| retort | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, return, riposte |
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| retouch | (verb) alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance | Synonyms: touch up |
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| (verb) give retouches to (hair) | - |
| stock | (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: sprout |
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| (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: carry, stockpile |
| (verb) amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use | Synonyms: buy in, stock up |
| (verb) provide or furnish with a stock of something | - |
| (verb) supply with livestock | - |
| (verb) supply with fish | - |
| (verb) equip with a stock | - |
| stockade | (verb) surround with a stockade in order to fortify | - |
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| stockpile | (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: carry, stock |
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| stoke | (verb) stir up or tend; of a fire | - |
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| stomach | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) bear to eat | - |
| stomp | (verb) walk heavily | Synonyms: stamp, stump |
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| stone | (verb) remove the pits from | Synonyms: pit |
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| (verb) kill by throwing stones at | Synonyms: lapidate |
| stonewall | (verb) engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate | - |
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| (verb) obstruct or hinder any discussion | - |
| stonewash | (verb) wash with stones to achieve a worn appearance | Synonyms: stone-wash |
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| stooge | (verb) act as a stooge, in a compliant or subordinate manner | - |
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| (verb) act as the stooge | - |
| (verb) cruise in slow or routine flights | - |
| stool | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, shit, take a crap, take a shit |
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| (verb) grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers | Synonyms: tiller |
| (verb) react to a decoy, of wildfowl | - |
| (verb) lure with a stool, as of wild fowl | - |
| stoop | (verb) carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward | - |
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| (verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bend, bow, crouch |
| (verb) descend swiftly, as if on prey | - |
| (verb) sag, bend, bend over or down | - |
| (verb) debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way | Synonyms: condescend, lower oneself |
| stop | (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break, break off, discontinue |
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| (verb) stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments | Synonyms: hold on |
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, check, contain, hold back, turn back |
| (verb) seize on its way | Synonyms: intercept |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade |
| (verb) come to a halt, stop moving | Synonyms: halt |
| (verb) cause to end | - |
| (verb) interrupt a trip | Synonyms: stop over |
| (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, halt, kibosh |
| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, finish, terminate |
| stopper | (verb) close or secure with or as if with a stopper | Synonyms: stopple |
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| stopple | (verb) close or secure with or as if with a stopper | Synonyms: stopper |
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| store | (verb) keep or lay aside for future use | Synonyms: hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away |
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| (verb) find a place for and put away for storage | - |
| storm | (verb) attack by storm; attack suddenly | Synonyms: surprise |
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| (verb) take by force | Synonyms: force |
| (verb) behave violently, as if in state of a great anger | Synonyms: rage, ramp |
| (verb) blow hard | - |
| (verb) rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning | - |
| stow | (verb) fill by packing tightly | - |
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| tattoo | (verb) stain (skin) with indelible color | - |
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| teetertotter | (verb) ride on a plank | Synonyms: seesaw, teeter-totter |
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| teetotal | (verb) practice teetotalism and abstain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages | - |
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| territorialise | (verb) extend by adding territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
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| (verb) place on a territorial basis | Synonyms: territorialize |
| (verb) organize as a territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
| territorialize | (verb) extend by adding territory | Synonyms: territorialise |
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| (verb) place on a territorial basis | Synonyms: territorialise |
| (verb) organize as a territory | Synonyms: territorialise |
| ticktock | (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, tick, ticktack |
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| tippytoe | (verb) walk on one's toes | Synonyms: tip, tiptoe |
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| tiptoe | (verb) walk on one's toes | Synonyms: tip, tippytoe |
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| toady | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, truckle |
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| toast | (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crisp, crispen |
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| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, wassail |
| toboggan | (verb) move along on a luge or toboggan | Synonyms: luge |
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| toddle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, totter, waddle |
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| toe | (verb) touch with the toe | - |
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| (verb) hit (a golf ball) with the toe of the club | - |
| (verb) drive obliquely | Synonyms: toenail |
| (verb) drive (a golf ball) with the toe of the club | - |
| (verb) walk so that the toes assume an indicated position or direction | - |
| toenail | (verb) drive obliquely | Synonyms: toe |
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| tog | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment |
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| toggle | (verb) fasten with, or as if with, a toggle | - |
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| (verb) release by a toggle switch | - |
| (verb) provide with a toggle or toggles | - |
| toil | (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, travail |
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| tolerate | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support |
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| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: allow, permit |
| (verb) have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition | - |
| (verb) recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others) | - |
| toll | (verb) ring slowly | - |
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| (verb) charge a fee for using | - |
| tomahawk | (verb) cut with a tomahawk | - |
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| (verb) kill with a tomahawk | - |
| tone | (verb) give a healthy elasticity to | Synonyms: strengthen, tone up |
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| (verb) change to a color image | - |
| (verb) change the color or tone of | - |
| (verb) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | Synonyms: chant, intone |
| (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: inflect, modulate |
| tongue | (verb) lick or explore with the tongue | - |
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| (verb) articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments | - |
| tonsure | (verb) shave the head of a newly inducted monk | - |
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| tool | (verb) work with a tool | - |
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| (verb) ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it | Synonyms: joyride, tool around |
| (verb) drive | - |
| (verb) furnish with tools | - |
| toot | (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, blare, claxon, honk |
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| tootle | (verb) play (a musical instrument) casually | - |
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| top | (verb) be the culminating event | Synonyms: crown |
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| (verb) finish up or conclude | Synonyms: top off |
| (verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: pinch |
| (verb) strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin | - |
| (verb) pass by, over, or under without making contact | Synonyms: clear |
| (verb) reach or ascend the top of | - |
| (verb) provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure) | Synonyms: top out |
| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, pass, transcend |
| (verb) be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point | - |
| (verb) be ahead of others; be the first | Synonyms: lead |
| topdress | (verb) scatter manure or fertilizer over (land) | - |
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| tope | (verb) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic | Synonyms: drink |
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| topicalize | (verb) emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence | - |
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| topple | (verb) fall down, as if collapsing | Synonyms: tumble |
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| (verb) cause to topple or tumble by pushing | Synonyms: tip, tumble |
| torch | (verb) burn maliciously, as by arson | - |
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| torment | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torture |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torture |
| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag |
| torpedo | (verb) attack or hit with torpedoes | - |
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| torture | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torment |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torment |
| toss | (verb) agitate | - |
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| (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, pitch, sky |
| (verb) throw carelessly | Synonyms: chuck |
| (verb) lightly throw to see which side comes up | Synonyms: flip |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about |
| (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss away, toss out |
| tot | (verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot up, total, tote up |
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| total | (verb) damage beyond the point of repair | - |
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| (verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, tote up |
| (verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, come, number |
| totalise | (verb) make into a total | Synonyms: totalize |
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| totalize | (verb) make into a total | Synonyms: totalise |
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| tote | (verb) carry with difficulty | Synonyms: lug, tug |
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| totter | (verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: seesaw, teeter |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, waddle |
| (verb) move without being stable, as if threatening to fall | - |
| touch | (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch on |
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| (verb) color lightly | Synonyms: tinct, tinge, tint |
| (verb) comprehend | - |
| (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, allude |
| (verb) consume | Synonyms: partake |
| (verb) make physical contact with, come in contact with | - |
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, contact, meet |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: disturb |
| (verb) cause to be in brief contact with | - |
| (verb) affect emotionally | Synonyms: stir |
| (verb) perceive via the tactile sense | - |
| (verb) deal with; usually used with a form of negation | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch on |
| (verb) to extend as far as | Synonyms: extend to, reach |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, match, rival |
| toughen | (verb) make tough or tougher | - |
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| tour | (verb) make a tour of a certain place | - |
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| tourney | (verb) engage in a tourney | - |
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| tousle | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: dishevel, tangle |
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| tout | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, vaunt |
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| (verb) advertize in strongly positive terms | - |
| tow | (verb) drag behind | - |
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| towel | (verb) wipe with a towel | - |
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| tower | (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, loom, predominate |
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| toy | (verb) engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously | Synonyms: play |
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| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, fiddle, play |
| (verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, flirt, play |
| transistorise | (verb) equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors | Synonyms: transistorize |
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| transistorize | (verb) equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors | Synonyms: transistorise |
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| tutor | (verb) be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction | - |
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| (verb) act as a guardian to someone | - |
| unbutton | (verb) undo the buttons of | - |
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| understock | (verb) stock with less than the usual or desirable number or quantity | - |
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| vasectomise | (verb) remove the vas deferens | Synonyms: vasectomize |
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| vasectomize | (verb) remove the vas deferens | Synonyms: vasectomise |
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| veto | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe |
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| (verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: blackball, negative |
| wanton | (verb) behave extremely cruelly and brutally | - |
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| (verb) engage in amorous play | - |
| (verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: luxuriate |
| (verb) spend wastefully | Synonyms: trifle away, wanton away |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, trifle, wanton away |
| (verb) indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life | - |
| whistlestop | (verb) tour the country in order to solicit votes for an election | - |
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