | (verb) release tension on | - |
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| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: relax, slack up, slacken |
| (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: abate, slake |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slacken, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water | Synonyms: slake |
| (verb) become less in amount or intensity | Synonyms: abate, die away, let up, slack off |
| (verb) be inattentive to, or neglect | - |
| (verb) avoid responsibilities and work, be idle | - |
| slacken | (verb) become looser or slack | - |
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| (verb) make slack as by lessening tension or firmness | Synonyms: remit |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slack, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: relax, slack, slack up |
| solace | (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, console, soothe |
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| unlace | (verb) undo the ties of | Synonyms: unbrace, untie |
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