| parent | (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, nurture, raise, rear |
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| parget | (verb) apply ornamental plaster to | - |
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| park | (verb) place temporarily | - |
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| (verb) maneuver a vehicle into a parking space | - |
| parlay | (verb) stake winnings from one bet on a subsequent wager | Synonyms: double up |
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| parley | (verb) discuss, as between enemies | - |
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| parody | (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: burlesque, spoof |
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| (verb) make a spoof of or make fun of | - |
| parole | (verb) release a criminal from detention and place him on parole | - |
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| parrot | (verb) repeat mindlessly | - |
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| parry | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: block, deflect |
| parse | (verb) analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence) | - |
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| part | (verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: divide, separate |
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| (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, divide, separate |
| (verb) depart for someplace | Synonyms: depart, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out, take off |
| (verb) go one's own way; move apart | Synonyms: separate, split |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break, break up, separate, split, split up |
| partake | (verb) consume | Synonyms: touch |
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| (verb) have, give, or receive a share of | Synonyms: partake in, share |
| (verb) have some of the qualities or attributes of something | - |
| participate | (verb) become a participant; be involved in | Synonyms: enter |
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| (verb) share in something | Synonyms: take part |
| particularise | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularize, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| particularize | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| partition | (verb) separate or apportion into sections | Synonyms: zone |
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| (verb) divide into parts, pieces, or sections | Synonyms: partition off |
| partner | (verb) provide with a partner | - |
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| (verb) act as a partner | - |
| party | (verb) have or participate in a party | - |
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| pass | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, excrete |
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| (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass off, take place |
| (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass off |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, authorize, clear |
| (verb) transmit information | Synonyms: communicate, pass along, pass on, put across |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, run |
| (verb) go across or through | - |
| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, overtake |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, sink |
| (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, slide by, slip away, slip by |
| (verb) cause to pass | Synonyms: make pass |
| (verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass by, surpass, travel by |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass on, reach, turn over |
| (verb) throw (a ball) to another player | - |
| (verb) transfer to another; of rights or property | - |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, return |
| (verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: legislate |
| (verb) go unchallenged; be approved | Synonyms: clear |
| (verb) accept or judge as acceptable | - |
| (verb) go successfully through a test or a selection process | Synonyms: make it |
| (verb) allow to go without comment or censure | - |
| (verb) use up a period of time in a specific way | Synonyms: spend |
| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, top, transcend |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, run |
| paste | (verb) hit with the fists | - |
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| (verb) join or attach with or as if with glue | Synonyms: glue |
| (verb) cover the surface of | - |
| pasteurise | (verb) heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms | Synonyms: pasteurize |
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| pasteurize | (verb) heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms | Synonyms: pasteurise |
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| pasture | (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, graze, range |
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| (verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: crop, graze |
| pat | (verb) hit lightly | Synonyms: dab |
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| (verb) pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin | Synonyms: chuck |
| patch | (verb) mend by putting a patch on | Synonyms: patch up |
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| (verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) provide with a patch; also used metaphorically | - |
| patent | (verb) make open to sight or notice | - |
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| (verb) obtain a patent for | - |
| (verb) grant rights to; grant a patent for | - |
| patinate | (verb) coat with a patina | Synonyms: patinise, patinize |
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| patinise | (verb) coat with a patina | Synonyms: patinate, patinize |
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| patinize | (verb) coat with a patina | Synonyms: patinate, patinise |
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| patrol | (verb) maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol | Synonyms: police |
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| patronage | (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronise, patronize, support |
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| (verb) support by being a patron of | - |
| patronise | (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronize, support |
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| (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: condescend, patronize |
| (verb) assume sponsorship of | Synonyms: patronize, sponsor |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronize, shop, shop at, sponsor |
| patronize | (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronise, support |
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| (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: condescend, patronise |
| (verb) assume sponsorship of | Synonyms: patronise, sponsor |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, shop, shop at, sponsor |
| patter | (verb) make light, rapid and repeated sounds | Synonyms: pitter-patter |
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| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: pitter-patter, spatter, spit, sprinkle |
| pattern | (verb) plan or create according to a model or models | Synonyms: model |
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| (verb) form a pattern | - |
| pauperise | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: beggar, pauperize |
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| pauperize | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: beggar, pauperise |
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| pause | (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: break, intermit |
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| (verb) interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing | Synonyms: hesitate |
| pave | (verb) cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic | - |
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| paw | (verb) touch clumsily | - |
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| (verb) scrape with the paws | - |
| pawn | (verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: hock, soak |
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| pay | (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: devote, give |
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| (verb) bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action | - |
| (verb) convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) give money, usually in exchange for goods or services | - |
| (verb) bring in | Synonyms: bear, yield |
| (verb) do or give something to somebody in return | Synonyms: compensate, make up, pay off |
| (verb) cancel or discharge a debt | Synonyms: ante up, pay up |
| (verb) make a compensation for | - |
| (verb) discharge or settle | - |
| (verb) render | - |
| (verb) be worth it | - |
| peach | (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
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| peak | (verb) to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity | Synonyms: top out |
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| peal | (verb) ring recurrently | - |
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| (verb) sound loudly and sonorously | Synonyms: ring |
| pearl | (verb) gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean | - |
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| peck | (verb) bother persistently with trivial complaints | Synonyms: hen-peck, nag |
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| (verb) eat by pecking at, like a bird | Synonyms: pick up |
| (verb) eat like a bird | Synonyms: peck at, pick at |
| (verb) kiss lightly | Synonyms: smack |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, pick |
| peculate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate |
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| pedal | (verb) operate the pedals on a keyboard instrument | - |
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| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle, wheel |
| peddle | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, pitch, vend |
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| pedicure | (verb) care for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
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| pee | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| peek | (verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glance, glint |
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| peel | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| (verb) remove the skin from | Synonyms: pare, skin |
| (verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces | Synonyms: flake, flake off, peel off |
| peep | (verb) appear as though from hiding | - |
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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirp, chirrup |
| (verb) speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice | - |
| (verb) look furtively | - |
| (verb) cause to come into view | - |
| peer | (verb) look searchingly | - |
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| peeve | (verb) cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful | - |
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| peg | (verb) stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations | - |
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| (verb) fasten or secure with a wooden pin | Synonyms: peg down |
| (verb) pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into | - |
| (verb) succeed in obtaining a position | Synonyms: nail, nail down |
| pelt | (verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | Synonyms: pepper |
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| (verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: bombard |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
| pen | (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, indite, write |
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| penalise | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalize, punish |
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| penalize | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, punish |
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| pencil | (verb) write, draw, or trace with a pencil | - |
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| penetrate | (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, fathom |
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| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, sink in |
| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) insert the penis into the vagina or anus of | - |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) make one's way deeper into or through | - |
| (verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: infiltrate |
| pension | (verb) grant a pension to | Synonyms: pension off |
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| people | (verb) fill with people | - |
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| (verb) furnish with people | - |
| pepper | (verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | Synonyms: pelt |
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| (verb) add pepper to | - |
| peptise | (verb) disperse in a medium into a colloidal state | Synonyms: peptize |
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| peptize | (verb) disperse in a medium into a colloidal state | Synonyms: peptise |
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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) | - |
| perceive | (verb) become conscious of | - |
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| (verb) to become aware of through the senses | Synonyms: comprehend |
| perch | (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: rest, roost |
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| (verb) cause to perch or sit | - |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, light |
| percolate | (verb) gain or regain energy | Synonyms: gain vigor, perk, perk up, pick up |
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| (verb) pass through | Synonyms: filter, permeate, sink in |
| (verb) cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent | - |
| (verb) prepare in a percolator | - |
| (verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: leach |
| (verb) spread gradually | - |
| percuss | (verb) strike or tap firmly | - |
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| peregrinate | (verb) travel around, through, or over, especially on foot | - |
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| perennate | (verb) survive from season to season, of plants | - |
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| perfect | (verb) make perfect or complete | Synonyms: hone |
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| perforate | (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: punch |
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| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: penetrate |
| perform | (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, execute |
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| (verb) give a performance (of something) | - |
| (verb) get (something) done | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) perform a function | - |
| perfume | (verb) apply perfume to | Synonyms: scent |
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| (verb) fill or impregnate with an odor | Synonyms: aromatise, aromatize |
| perfuse | (verb) cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across | Synonyms: suffuse |
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| (verb) force a fluid through (a body part or tissue) | - |
| peril | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, queer, scupper |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, threaten |
| perish | (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, pop off, snuff it |
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| perjure | (verb) knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury | - |
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| perk | (verb) gain or regain energy | Synonyms: gain vigor, percolate, perk up, pick up |
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| perm | (verb) give a permanent wave to | - |
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| permeate | (verb) pass through | Synonyms: filter, percolate, sink in |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) penetrate mutually or be interlocked | Synonyms: interpenetrate |
| permit | (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, countenance, let |
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| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: allow, tolerate |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: allow, let |
| permute | (verb) change the order or arrangement of | Synonyms: commute, transpose |
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| perorate | (verb) deliver an oration in grandiloquent style | - |
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| (verb) conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation | - |
| peroxide | (verb) bleach with peroxide | - |
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| perpetrate | (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, pull |
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| perpetuate | (verb) cause to continue or prevail | - |
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| perplex | (verb) make more complicated | Synonyms: complicate |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| persecute | (verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: oppress |
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| perseverate | (verb) repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus | - |
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| persevere | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persist |
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| persist | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persevere |
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| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, prevail, run |
| personalise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalize |
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| personalize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalise |
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