| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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| accumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| acidulate | (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, sour |
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| adulate | (verb) flatter in an obsequious manner | - |
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| adulterate | (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: debase, dilute, load, stretch |
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| ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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| angulate | (verb) make or become angular | - |
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| annul | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash, void |
| articulate | (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out |
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| (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: enunciate, vocalise, vocalize |
| (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: formulate, give voice, phrase, word |
| (verb) provide with a joint | Synonyms: joint |
| (verb) unite by forming a joint or joints | - |
| assault | (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, attack, lash out, round, snipe |
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| (verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assail, attack, set on |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
| auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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| avulse | (verb) separate by avulsion | - |
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| baulk | (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, jib, resist |
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| befoul | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: defile, foul, maculate |
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| bulge | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: pouch, protrude |
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| (verb) cause to bulge or swell outwards | Synonyms: bulk |
| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, protrude, start |
| (verb) bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge | Synonyms: bag |
| bulk | (verb) cause to bulge or swell outwards | Synonyms: bulge |
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| (verb) stick out or up | - |
| (verb) to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet | - |
| bull | (verb) advance in price | - |
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| (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bullshit, fake, talk through one's hat |
| (verb) try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying | - |
| (verb) push or force | Synonyms: bull through |
| bulldog | (verb) attack viciously and ferociously | - |
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| (verb) throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo | - |
| bulldoze | (verb) flatten with or as if with a bulldozer | - |
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| bulletin | (verb) make public by bulletin | - |
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| bulletproof | (verb) make bulletproof | - |
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| bullshit | (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, fake, talk through one's hat |
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| bully | (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: browbeat, swagger |
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| (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
| bullyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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| bulwark | (verb) defend with a bulwark | - |
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| calculate | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, direct |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: forecast |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: account |
| cannulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulise, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| cannulise | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| cannulize | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, canulate, intubate |
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| canulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, intubate |
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| capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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| capsulate | (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| capsule | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsulise, capsulize, encapsulate |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsulise, capsulize |
| capsulise | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulize, encapsulate |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsule, capsulize |
| capsulize | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, encapsulate |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsule, capsulise |
| catapult | (verb) shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult | - |
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| (verb) hurl as if with a sling | Synonyms: sling |
| catenulate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
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| caterwaul | (verb) utter shrieks, as of cats | Synonyms: yowl |
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| caulk | (verb) seal with caulking | Synonyms: calk |
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| circularise | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularize |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularize |
| circularize | (verb) make circular | - |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by using a questionnaire | - |
| circulate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: go around, spread |
| (verb) move around freely from person to person or from place to place | - |
| (verb) move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point | - |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) cause to move in a circuit or system | - |
| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| coagulate | (verb) change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state | Synonyms: clot |
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| (verb) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state | Synonyms: clot |
| confabulate | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confer, consult |
| (verb) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory | - |
| congratulate | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: compliment |
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| (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: felicitate |
| (verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: preen |
| (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: plume, pride |
| consult | (verb) advise professionally | - |
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| (verb) seek information from | Synonyms: look up, refer |
| (verb) get or ask advice from | Synonyms: confer with |
| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confabulate, confer |
| convulse | (verb) be overcome with laughter | - |
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| (verb) make someone convulse with laughter | - |
| (verb) contract involuntarily, as in a spasm | - |
| (verb) cause to contract | - |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) shake uncontrollably | - |
| copulate | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair |
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| cull | (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
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| (verb) remove something that has been rejected | - |
| culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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| (verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
| (verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
| (verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
| (verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
| cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
| culture | (verb) grow in a special preparation | - |
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| cumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, gather, pile up |
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| default | (verb) fail to pay up | Synonyms: default on |
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| demasculinise | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| demasculinize | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, emasculate |
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| demodulate | (verb) extract information from a modulated carrier wave | - |
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| demulsify | (verb) break down into components | - |
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| (verb) cause to demulsify | - |
| depopulate | (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: desolate |
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| deregulate | (verb) lift the regulations on | - |
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| desulfurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulphurize |
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| desulphurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulfurize |
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| disarticulate | (verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disjoint |
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| discombobulate | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, bewilder, throw |
| dissimulate | (verb) hide (feelings) from other people | - |
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| divulge | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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| dulcify | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten |
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| dulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, edulcorate, sweeten |
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| dull | (verb) become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness | - |
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| (verb) make less lively or vigorous | - |
| (verb) become less interesting or attractive | Synonyms: pall |
| (verb) make dull in appearance | - |
| (verb) make dull or blunt | Synonyms: blunt |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, muffle, mute, tone down |
| (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, blunt, numb |
| edulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, sweeten |
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| ejaculate | (verb) eject semen | - |
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| (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out |
| emasculate | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize |
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| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: castrate |
| emulate | (verb) compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with | - |
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| (verb) strive to equal or match, especially by imitating | - |
| (verb) imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software | - |
| emulsify | (verb) form into or become an emulsion | - |
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| (verb) cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion | - |
| encapsulate | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule or other small container | - |
| engulf | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) flow over or cover completely | - |
| eulogise | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogize |
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| eulogize | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogise |
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| exculpate | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate |
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| expostulate | (verb) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | - |
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| exult | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, jubilate, rejoice, triumph |
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| (verb) feel extreme happiness or elation | Synonyms: be on cloud nine, jump for joy, walk on air |
| fault | (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: blame |
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| flocculate | (verb) form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass | - |
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| (verb) cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate | - |
| formularise | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularize |
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| formularize | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularise |
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| formulate | (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, give voice, phrase, word |
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| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: develop, explicate |
| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, invent |
| (verb) prepare according to a formula | - |
| foul | (verb) become soiled and dirty | - |
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| (verb) make unclean | - |
| (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, defile, maculate |
| (verb) make impure | Synonyms: contaminate, pollute |
| (verb) commit a foul; break the rules | - |
| (verb) hit a foul ball | - |
| (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, crap up |
| fulfil | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
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| (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfill |
| (verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfill, live up to, satisfy |
| fulfill | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, meet, satisfy |
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| (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil |
| (verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfil, live up to, satisfy |
| full | (verb) increase in phase | Synonyms: wax |
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| (verb) make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering | - |
| (verb) beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening | - |
| fullback | (verb) play the fullback | - |
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| fulminate | (verb) cause to explode violently and with loud noise | - |
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| (verb) come on suddenly and intensely | - |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: rail |
| gesticulate | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesture, motion |
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| granulate | (verb) form granulating tissue | - |
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| (verb) form into grains | Synonyms: grain |
| (verb) become granular | Synonyms: grain |
| gull | (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, fool, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
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| (verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: befool, fool |
| gulp | (verb) utter or make a noise, as when swallowing too quickly | - |
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| (verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught | Synonyms: quaff, swig |
| haul | (verb) transport in a vehicle | - |
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| (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: cart, drag, hale |
| hulk | (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: loom, predominate, tower |
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