| profane | (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, violate |
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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, subvert, vitiate |
| prune | (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, rationalise, rationalize |
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| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, snip, trim |
| quarantine | (verb) place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons | - |
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| realine | (verb) align anew or better | Synonyms: realign |
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| recline | (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recumb, repose |
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| (verb) cause to recline | - |
| (verb) move the upper body backwards and down | Synonyms: lean back |
| recombine | (verb) undergo genetic recombination | - |
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| (verb) cause genetic recombination | - |
| (verb) to combine or put together again | - |
| reconvene | (verb) meet again | - |
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| redefine | (verb) give a new or different definition of (a word) | - |
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| (verb) give a new or different definition to | - |
| redetermine | (verb) fix, find, or establish again | - |
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| redline | (verb) discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood | - |
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| reexamine | (verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: review |
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| refine | (verb) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities | Synonyms: rectify |
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| (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: down, fine-tune, polish |
| (verb) treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition | - |
| (verb) attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or intensity by polishing or purifying | - |
| (verb) make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of | - |
| (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, elaborate, rarify |
| regenerate | (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: revitalize |
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| (verb) undergo regeneration | - |
| (verb) form or produce anew | - |
| (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: rejuvenate, restore |
| (verb) replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue | - |
| (verb) be formed or shaped anew | - |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, reform |
| (verb) amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit | - |
| (verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: renew |
| reline | (verb) put new lines on | - |
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| (verb) provide with a new lining | - |
| remunerate | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, recompense |
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| renegade | (verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: rebel |
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| renege | (verb) fail to fulfill a promise or obligation | Synonyms: go back on, renege on, renegue on |
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| renegociate | (verb) revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor | Synonyms: renegotiate |
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| (verb) negociate anew | Synonyms: renegotiate |
| renegotiate | (verb) revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor | Synonyms: renegociate |
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| (verb) negociate anew | Synonyms: renegociate |
| renew | (verb) cause to appear in a new form | Synonyms: reincarnate |
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| (verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: regenerate |
| repine | (verb) express discontent | - |
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| roneo | (verb) make copies on a Roneograph | - |
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| rubberneck | (verb) strain to watch; stare curiously | - |
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| sailplane | (verb) fly a plane without an engine | Synonyms: soar |
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| seaplane | (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: hydroplane |
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| seine | (verb) fish with a seine; catch fish with a seine | - |
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| senesce | (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, mature |
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| shine | (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, smooth, smoothen |
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| (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, strike |
| (verb) be distinguished or eminent | - |
| (verb) be clear and obvious | - |
| (verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: beam |
| (verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) throw or flash the light of (a lamp) | - |
| shrine | (verb) enclose in a shrine | Synonyms: enshrine |
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| sideline | (verb) remove from the center of activity or attention; place into an inferior position | - |
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| sloganeer | (verb) coin new slogans | - |
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| sneak | (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, mouse, pussyfoot |
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| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, swipe |
| (verb) pass on stealthily | Synonyms: slip |
| (verb) put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner | - |
| sneer | (verb) smile contemptuously | - |
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| (verb) express through a scornful smile | - |
| sneeze | (verb) exhale spasmodically, as when an irritant entered one's nose | - |
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| sonnet | (verb) compose a sonnet | - |
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| (verb) praise in a sonnet | - |
| stone | (verb) remove the pits from | Synonyms: pit |
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| (verb) kill by throwing stones at | Synonyms: lapidate |
| stonewall | (verb) engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate | - |
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| (verb) obstruct or hinder any discussion | - |
| stonewash | (verb) wash with stones to achieve a worn appearance | Synonyms: stone-wash |
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| streamline | (verb) contour economically or efficiently | - |
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| submarine | (verb) attack by submarine | - |
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| (verb) bring down with a blow to the legs | - |
| (verb) throw with an underhand motion | - |
| (verb) control a submarine | - |
| (verb) move forward or under in a sliding motion | - |
| supervene | (verb) take place as an additional or unexpected development | - |
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| telephone | (verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call, call up, phone, ring |
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| throne | (verb) put a monarch on the throne | Synonyms: enthrone |
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| (verb) sit on the throne as a ruler | - |
| tone | (verb) give a healthy elasticity to | Synonyms: strengthen, tone up |
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| (verb) change to a color image | - |
| (verb) change the color or tone of | - |
| (verb) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | Synonyms: chant, intone |
| (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: inflect, modulate |
| tourney | (verb) engage in a tourney | - |
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| trephine | (verb) operate on with a trephine | - |
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| tune | (verb) adjust the pitches of (musical instruments) | Synonyms: tune up |
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| (verb) adjust for (better) functioning | Synonyms: tune up |
| tunnel | (verb) force a way through | - |
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| (verb) move through by or as by digging | Synonyms: burrow |
| twine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace |
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| (verb) make by twisting together or intertwining | - |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: roll, wind, wrap |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: distort, twist |
| underline | (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, emphasize, underscore |
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| (verb) draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to | Synonyms: underscore |
| undermine | (verb) hollow out as if making a cave or opening | Synonyms: cave |
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| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, weaken |
| unearth | (verb) recover through digging | Synonyms: excavate |
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| (verb) discover by investigation | - |
| unharness | (verb) remove the harness from | - |
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| unnerve | (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: enervate, faze, unsettle |
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| untune | (verb) cause to be out of tune | - |
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| (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, upset |
| untwine | (verb) undo what has been twined together | - |
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| veneer | (verb) cover with veneer | - |
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| venerate | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, reverence |
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| venesect | (verb) practice venesection | - |
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| wane | (verb) become smaller | - |
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| (verb) decrease in phase | - |
| (verb) grow smaller | Synonyms: decline, go down |
| whine | (verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: grizzle, yammer, yawp |
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| (verb) talk in a tearful manner | Synonyms: snivel |
| (verb) move with a whining sound | - |
| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, skreak, squeak |
| wine | (verb) drink wine | - |
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| (verb) treat to wine | - |
| witness | (verb) be a witness to | - |
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| (verb) perceive or be contemporaneous with | Synonyms: find, see |
| zone | (verb) separate or apportion into sections | Synonyms: partition |
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| (verb) regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns | Synonyms: district |