| absorb | (verb) cause to become one with | - |
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| (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: assimilate, ingest, take in |
| (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: engage, engross, occupy |
| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: engross, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| (verb) become imbued | - |
| (verb) assimilate or take in | - |
| (verb) take up, as of debts or payments | Synonyms: take over |
| (verb) suck or take up or in | Synonyms: take in |
| acerbate | (verb) make sour or bitter | - |
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| (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: embitter, envenom |
| adsorb | (verb) accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface | - |
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| airbrush | (verb) paint with an airbrush | - |
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| 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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| arborise | (verb) branch out like trees | Synonyms: arborize |
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| arborize | (verb) branch out like trees | Synonyms: arborise |
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| barb | (verb) provide with barbs | - |
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| barbarise | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarize |
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| (verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarize |
| barbarize | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarise |
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| (verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarise |
| barbecue | (verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbeque, cook out |
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| barbeque | (verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbecue, cook out |
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| barber | (verb) perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of | - |
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| burble | (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
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| carbonate | (verb) treat with carbon dioxide | - |
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| (verb) turn into a carbonate | - |
| carbonise | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonize |
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| (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonize, carburise, carburize |
| carbonize | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonise |
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| (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carburise, carburize |
| carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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| carburet | (verb) combine with carbon | - |
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| carburise | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburize |
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| carburize | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburise |
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| chaturbate | (verb) to masturbate while chatting online | - |
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| chemisorb | (verb) take up a substance by chemisorption | - |
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| corbel | (verb) furnish with a corbel | - |
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| counterbalance | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, countervail, neutralize |
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| (verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: oppose |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| curb | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curtail, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) keep to the curb | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, hold, hold in, moderate |
| decarbonate | (verb) remove carbon dioxide from | - |
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| decarbonise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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| decarbonize | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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| decarboxylate | (verb) lose a carboxyl group | - |
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| (verb) remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound) | - |
| decarburise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburize, decoke |
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| decarburize | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburise, decoke |
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| desorb | (verb) go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed | - |
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| (verb) remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed | - |
| disturb | (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) damage as if by shaking or jarring | - |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: touch |
| (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, commove, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: trouble, upset |
| exacerbate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate |
| featherbed | (verb) hire more workers than are necessary | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| forbear | (verb) resist doing something | Synonyms: refrain |
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| (verb) refrain from doing | Synonyms: hold back |
| forbid | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| furbish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, burnish |
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| garb | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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| garble | (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, falsify, warp |
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| harbinger | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, herald |
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| harbor | (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbour, hold, nurse |
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| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbour, shield |
| (verb) keep in one's possession; of animals | Synonyms: harbour |
| (verb) secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) | Synonyms: harbour |
| harbour | (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, hold, nurse |
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| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, shield |
| (verb) keep in one's possession; of animals | Synonyms: harbor |
| (verb) secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) | Synonyms: harbor |
| hyperbolise | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| hyperbolize | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| interbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize |
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| jitterbug | (verb) do the jitterbug | - |
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| marble | (verb) paint or stain like marble | - |
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| marbleise | (verb) make something look like marble | Synonyms: marbleize |
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| marbleize | (verb) make something look like marble | Synonyms: marbleise |
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| masturbate | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, she-bop, wank |
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| (verb) stimulate sexually | - |
| motorbike | (verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: cycle, motorcycle |
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| motorboat | (verb) ride in a motorboat | - |
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| orb | (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orbit, revolve |
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| orbit | (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, revolve |
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| overbalance | (verb) cause to be off balance | - |
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| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, preponderate |
| overbear | (verb) contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery | Synonyms: bear down |
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| (verb) bear too much | - |
| (verb) overcome | - |
| overbid | (verb) bid more than the object is worth | - |
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| (verb) to bid for more tricks than one can expect to win | - |
| overboil | (verb) overflow or cause to overflow while boiling | Synonyms: boil over |
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| (verb) boil excessively | - |
| overburden | (verb) burden with too much work or responsibility | - |
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| (verb) load with excessive weight | - |
| parboil | (verb) cook (vegetables) briefly | Synonyms: blanch |
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| perturb | (verb) throw into great confusion or disorder | Synonyms: derange, throw out of kilter |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, trouble, unhinge |
| (verb) cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull | - |
| (verb) disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom | - |
| quarterback | (verb) play the quarterback | - |
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| reabsorb | (verb) undergo resorption | Synonyms: resorb |
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| refurbish | (verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, renovate |
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| resorb | (verb) undergo resorption | Synonyms: reabsorb |
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| reverberate | (verb) treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace | - |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, resound, ring |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves | - |
| (verb) have a long or continuing effect | - |
| sorb | (verb) take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption | Synonyms: take up |
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| starboard | (verb) turn to the right, of helms or rudders | - |
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| suburbanise | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
| suburbanize | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
| underbid | (verb) bid too low | - |
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| (verb) bid lower than a competing bidder | - |
| (verb) bid (a hand of cards) at less than the strength of the hand warrants | - |
| urbanise | (verb) make more industrial or city-like | Synonyms: urbanize |
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| (verb) impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon | Synonyms: urbanize |
| urbanize | (verb) make more industrial or city-like | Synonyms: urbanise |
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| (verb) impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon | Synonyms: urbanise |
| verbalise | (verb) convert into a verb | Synonyms: verbalize |
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| (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalize |
| (verb) be verbose | Synonyms: verbalize |
| (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: express, give tongue to, utter, verbalize |
| verbalize | (verb) convert into a verb | Synonyms: verbalise |
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| (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise |
| (verb) be verbose | Synonyms: verbalise |
| (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise |
| verbify | (verb) make into a verb | - |
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| warble | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, trill |
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| (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: descant, yodel |