| desynchronize | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronise |
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| dethrone | (verb) remove a monarch from the throne | - |
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| disapprove | (verb) consider bad or wrong | - |
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| (verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: reject |
| disembroil | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disentangle, disinvolve |
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| disprove | (verb) prove to be false | Synonyms: confute |
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| disrobe | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| drone | (verb) talk in a monotonous voice | Synonyms: drone on |
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| (verb) make a monotonous low dull sound | - |
| drool | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, slabber, slaver, slobber |
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| (verb) be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something | Synonyms: salivate |
| droop | (verb) become limp | Synonyms: wilt |
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| (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: flag, sag, swag |
| (verb) hang loosely or laxly | Synonyms: loll |
| drop | (verb) give birth; used for animals | - |
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| (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, devolve |
| (verb) go down in value | - |
| (verb) stop pursuing or acting | Synonyms: knock off |
| (verb) change from one level to another | - |
| (verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes) | Synonyms: flatten |
| (verb) fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death | - |
| (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
| (verb) omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing | - |
| (verb) utter with seeming casualness | - |
| (verb) lose (a game) | - |
| (verb) take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth | - |
| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: discharge, drop off, put down, set down, unload |
| (verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off |
| (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | Synonyms: cut down, fell, strike down |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drip |
| (verb) to fall vertically | - |
| (verb) let fall to the ground | - |
| (verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level | Synonyms: drop down, sink |
| (verb) pay out | Synonyms: expend, spend |
| (verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: dismiss, send away, send packing |
| (verb) terminate an association with | - |
| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: dangle, swing |
| dropforge | (verb) forge with a dropforge | - |
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| dropkick | (verb) make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick | Synonyms: drop-kick |
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| (verb) drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| drown | (verb) die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating | - |
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| (verb) kill by submerging in water | - |
| (verb) get rid of as if by submerging | - |
| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: overwhelm, submerge |
| (verb) be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation | - |
| (verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid | Synonyms: swim |
| drowse | (verb) be on the verge of sleeping | - |
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| (verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: doze, snooze |
| eavesdrop | (verb) listen without the speaker's knowledge | Synonyms: listen in |
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| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
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| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| electroplate | (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
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| embrocate | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, inunct, oil |
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| embroider | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, lard, pad |
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| (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: broider |
| embroil | (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
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| embrown | (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: brown |
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| (verb) cause to darken | - |
| encroach | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: impinge, infringe |
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| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: entrench, impinge, trench |
| engross | (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engage, occupy |
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| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
| enrobe | (verb) adorn with a robe | - |
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| (verb) provide with a coating | - |
| enrol | (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enroll, enter, inscribe, raise, recruit |
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| enroll | (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enter, inscribe, raise, recruit |
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| enshroud | (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, hide, shroud |
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| enthrone | (verb) put a monarch on the throne | Synonyms: throne |
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| (verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: invest, vest |
| environ | (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, ring, skirt, surround |
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| erode | (verb) remove soil or rock | Synonyms: eat away, fret |
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| (verb) become ground down or deteriorate | Synonyms: eat at, gnaw, gnaw at, wear away |
| eroticize | (verb) give erotic character to or make more interesting | Synonyms: sex up |
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| expropriate | (verb) deprive of possessions | - |
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| farrow | (verb) give birth to (piglets) | Synonyms: pig |
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| fireproof | (verb) make resistant to fire | - |
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| foolproof | (verb) proof against human misuse or error | Synonyms: goof-proof, goofproof |
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| foreground | (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: highlight, play up, spotlight |
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| foxtrot | (verb) dance the foxtrot | - |
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| frock | (verb) put a frock on | - |
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| frog | (verb) hunt frogs for food | - |
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| frogmarch | (verb) carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person | - |
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| (verb) march a person against his will by any method | - |
| frolic | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| front | (verb) confront bodily | Synonyms: breast |
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| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: face, look |
| frost | (verb) damage by frost | - |
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| (verb) decorate with frosting | Synonyms: ice |
| (verb) provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance | - |
| (verb) cover with frost | - |
| froth | (verb) exude or expel foam | - |
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| (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, sparkle |
| (verb) make froth or foam and become bubbly | Synonyms: spume, suds |
| frown | (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: glower, lour, lower |
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| furrow | (verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: groove, rut |
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| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: crease, wrinkle |
| (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chamfer, chase |
| garotte | (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garrote, garrotte, scrag |
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| garrote | (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrotte, scrag |
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| garrotte | (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, scrag |
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| glycerolise | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolize |
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| glycerolize | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolise |
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| goofproof | (verb) proof against human misuse or error | Synonyms: foolproof, goof-proof |
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| groak | (verb) look or stare at longingly | - |
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| groan | (verb) indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure | Synonyms: moan |
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| groin | (verb) build with groins | - |
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| grok | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, savvy |
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| groom | (verb) care for one's external appearance | Synonyms: neaten |
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| (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: curry, dress |
| (verb) educate for a future role or function | Synonyms: prepare, train |
| groove | (verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: furrow, rut |
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| (verb) make a groove in, or provide with a groove | - |
| grope | (verb) feel about uncertainly or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
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| (verb) fondle for sexual pleasure | - |
| (verb) search blindly or uncertainly | - |
| gross | (verb) earn before taxes, expenses, etc. | - |
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| grouch | (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grumble, scold |
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| ground | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, found |
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| (verb) instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject | - |
| (verb) place or put on the ground | - |
| (verb) confine or restrict to the ground | - |
| (verb) connect to a ground | - |
| (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: prime, undercoat |
| (verb) fix firmly and stably | Synonyms: anchor |
| (verb) (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field. | - |
| (verb) throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage | - |
| (verb) hit or reach the ground | Synonyms: run aground |
| (verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: run aground, strand |
| group | (verb) arrange into a group or groups | - |
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| (verb) form a group or group together | Synonyms: aggroup |
| grouse | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, holler, squawk |
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| (verb) hunt grouse | - |
| grout | (verb) bind with grout | - |
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| grovel | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, fawn |
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| grow | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, produce |
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| (verb) become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain | - |
| (verb) cause to grow or develop | - |
| (verb) increase in size by natural process | - |
| (verb) pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become | Synonyms: turn |
| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: maturate, mature |
| (verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: develop |
| (verb) become attached by or as if by the process of growth | - |
| (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: farm, produce, raise |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
| growl | (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: grumble, rumble |
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| harrow | (verb) draw a harrow over (land) | Synonyms: disk |
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| heterodyne | (verb) combine (a radio frequency wave) with a locally generated wave of a different frequency so as to produce a new frequency equal to the sum or the difference between the two | - |
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| hydrogenate | (verb) combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound) | - |
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| hydrolise | (verb) make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis | Synonyms: hydrolize |
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| hydrolize | (verb) make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis | Synonyms: hydrolise |
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| hydrolyse | (verb) undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water | Synonyms: hydrolyze |
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| hydrolyze | (verb) undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water | Synonyms: hydrolyse |
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| hydroplane | (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: seaplane |
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| hypertrophy | (verb) undergo hypertrophy | - |
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| improve | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, meliorate |
| improvise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvize |
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| (verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: extemporize |
| improvize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvise |
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| interrogate | (verb) pose a series of questions to | Synonyms: question |
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| (verb) transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication | - |
| introduce | (verb) be a precursor of | Synonyms: inaugurate, usher in |
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| (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, inclose, insert, put in, stick in |
| (verb) put before (a body) | - |
| (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: acquaint, present |
| (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: precede, preface, premise |
| (verb) bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc. | Synonyms: bring out |
| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: enter, infix, insert |
| (verb) bring something new to an environment | Synonyms: innovate |
| (verb) bring in or establish in a new place or environment | - |
| (verb) bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment | Synonyms: bring in |
| introject | (verb) incorporate (attitudes or ideas) into one's personality unconsciously | - |
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| intromit | (verb) allow to enter; grant entry to | Synonyms: admit, allow in, let in |
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| introspect | (verb) reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| introvert | (verb) turn inside | - |
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| (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: invaginate |
| iron | (verb) press and smooth with a heated iron | Synonyms: iron out, press |
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| leapfrog | (verb) progress by large jumps instead of small increments | - |
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| (verb) to vault | - |
| logroll | (verb) work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes | - |
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| maroon | (verb) leave stranded on a desert island without resources | - |
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| (verb) leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue | Synonyms: strand |
| microcopy | (verb) photocopy printed or other graphic matter so that it is reduced in size | - |
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| microfilm | (verb) record on microfilm | - |
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| microwave | (verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven | Synonyms: micro-cook, nuke, zap |
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| mirror | (verb) reflect or resemble | - |
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| (verb) reflect as if in a mirror | - |
| misappropriate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, peculate |
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| mispronounce | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: misspeak |
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| mothproof | (verb) protect from moths | - |
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| mushroom | (verb) grow and spread fast | - |
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| (verb) pick or gather mushrooms | - |
| namedrop | (verb) refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them | - |
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| narrow | (verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: contract |
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| (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constrict, constringe |
| (verb) become more focused on an area of activity or field of study | Synonyms: narrow down, specialise, specialize |
| (verb) define clearly | Synonyms: nail down, narrow down, peg down, pin down, specify |