| backslap | (verb) display excessive cordiality (towards) | - |
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| clap | (verb) clap one's hands together | Synonyms: spat |
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| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, applaud, spat |
| (verb) strike together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise | - |
| (verb) strike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greeting | - |
| (verb) put quickly or forcibly | - |
| (verb) strike the air in flight | - |
| (verb) cause to strike the air in flight | - |
| clapboard | (verb) cover with clapboards | - |
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| clapperclaw | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, shout |
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| (verb) claw with the nails | - |
| collapse | (verb) collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack | Synonyms: break down |
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| (verb) lose significance, effectiveness, or value | - |
| (verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, crack, crack up, crock up |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, fall in, founder, give, give way |
| (verb) fold or close up | - |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, crumble, crumple, tumble |
| (verb) cause to burst | Synonyms: burst |
| dilapidate | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, decay |
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| (verb) bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse | - |
| elapse | (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
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| flap | (verb) pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds | - |
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| (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: dither, pother |
| (verb) to flutter noisily when moved by the wind | - |
| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: roll, undulate, wave |
| (verb) move with a flapping motion | Synonyms: beat |
| (verb) move with a thrashing motion | Synonyms: beat |
| lap | (verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lave, wash |
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| (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 |
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| (verb) throw stones at | - |
| lapidify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: petrify |
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| lapse | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress |
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| (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 | - |
| overlap | (verb) extend over and cover a part of | - |
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| (verb) coincide partially or wholly | - |
| prolapse | (verb) slip or fall out of place, as of body parts | - |
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| relapse | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress |
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| (verb) deteriorate in health | Synonyms: get worse |
| slap | (verb) hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand | - |
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| (verb) to play music at loud volume | Synonyms: bump |