| adjourn | (verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: break up, recess |
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| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: retire, withdraw |
| adorn | (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
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| (verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: clothe, invest |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: beautify, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| alternate | (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
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| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
| (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
| (verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
| attorn | (verb) acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord | - |
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| barnstorm | (verb) tour the country making political speeches, giving lectures, or presenting plays | - |
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| (verb) appear at county fairs and carnivals as a stunt flier and parachute jumper | - |
| blarney | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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| burn | (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: sunburn |
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| (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: combust |
| (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: incinerate |
| (verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn down, fire |
| (verb) damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation | - |
| (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
| (verb) use up (energy) | Synonyms: burn off, burn up |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: cut |
| (verb) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion | - |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, sting |
| (verb) feel hot or painful | - |
| (verb) spend (significant amounts of money) | - |
| (verb) execute by tying to a stake and setting alight | - |
| (verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: glow |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: combust |
| burnish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
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| carnalise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalize, sensualise, sensualize |
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| carnalize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, sensualise, sensualize |
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| (verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: sensualize |
| (verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: sensualize |
| carnify | (verb) become muscular or fleshy | - |
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| cavern | (verb) hollow out as if making a cavern | Synonyms: cavern out |
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| churn | (verb) stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter | - |
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| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, moil, roil |
| concern | (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
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| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: interest, occupy, worry |
| consternate | (verb) fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion | - |
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| corn | (verb) preserve with large-grained rock salt | - |
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| (verb) feed (cattle) with corn | - |
| corner | (verb) turn a corner | - |
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| (verb) force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape | Synonyms: tree |
| (verb) gain control over | - |
| cornice | (verb) furnish with a cornice | - |
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| cybernate | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, computerize |
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| darn | (verb) repair by sewing | - |
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| dehorn | (verb) take the horns off (an animal) | - |
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| (verb) prevent the growth of horns of certain animals | - |
| discern | (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
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| disincarnate | (verb) make immaterial; remove the real essence of | - |
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| earn | (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
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| (verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | Synonyms: garner, win |
| eternalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, immortalise, immortalize |
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| (verb) cause to continue indefinitely | - |
| externalise | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalize, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalize, project |
| externalize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, project |
| forewarn | (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: previse |
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| fornicate | (verb) have sex without being married | - |
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| fraternise | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternize |
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| fraternize | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternise |
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| furnish | (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: offer, provide, render, supply |
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| (verb) provide or equip with furniture | - |
| garner | (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, gather, pull together |
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| (verb) store grain | - |
| (verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | Synonyms: earn, win |
| garnish | (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, trim |
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| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnishee |
| garnishee | (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnish |
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| govern | (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: rule |
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| (verb) direct or strongly influence the behavior of | - |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: order, regularise, regularize, regulate |
| (verb) require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood | - |
| harness | (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: rein, rule |
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| (verb) exploit the power of | - |
| (verb) put a harness | Synonyms: tackle |
| (verb) control and direct with or as if by reins | Synonyms: draw rein, rein, rein in |
| hibernate | (verb) sleep during winter | Synonyms: hole up |
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| (verb) be in an inactive or dormant state | - |
| horn | (verb) stab or pierce with a horn or tusk | Synonyms: tusk |
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| hornswoggle | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| incarnadine | (verb) make flesh-colored | - |
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| incarnate | (verb) make concrete and real | - |
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| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, substantiate |
| intern | (verb) deprive of freedom | - |
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| (verb) work as an intern | - |
| internalise | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalize |
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| internalize | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalise |
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| internationalise | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalize |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalize |
| internationalize | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalise |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalise |
| journey | (verb) undertake a journey or trip | Synonyms: travel |
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| (verb) travel upon or across | Synonyms: travel |
| kern | (verb) remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters) | - |
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| (verb) furnish with a kern | - |
| larn | (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: acquire, learn |
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| learn | (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: acquire, larn |
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| (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, pick up, see |
| (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: read, study, take |
| (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, memorise, memorize |
| (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: instruct, teach |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, determine, find out, see, watch |
| misgovern | (verb) govern badly | - |
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| modernise | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernize, overhaul |
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| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: develop, modernize |
| modernize | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernise, overhaul |
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| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: develop, modernise |
| mourn | (verb) feel sadness | - |
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| (verb) observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one | - |
| ornament | (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
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| (verb) be an ornament to | - |
| overturn | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
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| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, reverse |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| (verb) turn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: tip over, tump over, turn over |
| (verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, tip over, tump over, turn over, upset |
| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, subvert |
| pattern | (verb) plan or create according to a model or models | Synonyms: model |
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| (verb) form a pattern | - |
| refurnish | (verb) furnish with new or different furniture | - |
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| reincarnate | (verb) cause to appear in a new form | Synonyms: renew |
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| (verb) be born anew in another body after death | Synonyms: transmigrate |
| relearn | (verb) learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it | - |
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| return | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, revert, turn back |
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| (verb) be restored | Synonyms: come back |
| (verb) go back to something earlier | Synonyms: come back, hark back, recall |
| (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, riposte |
| (verb) submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority | - |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, render |
| (verb) make a return | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, render, yield |
| (verb) go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before | - |
| (verb) return to a previous position; in mathematics | - |
| (verb) bring back to the point of departure | Synonyms: bring back, take back |
| (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, refund, repay |
| (verb) return in kind | - |
| (verb) give back | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, pass |
| (verb) elect again | Synonyms: reelect |
| rubberneck | (verb) strain to watch; stare curiously | - |
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| scorn | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, spurn, turn down |
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| (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, disdain |
| secern | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| secernate | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| shoehorn | (verb) fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited | - |
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| sojourn | (verb) spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily | - |
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| spurn | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, turn down |
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| suborn | (verb) induce to commit perjury or give false testimony | - |
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| (verb) procure (false testimony or perjury) | - |
| (verb) incite to commit a crime or an evil deed | - |
| sunburn | (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: burn |
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| tarnish | (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, sully |
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| tourney | (verb) engage in a tourney | - |
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| turn | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, twist, wrench, wrick |
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| (verb) change to the contrary | Synonyms: change by reversal, reverse |
| (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: ferment, sour, work |
| (verb) pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become | Synonyms: grow |
| (verb) undergo a transformation or a change of position or action | Synonyms: change state |
| (verb) change color | - |
| (verb) become officially one year older | - |
| (verb) have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to | Synonyms: call on |
| (verb) direct at someone | - |
| (verb) shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel | - |
| (verb) let (something) fall or spill from a container | Synonyms: release |
| (verb) alter the functioning or setting of | - |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, flex, twist |
| (verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plough, plow |
| (verb) to change orientation or direction | - |
| (verb) cause to move around a center so as to show another side of | Synonyms: turn over |
| (verb) cause to move around or rotate | - |
| (verb) pass to the other side of | Synonyms: move around |
| (verb) move around an axis or a center | - |
| (verb) to send or let go | - |
| (verb) cause to move along an axis or into a new direction | - |
| (verb) channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something | - |
| (verb) get by buying and selling | - |
| (verb) accomplish by rotating | - |
| (verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: become |
| (verb) cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics | - |
| undernourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: malnourish |
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| unharness | (verb) remove the harness from | - |
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| unlearn | (verb) discard something previously learnt, like an old habit | - |
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| (verb) try to forget; put out of one's memory or knowledge | - |
| varnish | (verb) cover with varnish | Synonyms: seal |
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| warn | (verb) notify of danger, potential harm, or risk | - |
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| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, discourage, monish |
| (verb) notify, usually in advance | - |
| (verb) ask to go away | - |
| westernise | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernize |
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| westernize | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise |
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| yarn | (verb) tell or spin a yarn | - |
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| yearn | (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: hanker, long |
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| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, languish, pine, yen |
| (verb) have affection for; feel tenderness for | - |