| abandon | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: desert, desolate, forsake |
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| (verb) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: empty, vacate |
| (verb) forsake, leave behind | - |
| (verb) give up with the intent of never claiming again | Synonyms: give up |
| abscond | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| accession | (verb) make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library | - |
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| action | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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| (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: litigate, process, sue |
| admonish | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: reproof, reprove |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: caution, monish |
| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: discourage, monish, warn |
| affront | (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: diss, insult |
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| agonise | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonize |
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| (verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonize |
| agonize | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonise |
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| (verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonise |
| ambition | (verb) have as one's ambition | - |
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| ammoniate | (verb) treat with ammonia | - |
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| ammonify | (verb) treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification | - |
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| antagonise | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonize |
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| (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonize, counteract |
| antagonize | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonise |
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| (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonise, counteract |
| apportion | (verb) give out as one's portion or share | Synonyms: deal, divvy up, portion out, share |
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| (verb) distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose | Synonyms: allocate |
| assonate | (verb) correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance | - |
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| astonish | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astound |
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| atone | (verb) turn away from sin or do penitence | Synonyms: repent |
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| (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, abye, expiate |
| auction | (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction off, auctioneer |
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| auctioneer | (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction, auction off |
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| audition | (verb) perform in order to get a role | Synonyms: try out |
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| balloon | (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: billow, inflate |
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| (verb) ride in a hot-air balloon | - |
| baronetise | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetize |
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| baronetize | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetise |
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| bayonet | (verb) stab or kill someone with a bayonet | - |
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| beacon | (verb) guide with a beacon | - |
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| (verb) shine like a beacon | - |
| beckon | (verb) signal with the hands or nod | Synonyms: wave |
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| (verb) summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture | - |
| (verb) appear inviting | - |
| belong | (verb) be owned by; be in the possession of | - |
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| (verb) be rightly classified in a class or category | - |
| (verb) be suitable or acceptable | - |
| (verb) be in the right place or situation | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) be a part or adjunct | Synonyms: belong to |
| (verb) be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place) | - |
| blazon | (verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: emblazon |
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| bludgeon | (verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: club |
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| (verb) overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club | - |
| bond | (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, hold fast, stick, stick to |
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| (verb) bring together in a common cause or emotion | Synonyms: draw together |
| (verb) issue bonds on | - |
| (verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bind, tie |
| bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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| bonderize | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderise |
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| bone | (verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: debone |
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| (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
| bong | (verb) ring loudly and deeply | - |
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| bonk | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bop, sock, whap, whop |
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| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| bonnet | (verb) dress in a bonnet | - |
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| boondoggle | (verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
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| bourgeon | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| bronze | (verb) get a tan, from wind or sun | Synonyms: tan |
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| (verb) give the color and appearance of bronze to something | - |
| burgeon | (verb) grow and flourish | - |
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| button | (verb) fasten with buttons | - |
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| (verb) provide with buttons | - |
| buttonhole | (verb) detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | Synonyms: lobby |
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| cannon | (verb) fire a cannon | - |
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| (verb) make a cannon | - |
| cannonade | (verb) attack with cannons or artillery | - |
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| canonise | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonize, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonize |
| canonize | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonise, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonise |
| canton | (verb) divide into cantons, of a country | - |
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| (verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: billet, quarter |
| caparison | (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, barde, dress up |
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| caponise | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponize |
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| caponize | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponise |
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| caption | (verb) provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing | - |
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| carbonate | (verb) treat with carbon dioxide | - |
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| (verb) turn into a carbonate | - |
| carbonise | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonize |
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| (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonize, carburise, carburize |
| carbonize | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonise |
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| (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carburise, carburize |
| cartoon | (verb) draw cartoons of | - |
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| caution | (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: admonish, monish |
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| champion | (verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: defend |
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| chaperon | (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperone |
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| chaperone | (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperon |
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| chondrify | (verb) turn into cartilage | - |
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| chronicle | (verb) record in chronological order; make a historical record | - |
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| chronologise | (verb) establish the order in time of something | Synonyms: chronologize |
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| chronologize | (verb) establish the order in time of something | Synonyms: chronologise |
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| clarion | (verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion | - |
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| (verb) blow the clarion | - |
| claxon | (verb) use the horn of a car | Synonyms: honk |
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| (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, blare, honk, toot |
| clone | (verb) make multiple identical copies of | - |
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| cobblestone | (verb) pave with cobblestones | Synonyms: cobble |
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| coconspire | (verb) conspire together | - |
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| cocoon | (verb) wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection | - |
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| (verb) retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment | - |
| colonise | (verb) settle as colonists or establish a colony (in) | Synonyms: colonize |
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| (verb) settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world | Synonyms: colonize |
| colonize | (verb) settle as colonists or establish a colony (in) | Synonyms: colonise |
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| (verb) settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world | Synonyms: colonise |
| commission | (verb) charge with a task | - |
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| (verb) put into commission; equip for service; of ships | - |
| (verb) place an order for | - |
| companion | (verb) be a companion to somebody | Synonyms: accompany, company, keep company |
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| compassionate | (verb) share the suffering of | Synonyms: condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with |
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| complexion | (verb) give a certain color to | - |
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| con | (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: learn, memorise, memorize |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| 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 | - |
| conceal | (verb) hold back; keep from being perceived by others | Synonyms: hold back, hold in |
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| (verb) prevent from being seen or discovered | Synonyms: hide |
| concede | (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: confess, profess |
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| (verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: grant, yield |
| (verb) acknowledge defeat | - |
| (verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, grant, yield |
| conceive | (verb) become pregnant; undergo conception | - |
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| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, consider, think |
| (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate |
| concenter | (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concentre, focalise, focalize, focus |
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| concentrate | (verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, reduce |
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| (verb) make denser, stronger, or purer | - |
| (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, centralize |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, decoct, reduce |
| (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: condense, digest |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: condense, contract |
| (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, focus, pore, rivet |
| (verb) draw together or meet in one common center | - |
| concentre | (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, focalise, focalize, focus |
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| conceptualise | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualize, gestate |
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| conceptualize | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualise, gestate |
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| concern | (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
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| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: interest, occupy, worry |
| concert | (verb) settle by agreement | - |
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| (verb) contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement | - |
| concertina | (verb) collapse like a concertina | - |
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| concertise | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertize |
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| concertize | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertise |
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| conciliate | (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: accommodate, reconcile |
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| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: make up, patch up, reconcile, settle |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| conclude | (verb) decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion | Synonyms: reason, reason out |
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| (verb) bring to a close | - |
| (verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) reach agreement on | - |
| (verb) come to a close | Synonyms: close |
| concoct | (verb) make a concoction (of) by mixing | - |
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| (verb) devise or invent | Synonyms: dream up, hatch, think of, think up |
| (verb) prepare or cook by mixing ingredients | Synonyms: cook up |
| (verb) invent | Synonyms: trump up |
| concord | (verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: agree, concur, hold |
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| (verb) arrange the words of a text so as to create a concordance | - |
| (verb) arrange by concord or agreement | - |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, consort, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
| concrete | (verb) form into a solid mass; coalesce | - |
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| (verb) cover with cement | - |
| concretise | (verb) become specific | Synonyms: concretize |
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| concretize | (verb) become specific | Synonyms: concretise |
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| (verb) make something concrete | - |
| concur | (verb) happen simultaneously | Synonyms: coincide |
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| (verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: agree, concord, hold |
| concuss | (verb) injure the brain; sustain a concussion | - |
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| (verb) shake violently | - |
| condemn | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: decry, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate |
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| (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law | Synonyms: doom, sentence |
| (verb) declare or judge unfit for use or habitation | - |
| (verb) demonstrate the guilt of (someone) | - |
| (verb) appropriate (property) for public use | - |
| (verb) compel or force into a particular state or activity | - |