| abound | (verb) be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities | - |
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| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: bristle, burst |
| astound | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astonish |
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| background | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: downplay, play down |
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| blunder | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate |
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| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
| (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: boob, drop the ball, goof, sin |
| bound | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: jump, leap, spring |
| (verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: border |
| bundle | (verb) sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed | Synonyms: practice bundling |
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| (verb) make into a bundle | Synonyms: bundle up, roll up |
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: compact, pack, wad |
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
| compound | (verb) put or add together | Synonyms: combine |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: deepen, heighten, intensify |
| (verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: combine |
| (verb) create by mixing or combining | - |
| (verb) calculate principal and interest | - |
| confound | (verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confuse |
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| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
| dumbfound | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| expound | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, flesh out, lucubrate |
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| (verb) state | Synonyms: exposit, set forth |
| fecundate | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize, inseminate |
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| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize |
| flounder | (verb) walk with great difficulty | Synonyms: stagger |
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| (verb) behave awkwardly; have difficulties | - |
| foreground | (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: highlight, play up, spotlight |
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| found | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, ground |
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| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, institute, plant |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, launch, set up |
| founder | (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, give, give way |
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| (verb) sink below the surface | - |
| (verb) stumble and nearly fall | - |
| (verb) fail utterly; collapse | Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, flop |
| fund | (verb) furnish money for | - |
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| (verb) place or store up in a fund for accumulation | - |
| (verb) convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds | - |
| (verb) accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability | - |
| (verb) invest money in government securities | - |
| (verb) provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest | - |
| fundraise | (verb) raise money for a cause or project | Synonyms: fund-raise, fund raise |
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| ground | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, found |
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| (verb) instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject | - |
| (verb) place or put on the ground | - |
| (verb) confine or restrict to the ground | - |
| (verb) connect to a ground | - |
| (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: prime, undercoat |
| (verb) fix firmly and stably | Synonyms: anchor |
| (verb) (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field. | - |
| (verb) throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage | - |
| (verb) hit or reach the ground | Synonyms: run aground |
| (verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: run aground, strand |
| hound | (verb) pursue or chase relentlessly | Synonyms: hunt, trace |
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| impound | (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: pound |
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| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, seize, sequester |
| inundate | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: deluge, submerge |
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| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, flood, swamp |
| jaundice | (verb) affect with, or as if with, jaundice | - |
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| (verb) distort adversely | - |
| launder | (verb) convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones | - |
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| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: wash |
| maunder | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: mumble, mussitate, mutter |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (verb) wander aimlessly | - |
| misunderstand | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret |
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| mound | (verb) form into a rounded elevation | - |
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| obtund | (verb) reduce the edge or violence of | - |
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| plunder | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, rape, spoil, violate |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| (verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: sack |
| (verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: loot |
| pound | (verb) break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle | - |
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| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: poke, thump |
| (verb) strike or drive against with a heavy impact | Synonyms: ram, ram down |
| (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: impound |
| (verb) shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits | Synonyms: pound up |
| (verb) partition off into compartments | Synonyms: pound off |
| (verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: beat, thump |
| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: lumber |
| propound | (verb) put forward, as of an idea | - |
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| rebound | (verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rally |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| redound | (verb) contribute | - |
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| (verb) have an effect for good or ill | - |
| (verb) return or recoil | - |
| refund | (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, repay, return |
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| resound | (verb) emit a noise | Synonyms: make noise, noise |
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| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, reverberate, ring |
| round | (verb) become round, plump, or shapely | Synonyms: fill out, flesh out |
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| (verb) make round | Synonyms: round off, round out |
| (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish, polish up, round off |
| (verb) express as a round number | Synonyms: round down, round off, round out |
| (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, labialize |
| (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, snipe |
| (verb) wind around; move along a circular course | - |
| sound | (verb) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | Synonyms: fathom |
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| (verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, voice |
| (verb) make a certain noise or sound | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) cause to sound | - |
| (verb) announce by means of a sound | - |
| (verb) give off a certain sound or sounds | - |
| (verb) appear in a certain way | - |
| soundproof | (verb) insulate against noise | - |
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| sunder | (verb) break apart or in two, using violence | - |
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| surround | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, circumvent, hem in |
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| (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, wall |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, ring, skirt |
| (verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: smother |
| thunder | (verb) utter words loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: roar |
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| (verb) to make or produce a loud noise | - |
| (verb) move fast, noisily, and heavily | - |
| (verb) be the case that thunder is being heard | Synonyms: boom |
| trundle | (verb) move heavily | - |
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| undeceive | (verb) free from deception or illusion | - |
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| underachieve | (verb) perform less well or with less success than expected | Synonyms: underperform |
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| underact | (verb) act (a role) with great restraint | Synonyms: underplay |
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| underbid | (verb) bid too low | - |
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| (verb) bid lower than a competing bidder | - |
| (verb) bid (a hand of cards) at less than the strength of the hand warrants | - |
| undercharge | (verb) charge (someone) too little money | - |
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| undercoat | (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: ground, prime |
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| undercut | (verb) strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot | - |
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| (verb) cut away the underpart of | - |
| (verb) cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief | - |
| (verb) cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall | - |
| (verb) sell cheaper than one's competition | Synonyms: undersell |
| underdevelop | (verb) process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature | - |
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| underdress | (verb) dress informally and casually | Synonyms: dress down |
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| (verb) dress without sufficient warmth | - |
| underestimate | (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: lowball |
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| (verb) make too low an estimate of | Synonyms: underrate |
| (verb) assign too low a value to | Synonyms: undervalue |
| underexpose | (verb) expose insufficiently | - |
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| (verb) expose to too little light | - |
| undergird | (verb) make secure underneath | Synonyms: brace up |
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| (verb) lend moral support to | - |
| undergo | (verb) go through | - |
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| undergrow | (verb) grow below something | - |
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| underlay | (verb) provide with a base, support, lining, or backing | - |
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| (verb) put (something) under or beneath | - |
| (verb) raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type | - |
| underlie | (verb) be or form the base for | - |
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| (verb) lie underneath | - |
| underline | (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, emphasize, underscore |
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| (verb) draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to | Synonyms: underscore |
| undermine | (verb) hollow out as if making a cave or opening | Synonyms: cave |
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| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, weaken |
| undernourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: malnourish |
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| underpay | (verb) pay too little | - |
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| underperform | (verb) perform too rarely | - |
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| (verb) perform less well or with less success than expected | Synonyms: underachieve |
| underpin | (verb) support from beneath | - |
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| (verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, corroborate, support |
| underplay | (verb) play a card lower than (a held high card) | - |
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| (verb) act (a role) with great restraint | Synonyms: underact |
| underprice | (verb) sell at artificially low prices | Synonyms: dump |
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| underproduce | (verb) produce below capacity or demand | - |
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| underquote | (verb) quote a price lower than that quoted by (another seller) | - |
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| (verb) offer for sale at a price lower than the market price | - |
| underrate | (verb) make too low an estimate of | Synonyms: underestimate |
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| underrun | (verb) haul onto a boat | - |
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| (verb) run or pass below | - |
| underscore | (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, emphasize, underline |
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| (verb) draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to | Synonyms: underline |
| undersell | (verb) sell cheaper than one's competition | Synonyms: undercut |
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| undershoot | (verb) shoot short of or below (a target) | - |
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| (verb) fall short of (the runway) in a landing | - |
| undersign | (verb) sign at the bottom of (a document) | - |
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| underspend | (verb) spend at less than the normal rate | - |
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| (verb) spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example) | - |
| understand | (verb) know and comprehend the nature or meaning of | - |
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| (verb) perceive (an idea or situation) mentally | Synonyms: realise, realize, see |
| (verb) believe to be the case | Synonyms: infer |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, read, translate |
| (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathise, sympathize |
| understate | (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimise, minimize |
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| understock | (verb) stock with less than the usual or desirable number or quantity | - |
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| understudy | (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: alternate |
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| undertake | (verb) promise to do or accomplish | Synonyms: guarantee |
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| (verb) enter into a contractual arrangement | Synonyms: contract |
| (verb) enter upon an activity or enterprise | Synonyms: attempt, set about |
| (verb) accept as a charge | Synonyms: take in charge |
| (verb) accept as a challenge | Synonyms: tackle, take on |
| undervalue | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devaluate, devalue |
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| (verb) assign too low a value to | Synonyms: underestimate |
| (verb) esteem lightly | - |
| underwrite | (verb) protect by insurance | Synonyms: cover, insure |
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| (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvent, subvention |
| undo | (verb) cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect | - |
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| (verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: loosen, untie |
| (verb) remove the outer cover or wrapping of | Synonyms: unwrap |
| (verb) deprive of certain characteristics | Synonyms: unmake |
| (verb) cause the ruin or downfall of | - |
| undock | (verb) take (a ship) out of a dock | - |
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| (verb) move out of a dock | - |
| undrape | (verb) strip something of drapery | - |
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| undress | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe |
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| (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, divest, strip |
| undulate | (verb) increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves | - |
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| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, roll, wave |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, ruffle |
| (verb) occur in soft rounded shapes | Synonyms: roll |
| wound | (verb) cause injuries or bodily harm to | Synonyms: injure |
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| (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite |