| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| acquaint | (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: introduce, present |
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| (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: familiarise, familiarize |
| (verb) inform | - |
| acquiesce | (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: accede, assent |
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| acquire | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: develop, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: adopt, assume, take, take on |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: larn, learn |
| (verb) come into the possession of something concrete or abstract | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) win something through one's efforts | Synonyms: gain, win |
| (verb) locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar | - |
| acquit | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
| antiquate | (verb) give an antique appearance to | Synonyms: antique |
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| (verb) make obsolete or old-fashioned | - |
| antique | (verb) give an antique appearance to | Synonyms: antiquate |
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| (verb) shop for antiques | - |
| applique | (verb) sew on as a decoration | - |
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| aquaplane | (verb) ride on an aquaplane | - |
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| (verb) rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road | - |
| aquatint | (verb) etch in aquatint | - |
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| banquet | (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: feast, junket |
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| (verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: feast, junket |
| barbeque | (verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbecue, cook out |
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| bequeath | (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: leave, will |
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| burlesque | (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: parody, spoof |
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| cheque | (verb) withdraw money by writing a check | Synonyms: check out |
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| chequer | (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: checker |
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| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, checker |
| conquer | (verb) bring under control by force or authority | Synonyms: stamp down, subdue, suppress |
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| (verb) overcome by conquest | - |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, capture, seize |
| coquet | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
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| coquette | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
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| critique | (verb) appraise critically | Synonyms: review |
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| croquet | (verb) play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops | - |
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| (verb) drive away by hitting with one's ball | - |
| deliquesce | (verb) melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| (verb) melt away in the process of decay | - |
| derequisition | (verb) release from government control | - |
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| desquamate | (verb) peel off in scales | Synonyms: peel off |
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| disqualify | (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: indispose, unfit |
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| (verb) declare unfit | - |
| disquiet | (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
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| enquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: inquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, inquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: inquire, investigate |
| equal | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equalise, equalize, equate, match |
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| (verb) be identical or equivalent to | Synonyms: be |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: match, rival, touch |
| equalise | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalize, equate, match |
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| (verb) compensate; make the score equal | Synonyms: equalize, get even |
| equalize | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalise, equate, match |
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| (verb) compensate; make the score equal | Synonyms: equalise, get even |
| equate | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalise, equalize, match |
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| (verb) consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous | Synonyms: compare, liken |
| (verb) be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics | Synonyms: correspond |
| equilibrate | (verb) bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium | - |
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| (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrise, equilibrize |
| equilibrise | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize |
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| equilibrize | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrise |
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| equip | (verb) provide with abilities or understanding | - |
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| (verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: fit, fit out, outfit |
| equivocate | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, palter, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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| frequent | (verb) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place | Synonyms: haunt |
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| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, patronise, patronize, shop, shop at, sponsor |
| harlequin | (verb) variegate with spots or marks | - |
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| headquarter | (verb) provide with headquarters | - |
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| inquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: enquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, enquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, investigate |
| lacquer | (verb) coat with lacquer | - |
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| liquefy | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquify |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquidise, liquidize, liquify |
| (verb) become liquid | - |
| liquidate | (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, neutralise, neutralize, waste |
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| (verb) eliminate by paying off (debts) | Synonyms: pay off |
| (verb) convert into cash | - |
| (verb) settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off | - |
| liquidise | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidize, liquify |
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| liquidize | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquify |
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| (verb) sell or get rid of all one's merchandise | Synonyms: sell out, sell up |
| liquify | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquefy |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquidize |
| mapquest | (verb) search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program | - |
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| masquerade | (verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not | - |
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| (verb) take part in a masquerade | - |
| misquote | (verb) quote incorrectly | - |
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| pique | (verb) cause to feel resentment or indignation | Synonyms: offend |
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| quack | (verb) act as a medical quack or a charlatan | - |
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| (verb) utter quacking noises | - |
| quadruple | (verb) increase fourfold | - |
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| quadruplicate | (verb) reproduce fourfold | - |
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| quaff | (verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught | Synonyms: gulp, swig |
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| quail | (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
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| quake | (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: palpitate, quiver |
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| (verb) shake with seismic vibrations | Synonyms: tremor |
| qualify | (verb) make fit or prepared | Synonyms: dispose |
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| (verb) add a modifier to a constituent | Synonyms: modify |
| (verb) make more specific | - |
| (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, specify, stipulate |
| (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, characterize |
| (verb) pronounce fit or able | - |
| (verb) prove capable or fit; meet requirements | Synonyms: measure up |
| quantify | (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: measure |
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| (verb) use as a quantifier | - |
| quantise | (verb) apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor | Synonyms: quantize |
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| (verb) approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values | Synonyms: quantize |
| quantize | (verb) apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor | Synonyms: quantise |
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| (verb) approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values | Synonyms: quantise |
| quarantine | (verb) place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons | - |
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| quarrel | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, dispute, scrap |
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| quarry | (verb) extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry | - |
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| quarter | (verb) divide by four; divide into quarters | - |
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| (verb) divide into quarters | - |
| (verb) pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him | Synonyms: draw, draw and quarter |
| (verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: billet, canton |
| quarterback | (verb) play the quarterback | - |
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| quash | (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate |
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| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, void |
| quaver | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: trill, warble |
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| (verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: waver |
| queen | (verb) become a queen | - |
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| (verb) promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess | - |
| queer | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, peril, scupper |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| quell | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quench, squelch |
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| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: appease, stay |
| quench | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quell, squelch |
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| (verb) cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid | - |
| (verb) reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance | - |
| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, assuage, slake |
| (verb) suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device | - |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, extinguish, snuff out |
| query | (verb) pose a question | Synonyms: question |
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| quest | (verb) seek alms, as for religious purposes | - |
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| (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, request |
| (verb) bark with prolonged noises, of dogs | Synonyms: bay |
| (verb) search the trail of (game) | - |
| (verb) make a search (for) | - |
| question | (verb) pose a question | Synonyms: query |
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| (verb) challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of | Synonyms: call into question, oppugn |
| (verb) place in doubt or express doubtful speculation | Synonyms: wonder |
| (verb) pose a series of questions to | Synonyms: interrogate |
| (verb) conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting | Synonyms: interview |
| quetch | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, plain, sound off |
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| queue | (verb) form a queue, form a line, stand in line | Synonyms: line up, queue up |
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| quibble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, squabble |
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| (verb) evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections | - |
| quicken | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) show signs of life | - |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: invigorate |
| (verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed, speed up |
| (verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: whet |
| quickstep | (verb) perform a quickstep | - |
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| quiesce | (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiet, quiet down, quieten |
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| quiet | (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
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| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet down, quieten |
| quieten | (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, shut up, silence, still |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down |
| quilt | (verb) create by stitching together | - |
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| (verb) stitch or sew together | - |
| quintuple | (verb) increase fivefold | - |
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| quip | (verb) make jokes or quips | Synonyms: gag |
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| quirk | (verb) twist or curve abruptly | - |
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| quit | (verb) give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat | Synonyms: chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the wayside, give up, throw in, throw in the towel |
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| (verb) go away or leave | Synonyms: depart, take leave |
| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, relinquish, renounce |
| (verb) give up or retire from a position | Synonyms: leave office, resign, step down |
| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, stop |
| quiver | (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: palpitate, quake |
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| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, pulsate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, waver |
| quiz | (verb) examine someone's knowledge of something | Synonyms: test |
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| quote | (verb) repeat a passage from | Synonyms: cite |
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| (verb) refer to for illustration or proof | Synonyms: cite |
| (verb) put quote marks around | - |
| (verb) name the price of | - |
| reconquer | (verb) conquer anew | - |
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| relinquish | (verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, release |
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| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, renounce |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, release, resign |
| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, waive |
| request | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, quest |
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| (verb) ask (a person) to do something | - |
| (verb) inquire for (information) | - |
| require | (verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: command |
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| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, expect |
| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: need, want |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take |
| requisition | (verb) make a formal request for official services | - |
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| (verb) demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service | - |
| requite | (verb) make repayment for or return something | Synonyms: repay |
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| requote | (verb) to quote again | - |
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| sequence | (verb) arrange in a sequence | - |
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| (verb) determine the order of constituents in | - |
| sequester | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw |
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| (verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequestrate, set apart |
| (verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion | - |
| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, seize |
| (verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property | - |
| sequestrate | (verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequester, set apart |
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| (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequester, withdraw |