monitor | (verb) keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance | Synonyms: supervise |
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(verb) check, track, or observe by means of a receiver | - |
monkey | (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, putter, tinker |
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(verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: fiddle, tamper |
monologuise | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuize, soliloquise, soliloquize |
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monologuize | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, soliloquise, soliloquize |
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monopolise | (verb) have or exploit a monopoly of | Synonyms: monopolize |
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(verb) have and control fully and exclusively | Synonyms: monopolize |
monopolize | (verb) have or exploit a monopoly of | Synonyms: monopolise |
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(verb) have and control fully and exclusively | Synonyms: monopolise |
monumentalise | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalize |
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monumentalize | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalise |
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moo | (verb) make a low noise, characteristic of bovines | Synonyms: low |
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mooch | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, sponge |
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moon | (verb) expose one's buttocks to | - |
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(verb) be idle in a listless or dreamy way | Synonyms: moon around, moon on |
(verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: daydream |
moonlight | (verb) work a second job, usually after hours | - |
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moonshine | (verb) distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine | - |
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moor | (verb) secure with cables or ropes | - |
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(verb) secure in or as if in a berth or dock | Synonyms: berth, tie up |
(verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: berth, wharf |
moot | (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, deliberate, turn over |
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mop | (verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mow, pout |
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(verb) to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop | Synonyms: mop up, wipe up |
mope | (verb) be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed | Synonyms: moon about, moon around |
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(verb) move around slowly and aimlessly | Synonyms: mope around |
moralise | (verb) improve the morals of | Synonyms: moralize |
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(verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralize, preachify, sermonise, sermonize |
(verb) interpret the moral meaning of | Synonyms: moralize |
moralize | (verb) improve the morals of | Synonyms: moralise |
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(verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, preachify, sermonise, sermonize |
(verb) interpret the moral meaning of | Synonyms: moralise |
morph | (verb) change shape as via computer animation | - |
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(verb) cause to change shape in a computer animation | - |
mortar | (verb) plaster with mortar | - |
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mortgage | (verb) put up as security or collateral | - |
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mortice | (verb) join by a tenon and mortise | Synonyms: mortise |
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(verb) cut a hole for a tenon in | Synonyms: mortise |
mortify | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, necrose, sphacelate |
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(verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate |
(verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: crucify, subdue |
(verb) practice self-denial of one's body and appetites | - |
mortise | (verb) join by a tenon and mortise | Synonyms: mortice |
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(verb) cut a hole for a tenon in | Synonyms: mortice |
mosey | (verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: amble |
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mosh | (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: slam, slam dance, thrash |
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mothball | (verb) put into long-term storage | - |
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mother | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, sire |
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(verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, overprotect |
mothproof | (verb) protect from moths | - |
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motion | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesticulate, gesture |
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motivate | (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, move, prompt, propel |
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motley | (verb) make motley; color with different colors | Synonyms: parti-color |
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(verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: variegate, vary |
motor | (verb) travel or be transported in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive |
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motorbike | (verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: cycle, motorcycle |
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motorboat | (verb) ride in a motorboat | - |
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motorcycle | (verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: cycle, motorbike |
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motorise | (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, mechanize, motorize |
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motorize | (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, mechanize, motorise |
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(verb) equip with a motor | - |
(verb) equip with a motor vehicle | - |
mottle | (verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: cloud, dapple |
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(verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, streak |
mould | (verb) become moldy; spoil due to humidity | Synonyms: mildew, mold |
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(verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, regulate, shape |
(verb) fit tightly, follow the contours of | Synonyms: mold |
(verb) form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold | Synonyms: cast, mold |
(verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, form, mold, shape, work |
(verb) form in clay, wax, etc | Synonyms: model, mold |
moulder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, rot |
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moult | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, molt, shed, slough |
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mound | (verb) form into a rounded elevation | - |
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mount | (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: climb, rise, wax |
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(verb) fix onto a backing, setting, or support | - |
(verb) attach to a support | - |
(verb) copulate with | Synonyms: ride |
(verb) put up or launch | - |
(verb) prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance | Synonyms: put on |
(verb) go upward with gradual or continuous progress | Synonyms: climb, climb up, go up |
(verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: bestride, climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount up |
mountaineer | (verb) climb mountains for pleasure as a sport | - |
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mourn | (verb) feel sadness | - |
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(verb) observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one | - |
mouse | (verb) manipulate the mouse of a computer | - |
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(verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, pussyfoot, sneak |
mousse | (verb) apply a styling gel to | Synonyms: gel |
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mouth | (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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(verb) articulate silently; form words with the lips only | - |
(verb) touch with the mouth | - |
move | (verb) be in a state of action | Synonyms: be active |
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(verb) go or proceed from one point to another | - |
(verb) progress by being changed | Synonyms: go, run |
(verb) propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting | Synonyms: make a motion |
(verb) have a turn; make one's move in a game | Synonyms: go |
(verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, prompt, propel |
(verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, impress, strike |
(verb) arouse sympathy or compassion in | - |
(verb) move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion | - |
(verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense | Synonyms: displace |
(verb) change residence, affiliation, or place of employment | - |
(verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically | Synonyms: go, locomote, travel |
(verb) dispose of by selling | - |
(verb) perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) | Synonyms: act |
(verb) follow a procedure or take a course | Synonyms: go, proceed |
(verb) live one's life in a specified environment | - |
mow | (verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mop, pout |
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(verb) cut with a blade or mower | Synonyms: cut down |
muck | (verb) remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine | - |
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(verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: mire, muck up, mud |
(verb) spread manure, as for fertilization | Synonyms: manure |
muckrake | (verb) explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures | - |
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mud | (verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: mire, muck, muck up |
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(verb) plaster with mud | - |
muddle | (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, puddle |
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(verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: puddle |
muddy | (verb) make turbid | - |
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(verb) cause to become muddy | - |
(verb) dirty with mud | Synonyms: muddy up |
mudwrestle | (verb) wrestle in mud | Synonyms: mud-wrestle |
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muff | (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, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, screw up, spoil |
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(verb) fail to catch, as of a ball | - |
muffle | (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: repress, smother, stifle, strangle |
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(verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, mute, tone down |
mug | (verb) To stare awkwardly | - |
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(verb) rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence | - |
mulch | (verb) cover with mulch | - |
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mulct | (verb) impose a fine on | Synonyms: fine |
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(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
mull | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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(verb) heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink | - |
multiply | (verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: breed |
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(verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: procreate, reproduce |
(verb) combine or increase by multiplication | Synonyms: manifold |
(verb) make multiple copies of | Synonyms: manifold |
(verb) combine by multiplication | - |
mumble | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mussitate, mutter |
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(verb) grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty | Synonyms: gum |
mummify | (verb) dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture | Synonyms: dry up |
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(verb) remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it | - |
(verb) preserve while making lifeless | - |
munch | (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: crunch |
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munition | (verb) supply with weapons | - |
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murder | (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, mutilate |
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(verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, off, polish off, remove, slay |
murk | (verb) make dark, dim, or gloomy | - |
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murmur | (verb) speak softly or indistinctly | - |
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(verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, mutter |
muscle | (verb) make one's way by force | - |
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muse | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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mush | (verb) travel with a dogsled | Synonyms: dogsled |
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(verb) drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled) | - |
mushroom | (verb) grow and spread fast | - |
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(verb) pick or gather mushrooms | - |
muss | (verb) make messy or untidy | Synonyms: tussle |
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mussitate | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mutter |
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muster | (verb) call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. | - |
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(verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster up, rally, summon |
mutate | (verb) undergo mutation | - |
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mute | (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, muffle, tone down |
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mutilate | (verb) destroy or injure severely | Synonyms: mar |
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(verb) damage or injure severely | Synonyms: cut up, mangle |
(verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, murder |
mutiny | (verb) engage in a mutiny against an authority | - |
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mutter | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, murmur |
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(verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mussitate |
muzzle | (verb) tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them | Synonyms: gag |
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(verb) prevent from speaking out | Synonyms: gag |
(verb) fit with a muzzle | - |
mystify | (verb) make mysterious | - |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
mythicise | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicize, mythologise, mythologize |
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(verb) interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology | Synonyms: mythicize |
mythicize | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicise, mythologise, mythologize |
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(verb) interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology | Synonyms: mythicise |
mythologise | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicise, mythicize, mythologize |
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(verb) construct a myth | Synonyms: mythologize |
mythologize | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicise, mythicize, mythologise |
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(verb) construct a myth | Synonyms: mythologise |
name | (verb) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis | Synonyms: diagnose |
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(verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out |
(verb) give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property | Synonyms: identify |
(verb) assign a specified (usually proper) name to | Synonyms: be known as, call, know as |
(verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, refer |
(verb) mention and identify by name | - |
(verb) give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of | Synonyms: list |
(verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, constitute, nominate |
(verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: make, nominate |
namedrop | (verb) refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them | - |
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netmail | (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, email |
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nickname | (verb) give a nickname to | Synonyms: dub |
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nominate | (verb) propose as a candidate for some honor | Synonyms: put forward, put up |
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(verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, constitute, name |
(verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: make, name |
(verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: propose |
normalise | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalize, renormalise, renormalize |
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(verb) become normal or return to its normal state | Synonyms: normalize |
normalize | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, renormalise, renormalize |
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(verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling | Synonyms: anneal, temper |
(verb) become normal or return to its normal state | Synonyms: normalise |
numb | (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, blunt, dull |
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number | (verb) place a limit on the number of | Synonyms: keep down |
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(verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, numerate |
(verb) enumerate | Synonyms: list |
(verb) give numbers to | - |
(verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, come, total |
(verb) put into a group | Synonyms: count |
numerate | (verb) read out loud as words written numbers | - |
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(verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, number |