| administer | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: dispense |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually | - |
| (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administrate |
| (verb) direct the taking of | - |
| asterisk | (verb) mark with an asterisk | Synonyms: star |
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| baste | (verb) cover with liquid before cooking | - |
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| (verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: tack |
| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: batter, clobber |
| beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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| blister | (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
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| (verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
| bluster | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: swagger, swash |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind | - |
| bolster | (verb) add padding to | Synonyms: pad |
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| (verb) support and strengthen | Synonyms: bolster up |
| (verb) prop up with a pillow or bolster | - |
| chasten | (verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: temper |
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| (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: subdue, tame |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chastise, correct, objurgate |
| christen | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, baptize |
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| cloister | (verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
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| (verb) surround with a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
| cluster | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, clump |
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| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, constellate, flock |
| constellate | (verb) form a constellation or cluster | - |
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| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, flock |
| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: dot, stud |
| consternate | (verb) fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion | - |
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| disesteem | (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disrespect |
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| distemper | (verb) paint with distemper | - |
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| distend | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: dilate |
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| (verb) swell from or as if from internal pressure | - |
| (verb) cause to expand as if by internal pressure | - |
| esteem | (verb) look on as or consider | Synonyms: be known as, know as, look on, look upon, regard as, repute, take to be, think of |
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| (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: prise, prize, respect, value |
| esterify | (verb) change (a compound) into an ester | - |
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| fasten | (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: tighten |
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| (verb) become fixed or fastened | - |
| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fix, secure |
| (verb) attach to | - |
| fester | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: maturate, suppurate |
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| filibuster | (verb) obstruct deliberately by delaying | - |
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| fluster | (verb) cause to be nervous or upset | - |
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| (verb) be flustered; behave in a confused manner | - |
| foster | (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: nurture |
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| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, further |
| (verb) bring up under fosterage; of children | - |
| glisten | (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glitter, shine |
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| hasten | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: induce, rush, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: expedite |
| homestead | (verb) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead | - |
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| huckster | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, higgle |
| lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
| listen | (verb) hear with intention | - |
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| (verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: hear, take heed |
| (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, mind |
| master | (verb) have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of | Synonyms: control |
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| (verb) be or become completely proficient or skilled in | Synonyms: get the hang |
| (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, overcome, subdue, surmount |
| (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: dominate |
| mastermind | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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| minister | (verb) work as a minister | - |
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| (verb) attend to the wants and needs of others | - |
| moisten | (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, wash |
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| (verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: drizzle |
| muster | (verb) call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. | - |
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| (verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster up, rally, summon |
| ostentate | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, show off, swank |
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| overmaster | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overpower, overwhelm |
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| overstep | (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: transgress, trespass |
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| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, pass, top, transcend |
| oyster | (verb) gather oysters, dig oysters | - |
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| paste | (verb) hit with the fists | - |
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| (verb) join or attach with or as if with glue | Synonyms: glue |
| (verb) cover the surface of | - |
| pasteurise | (verb) heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms | Synonyms: pasteurize |
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| pasteurize | (verb) heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms | Synonyms: pasteurise |
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| pester | (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, tease |
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| plaster | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: poultice |
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| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: daub |
| (verb) apply a heavy coat to | Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
| (verb) apply a plaster cast to | - |
| (verb) affix conspicuously | - |
| (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: beplaster |
| quickstep | (verb) perform a quickstep | - |
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| rasterize | (verb) convert (an image) into pixels | - |
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| register | (verb) enter into someone's consciousness | - |
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| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, show |
| (verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: file |
| (verb) send by registered mail | - |
| (verb) manipulate the registers of an organ | - |
| (verb) be aware of | Synonyms: record |
| (verb) show in one's face | - |
| (verb) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions | - |
| (verb) enroll to vote | - |
| (verb) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties | Synonyms: cross-file |
| riposte | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, return |
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| (verb) make a return thrust | - |
| roister | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, riot |
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| sequester | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw |
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| (verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequestrate, set apart |
| (verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion | - |
| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, seize |
| (verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property | - |
| sidestep | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, skirt |
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| steady | (verb) make steady | Synonyms: becalm, calm |
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| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilise, stabilize |
| steal | (verb) steal a base | - |
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| (verb) move stealthily | Synonyms: slip |
| (verb) take without the owner's consent | Synonyms: rip, rip off |
| steam | (verb) cook something by letting steam pass over it | - |
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| (verb) clean by means of steaming | Synonyms: steam clean |
| (verb) get very agitated or angry | - |
| (verb) rise as vapor | - |
| (verb) travel by means of steam power | Synonyms: steamer |
| (verb) emit steam | - |
| steamer | (verb) travel by means of steam power | Synonyms: steam |
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| steamroll | (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroller |
| steamroller | (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroll |
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| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) crush with a steamroller as if to level | - |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroll |
| steel | (verb) cover, plate, or edge with steel | - |
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| (verb) get ready for something difficult or unpleasant | Synonyms: nerve |
| steep | (verb) let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse | Synonyms: infuse |
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| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up |
| steepen | (verb) make steeper | - |
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| (verb) become steeper | - |
| steer | (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point |
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| (verb) direct (oneself) somewhere | - |
| (verb) be a guiding or motivating force or drive | Synonyms: guide |
| stem | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, stanch, staunch |
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| (verb) remove the stem from | - |
| (verb) grow out of, have roots in, originate in | - |
| (verb) cause to point inward | - |
| stencil | (verb) mark or print with a stencil | - |
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| stenograph | (verb) write in shorthand | - |
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| step | (verb) measure (distances) by pacing | Synonyms: pace |
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| (verb) move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation | - |
| (verb) place (a ship's mast) in its step | - |
| (verb) shift or move by taking a step | - |
| (verb) put down or press the foot, place the foot | Synonyms: tread |
| (verb) walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner | - |
| (verb) move with one's feet in a specific manner | - |
| (verb) furnish with steps | - |
| (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat |
| (verb) cause (a computer) to execute a single command | - |
| stereotype | (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: pigeonhole, stamp |
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| sterilise | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilize, unsex |
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| (verb) make free from bacteria | Synonyms: sterilize |
| sterilize | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, unsex |
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| (verb) make free from bacteria | Synonyms: sterilise |
| stet | (verb) direct that a matter marked for omission or correction is to be retained | - |
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| (verb) cancel, as of a correction or deletion | - |
| stew | (verb) cook slowly and for a long time in liquid | - |
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| (verb) bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings | Synonyms: grudge |
| (verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, grizzle |
| systematise | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematize, systemise, systemize |
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| systematize | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systemise, systemize |
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| systemise | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systematize, systemize |
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| systemize | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systematize, systemise |
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| taste | (verb) experience briefly | - |
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| (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: sample, try, try out |
| (verb) perceive by the sense of taste | - |
| (verb) distinguish flavors | - |
| (verb) have flavor; taste of something | Synonyms: savor, savour |
| (verb) have a distinctive or characteristic taste | Synonyms: smack |
| unfasten | (verb) become undone or untied | - |
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| (verb) cause to become undone | - |
| upholster | (verb) provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers | - |
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| waste | (verb) become physically weaker | Synonyms: rot |
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| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge |
| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: emaciate, macerate |
| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: languish, pine away |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, squander, ware |
| (verb) use inefficiently or inappropriately | - |
| (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize |
| (verb) run off as waste | Synonyms: run off |
| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, squander |
| (verb) dispose of | - |
| 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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