applaud | (verb) express that something is worthy of praise | - |
---|
(verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, clap, spat |
aquaplane | (verb) ride on an aquaplane | - |
---|
(verb) rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road | - |
beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
---|
complain | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
---|
(verb) make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge | - |
contemplate | (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: meditate, study |
---|
(verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
(verb) consider as a possibility | - |
(verb) look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought | - |
cosplay | (verb) wear a costume to resemble a character from some media especially anime | - |
---|
deplane | (verb) get off an airplane | - |
---|
displace | (verb) cause to move, usually with force or pressure | - |
---|
(verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense | Synonyms: move |
(verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: preempt |
(verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
display | (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: exhibit, expose |
---|
(verb) attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals | - |
downplay | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: background, play down |
---|
(verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: minimise, minimize, understate |
electroplate | (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
---|
emplace | (verb) put into place or position | - |
---|
(verb) provide a new emplacement for guns | - |
emplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: enplane |
---|
enplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: emplane |
---|
explain | (verb) make plain and comprehensible | Synonyms: explicate |
---|
(verb) define | - |
(verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: excuse |
goldplate | (verb) plate with gold | Synonyms: gold-plate, gold plate |
---|
hydroplane | (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: seaplane |
---|
implant | (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: plant |
---|
(verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, plant |
(verb) become attached to and embedded in the uterus | - |
misplace | (verb) place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position | - |
---|
(verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again | Synonyms: mislay |
misplay | (verb) play wrong or in an unskillful manner | - |
---|
(verb) play incorrectly, e.g., play a wrong note | - |
outplay | (verb) excel or defeat in a game | - |
---|
overplay | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overact |
---|
placard | (verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: bill |
---|
(verb) post in a public place | - |
placate | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify |
---|
place | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: identify |
---|
(verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, range, rank, rate |
(verb) take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal | Synonyms: come in, come out |
(verb) estimate | Synonyms: put, set |
(verb) sing a note with the correct pitch | - |
(verb) to arrange for | - |
(verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: post, send, station |
(verb) finish second or better in a horse or dog race | - |
(verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, point, target |
(verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, pose, position, put, set |
(verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, localize, set |
(verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: locate, site |
(verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, invest, put |
(verb) assign to (a job or a home) | - |
(verb) place somebody in a particular situation or location | - |
(verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, localize |
plagiarise | (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: lift, plagiarize |
---|
plagiarize | (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: lift, plagiarise |
---|
plague | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, provoke |
---|
(verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: blight |
plain | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, quetch, sound off |
---|
plait | (verb) weave into plaits | - |
---|
(verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: braid, lace |
plan | (verb) make plans for something | - |
---|
(verb) have the will and intention to carry out some action | Synonyms: be after |
(verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, project |
plane | (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: shave |
---|
(verb) make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane | - |
(verb) travel on the surface of water | Synonyms: skim |
plank | (verb) cook and serve on a plank | - |
---|
(verb) cover with planks | Synonyms: plank over |
(verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
plant | (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: implant |
---|
(verb) put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground | Synonyms: set |
(verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, implant |
(verb) place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive | - |
(verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, institute |
(verb) place into a river | - |
plash | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
---|
(verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: pleach |
plaster | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: poultice |
---|
(verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: daub |
(verb) apply a heavy coat to | Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
(verb) apply a plaster cast to | - |
(verb) affix conspicuously | - |
(verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: beplaster |
plasticise | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticize |
---|
(verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticize |
plasticize | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticise |
---|
(verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticise |
plastinate | (verb) preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes | - |
---|
plat | (verb) make a plot of | Synonyms: plot |
---|
plate | (verb) coat with a layer of metal | - |
---|
platinize | (verb) coat with metallic platinum | - |
---|
platitudinize | (verb) utter platitudes | - |
---|
play | (verb) engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously | Synonyms: toy |
---|
(verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind | Synonyms: act, act as |
(verb) exhaust by allowing to pull on the line | - |
(verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, trifle |
(verb) participate in games or sport | - |
(verb) bet or wager (money) | - |
(verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: encounter, meet, take on |
(verb) put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game | - |
(verb) make bets | - |
(verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: bet, wager |
(verb) shoot or hit in a particular manner | - |
(verb) employ in a game or in a specific position | - |
(verb) use or move | - |
(verb) use to one's advantage | - |
(verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, fiddle, toy |
(verb) discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream | - |
(verb) replay (as a melody) | Synonyms: spiel |
(verb) perform music on (a musical instrument) | - |
(verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, represent |
(verb) perform on a certain location | - |
(verb) be performed or presented for public viewing | - |
(verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: run |
(verb) pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity | - |
(verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, playact, roleplay |
(verb) emit recorded sound | - |
(verb) play on an instrument | - |
(verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, work, wreak |
(verb) move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly | - |
(verb) cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space | - |
(verb) engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion | Synonyms: recreate |
(verb) behave in a certain way | - |
(verb) be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children | - |
(verb) act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome | - |
(verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, flirt, toy |
(verb) be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way | - |
playact | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, roleplay |
---|
replace | (verb) substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected) | - |
---|
(verb) put something back where it belongs | Synonyms: put back |
(verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, interchange, substitute |
(verb) take the place or move into the position of | Synonyms: supersede, supervene upon, supplant |
replant | (verb) plant again or anew | - |
---|
replay | (verb) play again | - |
---|
(verb) repeat a game against the same opponent | - |
(verb) play (a melody) again | - |
(verb) reproduce (a recording) on a recorder | Synonyms: play back |
roleplay | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, playact |
---|
sailplane | (verb) fly a plane without an engine | Synonyms: soar |
---|
seaplane | (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: hydroplane |
---|
silverplate | (verb) plate with silver | Synonyms: silver-plate |
---|
splash | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splatter, splosh, swash |
---|
(verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splosh, sprinkle |
(verb) strike and dash about in a liquid | - |
(verb) soil or stain with a splashed liquid | - |
(verb) mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered | - |
(verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splosh, squelch, squish |
(verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splosh |
splat | (verb) split open and flatten for cooking | - |
---|
(verb) flatten on impact | - |
(verb) give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact | - |
splatter | (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, spill |
---|
(verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splosh, swash |
splay | (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, slip |
---|
(verb) turn outward | Synonyms: rotate, spread out, turn out |
(verb) spread open or apart | - |
supplant | (verb) take the place or move into the position of | Synonyms: replace, supersede, supervene upon |
---|
transplant | (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transfer, transpose |
---|
(verb) place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | Synonyms: graft |
(verb) lift and reset in another soil or situation | Synonyms: transfer |
(verb) be transplantable | - |
underplay | (verb) play a card lower than (a held high card) | - |
---|
(verb) act (a role) with great restraint | Synonyms: underact |