| foreshadow | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
| foreshow | (verb) foretell by divine inspiration | - |
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| forest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: afforest |
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| forestall | (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, foresee |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, preclude, prevent |
| foreswear | (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: quit, relinquish, renounce |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, forgo, relinquish, waive |
| foretell | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald |
| forewarn | (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: previse |
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| fracture | (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: break |
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| (verb) become fractured | - |
| (verb) violate or abuse | - |
| (verb) break into pieces | - |
| (verb) interrupt, break, or destroy | - |
| freak | (verb) lose one's nerve | Synonyms: freak out, gross out |
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| freckle | (verb) mark with freckles | - |
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| (verb) become freckled | - |
| free | (verb) make (assets) available | Synonyms: release, unblock, unfreeze |
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| (verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: absolve |
| (verb) free or remove obstruction from | Synonyms: disengage |
| (verb) remove or force out from a position | Synonyms: dislodge |
| (verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: liberate, release |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: give up, release, relinquish, resign |
| (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: disembarrass, rid |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen |
| (verb) make (information) available for publication | Synonyms: release |
| (verb) free from obligations or duties | Synonyms: discharge |
| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: exempt, relieve |
| freelance | (verb) work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer | - |
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| freeload | (verb) live off somebody's generosity | - |
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| freewheel | (verb) coast in a vehicle using the freewheel | - |
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| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: drift |
| freeze | (verb) be cold | - |
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| (verb) anesthetize by cold | - |
| (verb) suddenly behave coldly and formally | - |
| (verb) change to ice | - |
| (verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | Synonyms: suspend |
| (verb) cause to freeze | - |
| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, immobilise, immobilize |
| (verb) change from a liquid to a solid when cold | Synonyms: freeze down, freeze out |
| (verb) stop moving or become immobilized | Synonyms: stop dead |
| (verb) be very cold, below the freezing point | - |
| freight | (verb) load with goods for transportation | - |
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| (verb) transport commercially as cargo | - |
| 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 |
| fresco | (verb) paint onto wet plaster on a wall | - |
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| freshen | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: refresh, refreshen |
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| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen up, refresh, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: refresh |
| fress | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: gluttonise, gluttonize |
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| fret | (verb) wear away or erode | Synonyms: eat away |
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| (verb) remove soil or rock | Synonyms: eat away, erode |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, rub, scratch |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: choke, gag |
| (verb) decorate with an interlaced design | - |
| (verb) carve a pattern into | - |
| (verb) be agitated or irritated | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in | - |
| (verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, grate, rankle |
| (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fuss, niggle |
| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: chafe, gall |
| (verb) provide (a musical instrument) with frets | - |
| gangrene | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: mortify, necrose, sphacelate |
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| gesture | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesticulate, motion |
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| glare | (verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glower |
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| (verb) shine intensely | - |
| (verb) be sharply reflected | - |
| gore | (verb) cut into gores | - |
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| (verb) wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument | - |
| grease | (verb) lubricate with grease | - |
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| green | (verb) turn or become green | - |
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| greenlight | (verb) to allow a project (especially a TV show) to go ahead | - |
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| greet | (verb) react to in a certain way | - |
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| (verb) express greetings upon meeting someone | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) send greetings to | - |
| (verb) be perceived by | - |
| grey | (verb) turn grey | Synonyms: gray |
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| (verb) make grey | Synonyms: gray |
| hare | (verb) run quickly, like a hare | - |
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| hire | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, lease, rent, take |
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| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: employ, engage |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, lease, rent |
| housebreak | (verb) train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house | Synonyms: house-train |
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| hyperextend | (verb) extend a joint beyond its normal range | - |
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| ignore | (verb) be ignorant of or in the dark about | - |
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| (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, neglect |
| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, push aside |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: cut, disregard, snub |
| (verb) fail to notice | - |
| immure | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| implore | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, pray |
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| imprecate | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, cuss, swear |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, maledict |
| impregnate | (verb) make pregnant | Synonyms: bang up, knock up, prang up |
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| (verb) fertilize and cause to grow | - |
| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: saturate |
| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: infuse, instill, tincture |
| impress | (verb) dye (fabric) before it is spun | Synonyms: yarn-dye |
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| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: ingrain, instill |
| (verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: imprint |
| (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: shanghai |
| (verb) reproduce by printing | Synonyms: print |
| (verb) impress positively | - |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, move, strike |
| increase | (verb) become bigger or greater in amount | - |
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| (verb) make bigger or more | - |
| indenture | (verb) bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant | Synonyms: indent |
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| inhere | (verb) be inherent in something | - |
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| injure | (verb) cause injuries or bodily harm to | Synonyms: wound |
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| (verb) cause damage or affect negatively | Synonyms: hurt |
| (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, offend, spite, wound |
| 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 |
| inspire | (verb) draw in (air) | Synonyms: breathe in, inhale |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: instigate, prompt |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, exhort, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) supply the inspiration for | - |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, invigorate |
| insure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, control, ensure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) protect by insurance | Synonyms: cover, underwrite |
| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, ensure, guarantee, secure |
| (verb) take out insurance for | - |
| interbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize |
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| interest | (verb) excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of | - |
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| (verb) be of importance or consequence | Synonyms: matter to |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, occupy, worry |
| interfere | (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interpose, intervene, step in |
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| (verb) come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle | - |
| interpret | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: construe, see |
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| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: read, translate, understand |
| (verb) give an interpretation or explanation to | Synonyms: rede |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: render, translate |
| (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: represent |
| interrelate | (verb) place into a mutual relationship | - |
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| (verb) be in a relationship with | Synonyms: relate |
| intrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: entrench |
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| inure | (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: harden, indurate |
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| lecture | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) deliver a lecture or talk | Synonyms: talk |
| lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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| lure | (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, tempt |
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| maltreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, mistreat, step |
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| manicure | (verb) care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
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| (verb) trim carefully and neatly | - |
| manoeuvre | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuver, operate |
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| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuver |
| manufacture | (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, fabricate |
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| (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, invent, make up |
| (verb) create or produce in a mechanical way | - |
| (verb) produce naturally | - |
| manure | (verb) spread manure, as for fertilization | Synonyms: muck |
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| massacre | (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: mow down, slaughter |
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| mature | (verb) cause to ripen and discharge pus | Synonyms: suppurate |
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| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, maturate |
| (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, senesce |
| (verb) become due for repayment | - |
| (verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: ripen |
| (verb) develop and work out fully in one's mind | - |
| measure | (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: quantify |
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| (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure out, mensurate |
| (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, valuate, value |
| (verb) have certain dimensions | - |
| minstrel | (verb) celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels | - |
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| mire | (verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: muck, muck up, mud |
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| (verb) be unable to move further | Synonyms: bog down, get stuck, grind to a halt |
| (verb) cause to get stuck as if in a mire | Synonyms: bog down |
| (verb) entrap | Synonyms: entangle |
| misaddress | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misdirect |
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| misapprehend | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| miscreate | (verb) shape or form or make badly | - |
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| misdirect | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misaddress |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misguide, mislead |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| misfire | (verb) fail to fire or detonate | - |
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| misinterpret | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misread |
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| (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand |
| (verb) interpret falsely | - |
| misread | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misinterpret |
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| (verb) read or interpret wrongly | - |
| misremember | (verb) remember incorrectly | - |
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| misrepresent | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: belie |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, wangle |
| mistreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, step |
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| mongrelise | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelize |
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| mongrelize | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelise |
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| mudwrestle | (verb) wrestle in mud | Synonyms: mud-wrestle |
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| nurture | (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: foster |
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| (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nourish, sustain |
| (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, parent, raise, rear |
| obscure | (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: bedim, overcloud |
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| (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obliterate, veil |
| (verb) reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa | - |
| (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, confuse, obnubilate |
| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate |
| oppress | (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: crush, suppress |
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| (verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: persecute |
| outmanoeuvre | (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmaneuver, outsmart |
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| outscore | (verb) score more points than one's opponents | Synonyms: outpoint |
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| outstare | (verb) overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring | Synonyms: outface, stare down |
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| overdress | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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| (verb) dress too warmly | Synonyms: overclothe |
| overeat | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| overemphasise | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasize, overstress |
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| overemphasize | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overstress |
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| overestimate | (verb) make too high an estimate of | Synonyms: overrate |
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| (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overvalue |
| overexert | (verb) exert (oneself) excessively and go beyond one's strength | - |
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| overexploit | (verb) exploit excessively | - |
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| overexpose | (verb) expose excessively | - |
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| (verb) expose to too much light | - |
| overextend | (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overstrain |
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| overreach | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit |
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| (verb) fail by aiming too high or trying too hard | - |
| overreact | (verb) show an exaggerated response to something | - |
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| overrefine | (verb) refine too much or with excess of subtlety | Synonyms: over-refine |
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| overspread | (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: spread |
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