| occlude | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate |
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| overvalue | (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overestimate |
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| pluck | (verb) pull or pull out sharply | Synonyms: pick off, pull off, tweak |
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| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pick |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pick, plunk |
| (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pull, tear |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, roll |
| plug | (verb) persist in working hard | Synonyms: plug away |
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| (verb) insert as a plug | - |
| (verb) insert a plug into | - |
| (verb) replace the center of a coin with a baser metal | - |
| (verb) make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote | - |
| (verb) deliver a quick blow to | Synonyms: punch |
| (verb) fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug | Synonyms: secure, stop up |
| plumb | (verb) adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical | - |
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| (verb) measure the depth of something | - |
| (verb) examine thoroughly and in great depth | - |
| (verb) weight with lead | - |
| plume | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, preen, primp |
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| (verb) form a plume | - |
| (verb) clean with one's bill | Synonyms: preen |
| (verb) deck with a plume | - |
| (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: congratulate, pride |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, rob, soak, surcharge |
| plummet | (verb) drop sharply | Synonyms: plump |
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| plump | (verb) give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number | Synonyms: go |
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| (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump out |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
| (verb) drop sharply | Synonyms: plummet |
| plunder | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, rape, spoil, violate |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| (verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: sack |
| (verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: loot |
| plunge | (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: launch |
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| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, soak up, steep |
| (verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: immerse |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, souse |
| (verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: immerse |
| (verb) fall abruptly | Synonyms: dump |
| (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunk |
| (verb) dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity | - |
| plunk | (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
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| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk down |
| (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunge |
| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clump, clunk |
| pluralise | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralize |
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| pluralize | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralise |
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| pollute | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: contaminate, foul |
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| preclude | (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, prevent |
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| (verb) make impossible, especially beforehand | Synonyms: close out, rule out |
| prelude | (verb) play as a prelude | - |
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| (verb) serve as a prelude or opening to | - |
| pullulate | (verb) breed freely and abundantly | - |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, shoot, sprout, spud |
| (verb) become abundant; increase rapidly | - |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, stream, swarm, teem |
| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: swarm, teem |
| reevaluate | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reassess |
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| revalue | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: appreciate, apprise, apprize |
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| (verb) value anew | - |
| revolutionise | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionize |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionize |
| revolutionize | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionise |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionise |
| (verb) overthrow by a revolution, of governments | - |
| salute | (verb) greet in a friendly way | - |
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| (verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers | - |
| (verb) express commendation of | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, toast, wassail |
| (verb) become noticeable | - |
| seclude | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: sequester, sequestrate, withdraw |
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| slue | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, swerve, trend, veer |
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| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slew, slide, slip |
| slug | (verb) strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat | Synonyms: slog, swig |
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| (verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: idle, laze, stagnate |
| sluice | (verb) irrigate with water from a sluice | Synonyms: flush |
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| (verb) draw through a sluice | - |
| (verb) transport in or send down a sluice | - |
| (verb) pour as if from a sluice | Synonyms: sluice down |
| slum | (verb) spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive | - |
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| slumber | (verb) be asleep | Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep |
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| slump | (verb) fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly | Synonyms: fall off, sink |
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| (verb) fall or sink heavily | Synonyms: sink, slide down |
| (verb) assume a drooping posture or carriage | Synonyms: slouch |
| (verb) fall in value | Synonyms: correct, decline |
| slur | (verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: blur, dim |
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| (verb) utter indistinctly | - |
| (verb) speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur | - |
| (verb) play smoothly or legato | - |
| slurp | (verb) eat noisily | - |
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| slush | (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh, slosh around, slush around |
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| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, splash, splosh |
| spelunk | (verb) explore natural caves | Synonyms: cave |
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| splurge | (verb) be showy or ostentatious | - |
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| (verb) indulge oneself | Synonyms: fling |
| splutter | (verb) spit up in an explosive manner | Synonyms: spit out, sputter |
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| (verb) utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage | Synonyms: sputter |
| subluxate | (verb) sprain or dislocate slightly | - |
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| ululate | (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, wail, yaup, yawl |
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| unclutter | (verb) rid of obstructions | Synonyms: clear |
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| undervalue | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devaluate, devalue |
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| (verb) assign too low a value to | Synonyms: underestimate |
| (verb) esteem lightly | - |
| unplug | (verb) pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable | Synonyms: disconnect |
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| valuate | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, measure, value |
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| value | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, measure, valuate |
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| (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, prize, respect |
| (verb) estimate the value of | Synonyms: rate |
| (verb) fix or determine the value of; assign a value to | - |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, prize, treasure |
| volunteer | (verb) tell voluntarily | - |
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| (verb) do volunteer work | - |
| (verb) agree freely | Synonyms: offer |