| adumbrate | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: outline, sketch |
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| (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: insinuate, intimate |
| ambition | (verb) have as one's ambition | - |
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| amble | (verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: mosey |
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| ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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| ambuscade | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| ambush | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing | Synonyms: still-hunt |
| assemble | (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together |
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| (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: foregather, forgather, gather, meet |
| (verb) get people together | Synonyms: gather, get together |
| bamboozle | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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| benumb | (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: blunt, dull, numb |
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| bomb | (verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bombard |
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| (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: fail, flunk, flush it |
| bombard | (verb) direct high energy particles or radiation against | - |
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| (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: barrage |
| (verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bomb |
| (verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: pelt |
| bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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| bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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| bombproof | (verb) make safe against bombings | - |
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| bumble | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: falter, stammer, stutter |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: falter, stumble |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| camber | (verb) curve upward in the middle | - |
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| chamber | (verb) place in a chamber | - |
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| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| clamber | (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
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| climb | (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: mount, rise, wax |
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| (verb) increase in value or to a higher point | Synonyms: go up, rise |
| (verb) improve one's social status | - |
| (verb) go upward with gradual or continuous progress | Synonyms: climb up, go up, mount |
| (verb) move with effort, by grasping | - |
| (verb) slope upward | - |
| comb | (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb out, disentangle |
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| (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: ransack |
| (verb) straighten with a comb | - |
| combat | (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: battle |
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| combine | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) put or add together | Synonyms: compound |
| (verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: compound |
| (verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: aggregate |
| (verb) add together from different sources | - |
| (verb) join for a common purpose or in a common action | - |
| (verb) have or possess in combination | Synonyms: unite |
| combust | (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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| (verb) get very angry and fly into a rage | Synonyms: blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, lose one's temper, throw a fit |
| (verb) cause to become violent or angry | - |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, conflagrate, erupt, ignite, take fire |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: burn |
| crumb | (verb) remove crumbs from | - |
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| (verb) break into crumbs | - |
| (verb) coat with bread crumbs | - |
| crumble | (verb) break or fall apart into fragments | Synonyms: fall apart |
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| (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: decay, dilapidate |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumple, tumble |
| cumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: encumber, restrain |
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| currycomb | (verb) clean (a horse) with a currycomb | - |
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| disambiguate | (verb) state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from | - |
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| disassemble | (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, dismantle, take apart |
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| discombobulate | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, bewilder, throw |
| disembark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: debark, set down |
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| disembarrass | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: free, rid |
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| disembody | (verb) free from a body or physical form or reality | - |
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| disembowel | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: draw, eviscerate |
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| disembroil | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disentangle, disinvolve |
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| disencumber | (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disentangle, extricate, untangle |
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| dismember | (verb) separate the limbs from the body | - |
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| (verb) divide into pieces | Synonyms: discerp, take apart |
| dissemble | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, feign, pretend, sham |
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| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, pretend |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: cloak, mask |
| dumbfound | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| embalm | (verb) preserve a dead body | - |
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| embank | (verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection | - |
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| embargo | (verb) prevent commerce | - |
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| (verb) ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons | - |
| embark | (verb) set out on (an enterprise or subject of study) | Synonyms: enter |
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| (verb) go on board | Synonyms: ship |
| (verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: venture |
| embarrass | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: abash |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| embattle | (verb) prepare for battle or conflict | - |
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| (verb) fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense | - |
| embed | (verb) attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war | - |
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| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: engraft, imbed, implant, plant |
| embellish | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace |
| embezzle | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| embitter | (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, envenom |
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| emblazon | (verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: blazon |
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| (verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: color, colour |
| embody | (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, personify |
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| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, incarnate, substantiate |
| (verb) represent or express something abstract in tangible form | - |
| embolden | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, hearten, recreate |
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| emboss | (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: boss, stamp |
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| embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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| embrace | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, espouse, sweep up |
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| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: bosom, hug, squeeze |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, encompass |
| embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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| embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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| embrocate | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, inunct, oil |
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| embroider | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, lard, pad |
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| (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: broider |
| embroil | (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
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| embrown | (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: brown |
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| (verb) cause to darken | - |
| encumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: cumber, restrain |
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| entomb | (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: bury, inhume, inter, lay to rest |
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| firebomb | (verb) attack with incendiary bombs | - |
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| flambe | (verb) pour liquor over and ignite (a dish) | - |
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| fumble | (verb) drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder | - |
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| (verb) feel about uncertainly or blindly | Synonyms: grope |
| (verb) handle clumsily | - |
| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: blunder |
| (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, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| gamble | (verb) play games for money | - |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| gambol | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| grumble | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, murmur, mutter |
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| (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grouch, scold |
| (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, rumble |
| (verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: rumble |
| honeycomb | (verb) make full of cavities, like a honeycomb | - |
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| (verb) penetrate thoroughly and into every part | - |
| (verb) carve a honeycomb pattern into | - |
| humble | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humiliate, mortify |
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| (verb) cause to be unpretentious | - |
| humbug | (verb) trick or deceive | - |
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| imbed | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, implant, plant |
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| imbibe | (verb) receive into the mind and retain | - |
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| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: drink |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilate |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| imbricate | (verb) overlap | - |
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| (verb) place so as to overlap | - |
| imbrue | (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: drench |
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| imbue | (verb) suffuse with color | Synonyms: hue |
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| (verb) fill, soak, or imbue totally | Synonyms: soak |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| jumble | (verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: scramble, throw together |
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| (verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: confuse, mix up |
| (verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: mingle |
| lamb | (verb) give birth to a lamb | - |
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| lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
| lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
| limber | (verb) cause to become limber | - |
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| (verb) attach the limber | Synonyms: limber up |
| lumber | (verb) cut lumber, as in woods and forests | Synonyms: log |
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| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: pound |
| mambo | (verb) dance a mambo | - |
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| misremember | (verb) remember incorrectly | - |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| outnumber | (verb) be larger in number | - |
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| perambulate | (verb) walk with no particular goal | Synonyms: walk about, walk around |
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| (verb) make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property) | - |
| photobomb | (verb) to jump into someone's photo | - |
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| 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 | - |
| preamble | (verb) make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document | - |
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| preassemble | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: prefabricate |
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| ramble | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| (verb) continue talking or writing in a desultory manner | Synonyms: jog, ramble on |
| reassemble | (verb) assemble once again, after taking something apart | - |
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| recombine | (verb) undergo genetic recombination | - |
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| (verb) cause genetic recombination | - |
| (verb) to combine or put together again | - |
| recumb | (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recline, repose |
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| reimburse | (verb) pay back for some expense incurred | - |
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| (verb) reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | Synonyms: recoup |