| ruin | (verb) fall into ruin | - |
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| (verb) destroy completely; damage irreparably | Synonyms: destroy |
| (verb) reduce to ruins | - |
| (verb) deprive of virginity | Synonyms: deflower |
| (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, break, smash |
| (verb) destroy or cause to fail | - |
| rule | (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: harness, rein |
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| (verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: decree |
| (verb) decide on and make a declaration about | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) mark or draw with a ruler | - |
| (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: govern |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, prevail, reign |
| (verb) have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac | - |
| rumba | (verb) dance the rhumba | Synonyms: rhumba |
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| rumble | (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, grumble |
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| (verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: grumble |
| ruminate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) chew the cuds | - |
| rummage | (verb) search haphazardly | - |
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| rumor | (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: bruit, rumour |
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| rumour | (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: bruit, rumor |
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| rumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle, ruffle up |
| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, pucker |
| rumpus | (verb) cause a disturbance | - |
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| run | (verb) reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating | Synonyms: melt, melt down |
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| (verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: ladder |
| (verb) progress by being changed | Synonyms: go, move |
| (verb) change from one state to another | - |
| (verb) become undone | Synonyms: unravel |
| (verb) cause to perform | - |
| (verb) compete in a race | Synonyms: race |
| (verb) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) | Synonyms: hunt, hunt down, track down |
| (verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: campaign |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, operate, work |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, pass |
| (verb) be operating, running or functioning | - |
| (verb) conduct to completion | - |
| (verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: play |
| (verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time | - |
| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, feed, flow |
| (verb) keep company | Synonyms: consort |
| (verb) sail before the wind | - |
| (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 away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) cover by running; run a certain distance | - |
| (verb) run with the ball; in such sports as football | - |
| (verb) be diffused | Synonyms: bleed |
| (verb) travel a route regularly | Synonyms: ply |
| (verb) cause an animal to move fast | - |
| (verb) move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way | - |
| (verb) travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means | - |
| (verb) deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor | Synonyms: black market |
| (verb) carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine | Synonyms: execute |
| (verb) make without a miss | - |
| (verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. | Synonyms: operate |
| (verb) set animals loose to graze | - |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, pass |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, tend |
| (verb) be affected by; be subjected to | - |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, prevail |
| (verb) have a particular form | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) extend or continue for a certain period of time | Synonyms: run for |
| (verb) occur persistently | - |
| (verb) change or be different within limits | Synonyms: range |
| (verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere | Synonyms: lead |
| rupture | (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, snap, tear |
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| rush | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hasten, hurry, look sharp |
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| (verb) urge to an unnatural speed | Synonyms: hurry |
| (verb) attack suddenly | - |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) run with the ball, in football | - |
| (verb) cause to move fast or to rush or race | Synonyms: race |
| rust | (verb) become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid | Synonyms: corrode |
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| (verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: corrode, eat |
| (verb) become coated with oxide | - |
| rusticate | (verb) lend a rustic character to | - |
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| (verb) give (stone) a rustic look | - |
| (verb) send to the country | - |
| (verb) suspend temporarily from college or university, in England | Synonyms: send down |
| (verb) live in the country and lead a rustic life | - |
| rustle | (verb) make a dry crackling sound | - |
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| (verb) take illegally | Synonyms: lift |
| (verb) forage food | - |
| rut | (verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: furrow, groove |
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| (verb) be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals | - |
| scrub | (verb) wash thoroughly | Synonyms: scrub up |
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| (verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scour |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scratch |
| scrunch | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, thud |
| scruple | (verb) have doubts about | - |
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| (verb) raise scruples | - |
| (verb) hesitate on moral grounds | - |
| scrutinise | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, inspect, scrutinize |
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| (verb) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail | Synonyms: scrutinize, size up, take stock |
| scrutinize | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, inspect, scrutinise |
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| (verb) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail | Synonyms: scrutinise, size up, take stock |
| shrug | (verb) raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation | - |
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| sporulate | (verb) convert into spores | - |
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| (verb) produce spores | - |
| spruce | (verb) dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spruce up |
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| (verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce up, titivate, tittivate |
| structure | (verb) give a structure to | - |
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| struggle | (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, fight |
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| (verb) to exert strenuous effort against opposition | - |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter |
| (verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: fight |
| strum | (verb) sound the strings of (a stringed instrument) | Synonyms: thrum |
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| strut | (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, swagger, tittup |
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| thrum | (verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: beat, drum |
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| (verb) sound with a monotonous hum | Synonyms: hum |
| (verb) sound the strings of (a stringed instrument) | Synonyms: strum |
| thrust | (verb) impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably | Synonyms: force |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: pierce |
| (verb) place or put with great energy | Synonyms: throw |
| (verb) push forcefully | - |
| (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, lunge |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, squeeze, stuff |
| (verb) push violently in a specified direction | Synonyms: push up |
| (verb) force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock | - |
| truck | (verb) convey (goods etc.) by truck | - |
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| truckle | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady |
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| (verb) yield to out of weakness | - |
| trudge | (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp |
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| true | (verb) make level, square, balanced, or concentric | Synonyms: true up |
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| trump | (verb) proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare | Synonyms: trump out |
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| (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: best, outdo, outflank, scoop |
| (verb) play a trump | Synonyms: ruff |
| (verb) produce a sound as if from a trumpet | - |
| trumpet | (verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet | - |
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| (verb) utter in trumpet-like sounds | - |
| (verb) play or blow on the trumpet | - |
| truncate | (verb) make shorter as if by cutting off | Synonyms: cut short |
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| (verb) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one | - |
| (verb) replace a corner by a plane | - |
| trundle | (verb) move heavily | - |
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| truss | (verb) support structurally | - |
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| (verb) tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it | - |
| (verb) secure with or as if with ropes | Synonyms: bind, tie down, tie up |
| trust | (verb) have confidence or faith in | - |
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| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: believe |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: desire, hope |
| (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, entrust, intrust |
| (verb) (chiefly archaic) extend credit to | - |
| (verb) allow without fear | - |
| underrun | (verb) haul onto a boat | - |
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| (verb) run or pass below | - |