| abridge | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) lessen, diminish, or curtail | - |
| bestride | (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount, mount up |
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| bridge | (verb) make a bridge across | - |
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| (verb) cross over on a bridge | - |
| (verb) connect or reduce the distance between | Synonyms: bridge over |
| bridle | (verb) respond to the reins, as of horses | - |
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| (verb) put a bridle on | - |
| (verb) anger or take offense | - |
| deride | (verb) treat or speak of with contempt | - |
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| fluoridate | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridise, fluoridize |
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| fluoridise | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridize |
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| fluoridize | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridise |
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| griddle | (verb) cook on a griddle | - |
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| hybridise | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridize, interbreed |
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| hybridize | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, interbreed |
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| iridesce | (verb) be iridescent | - |
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| joyride | (verb) ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it | Synonyms: tool, tool around |
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| outride | (verb) ride better, faster, or further than | - |
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| (verb) hang on during a trial of endurance | Synonyms: last out, ride out, stay |
| override | (verb) rule against | Synonyms: overrule, overthrow, overturn, reverse |
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| (verb) ride (a horse) too hard | - |
| (verb) counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle) | - |
| (verb) prevail over | - |
| pride | (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: congratulate, plume |
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| rid | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: disembarrass, free |
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| riddle | (verb) explain a riddle | - |
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| (verb) set a difficult problem or riddle | - |
| (verb) speak in riddles | - |
| (verb) pierce with many holes | - |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade |
| ride | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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| (verb) keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot | - |
| (verb) copulate with | Synonyms: mount |
| (verb) be carried or travel on or in a vehicle | - |
| (verb) sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions | Synonyms: sit |
| (verb) move like a floating object | - |
| (verb) climb up on the body | - |
| (verb) sit on and control a vehicle | - |
| (verb) ride over, along, or through | - |
| (verb) continue undisturbed and without interference | - |
| (verb) lie moored or anchored | - |
| (verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: drive |
| (verb) be sustained or supported or borne | - |
| (verb) be contingent on | Synonyms: depend on, depend upon, devolve on, hinge on, hinge upon, turn on |
| ridge | (verb) form into a ridge | - |
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| (verb) spade into alternate ridges and troughs | - |
| (verb) throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides | - |
| (verb) plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip | - |
| (verb) extend in ridges | - |
| ridicule | (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast |
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| stride | (verb) walk with long steps | - |
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| stridulate | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: clitter |
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| unbridle | (verb) remove the bridle from (a horse or mule) | - |
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