| assail | (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assault, attack, lash out, round, snipe |
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| (verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assault, attack, set on |
| (verb) launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with | Synonyms: attack |
| assassinate | (verb) destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation | - |
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| (verb) murder; especially of socially prominent persons | - |
| assault | (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, attack, lash out, round, snipe |
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| (verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assail, attack, set on |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
| assay | (verb) analyze (chemical substances) | - |
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| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: attempt, essay, seek, try |
| bioassay | (verb) subject to a bio-assay | - |
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| compensate | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: recompense, remunerate |
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| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: indemnify, recompense, repair |
| (verb) do or give something to somebody in return | Synonyms: make up, pay, pay off |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: correct, redress, right |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: correct, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| (verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: cover, overcompensate |
| crusade | (verb) go on a crusade; fight a holy war | - |
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| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, fight, press, push |
| decussate | (verb) cross or intersect so as to form a cross | - |
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| desacralize | (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: secularize |
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| desalinate | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinise, desalinize, desalt |
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| desalinise | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinate, desalinize, desalt |
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| desalinize | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinate, desalinise, desalt |
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| desalt | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinate, desalinise, desalinize |
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| disable | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: handicap, incapacitate, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disenable, incapacitate |
| disabuse | (verb) free somebody (from an erroneous belief) | - |
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| disaccord | (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disagree, discord |
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| disadvantage | (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour |
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| disaffect | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, estrange |
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| disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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| disagree | (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, dissent, take issue |
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| (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disaccord, discord |
| disallow | (verb) command against | Synonyms: forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| disambiguate | (verb) state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from | - |
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| disappear | (verb) get lost, as without warning or explanation | Synonyms: go away, vanish |
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| (verb) cease to exist | Synonyms: vanish |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: evaporate, melt |
| (verb) become invisible or unnoticeable | Synonyms: go away, vanish |
| disappoint | (verb) fail to meet the hopes or expectations of | Synonyms: let down |
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| disapprove | (verb) consider bad or wrong | - |
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| (verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: reject |
| disarm | (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarise, demilitarize |
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| (verb) take away the weapons from; render harmless | Synonyms: unarm |
| (verb) make less hostile; win over | - |
| disarrange | (verb) disturb the arrangement of | - |
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| (verb) destroy the arrangement or order of | - |
| disarray | (verb) bring disorder to | Synonyms: disorder |
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| disarticulate | (verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disjoint |
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| disassemble | (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, dismantle, take apart |
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| disassociate | (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
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| disavow | (verb) refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with | - |
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| dissatisfy | (verb) fail to satisfy | - |
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| envisage | (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, ideate, imagine |
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| essay | (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, seek, try |
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| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: examine, prove, test, try, try out |
| extravasate | (verb) cause molten material, such as lava, to pour forth | - |
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| (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, erupt |
| (verb) force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel | - |
| forsake | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, desolate |
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| gainsay | (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, dispute |
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| glissade | (verb) perform a glissade, in ballet | - |
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| inspissate | (verb) become thick or thicker | Synonyms: thicken |
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| (verb) make thick or thicker | Synonyms: thicken |
| (verb) make viscous or dense | Synonyms: thicken |
| malversate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, misappropriate, peculate |
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| massacre | (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: mow down, slaughter |
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| massage | (verb) give a massage to | - |
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| (verb) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes | Synonyms: knead, rub down |
| message | (verb) send a message | - |
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| (verb) send as a message | - |
| (verb) send a message to | - |
| misaddress | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misdirect |
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| misadvise | (verb) give bad advice to | Synonyms: misguide |
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| misalign | (verb) align imperfectly or badly | - |
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| misally | (verb) make a bad alliance; ally inappropriately | - |
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| misapply | (verb) apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly | Synonyms: misuse |
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| misapprehend | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| 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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| nasale | (verb) speak in a nasal voice | - |
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| nasalise | (verb) pronounce with a lowered velum | Synonyms: nasalize |
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| (verb) speak nasally or through the nose | Synonyms: nasalize |
| nasalize | (verb) pronounce with a lowered velum | Synonyms: nasalise |
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| (verb) speak nasally or through the nose | Synonyms: nasalise |
| offsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: unsaddle |
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| outsail | (verb) sail faster or better than | - |
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| overcompensate | (verb) make excessive corrections for fear of making an error | Synonyms: over-correct |
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| (verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: compensate, cover |
| palisade | (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, surround, wall |
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| presage | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, prognosticate |
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| psalm | (verb) sing or celebrate in psalms | - |
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| pulsate | (verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses | Synonyms: pulse |
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| (verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulse, throb |
| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, quiver |
| ransack | (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: comb |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, reave, rifle, strip |
| reassail | (verb) assail again | - |
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| saber | (verb) kill with a saber | Synonyms: sabre |
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| (verb) cut or injure with a saber | Synonyms: sabre |
| sabotage | (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, subvert, undermine, weaken |
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| sabre | (verb) kill with a saber | Synonyms: saber |
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| (verb) cut or injure with a saber | Synonyms: saber |
| saccharify | (verb) convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate | - |
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| (verb) sweeten with sugar | Synonyms: sugar |
| sack | (verb) put in a sack | - |
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| (verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: plunder |
| (verb) make as a net profit | Synonyms: clear, net, sack up |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, send away, terminate |
| sacrifice | (verb) kill or destroy | - |
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| (verb) endure the loss of | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals | - |
| (verb) sell at a loss | - |
| sadden | (verb) come to feel sad | - |
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| (verb) make unhappy | - |
| saddle | (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, charge |
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| (verb) put a saddle on | - |
| (verb) load or burden; encumber | - |
| safeguard | (verb) make safe | - |
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| (verb) escort safely | - |
| sag | (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: droop, flag, swag |
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| (verb) cause to sag | Synonyms: sag down |
| sail | (verb) travel on water propelled by wind | - |
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| (verb) move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions | Synonyms: sweep |
| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: navigate, voyage |
| (verb) traverse or travel on (a body of water) | - |
| sailplane | (verb) fly a plane without an engine | Synonyms: soar |
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| saint | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonise, canonize |
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| (verb) hold sacred | Synonyms: enshrine |
| salaam | (verb) greet with a salaam | - |
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| salinate | (verb) make salty | - |
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| salivate | (verb) produce saliva | - |
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| (verb) be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something | Synonyms: drool |
| sallow | (verb) cause to become sallow | - |
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| salt | (verb) preserve with salt | - |
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| (verb) add zest or liveliness to | - |
| (verb) sprinkle as if with salt | - |
| (verb) add salt to | - |
| saltate | (verb) leap or skip, often in dancing | - |
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| (verb) move by saltation | - |
| salute | (verb) greet in a friendly way | - |
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| (verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers | - |
| (verb) express commendation of | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, toast, wassail |
| (verb) become noticeable | - |
| salvage | (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: scavenge |
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| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salve, save |
| salve | (verb) apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing | - |
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| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, save |
| samba | (verb) dance the samba | - |
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| sample | (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: taste, try, try out |
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| sanctify | (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, purify |
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| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, hallow |
| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanction |
| sanction | (verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: approve, O.K., okay |
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| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanctify |
| (verb) give authority or permission to | - |
| sand | (verb) rub with sandpaper | Synonyms: sandpaper |
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| sandbag | (verb) protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up | - |
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| (verb) downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling | - |
| (verb) hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag | Synonyms: stun |
| (verb) treat harshly or unfairly | - |
| (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: dragoon, railroad |
| sandblast | (verb) grind with a sandblast | - |
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| sandpaper | (verb) rub with sandpaper | Synonyms: sand |
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| sandwich | (verb) insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects | - |
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| (verb) make into a sandwich | - |
| sanitate | (verb) provide with sanitary facilities or appliances | - |
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| sanitise | (verb) make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features | Synonyms: sanitize |
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| (verb) make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing | Synonyms: hygienise, hygienize, sanitize |
| sanitize | (verb) make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features | Synonyms: sanitise |
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| (verb) make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing | Synonyms: hygienise, hygienize, sanitise |
| sap | (verb) excavate the earth beneath | - |
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| (verb) deplete | Synonyms: exhaust, play out, run down, tire |
| saponify | (verb) convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali | - |
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| (verb) become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali | - |
| sashay | (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, strut, swagger, tittup |
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| (verb) move sideways | Synonyms: sidle |
| (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: chasse |