| proofread | (verb) read for errors | Synonyms: proof |
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| prop | (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop up, shore, shore up |
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| propagandise | (verb) spread by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |
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| (verb) subject to propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |
| propagandize | (verb) spread by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandise |
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| (verb) subject to propaganda | Synonyms: propagandise |
| propagate | (verb) multiply sexually or asexually | - |
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| (verb) cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering | - |
| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, spread |
| (verb) transmit | - |
| (verb) transmit or cause to broaden or spread | - |
| (verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) travel through the air | - |
| (verb) transmit from one generation to the next | - |
| propel | (verb) cause to move forward with force | Synonyms: impel |
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| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, prompt |
| prophesy | (verb) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration | Synonyms: vaticinate |
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| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: preach |
| propitiate | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: appease |
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| proportion | (verb) adjust in size relative to other things | - |
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| (verb) give pleasant proportions to | - |
| propose | (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: project |
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| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, purport, purpose |
| (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: advise, suggest |
| (verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, offer, pop the question |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: nominate |
| proposition | (verb) suggest sex to | - |
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| propound | (verb) put forward, as of an idea | - |
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| prorate | (verb) divide or assess proportionally | - |
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| (verb) make a proportional settlement or distribution | - |
| prorogue | (verb) adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body | - |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
| proscribe | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, veto |
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| prosecute | (verb) bring a criminal action against (in a trial) | - |
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| (verb) conduct a prosecution in a court of law | - |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: engage, pursue |
| proselytise | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytize |
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| proselytize | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytise |
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| prospect | (verb) explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals | - |
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| (verb) search for something desirable | - |
| prosper | (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: flourish, fly high, thrive |
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| prostitute | (verb) sell one's body; exchange sex for money | - |
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| prostrate | (verb) render helpless or defenseless | - |
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| (verb) throw down flat, as on the ground | - |
| (verb) get into a prostrate position, as in submission | Synonyms: bow down |
| protect | (verb) shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage | - |
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| (verb) use tariffs to favor domestic industry | - |
| protest | (verb) utter words of protest | - |
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| (verb) affirm or avow formally or solemnly | - |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, resist |
| protract | (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, extend, prolong |
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| protrude | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: bulge, pouch |
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| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, start |
| (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, project, stick out |
| protuberate | (verb) form a rounded prominence | - |
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| (verb) cause to bulge out or project | - |
| prove | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, shew, show |
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| (verb) obtain probate of | - |
| (verb) prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof | - |
| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, show, testify |
| (verb) take a trial impression of | - |
| (verb) cause to puff up with a leaven | Synonyms: leaven, raise |
| (verb) increase in volume | Synonyms: rise |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, test, try, try out |
| (verb) be shown or be found to be | Synonyms: turn out, turn up |
| provide | (verb) take measures in preparation for | - |
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| (verb) determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation | - |
| (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: cater, ply, supply |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, render, supply |
| (verb) supply means of subsistence; earn a living | Synonyms: bring home the bacon |
| (verb) mount or put up | Synonyms: offer, put up |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow, allow for, leave |
| provision | (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: purvey |
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| provoke | (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, evoke, kick up |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, raise |
| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague |
| prowl | (verb) move about in or as if in a predatory manner | - |
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| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: lurch |
| 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 |
| pry | (verb) be nosey | - |
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| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, lever, prise, prize |
| (verb) make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry | Synonyms: prise |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, intrude, nose, poke |
| reappraise | (verb) appraise anew | - |
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| reciprocate | (verb) alternate the direction of motion of | - |
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| (verb) act, feel, or give mutually or in return | - |
| reinterpret | (verb) assign a new or different meaning to | - |
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| (verb) interpret from a different viewpoint | Synonyms: re-explain |
| reprehend | (verb) to rebuke or reprimand | - |
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| represent | (verb) to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) | Synonyms: map |
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| (verb) serve as a means of expressing something | - |
| (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: stand for, symbolise, symbolize, typify |
| (verb) point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance | - |
| (verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, present |
| (verb) describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality | - |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: interpret |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, play |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: present, stage |
| (verb) be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute | - |
| (verb) be representative or typical for | - |
| (verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: defend |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, constitute, make up |
| (verb) be typical of | Synonyms: exemplify |
| (verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: correspond, stand for |
| repress | (verb) block the action of | - |
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| (verb) put out of one's consciousness | Synonyms: suppress |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, smother, stifle, strangle |
| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, reduce, subdue, subjugate |
| (verb) impede or hinder the natural development or self-expression of | - |
| reprieve | (verb) relieve temporarily | - |
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| (verb) postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution | Synonyms: respite |
| reprimand | (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, criminate |
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| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, scold, take to task, trounce |
| reprint | (verb) print anew | Synonyms: reissue |
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| reprise | (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, repeat, reprize |
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| reprize | (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, repeat, reprise |
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| reproach | (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: upbraid |
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| reprobate | (verb) reject (documents) as invalid | - |
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| (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, objurgate |
| (verb) abandon to eternal damnation | - |
| reprocess | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: recycle, reuse |
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| reproduce | (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: multiply, procreate |
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| (verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: regurgitate |
| (verb) make a copy or equivalent of | - |
| (verb) recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc. | - |
| reproof | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: admonish, reprove |
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| reprove | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: admonish, reproof |
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| soundproof | (verb) insulate against noise | - |
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| sprain | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
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| sprawl | (verb) sit or lie with one's limbs spread out | - |
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| (verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: straggle |
| spray | (verb) scatter in a mass or jet of droplets | - |
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| (verb) be discharged in sprays of liquid | - |
| (verb) cover by spraying with a liquid | - |
| spread | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate |
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| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: circulate, go around |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: distribute |
| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: open, spread out, unfold |
| (verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: propagate |
| (verb) cover by spreading something over | - |
| (verb) distribute over a surface in a layer | - |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: scatter, spread out |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread out |
| (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: overspread |
| spreadeagle | (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: rout, spread-eagle |
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| spree | (verb) engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping | - |
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| spring | (verb) develop suddenly | - |
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| (verb) produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly | - |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, take a hop |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: bound, jump, leap |
| (verb) develop into a distinctive entity | Synonyms: form, take form, take shape |
| sprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sparge |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, splosh |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, scatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit |
| sprint | (verb) run very fast, usually for a short distance | - |
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| spritz | (verb) cover (a location) wholly or partially by squirting a liquid onto it | - |
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| (verb) eject (a liquid) quickly | - |
| sprout | (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: stock |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, spud |
| spruce | (verb) dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spruce up |
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| (verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce up, titivate, tittivate |
| suppress | (verb) bring under control by force or authority | Synonyms: conquer, stamp down, subdue |
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| (verb) lessen to the point of stopping | - |
| (verb) put out of one's consciousness | Synonyms: repress |
| (verb) consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior | Synonyms: bottle up, inhibit |
| (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: crush, oppress |
| surprise | (verb) cause to be surprised | - |
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| (verb) attack by storm; attack suddenly | Synonyms: storm |
| (verb) come upon or take unawares | - |
| uncompress | (verb) restore to its uncompressed form | Synonyms: decompress |
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| underprice | (verb) sell at artificially low prices | Synonyms: dump |
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| underproduce | (verb) produce below capacity or demand | - |
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| upraise | (verb) cause to become alive again | Synonyms: raise, resurrect |
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| uprise | (verb) get up and out of bed | Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, turn out |
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| (verb) return from the dead | Synonyms: resurrect, rise |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise |
| (verb) come up, of celestial bodies | Synonyms: ascend, come up, rise |
| (verb) rise to one's feet | Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, stand up |
| (verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: bristle, stand up |
| (verb) ascend as a sound | - |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, originate, rise, spring up |
| uproot | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: deracinate, extirpate, root out |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root out |
| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: deracinate |
| waterproof | (verb) make watertight | - |
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| weatherproof | (verb) make resistant to bad weather | - |
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