catapult | (verb) shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult | - |
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(verb) hurl as if with a sling | Synonyms: sling |
copulate | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair |
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depopulate | (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: desolate |
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manipulate | (verb) treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | - |
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(verb) hold something in one's hands and move it | - |
(verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: control, keep in line |
(verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: rig |
(verb) influence or control shrewdly or deviously | Synonyms: pull strings, pull wires |
(verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle |
overpopulate | (verb) cause to have too great a population | - |
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popularise | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularize |
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(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
popularize | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularise |
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(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize |
populate | (verb) fill with inhabitants | - |
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(verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, live |
pule | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, wail, whimper |
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pull | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: overstretch |
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(verb) take away | - |
(verb) take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for | Synonyms: root for, side with |
(verb) cause to move by pulling | Synonyms: draw |
(verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: rend, rip, rive |
(verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: attract, draw, draw in, pull in |
(verb) hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing | - |
(verb) apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion | - |
(verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, tear |
(verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, extract, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
(verb) steer into a certain direction | - |
(verb) move into a certain direction | - |
(verb) operate when rowing a boat | - |
(verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover | Synonyms: draw, get out, pull out, take out |
(verb) rein in to keep from winning a race | - |
(verb) cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw |
(verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, perpetrate |
pullulate | (verb) breed freely and abundantly | - |
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(verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, shoot, sprout, spud |
(verb) become abundant; increase rapidly | - |
(verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, stream, swarm, teem |
(verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: swarm, teem |
pulp | (verb) reduce to pulp | - |
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(verb) remove the pulp from, as from a fruit | - |
pulsate | (verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses | Synonyms: pulse |
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(verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulse, throb |
(verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, quiver |
pulse | (verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses | Synonyms: pulsate |
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(verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulsate, throb |
(verb) drive by or as if by pulsation | - |
pulverise | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverize |
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(verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverize |
(verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverize |
pulverize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverise |
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(verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise |
(verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverise |
repulse | (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, rebuff, repel |
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(verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, drive, force back, push back, repel |
(verb) be repellent to; cause aversion in | Synonyms: repel |
stipulate | (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, qualify, specify |
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(verb) give a guarantee or promise of | - |
(verb) make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force | - |