| abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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| abominate | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, execrate, loathe |
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| acuminate | (verb) make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point | - |
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| agglutinate | (verb) clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. | - |
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| (verb) string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) | - |
| alienate | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: disaffect, estrange |
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| (verb) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated | - |
| (verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alien |
| alternate | (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
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| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
| (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
| (verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
| anaesthetise | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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| anaesthetize | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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| anagram | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagrammatise, anagrammatize |
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| anagrammatise | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatize |
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| anagrammatize | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatise |
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| analogise | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogize |
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| analogize | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogise |
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| analyse | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyze, canvass, examine, study |
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| (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze, break down, dissect, take apart |
| (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyze, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
| (verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze |
| analyze | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, canvass, examine, study |
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| (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, break down, dissect, take apart |
| (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
| (verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse |
| anastomose | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: inosculate |
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| (verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: inosculate |
| anathematise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| anathematize | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| anathemise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
| anathemize | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, comminate, execrate |
| anatomise | (verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomize |
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| anatomize | (verb) analyze down to the smallest detail | - |
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| (verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomise |
| assassinate | (verb) destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation | - |
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| (verb) murder; especially of socially prominent persons | - |
| assonate | (verb) correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance | - |
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| bastinado | (verb) beat somebody on the soles of the feet | - |
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| bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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| brominate | (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
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| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
| cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
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| canal | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canalise, canalize |
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| canalise | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalize |
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| canalize | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalise |
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| cannonade | (verb) attack with cannons or artillery | - |
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| carbonate | (verb) treat with carbon dioxide | - |
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| (verb) turn into a carbonate | - |
| carnalise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalize, sensualise, sensualize |
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| carnalize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, sensualise, sensualize |
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| (verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: sensualize |
| (verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: sensualize |
| catenate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenulate |
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| catnap | (verb) take a siesta | Synonyms: catch a wink, nap |
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| chlorinate | (verb) disinfect with chlorine | - |
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| (verb) treat or combine with chlorine | - |
| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| comminate | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, execrate |
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| communalise | (verb) make something the property of the commune or community | Synonyms: communalize |
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| communalize | (verb) make something the property of the commune or community | Synonyms: communalise |
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| compassionate | (verb) share the suffering of | Synonyms: condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with |
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| concatenate | (verb) add by linking or joining so as to form a chain or series | - |
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| (verb) combine two strings to form a single one | - |
| concertina | (verb) collapse like a concertina | - |
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| conglutinate | (verb) stick together | - |
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| (verb) cause to adhere | Synonyms: coapt |
| consonate | (verb) sound in sympathy | - |
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| consternate | (verb) fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion | - |
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| constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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| constitutionalize | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalise |
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| (verb) take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal | - |
| (verb) provide with a constitution, as of a country | - |
| contaminate | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: foul, pollute |
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| (verb) make radioactive by adding radioactive material | - |
| conventionalise | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalize |
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| conventionalize | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalise |
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| (verb) represent according to a conventional style | Synonyms: stylise, stylize |
| coordinate | (verb) bring order and organization to | Synonyms: organise, organize |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, ordinate |
| (verb) bring into common action, movement, or condition | - |
| (verb) be co-ordinated | - |
| coronate | (verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: crown |
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| countenance | (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, let, permit |
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| covenant | (verb) enter into a covenant or formal agreement | - |
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| (verb) enter into a covenant | - |
| criminalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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| criminalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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| (verb) treat as a criminal | - |
| criminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, impeach, incriminate |
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| (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, reprimand |
| culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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| (verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
| (verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
| (verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
| (verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
| cybernate | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, computerize |
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| deaminate | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminize |
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| decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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| decarbonate | (verb) remove carbon dioxide from | - |
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| dechlorinate | (verb) remove chlorine from (water) | - |
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| decontaminate | (verb) rid of contamination | - |
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| decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| decriminalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| defibrinate | (verb) remove fibrin from (blood) | - |
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| dehydrogenate | (verb) remove hydrogen from | - |
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| demyelinate | (verb) destroy the myelin sheath of | - |
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| denationalise | (verb) put under private control or ownership | Synonyms: denationalize |
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| denationalize | (verb) put under private control or ownership | Synonyms: denationalise |
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| denaturalise | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalize |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalize |
| denaturalize | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalise |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalise |
| denature | (verb) make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes | - |
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| (verb) modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished | - |
| (verb) add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb | - |
| denazify | (verb) free from Nazi ideology or detach from Nazi allegiance | - |
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| denominate | (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: designate |
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| deoxygenate | (verb) remove oxygen from (water) | - |
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| depersonalise | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalize, objectify |
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| depersonalize | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalise, objectify |
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| deracinate | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: extirpate, root out, uproot |
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| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: uproot |
| desalinate | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinise, desalinize, desalt |
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| designate | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: destine, intend, specify |
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| (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: denominate |
| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: destine, doom, fate |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: indicate, point, show |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute |
| detonate | (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, explode, set off |
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| (verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, explode |
| diagonalise | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalize |
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| diagonalize | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalise |
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| discountenance | (verb) show disapproval by discouraging | - |
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| (verb) look with disfavor on | - |
| discriminate | (verb) recognize or perceive the difference | Synonyms: know apart |
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| (verb) distinguish | - |
| (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: separate, single out |
| disenable | (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate |
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| disincarnate | (verb) make immaterial; remove the real essence of | - |
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| disseminate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| dissonate | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: disharmonize |
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| (verb) be dissonant or harsh | - |
| dominate | (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: master |
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| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: predominate, prevail, reign, rule |
| (verb) be in control | - |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, overlook, overtop |
| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: eclipse, overshadow |
| donate | (verb) give to a charity or good cause | - |
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| dynamise | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamize |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamize |
| dynamite | (verb) blow up with dynamite | - |
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| dynamize | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamise |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamise |
| eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
| (verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |