| emanate | (verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: exhale, give forth |
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| (verb) proceed or issue forth, as from a source | - |
| enable | (verb) render capable or able for some task | - |
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| enact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, reenact |
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| (verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: ordain |
| enamel | (verb) coat, inlay, or surface with enamel | - |
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| enamor | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| enamour | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| ensnare | (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: entrap, snare, trammel, trap |
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| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: entrap, frame, set up |
| ensnarl | (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: enmesh, mesh |
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| eternalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| euthanatise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatize, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanatize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| exterminate | (verb) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many | Synonyms: kill off |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, extirpate, root out, uproot |
| externalise | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalize, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalize, project |
| externalize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, project |
| fascinate | (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: grip, spellbind, transfix |
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| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, trance |
| (verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: intrigue |
| festinate | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: hasten, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| fictionalise | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalize, novelise, novelize |
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| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalize, retell |
| fictionalize | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, novelise, novelize |
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| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, retell |
| finagle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: manage, wangle |
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| finalise | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalize, nail down, settle |
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| finalize | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, nail down, settle |
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| finance | (verb) obtain or provide money for | - |
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| (verb) sell or provide on credit | - |
| financier | (verb) conduct financial operations | - |
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| fractionate | (verb) obtain by a fractional process | - |
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| (verb) separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents | - |
| fulminate | (verb) cause to explode violently and with loud noise | - |
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| (verb) come on suddenly and intensely | - |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: rail |
| gasconade | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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| geminate | (verb) arrange or combine in pairs | - |
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| (verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: reduplicate |
| germinate | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| (verb) cause to grow or sprout | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| gnarl | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, grumble, murmur, mutter |
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| (verb) twist into a state of deformity | - |
| gnash | (verb) grind together, of teeth | - |
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| gnaw | (verb) become ground down or deteriorate | Synonyms: eat at, erode, gnaw at, wear away |
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| (verb) bite or chew on with the teeth | - |
| 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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| henna | (verb) apply henna to one's hair | - |
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| hibernate | (verb) sleep during winter | Synonyms: hole up |
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| (verb) be in an inactive or dormant state | - |
| hobnail | (verb) supply with hobnails | - |
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| hydrogenate | (verb) combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound) | - |
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| hyphenate | (verb) divide or connect with a hyphen | Synonyms: hyphen |
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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) | - |
| impersonate | (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: personate, pose |
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| (verb) represent another person with comic intentions | - |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: portray |
| impregnate | (verb) make pregnant | Synonyms: bang up, knock up, prang up |
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| (verb) fertilize and cause to grow | - |
| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: saturate |
| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: infuse, instill, tincture |
| inactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: deactivate |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
| inaugurate | (verb) be a precursor of | Synonyms: introduce, usher in |
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| (verb) commence officially | Synonyms: kick off |
| (verb) open ceremoniously or dedicate formally | - |
| incarnadine | (verb) make flesh-colored | - |
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| incarnate | (verb) make concrete and real | - |
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| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, substantiate |
| incriminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, impeach |
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| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, inculpate |
| indoctrinate | (verb) teach doctrines to; teach uncritically | - |
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| ingeminate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
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| inseminate | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, fertilize |
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| (verb) place seeds in or on (the ground) | Synonyms: sow, sow in |
| institutionalise | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalize, send |
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| institutionalize | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, send |
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| internalise | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalize |
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| internalize | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalise |
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| internationalise | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalize |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalize |
| internationalize | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalise |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalise |
| intonate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, chant, intone |
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| (verb) speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone | Synonyms: intone |
| invaginate | (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: introvert |
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| (verb) sheathe | - |
| iodinate | (verb) cause to combine with iodine | - |
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| ionate | (verb) add ions to | - |
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| kidnap | (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, nobble, snatch |
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| knap | (verb) strike sharply | Synonyms: rap |
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| (verb) break a small piece off from | Synonyms: break off, chip, cut off |
| laminate | (verb) cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material | - |
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| (verb) press or beat (metals) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) split (wood) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material | - |
| machinate | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, conspire |
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| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, organise, organize, prepare |
| manacle | (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff |
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| manage | (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: handle, wield |
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| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, handle |
| (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: oversee, superintend, supervise |
| (verb) carry on or function | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out |
| (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, wangle |
| (verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, negociate, pull off |
| marginalise | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalize |
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| marginalize | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalise |
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| marinade | (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinate |
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| marinate | (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinade |
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| menace | (verb) act in a threatening manner | - |
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| (verb) express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture | - |
| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, peril, threaten |
| miscegenate | (verb) marry or cohabit with a person of another race | - |
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| mismanage | (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mishandle |
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| misname | (verb) assign in incorrect name to | Synonyms: miscall |
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| nab | (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nail, pick up |
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| (verb) seize suddenly | - |
| (verb) tag the base runner to get him out | - |
| nag | (verb) remind or urge constantly | - |
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| (verb) bother persistently with trivial complaints | Synonyms: hen-peck, peck |
| (verb) worry persistently | - |
| nail | (verb) complete a pass | Synonyms: complete |
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| (verb) attach something somewhere by means of nails | - |
| (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nab, pick up |
| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, boom, smash |
| (verb) locate exactly | Synonyms: pinpoint |
| (verb) succeed at easily | Synonyms: ace, breeze through, pass with flying colors, sail through, sweep through |
| (verb) succeed in obtaining a position | Synonyms: nail down, peg |
| 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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| nap | (verb) take a siesta | Synonyms: catch a wink, catnap |
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| narcotise | (verb) administer narcotics to | Synonyms: narcotize |
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| narcotize | (verb) administer narcotics to | Synonyms: narcotise |
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| nark | (verb) inform or spy (for the police) | - |
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| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| narrate | (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: recite, recount, tell |
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| (verb) provide commentary for a film, for example | - |
| narrow | (verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: contract |
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| (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constrict, constringe |
| (verb) become more focused on an area of activity or field of study | Synonyms: narrow down, specialise, specialize |
| (verb) define clearly | Synonyms: nail down, narrow down, peg down, pin down, specify |
| nasale | (verb) speak in a nasal voice | - |
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| nasalise | (verb) pronounce with a lowered velum | Synonyms: nasalize |
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| (verb) speak nasally or through the nose | Synonyms: nasalize |
| nasalize | (verb) pronounce with a lowered velum | Synonyms: nasalise |
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| (verb) speak nasally or through the nose | Synonyms: nasalise |
| nationalise | (verb) put under state control or ownership | Synonyms: nationalize |
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| (verb) make national in character or scope | Synonyms: nationalize |
| nationalize | (verb) put under state control or ownership | Synonyms: nationalise |
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| (verb) make national in character or scope | Synonyms: nationalise |
| natter | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| naturalise | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalize |
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| (verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalize |
| (verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalize |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalize, tame |
| naturalize | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalise |
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| (verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalise |
| (verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalise |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame |
| (verb) explain with reference to nature | - |
| nauseate | (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, revolt, sicken |
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| (verb) upset and make nauseated | Synonyms: sicken, turn one's stomach |
| navigate | (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: pilot |
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| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: sail, voyage |
| (verb) direct carefully and safely | - |
| nazify | (verb) cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character | - |
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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 |
| obstinate | (verb) persist stubbornly | - |
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