| attend | (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: advert, give ear, hang, pay heed |
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| (verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: assist, attend to, serve, wait on |
| (verb) take charge of or deal with | Synonyms: look, see, take care |
| (verb) be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc. | Synonyms: go to |
| (verb) to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result | - |
| attenuate | (verb) become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude | - |
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| (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: rarefy |
| batten | (verb) secure with battens | - |
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| (verb) furnish with battens | Synonyms: batten down, secure |
| brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
| catenate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenulate |
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| catenulate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
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| 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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| concatenate | (verb) add by linking or joining so as to form a chain or series | - |
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| (verb) combine two strings to form a single one | - |
| contend | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contest, repugn |
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| (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, debate, fence |
| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: postulate |
| (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: compete, vie |
| (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: fight, struggle |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
| content | (verb) satisfy in a limited way | - |
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| (verb) make content | - |
| countenance | (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, let, permit |
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| discontent | (verb) make dissatisfied | - |
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| discountenance | (verb) show disapproval by discouraging | - |
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| (verb) look with disfavor on | - |
| dishearten | (verb) take away the enthusiasm of | Synonyms: put off |
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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 | - |
| enlighten | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make understand | Synonyms: edify |
| (verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion | Synonyms: irradiate |
| extend | (verb) extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body | Synonyms: stretch |
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| (verb) thrust or extend out | Synonyms: exsert, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out |
| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: broaden, widen |
| (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, prolong, protract |
| (verb) continue or extend | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) expand the influence of | Synonyms: expand |
| (verb) increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance | Synonyms: stretch |
| (verb) prolong the time allowed for payment of | - |
| (verb) use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity | Synonyms: strain |
| (verb) open or straighten out; unbend | - |
| (verb) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | Synonyms: stretch, stretch out, unfold |
| (verb) cause to move at full gallop | Synonyms: gallop |
| (verb) offer verbally | Synonyms: offer |
| (verb) make available; provide | Synonyms: offer |
| (verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: continue, cover |
| (verb) reach outward in space | Synonyms: poke out, reach out |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: go, lead, pass, run |
| extenuate | (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: mitigate, palliate |
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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 | - |
| fatten | (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fat, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
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| flatten | (verb) become flat or flatter | Synonyms: flatten out |
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| (verb) make flat or flatter | - |
| (verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes) | Synonyms: drop |
| foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
| frighten | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, scare |
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| 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 |
| hearten | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, embolden, recreate |
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| heighten | (verb) increase the level of | Synonyms: enhance, raise |
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| (verb) become more extreme | Synonyms: rise |
| (verb) make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity | - |
| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, deepen, intensify |
| (verb) make (one's senses) more acute | Synonyms: sharpen |
| (verb) increase the height of | - |
| hyperextend | (verb) extend a joint beyond its normal range | - |
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| intend | (verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: mean, think |
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| (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, destine, specify |
| (verb) mean or intend to express or convey | Synonyms: mean |
| (verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: mean, signify, stand for |
| intensify | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: deepen |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, deepen, heighten |
| (verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: escalate, step up |
| (verb) make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark | - |
| kitten | (verb) give birth to kittens | - |
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| lighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: brighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become lighter | Synonyms: lighten up |
| (verb) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive | Synonyms: relieve |
| (verb) become more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| (verb) reduce the weight on; make lighter | - |
| (verb) make more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| 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 |
| moisten | (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, wash |
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| (verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: drizzle |
| neaten | (verb) care for one's external appearance | Synonyms: groom |
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| (verb) put (things or places) in order | Synonyms: clean up, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy, tidy up |
| ostentate | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, show off, swank |
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| overextend | (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overstrain |
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| patent | (verb) make open to sight or notice | - |
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| (verb) obtain a patent for | - |
| (verb) grant rights to; grant a patent for | - |
| portend | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| potentiate | (verb) increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon) | - |
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| pretend | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, sham |
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| (verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make, make believe |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, venture |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: profess |
| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, dissemble |
| (verb) put forward a claim and assert right or possession of | - |
| quieten | (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, shut up, silence, still |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down |
| sentence | (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law | Synonyms: condemn, doom |
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| shorten | (verb) become short or shorter | - |
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| (verb) make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate |
| (verb) make short or shorter | - |
| soften | (verb) become soft or softer | - |
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| (verb) make soft or softer | - |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, dampen, weaken |
| (verb) make less severe or harsh | Synonyms: mince, moderate |
| (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, cushion |
| (verb) make (images or sounds) soft or softer | - |
| (verb) give in, as to influence or pressure | Synonyms: relent, yield |
| stencil | (verb) mark or print with a stencil | - |
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| stenograph | (verb) write in shorthand | - |
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| straighten | (verb) put (things or places) in order | Synonyms: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten out, tidy, tidy up |
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| (verb) make straight or straighter | - |
| (verb) make straight | Synonyms: straighten out |
| (verb) straighten by unrolling | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) straighten up or out; make straight | Synonyms: unbend |
| (verb) get up from a sitting or slouching position | - |
| straiten | (verb) squeeze together | - |
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| (verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: distress |
| subtend | (verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: delimit |
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| superintend | (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: manage, oversee, supervise |
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| sweeten | (verb) make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable | - |
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| (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate |
| tauten | (verb) become taut or tauter | Synonyms: firm |
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| (verb) make taut or tauter | Synonyms: firm |
| tenant | (verb) occupy as a tenant | - |
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| tend | (verb) have care of or look after | - |
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| (verb) manage or run | - |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, run |
| tender | (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tenderise, tenderize |
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| (verb) make a tender of; in legal settlements | - |
| (verb) offer or present for acceptance | - |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: bid, offer |
| tenderise | (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tender, tenderize |
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| tenderize | (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tender, tenderise |
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| tense | (verb) cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | Synonyms: strain, tense up |
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| (verb) become tense, nervous, or uneasy | Synonyms: tense up |
| (verb) increase the tension on | - |
| (verb) become stretched or tense or taut | Synonyms: strain |
| tent | (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp |
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| tenure | (verb) give life-time employment to | - |
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| threaten | (verb) to utter intentions of injury or punishment against | - |
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| (verb) to be a menacing indication of something | - |
| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril |
| tighten | (verb) become tight or tighter | - |
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| (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: fasten |
| (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: constrain, stiffen, tighten up |
| (verb) narrow or limit | Synonyms: reduce |
| unfasten | (verb) become undone or untied | - |
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| (verb) cause to become undone | - |
| whiten | (verb) turn white | Synonyms: white |
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