| infiltrate | (verb) pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict | Synonyms: pass through |
|---|
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices | - |
| (verb) pass into or through by filtering or permeating | - |
| (verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: penetrate |
| infract | (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, offend, transgress, violate |
|---|
| ingraft | (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: engraft, graft |
|---|
| ingrain | (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, instill |
|---|
| (verb) thoroughly work in | Synonyms: grain |
| ingratiate | (verb) gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts | - |
|---|
| integrate | (verb) make into a whole or make part of a whole | Synonyms: incorporate |
|---|
| (verb) become one; become integrated | - |
| (verb) calculate the integral of; calculate by integration | - |
| (verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: desegregate, mix |
| interact | (verb) act together or towards others or with others | - |
|---|
| interpenetrate | (verb) penetrate mutually or be interlocked | Synonyms: permeate |
|---|
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| interstratify | (verb) arrange rocks in alternating strata | - |
|---|
| intransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivize |
|---|
| intransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise |
|---|
| invigorate | (verb) impart vigor, strength, or vitality to | Synonyms: reinvigorate |
|---|
| (verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, enliven, liven, liven up |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, inspire |
| irradiate | (verb) expose to radiation | Synonyms: ray |
|---|
| (verb) cast rays of light upon | - |
| (verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion | Synonyms: enlighten |
| iterate | (verb) run or be performed again | - |
|---|
| (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
| itinerate | (verb) travel from place to place, as for work | - |
|---|
| jackrabbit | (verb) go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement | - |
|---|
| keratinise | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinize |
|---|
| (verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinize |
| keratinize | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
|---|
| (verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
| lacerate | (verb) cut or tear irregularly | - |
|---|
| (verb) deeply hurt the feelings of; distress | - |
| lateralize | (verb) move or displace to one side so as to make lateral | - |
|---|
| leverage | (verb) provide with leverage | - |
|---|
| (verb) supplement with leverage | - |
| liberalise | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalize |
|---|
| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalize |
| liberalize | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalise |
|---|
| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalise |
| liberate | (verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: free, release |
|---|
| (verb) grant freedom to | Synonyms: set free |
| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: emancipate |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, loose, release, unloose, unloosen |
| librate | (verb) vibrate before coming to a total rest | - |
|---|
| (verb) determine the weight of | Synonyms: weigh |
| literalise | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalize |
|---|
| literalize | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalise |
|---|
| lithograph | (verb) make by lithography | - |
|---|
| lucubrate | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out |
|---|
| lustrate | (verb) purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials | - |
|---|
| macerate | (verb) soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result | - |
|---|
| (verb) become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking | - |
| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: emaciate, waste |
| (verb) separate into constituents by soaking | - |
| macrame | (verb) make knotted patterns | - |
|---|
| maraud | (verb) raid and rove in search of booty | - |
|---|
| masquerade | (verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not | - |
|---|
| (verb) take part in a masquerade | - |
| maturate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, suppurate |
|---|
| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, mature |
| (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, mature, senesce |
| meliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve |
|---|
| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, improve |
| mensurate | (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure, measure out |
|---|
| micturate | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
|---|
| migrate | (verb) move from one country or region to another and settle there | Synonyms: transmigrate |
|---|
| (verb) move periodically or seasonally | - |
| mimeograph | (verb) print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph | Synonyms: mimeo |
|---|
| mineralize | (verb) transform (a metal) into an ore | - |
|---|
| (verb) convert into a mineral substance | - |
| mistranslate | (verb) translate incorrectly | - |
|---|
| moderate | (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: mollify, season, temper |
|---|
| (verb) make less fast or intense | - |
| (verb) preside over | Synonyms: chair, lead |
| (verb) make less strong or intense; soften | Synonyms: tame, tone down |
| (verb) make less severe or harsh | Synonyms: mince, soften |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in |
| moralise | (verb) improve the morals of | Synonyms: moralize |
|---|
| (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralize, preachify, sermonise, sermonize |
| (verb) interpret the moral meaning of | Synonyms: moralize |
| moralize | (verb) improve the morals of | Synonyms: moralise |
|---|
| (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, preachify, sermonise, sermonize |
| (verb) interpret the moral meaning of | Synonyms: moralise |
| muckrake | (verb) explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures | - |
|---|
| narrate | (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: recite, recount, tell |
|---|
| (verb) provide commentary for a film, for example | - |
| naturalise | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalize |
|---|
| (verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalize |
| (verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalize |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalize, tame |
| naturalize | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalise |
|---|
| (verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalise |
| (verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalise |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame |
| (verb) explain with reference to nature | - |
| neutralise | (verb) make chemically neutral | Synonyms: neutralize |
|---|
| (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralize, nullify |
| (verb) make incapable of military action | Synonyms: neutralize |
| (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralize, waste |
| neutralize | (verb) make chemically neutral | Synonyms: neutralise |
|---|
| (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralise, nullify |
| (verb) make incapable of military action | Synonyms: neutralise |
| (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, waste |
| (verb) make politically neutral and thus inoffensive | - |
| (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, countervail |
| nitrate | (verb) treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate | - |
|---|
| numerate | (verb) read out loud as words written numbers | - |
|---|
| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, number |
| obliterate | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: efface |
|---|
| (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obscure, veil |
| (verb) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | Synonyms: kill, wipe out |
| (verb) do away with completely, without leaving a trace | - |
| obturate | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, occlude |
|---|
| operate | (verb) perform surgery on | Synonyms: operate on |
|---|
| (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre |
| (verb) handle and cause to function | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, mesh |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, run, work |
| (verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. | Synonyms: run |
| orate | (verb) talk pompously | - |
|---|
| orchestrate | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, mastermind, organise, organize |
|---|
| (verb) write an orchestra score for | - |
| ostracise | (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with | Synonyms: ostracize |
|---|
| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracize, shun |
| ostracize | (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with | Synonyms: ostracise |
|---|
| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, shun |
| outbrave | (verb) be braver than | - |
|---|
| (verb) resist bravely | - |
| outdraw | (verb) draw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight | - |
|---|
| outgeneral | (verb) surpass in generalship | - |
|---|
| outrage | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
|---|
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, rape, ravish, violate |
| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, profane, violate |
| outrange | (verb) have a greater range than (another gun) | - |
|---|
| outrank | (verb) take precedence or surpass others in rank | Synonyms: rank |
|---|
| overachieve | (verb) perform better or achieve a greater degree of success than expected | - |
|---|
| overact | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overplay |
|---|
| overarch | (verb) form an arch over | Synonyms: arch over |
|---|
| (verb) be central or dominant | - |
| overawe | (verb) subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats) | Synonyms: cow |
|---|
| overdramatise | (verb) present in an overly dramatic manner | Synonyms: overdramatize |
|---|
| overdramatize | (verb) present in an overly dramatic manner | Synonyms: overdramatise |
|---|
| overdraw | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overstate |
|---|
| (verb) draw more money from than is available | - |
| overgeneralise | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralize |
|---|
| overgeneralize | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralise |
|---|
| overpraise | (verb) praise excessively | - |
|---|
| overrate | (verb) make too high an estimate of | Synonyms: overestimate |
|---|
| overstrain | (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overextend |
|---|
| palpebrate | (verb) wink or blink, especially repeatedly | - |
|---|
| parachute | (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: chute, jump |
|---|
| parade | (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: promenade, troop |
|---|
| (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: exhibit, march |
| paragraph | (verb) write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher | - |
|---|
| (verb) write about in a paragraph | - |
| (verb) divide into paragraphs, as of text | - |
| parallel | (verb) make or place parallel to something | Synonyms: collimate |
|---|
| (verb) be parallel to | - |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: duplicate, twin |
| parallelize | (verb) place parallel to one another | - |
|---|
| paralyse | (verb) cause to be paralyzed and immobile | Synonyms: paralyze |
|---|
| (verb) make powerless and unable to function | Synonyms: paralyze |
| paralyze | (verb) cause to be paralyzed and immobile | Synonyms: paralyse |
|---|
| (verb) make powerless and unable to function | Synonyms: paralyse |
| paraphrase | (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: rephrase, reword |
|---|
| penetrate | (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, fathom |
|---|
| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, sink in |
| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) insert the penis into the vagina or anus of | - |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) make one's way deeper into or through | - |
| (verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: infiltrate |
| perambulate | (verb) walk with no particular goal | Synonyms: walk about, walk around |
|---|
| (verb) make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property) | - |
| perforate | (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: punch |
|---|
| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: penetrate |
| perorate | (verb) deliver an oration in grandiloquent style | - |
|---|
| (verb) conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation | - |
| perpetrate | (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, pull |
|---|
| perseverate | (verb) repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus | - |
|---|
| pervaporate | (verb) cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane | - |
|---|
| (verb) evaporate through a semipermeable membrane | - |
| photograph | (verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: shoot, snap |
|---|
| (verb) undergo being photographed in a certain way | - |
| phrase | (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, formulate, give voice, word |
|---|
| (verb) divide, combine, or mark into phrases | - |
| pirate | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, highjack, hijack |
|---|
| (verb) copy illegally; of published material | - |
| pluralise | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralize |
|---|
| pluralize | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralise |
|---|
| portray | (verb) portray in words | - |
|---|
| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, limn |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: impersonate |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: present |