| agglutinate | (verb) clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. | - |
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| (verb) string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) | - |
| 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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| aluminise | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminize |
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| aluminize | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminise |
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| blub | (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blubber, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
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| blubber | (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
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| (verb) utter while crying | Synonyms: blubber out |
| bludgeon | (verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: club |
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| (verb) overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club | - |
| blue | (verb) turn blue | - |
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| blueprint | (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: draft, draught |
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| bluff | (verb) frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is | - |
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| (verb) deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand | Synonyms: bluff out |
| blunder | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate |
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| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
| (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: boob, drop the ball, goof, sin |
| blunt | (verb) make less sharp | - |
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| (verb) make less intense | - |
| (verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: deaden |
| (verb) make dull or blunt | Synonyms: dull |
| (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, dull, numb |
| blur | (verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: dim, slur |
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| (verb) make dim or indistinct | Synonyms: blear |
| (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: confuse, obnubilate, obscure |
| (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: smear, smudge, smutch |
| (verb) to make less distinct or clear | - |
| (verb) become glassy; lose clear vision | Synonyms: film over, glaze over |
| blurt | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt out, ejaculate |
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| blush | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: crimson, flush, redden |
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| (verb) become rosy or reddish | - |
| bluster | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: swagger, swash |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind | - |
| callus | (verb) form a callus or calluses | - |
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| (verb) cause a callus to form on | - |
| calumniate | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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| club | (verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: bludgeon |
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| (verb) gather into a club-like mass | - |
| (verb) gather and spend time together | - |
| (verb) unite with a common purpose | - |
| cluck | (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: clack, click |
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| clue | (verb) roll into a ball | Synonyms: clew |
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| clump | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, cluster |
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| (verb) walk clumsily | Synonyms: clomp |
| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: cluster, constellate, flock |
| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clunk, plunk |
| clunk | (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clump, plunk |
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| cluster | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, clump |
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| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, constellate, flock |
| clutch | (verb) affect | Synonyms: get hold of, seize |
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| (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: prehend, seize, take hold, take hold of |
| (verb) hold firmly, usually with one's hands | Synonyms: cling to, hold close, hold tight |
| clutter | (verb) fill a space in a disorderly way | Synonyms: clutter up |
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| collude | (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: conspire |
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| conclude | (verb) decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion | Synonyms: reason, reason out |
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| (verb) bring to a close | - |
| (verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) reach agreement on | - |
| (verb) come to a close | Synonyms: close |
| conglutinate | (verb) stick together | - |
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| (verb) cause to adhere | Synonyms: coapt |
| convolute | (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: pervert, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
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| (verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolve |
| declutch | (verb) disengage the clutch of a car | - |
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| delude | (verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, deceive, lead on |
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| deluge | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: inundate, submerge |
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| (verb) charge someone with too many tasks | Synonyms: flood out, overwhelm |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: flood, inundate, swamp |
| deplumate | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplume, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| deplume | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| (verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes | Synonyms: displume |
| devaluate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devalue, undervalue |
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| (verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devalue |
| devalue | (verb) lower the value or quality of | - |
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| (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devaluate, undervalue |
| (verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devaluate |
| dilute | (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, reduce, thin, thin out |
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| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, load, stretch |
| disillusion | (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disenchant |
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| displume | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| (verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes | Synonyms: deplume |
| elucidate | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clarify, clear up |
| elude | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, evade |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: escape |
| elute | (verb) wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography | - |
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| englut | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| evaluate | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, measure, valuate, value |
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| (verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: judge, pass judgment |
| exclude | (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: except, leave off, leave out, omit, take out |
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| (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: bar, debar |
| (verb) put out or expel from a place | Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, eject, turf out, turn out |
| (verb) prevent from entering; shut out | Synonyms: keep out, shut, shut out |
| (verb) lack or fail to include | - |
| flub | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| fluctuate | (verb) be unstable | - |
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| (verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: vacillate, waver |
| (verb) cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern | - |
| fluff | (verb) ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect | Synonyms: tease |
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| (verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: ruffle |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| flummox | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| flump | (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
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| (verb) fall heavily | Synonyms: flump down |
| flunk | (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: bomb, fail, flush it |
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| fluoresce | (verb) exhibit or undergo fluorescence | - |
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| fluoridate | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridise, fluoridize |
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| fluoridise | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridize |
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| fluoridize | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridise |
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| flurry | (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, disconcert, put off |
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| (verb) move in an agitated or confused manner | - |
| flush | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, redden |
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| (verb) cause to flow through something | - |
| (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: purge, scour |
| (verb) irrigate with water from a sluice | Synonyms: sluice |
| (verb) cause to flow or flood with or as if with water | - |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, level |
| (verb) glow or cause to glow with warm color or light | - |
| fluster | (verb) cause to be nervous or upset | - |
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| (verb) be flustered; behave in a confused manner | - |
| flute | (verb) form flutes in | - |
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| flutter | (verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: bat |
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| (verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: palpitate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, quiver, waver |
| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, fleet, flit |
| (verb) flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements | - |
| flux | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: liquefy, liquify |
| (verb) move or progress freely as if in a stream | Synonyms: flow |
| galumph | (verb) move around heavily and clumsily | - |
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| glue | (verb) be fixed as if by glue | - |
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| (verb) join or attach with or as if with glue | Synonyms: paste |
| glug | (verb) make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle | - |
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| glut | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: flood, oversupply |
| gluttonise | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonize |
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| gluttonize | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonise |
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| haemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: hemagglutinate |
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| hallucinate | (verb) perceive what is not there; have illusions | - |
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| hemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: haemagglutinate |
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| illume | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illuminate, illumine, light, light up |
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| illuminate | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illumine, light, light up |
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| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| (verb) add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) | - |
| illumine | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illuminate, light, light up |
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| illustrate | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: exemplify, instance |
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| (verb) depict with an illustration | - |
| (verb) supply with illustrations | - |
| include | (verb) add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category | - |
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| (verb) consider as part of something | - |
| (verb) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of | Synonyms: admit, let in |
| (verb) have as a part, be made up out of | - |
| influence | (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, mold, mould, regulate, shape |
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| (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: charm, tempt |
| (verb) have and exert influence or effect | Synonyms: act upon, work |
| interlude | (verb) perform an interlude | - |
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| lube | (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lubricate |
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| lubricate | (verb) make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant | - |
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| (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lube |
| (verb) have lubricating properties | - |
| lucubrate | (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, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out |
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| luff | (verb) flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides | - |
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| (verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: point |
| lug | (verb) carry with difficulty | Synonyms: tote, tug |
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| (verb) obstruct | Synonyms: block, choke up, stuff |
| luge | (verb) move along on a luge or toboggan | Synonyms: toboggan |
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| lull | (verb) become quiet or less intensive | Synonyms: calm down |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) calm by deception | - |
| lumber | (verb) cut lumber, as in woods and forests | Synonyms: log |
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| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: pound |
| luminesce | (verb) be or become luminescent; exhibit luminescence | - |
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| lump | (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: chunk, collocate |
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| (verb) put together indiscriminately | Synonyms: chunk |
| lunch | (verb) take the midday meal | - |
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| (verb) provide a midday meal for | - |
| lunge | (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, thrust |
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| lurch | (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: skunk |
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| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: pitch, shift |
| (verb) move slowly and unsteadily | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag |
| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: prowl |
| lure | (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, tempt |
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| lurk | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) to monitor a web forum or similar without making your presence pubilc | - |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | Synonyms: skulk |
| lust | (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, starve, thirst |
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| lustrate | (verb) purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials | - |
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| luxate | (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, slip, splay |
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| luxuriate | (verb) thrive profusely or flourish extensively | - |
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| (verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: wanton |
| (verb) enjoy to excess | Synonyms: indulge |
| nonplus | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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