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 |
blare | (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, claxon, honk, toot |
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(verb) make a strident sound | Synonyms: blast |
blarney | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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burglarise | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarize, burgle, heist |
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burglarize | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burgle, heist |
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circularise | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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(verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularize |
(verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularize |
circularize | (verb) make circular | - |
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(verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
(verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularise |
(verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularise |
(verb) canvass by using a questionnaire | - |
claret | (verb) drink claret | - |
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clarify | (verb) make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating | - |
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(verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clear up, elucidate |
clarion | (verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion | - |
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(verb) blow the clarion | - |
collar | (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
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(verb) furnish with a collar | - |
(verb) seize by the neck or collar | - |
declare | (verb) state emphatically and authoritatively | - |
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(verb) state firmly | - |
(verb) make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official | - |
(verb) declare to be | Synonyms: adjudge, hold |
(verb) announce publicly or officially | Synonyms: announce |
(verb) proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against | - |
(verb) designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand | - |
(verb) authorize payments of | - |
depolarise | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarize |
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depolarize | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarise |
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enlarge | (verb) become larger or bigger | - |
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(verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, magnify |
(verb) make larger | - |
(verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
exhilarate | (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
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flare | (verb) become flared and widen, usually at one end | Synonyms: flare out |
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(verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, erupt, flare up, irrupt |
(verb) burn brightly | Synonyms: blaze up, burn up, flame up |
(verb) shine with a sudden light | Synonyms: flame |
formularise | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularize |
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formularize | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularise |
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glare | (verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glower |
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(verb) shine intensely | - |
(verb) be sharply reflected | - |
interlard | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: intersperse |
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lard | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, pad |
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(verb) prepare or cook with lard | - |
lark | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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larn | (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: acquire, learn |
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larrup | (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: paddle, spank |
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particularise | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularize, specialise, specialize, specify |
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particularize | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, specialise, specialize, specify |
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polarise | (verb) become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | Synonyms: polarize |
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(verb) cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions | Synonyms: polarize |
(verb) cause to vibrate in a definite pattern | Synonyms: polarize |
polarize | (verb) become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | Synonyms: polarise |
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(verb) cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions | Synonyms: polarise |
(verb) cause to vibrate in a definite pattern | Synonyms: polarise |
pollard | (verb) convert into a pollard | Synonyms: poll |
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popularise | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularize |
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(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
popularize | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularise |
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(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize |
regularise | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularize |
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(verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularize, regulate |
regularize | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularise |
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(verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regulate |
secularise | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularize |
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secularize | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularise |
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(verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: desacralize |
singularise | (verb) distinguish as singular | Synonyms: singularize |
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singularize | (verb) distinguish as singular | Synonyms: singularise |
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skylark | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, sport |
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solarise | (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: insolate, solarize, sun |
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(verb) overexpose to sunlight | Synonyms: solarize |
(verb) become overexposed | Synonyms: solarize |
(verb) reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it | Synonyms: solarize |
solarize | (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: insolate, solarise, sun |
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(verb) overexpose to sunlight | Synonyms: solarise |
(verb) become overexposed | Synonyms: solarise |
(verb) reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it | Synonyms: solarise |
tabularise | (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularize, tabulate |
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tabularize | (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularise, tabulate |
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vascularise | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularize |
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(verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularize |
vascularize | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularise |
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(verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularise |