barrack | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: flout, gibe, jeer, scoff |
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(verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
(verb) lodge in barracks | - |
barrage | (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: bombard |
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barrel | (verb) put in barrels | - |
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barricade | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
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(verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
barricado | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricade |
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barter | (verb) exchange goods without involving money | - |
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bastardise | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardize |
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(verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardize |
bastardize | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardise |
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(verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardise |
batter | (verb) make a dent or impression in | Synonyms: dinge |
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(verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, clobber |
(verb) strike against forcefully | Synonyms: buffet, knock about |
bear | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: carry, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
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(verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: birth, deliver, give birth, have |
(verb) have on one's person | Synonyms: wear |
(verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
(verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
(verb) move while holding up or supporting | - |
(verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: carry, hold |
(verb) bring forth | Synonyms: turn out |
(verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: entertain, harbor, harbour, hold, nurse |
(verb) have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices | Synonyms: hold |
(verb) bring in | Synonyms: pay, yield |
(verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: accept, assume, take over |
(verb) have | - |
(verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: carry, contain, hold |
beard | (verb) go along the rim, like a beard around the chin | - |
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beaver | (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
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becharm | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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(verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: charm |
bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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befriend | (verb) become friends with | - |
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beggar | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: pauperise, pauperize |
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(verb) be beyond the resources of | - |
begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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(verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
belabor | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabour |
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(verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabour |
(verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabour |
belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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(verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
(verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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(verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
bemire | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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berate | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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bereave | (verb) deprive through death | - |
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berry | (verb) pick or gather berries | - |
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berth | (verb) secure in or as if in a berth or dock | Synonyms: moor, tie up |
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(verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: moor, wharf |
(verb) provide with a berth | - |
beshrew | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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besmear | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: bedaub |
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besmirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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(verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: smirch |
bespatter | (verb) spot, splash, or soil | Synonyms: spatter |
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besprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
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bestir | (verb) become active | Synonyms: rouse |
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bestrew | (verb) cover by strewing | - |
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bestride | (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount, mount up |
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betray | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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(verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: bewray |
(verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: deceive, lead astray |
(verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: fail |
(verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: sell |
(verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
betroth | (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, engage, plight |
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better | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, improve, meliorate |
(verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: break |
beware | (verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: mind |
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bewhisker | (verb) furnish with whiskers | Synonyms: whisker |
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bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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(verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |
bewray | (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: betray |
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bicker | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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bifurcate | (verb) divide into two branches | - |
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(verb) split or divide into two | - |
biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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birch | (verb) whip with a birch twig | - |
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bird | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: birdwatch |
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birdie | (verb) shoot in one stroke under par | - |
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birdlime | (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: lime |
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birdnest | (verb) gather birdnests | Synonyms: bird-nest |
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birdwatch | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: bird |
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birl | (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: spin, twirl, whirl |
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(verb) cause a floating log to rotate by treading | Synonyms: birle |
birle | (verb) cause a floating log to rotate by treading | Synonyms: birl |
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birr | (verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: purr, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz |
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birth | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, deliver, give birth, have |
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bitter | (verb) make bitter | - |
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blabber | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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blackberry | (verb) pick or gather blackberries | - |
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blackguard | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, clapperclaw, shout |
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(verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast |
blare | (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, claxon, honk, toot |
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(verb) make a strident sound | Synonyms: blast |
blarney | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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blather | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blether, blither, smatter |
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blear | (verb) make dim or indistinct | Synonyms: blur |
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blether | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blither, smatter |
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blinker | (verb) put blinders on (a horse) | - |
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blister | (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
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(verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
(verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
blither | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, smatter |
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blitzkrieg | (verb) fight a quick and surprising war | - |
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blubber | (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
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(verb) utter while crying | Synonyms: blubber out |
blueprint | (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: draft, draught |
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blunder | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate |
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(verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
(verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: boob, drop the ball, goof, sin |
blur | (verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: dim, slur |
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(verb) make dim or indistinct | Synonyms: blear |
(verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: confuse, obnubilate, obscure |
(verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: smear, smudge, smutch |
(verb) to make less distinct or clear | - |
(verb) become glassy; lose clear vision | Synonyms: film over, glaze over |
blurt | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt out, ejaculate |
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bluster | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: swagger, swash |
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(verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
(verb) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind | - |
board | (verb) provide food and lodging (for) | - |
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(verb) lodge and take meals (at) | - |
(verb) get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.) | Synonyms: get on |
(verb) live and take one's meals at or in | Synonyms: room |
bolster | (verb) add padding to | Synonyms: pad |
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(verb) support and strengthen | Synonyms: bolster up |
(verb) prop up with a pillow or bolster | - |
bombard | (verb) direct high energy particles or radiation against | - |
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(verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: barrage |
(verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bomb |
(verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: pelt |
bombproof | (verb) make safe against bombings | - |
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bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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bonderize | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderise |
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boomerang | (verb) return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang | - |
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bootstrap | (verb) help oneself, often through improvised means | - |
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border | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
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(verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: environ, ring, skirt, surround |
(verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: frame, frame in |
(verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: edge |
(verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: bound |
bore | (verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | Synonyms: drill |
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(verb) cause to be bored | Synonyms: tire |
borrow | (verb) get temporarily | - |
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(verb) take up and practice as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, take over, take up |
bother | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
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(verb) make confused or perplexed or puzzled | - |
(verb) make nervous or agitated | - |
(verb) intrude or enter uninvited | - |
(verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: inconvenience oneself, trouble, trouble oneself |
(verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
bourgeon | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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bowdlerize | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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bower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: embower |
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brabble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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brace | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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(verb) support by bracing | - |
(verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: stabilise, stabilize, steady |
(verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: poise |
brachiate | (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
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bracket | (verb) classify or group | - |
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(verb) place into brackets | Synonyms: bracket out |
(verb) support with brackets | - |
brad | (verb) fasten with brads | - |
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brag | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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braid | (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: pleach |
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(verb) decorate with braids or ribbons | - |
(verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: lace, plait |
brail | (verb) haul fish aboard with brails | - |
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(verb) take in a sail with a brail | - |
braille | (verb) transcribe in braille | - |
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brain | (verb) hit on the head | - |
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(verb) kill by smashing someone's skull | - |