| traverse | (verb) deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit | Synonyms: deny |
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| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: cross, span, sweep |
| travesty | (verb) make a travesty of | - |
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| trawl | (verb) fish with trawlers | - |
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| tread | (verb) crush as if by treading on | - |
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| (verb) brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center | - |
| (verb) mate with (used of male birds) | - |
| (verb) tread or stomp heavily or roughly | Synonyms: trample |
| (verb) put down or press the foot, place the foot | Synonyms: step |
| (verb) apply (the tread) to a tire | - |
| treadle | (verb) operate (machinery) by a treadle | - |
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| (verb) tread over | - |
| treasure | (verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, cherish, hold dear |
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| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, prize, value |
| treat | (verb) provide treatment for | Synonyms: care for |
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| (verb) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | Synonyms: process |
| (verb) regard or consider in a specific way | - |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, plow |
| (verb) engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement | - |
| (verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink | Synonyms: regale |
| (verb) provide with a gift or entertainment | - |
| (verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, handle |
| treble | (verb) increase threefold | Synonyms: triple |
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| (verb) sing treble | - |
| tree | (verb) stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree | Synonyms: shoetree |
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| (verb) chase an animal up a tree | - |
| (verb) plant with trees | - |
| (verb) force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape | Synonyms: corner |
| trek | (verb) make a long and difficult journey | - |
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| (verb) journey on foot, especially in the mountains | - |
| trellis | (verb) train on a trellis, as of a vine | - |
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| tremble | (verb) move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways | - |
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| tremor | (verb) shake with seismic vibrations | Synonyms: quake |
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| trench | (verb) cut or carve deeply into | - |
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| (verb) dig a trench or trenches | - |
| (verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: ditch |
| (verb) fortify by surrounding with trenches | - |
| (verb) set, plant, or bury in a trench | - |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, impinge |
| trend | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, veer |
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| (verb) to be temporarily popular | - |
| trepan | (verb) cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery | - |
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| trephine | (verb) operate on with a trephine | - |
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| trespass | (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: overstep, transgress |
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| (verb) break the law | - |
| (verb) enter unlawfully on someone's property | Synonyms: intrude |
| (verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: sin, transgress |
| (verb) make excessive use of | Synonyms: take advantage |
| triangulate | (verb) survey by triangulation | - |
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| (verb) measure by using trigonometry | - |
| (verb) divide into triangles or give a triangular form to | - |
| tribulate | (verb) oppress or trouble greatly | - |
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| trice | (verb) hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope | Synonyms: trice up |
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| (verb) raise with a line | Synonyms: trice up |
| trick | (verb) deceive somebody | Synonyms: flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on |
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| trickle | (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: dribble, filter |
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| trifle | (verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, play |
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| (verb) act frivolously | Synonyms: frivol |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, wanton, wanton away |
| trifurcate | (verb) divide into three | - |
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| trigger | (verb) release or pull the trigger on | - |
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| (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger off, trip |
| trill | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, warble |
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| (verb) pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r' | - |
| trim | (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down |
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| (verb) adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used | - |
| (verb) cut closely | Synonyms: shave |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip |
| (verb) remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size | Synonyms: pare |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, garnish |
| (verb) decorate, as with ornaments | - |
| (verb) be in equilibrium during a flight | - |
| (verb) balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces | - |
| trip | (verb) get high, stoned, or drugged | Synonyms: get off, trip out, turn on |
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| (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off |
| (verb) miss a step and fall or nearly fall | Synonyms: stumble |
| (verb) cause to stumble | Synonyms: trip up |
| (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: jaunt, travel |
| triple | (verb) increase threefold | Synonyms: treble |
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| (verb) hit a three-base hit | - |
| triplicate | (verb) reproduce threefold | - |
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| trisect | (verb) cut in three | - |
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| triumph | (verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: crow, gloat |
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| (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, jubilate, rejoice |
| (verb) prove superior | Synonyms: prevail |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: rejoice, wallow |
| trivialise | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialize |
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| trivialize | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialise |
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| troat | (verb) emit a cry intended to attract other animals; used especially of animals at rutting time | - |
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| troll | (verb) sing loudly and without inhibition | - |
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| (verb) praise or celebrate in song | - |
| (verb) speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice | - |
| (verb) angle with a hook and line drawn through the water | - |
| (verb) sing the parts of (a round) in succession | - |
| (verb) cause to move round and round | - |
| (verb) circulate, move around | - |
| troop | (verb) move or march as if in a crowd | - |
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| (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: parade, promenade |
| trot | (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: clip, jog |
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| (verb) ride at a trot | - |
| (verb) cause to trot | - |
| trouble | (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: ail, pain |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, unhinge |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: disturb, upset |
| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out |
| (verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: bother, inconvenience oneself, trouble oneself |
| troubleshoot | (verb) solve problems | Synonyms: trouble-shoot |
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| trounce | (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, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task |
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| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip |
| trowel | (verb) use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work | - |
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| truck | (verb) convey (goods etc.) by truck | - |
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| truckle | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady |
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| (verb) yield to out of weakness | - |
| trudge | (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp |
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| true | (verb) make level, square, balanced, or concentric | Synonyms: true up |
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| trump | (verb) proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare | Synonyms: trump out |
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| (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: best, outdo, outflank, scoop |
| (verb) play a trump | Synonyms: ruff |
| (verb) produce a sound as if from a trumpet | - |
| trumpet | (verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet | - |
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| (verb) utter in trumpet-like sounds | - |
| (verb) play or blow on the trumpet | - |
| truncate | (verb) make shorter as if by cutting off | Synonyms: cut short |
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| (verb) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one | - |
| (verb) replace a corner by a plane | - |
| trundle | (verb) move heavily | - |
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| truss | (verb) support structurally | - |
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| (verb) tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it | - |
| (verb) secure with or as if with ropes | Synonyms: bind, tie down, tie up |
| trust | (verb) have confidence or faith in | - |
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| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: believe |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: desire, hope |
| (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, entrust, intrust |
| (verb) (chiefly archaic) extend credit to | - |
| (verb) allow without fear | - |
| try | (verb) put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice | Synonyms: try on |
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| (verb) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: sample, taste, try out |
| (verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: strain, stress |
| (verb) give pain or trouble to | - |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, essay, seek |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, test, try out |
| (verb) examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process | Synonyms: hear |
| (verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: adjudicate, judge |
| ultracentrifuge | (verb) subject to the action of an ultracentrifuge | - |
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| unstrain | (verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unwind |
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| unstrap | (verb) remove the strap or straps from | - |
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| unstring | (verb) remove the strings from | - |
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| vitrify | (verb) undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like | - |
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| (verb) change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat | - |
| vitriol | (verb) subject to bitter verbal abuse | - |
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| (verb) expose to the effects of vitriol or injure with vitriol | - |
| waitress | (verb) serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant | Synonyms: wait |
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| weatherstrip | (verb) provide with weatherstripping | - |
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