| aberrate | (verb) diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration | - |
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| (verb) diverge from the expected | - |
| abrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: scour |
| abrase | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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| abstract | (verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically | - |
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| (verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance | - |
| (verb) give an abstract (of) | - |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| accelerate | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: quicken, speed, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: speed, speed up |
| acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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| administrate | (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administer |
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| adulterate | (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: debase, dilute, load, stretch |
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| adumbrate | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: outline, sketch |
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| (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: insinuate, intimate |
| aerate | (verb) aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter | Synonyms: activate |
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| (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: oxygenate, oxygenise, oxygenize |
| (verb) expose to fresh air | Synonyms: air, air out |
| affranchise | (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: enfranchise |
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| agglomerate | (verb) form into one cluster | - |
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| aggrade | (verb) build up to a level by depositing sediment | - |
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| aggrandise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| aggrandize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| aggravate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate |
| alliterate | (verb) use alliteration as a form of poetry | - |
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| ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
| anagram | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagrammatise, anagrammatize |
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| anagrammatise | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatize |
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| anagrammatize | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatise |
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| appraise | (verb) consider in a comprehensive way | Synonyms: survey |
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| (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: assess, evaluate, measure, valuate, value |
| arbitrage | (verb) practice arbitrage, as in the stock market | - |
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| arbitrate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: intercede, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| arraign | (verb) accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy | - |
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| (verb) call before a court to answer an indictment | - |
| arrange | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, set |
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| (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: order, put, set up |
| (verb) make arrangements for | Synonyms: fix up |
| (verb) put into a proper or systematic order | Synonyms: set up |
| (verb) adapt for performance in a different way | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format | Synonyms: format |
| (verb) plan, organize, and carry out (an event) | Synonyms: stage |
| array | (verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: align |
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| (verb) lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line | Synonyms: lay out, range, set out |
| aspirate | (verb) inhale (air, water, etc.) | - |
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| (verb) pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds | - |
| (verb) remove by suction | Synonyms: draw out, suck out |
| asseverate | (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, maintain |
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| attract | (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: draw, draw in, pull, pull in |
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| (verb) exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away | - |
| (verb) be attractive to | Synonyms: appeal |
| autograph | (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: inscribe |
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| average | (verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
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| (verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
| (verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
| backtrack | (verb) retrace one's course | Synonyms: double back, turn back |
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| ballyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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| 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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| bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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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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| 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 |
| bewray | (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: betray |
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| biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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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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| 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 | - |
| brainstorm | (verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
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| brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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| (verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
| braise | (verb) cook in liquid | - |
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| brake | (verb) cause to stop by applying the brakes | - |
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| (verb) stop travelling by applying a brake | - |
| branch | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate |
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| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: ramify |
| brand | (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
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| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| (verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
| brandish | (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
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| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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| brattice | (verb) supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines | - |
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| brattle | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: clack, clatter |
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| brave | (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave out, endure, weather |
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| bravo | (verb) applaud with shouts of `bravo' or `brava' | - |
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| brawl | (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: wrangle |
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| bray | (verb) laugh loudly and harshly | - |
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| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: comminute, crunch, grind, mash |
| (verb) braying characteristic of donkeys | Synonyms: hee-haw |
| braze | (verb) solder together by using hard solder with a high melting point | - |
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| brazen | (verb) face with defiance or impudence | - |
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| buckram | (verb) stiffen with or as with buckram | - |
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| bullyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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| calibrate | (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: fine-tune, graduate |
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| (verb) measure the caliber of | - |
| (verb) mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units | - |
| calligraph | (verb) write beautifully and ornamentally | - |
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| camphorate | (verb) treat with camphor | - |
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| caracole | (verb) make a half turn on a horse, in dressage | - |
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| caramelise | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
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| (verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
| caramelize | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
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| (verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
| caravan | (verb) travel in a caravan | - |
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| castrate | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, neuter, spay |
| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: emasculate |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, shorten |
| celebrate | (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: fete |
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| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: keep, observe |
| (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: lionise, lionize |
| centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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| centralize | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, concentrate |
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| cerebrate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cogitate, think |
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| character | (verb) engrave or inscribe characters on | - |
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| characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
| characterize | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterise |
| choreograph | (verb) plan and oversee the development and details of | - |
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| (verb) compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music | - |
| citrate | (verb) cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
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| collaborate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: cooperate, join forces |
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| (verb) cooperate as a traitor | - |
| collateralize | (verb) pledge as a collateral | - |
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| commemorate | (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: remember |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
| (verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation | Synonyms: mark |
| commiserate | (verb) to feel or express sympathy or compassion | Synonyms: sympathise, sympathize |
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| concentrate | (verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, reduce |
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| (verb) make denser, stronger, or purer | - |
| (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, centralize |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, decoct, reduce |
| (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: condense, digest |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: condense, contract |
| (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, focus, pore, rivet |
| (verb) draw together or meet in one common center | - |
| confederate | (verb) form a group or unite | Synonyms: band together |
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| (verb) form a confederation with; of nations | - |
| conflagrate | (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, erupt, ignite, take fire |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: enkindle, inflame, kindle |
| conglomerate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| congratulate | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: compliment |
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| (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: felicitate |
| (verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: preen |
| (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: plume, pride |
| consecrate | (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, hallow, sanctify |
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| (verb) dedicate to a deity by a vow | Synonyms: vow |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, dedicate, devote, give |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: ordain, order, ordinate |
| constrain | (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: stiffen, tighten, tighten up |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, hold, restrain |
| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: enforce, impose |
| contract | (verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: get, take |
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| (verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: narrow |
| (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: shrink |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
| (verb) enter into a contractual arrangement | Synonyms: undertake |
| (verb) make smaller | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, press, squeeze |
| (verb) engage by written agreement | Synonyms: sign, sign on, sign up |