| anthropomorphise | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphize |
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| anthropomorphize | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphise |
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| burp | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, eruct |
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| carp | (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: cavil, chicane |
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| carpenter | (verb) work as a carpenter | - |
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| carpet | (verb) cover with a carpet | - |
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| (verb) cover completely, as if with a carpet | - |
| (verb) form a carpet-like cover (over) | - |
| chirp | (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirrup, peep |
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| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: tweedle |
| counterplot | (verb) make a plot in response to another plot | - |
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| counterpoint | (verb) write in counterpoint | - |
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| (verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: contrast |
| counterpoise | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpose, counterweight |
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| counterpose | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterweight |
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| discerp | (verb) divide into pieces | Synonyms: dismember, take apart |
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| (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: lop, sever |
| empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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| excerpt | (verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: extract, take out |
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| extirpate | (verb) surgically remove (an organ) | - |
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| (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: deracinate, root out, uproot |
| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, exterminate, root out, uproot |
| fingerprint | (verb) take an impression of a person's fingerprints | - |
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| harp | (verb) come back to | Synonyms: dwell |
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| (verb) play the harp | - |
| harpoon | (verb) spear with a harpoon | - |
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| incorporate | (verb) make into a whole or make part of a whole | Synonyms: integrate |
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| (verb) unite or merge with something already in existence | - |
| (verb) form a corporation | - |
| (verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: comprise, contain |
| interpellate | (verb) question formally about policy or government business | - |
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| interpenetrate | (verb) penetrate mutually or be interlocked | Synonyms: permeate |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| interpolate | (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: alter, falsify |
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| (verb) estimate the value of something based on known values | Synonyms: extrapolate |
| interpose | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interject, put in, throw in |
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| (verb) to put forth by way of intervention | - |
| (verb) be or come between | - |
| (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interfere, intervene, step in |
| 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 |
| metamorphose | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: transfigure, transmogrify |
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| (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: transform, transmute |
| 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 | - |
| morph | (verb) change shape as via computer animation | - |
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| (verb) cause to change shape in a computer animation | - |
| orphan | (verb) deprive of parents | - |
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| overpay | (verb) pay too much | - |
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| overplay | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overact |
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| overpopulate | (verb) cause to have too great a population | - |
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| overpower | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overwhelm |
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| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| overpraise | (verb) praise excessively | - |
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| overprice | (verb) price excessively high | - |
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| overprint | (verb) print (additional text or colors) onto an already imprinted paper | Synonyms: print over |
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| overproduce | (verb) produce in excess; produce more than needed or wanted | - |
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| (verb) produce in excess | - |
| overprotect | (verb) protect excessively | - |
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| (verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, mother |
| perpetrate | (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, pull |
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| perpetuate | (verb) cause to continue or prevail | - |
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| perplex | (verb) make more complicated | Synonyms: complicate |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| purple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purpurate |
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| (verb) become purple | - |
| purport | (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purpose |
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| (verb) have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming | - |
| purpose | (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: resolve |
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| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purport |
| purpurate | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purple |
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| reinterpret | (verb) assign a new or different meaning to | - |
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| (verb) interpret from a different viewpoint | Synonyms: re-explain |
| scarper | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
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| sharpen | (verb) become sharp or sharper | - |
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| (verb) make crisp or more crisp and precise | - |
| (verb) raise the pitch of (musical notes) | - |
| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, focus |
| (verb) make (one's senses) more acute | Synonyms: heighten |
| (verb) give a point to | Synonyms: point, taper |
| (verb) make sharp or sharper | - |
| (verb) make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper | - |
| sharpshoot | (verb) aim and shoot with great precision | Synonyms: snipe |
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| silverplate | (verb) plate with silver | Synonyms: silver-plate |
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| slurp | (verb) eat noisily | - |
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| superpose | (verb) place (one geometric figure) upon another so that their perimeters coincide | - |
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| (verb) place on top of | Synonyms: lay over, superimpose |
| surpass | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount |
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| (verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass, pass by, travel by |
| (verb) distinguish oneself | Synonyms: excel, stand out |
| (verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, transcend |
| surprise | (verb) cause to be surprised | - |
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| (verb) attack by storm; attack suddenly | Synonyms: storm |
| (verb) come upon or take unawares | - |
| torpedo | (verb) attack or hit with torpedoes | - |
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| twirp | (verb) make a weak, chirping sound | Synonyms: tweet |
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| underpay | (verb) pay too little | - |
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| underperform | (verb) perform too rarely | - |
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| (verb) perform less well or with less success than expected | Synonyms: underachieve |
| underpin | (verb) support from beneath | - |
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| (verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, corroborate, support |
| underplay | (verb) play a card lower than (a held high card) | - |
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| (verb) act (a role) with great restraint | Synonyms: underact |
| underprice | (verb) sell at artificially low prices | Synonyms: dump |
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| underproduce | (verb) produce below capacity or demand | - |
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| usurp | (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: arrogate, assume, seize, take over |
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| (verb) take the place of | - |
| warp | (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: buckle, heave |
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| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, falsify, garble |
| waterproof | (verb) make watertight | - |
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| weatherproof | (verb) make resistant to bad weather | - |
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