| battle | (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: combat |
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| beetle | (verb) beat with a beetle | - |
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| (verb) fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle | - |
| (verb) be suspended over or hang over | Synonyms: overhang |
| belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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| (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
| bootleg | (verb) produce or distribute illegally | - |
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| (verb) sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol | - |
| bottle | (verb) put into bottles | - |
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| (verb) store (liquids or gases) in bottles | - |
| bottlefeed | (verb) feed (infants) with a bottle | - |
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| bottleneck | (verb) become narrow, like a bottleneck | - |
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| (verb) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction | - |
| brattle | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: clack, clatter |
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| bristle | (verb) react in an offended or angry manner | - |
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| (verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: stand up, uprise |
| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, burst |
| (verb) have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles | - |
| bustle | (verb) move or cause to move energetically or busily | Synonyms: bustle about, hustle |
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| castle | (verb) move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king | - |
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| chortle | (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chuckle, laugh softly |
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| disgruntle | (verb) put into a bad mood or into bad humour | - |
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| dismantle | (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: strip |
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| (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, disassemble, take apart |
| (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
| embattle | (verb) prepare for battle or conflict | - |
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| (verb) fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense | - |
| embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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| entitle | (verb) give a title to | Synonyms: title |
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| (verb) give the right to | - |
| (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: ennoble, gentle |
| fettle | (verb) remove mold marks or sand from (a casting) | - |
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| footle | (verb) act foolishly, as by talking nonsense | - |
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| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| gentle | (verb) stroke soothingly | - |
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| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: ennoble, entitle |
| gruntle | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
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| guttle | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, pig, raven |
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| hurtle | (verb) throw forcefully | Synonyms: cast, hurl |
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| (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, lunge, thrust |
| (verb) move with or as if with a rushing sound | - |
| hustle | (verb) pressure or urge someone into an action | - |
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| (verb) move or cause to move energetically or busily | Synonyms: bustle, bustle about |
| (verb) cause to move furtively and hurriedly | - |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: pluck, roll |
| (verb) get by trying hard | - |
| jostle | (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: shove |
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| (verb) make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving | - |
| mantle | (verb) cover like a mantle | - |
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| (verb) spread over a surface, like a mantle | - |
| motley | (verb) make motley; color with different colors | Synonyms: parti-color |
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| (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: variegate, vary |
| mottle | (verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: cloud, dapple |
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| (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, streak |
| mudwrestle | (verb) wrestle in mud | Synonyms: mud-wrestle |
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| nestle | (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nuzzle, snuggle |
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| (verb) position comfortably | Synonyms: snuggle |
| (verb) lie in a sheltered position | - |
| nettle | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, rag, rile, vex |
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| (verb) sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation | Synonyms: urticate |
| pestle | (verb) grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar | - |
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| prattle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| rattle | (verb) shake and cause to make a rattling noise | - |
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| (verb) make short successive sounds | - |
| resettle | (verb) settle in a new place | - |
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| rootle | (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rout |
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| rustle | (verb) make a dry crackling sound | - |
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| (verb) take illegally | Synonyms: lift |
| (verb) forage food | - |
| scuttle | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, skitter |
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| settle | (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: locate |
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| (verb) form a community | - |
| (verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | Synonyms: root, settle down, steady down, take root |
| (verb) establish or develop as a residence | - |
| (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, finalize, nail down |
| (verb) become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet | - |
| (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, fall |
| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, resolve |
| (verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: determine, square off, square up |
| (verb) end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement | - |
| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, reconcile |
| (verb) accept despite lack of complete satisfaction | - |
| (verb) get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury | Synonyms: get back |
| (verb) fix firmly | Synonyms: ensconce |
| (verb) arrange or fix in the desired order | - |
| (verb) come to rest | - |
| (verb) settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground | Synonyms: settle down |
| (verb) cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids) | - |
| (verb) sink down or precipitate | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) go under | Synonyms: go down, go under, sink |
| (verb) become clear by the sinking of particles | - |
| (verb) dispose of; make a financial settlement | - |
| shuttle | (verb) travel back and forth between two points | - |
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| shuttlecock | (verb) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock | - |
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| skittle | (verb) play skittles | - |
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| startle | (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanise, galvanize |
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| (verb) move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm | Synonyms: jump, start |
| subtitle | (verb) supply (a movie) with subtitles | - |
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| tattle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk |
| throttle | (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: choke |
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| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrict, trammel |
| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, strangulate |
| title | (verb) give a title to | Synonyms: entitle |
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| (verb) designate by an identifying term | Synonyms: style |
| tootle | (verb) play (a musical instrument) casually | - |
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| turtle | (verb) hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation | - |
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| (verb) overturn accidentally | Synonyms: capsize, turn turtle |
| unsettle | (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: enervate, faze, unnerve |
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| wattle | (verb) interlace to form wattle | - |
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| (verb) build of or with wattle | - |
| whistle | (verb) utter or express by whistling | - |
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| (verb) make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound | Synonyms: sing |
| (verb) give a signal by whistling | - |
| (verb) move with, or as with, a whistling sound | - |
| (verb) move, send, or bring as if by whistling | - |
| (verb) make whistling sounds | - |
| whistlestop | (verb) tour the country in order to solicit votes for an election | - |
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| whittle | (verb) cut small bits or pare shavings from | Synonyms: pare |
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| wrestle | (verb) engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate | - |
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| (verb) combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force | - |
| (verb) engage in a wrestling match | - |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wriggle, writhe |