| abut | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
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| accouter | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accoutre |
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| accoutre | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accouter |
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| agglutinate | (verb) clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. | - |
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| (verb) string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) | - |
| amputate | (verb) remove surgically | Synonyms: cut off |
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| attribute | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, impute |
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| (verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme | Synonyms: assign |
| authenticate | (verb) establish the authenticity of something | - |
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| author | (verb) be the author of | - |
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| authorise | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorize, clear, pass |
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| (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorize, empower |
| authorize | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, clear, pass |
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| (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, empower |
| autoclave | (verb) subject to the action of an autoclave | - |
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| autograph | (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: inscribe |
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| automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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| automatise | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatize |
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| (verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatize |
| automatize | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatise |
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| (verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatise |
| automobile | (verb) travel in an automobile | - |
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| autopsy | (verb) perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem | - |
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| autotomise | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomize |
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| autotomize | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomise |
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| badmouth | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: drag through the mud, malign, traduce |
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| beautify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| brutalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
| (verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalize |
| brutalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
| (verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalise |
| butcher | (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: slaughter |
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| butt | (verb) to strike, thrust or shove against | Synonyms: bunt |
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| (verb) place end to end without overlapping | - |
| (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
| butter | (verb) spread butter on | - |
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| butterfly | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
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| (verb) cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking | - |
| (verb) flutter like a butterfly | - |
| button | (verb) fasten with buttons | - |
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| (verb) provide with buttons | - |
| buttonhole | (verb) detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | Synonyms: lobby |
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| buttress | (verb) make stronger or defensible | - |
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| (verb) reinforce with a buttress | - |
| buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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| butylate | (verb) introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound | - |
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| cauterise | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterize |
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| (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterize |
| cauterize | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterise |
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| (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterise |
| caution | (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: admonish, monish |
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| chute | (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: jump, parachute |
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| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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| clout | (verb) strike hard, especially with the fist | - |
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| clutch | (verb) affect | Synonyms: get hold of, seize |
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| (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: prehend, seize, take hold, take hold of |
| (verb) hold firmly, usually with one's hands | Synonyms: cling to, hold close, hold tight |
| clutter | (verb) fill a space in a disorderly way | Synonyms: clutter up |
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| comminute | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, crunch, grind, mash |
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| commutate | (verb) reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current | - |
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| commute | (verb) change the order or arrangement of | Synonyms: permute, transpose |
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| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: convert, exchange |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, convert, exchange |
| (verb) exchange positions without a change in value | Synonyms: transpose |
| (verb) travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home | - |
| compute | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| computerise | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerize, cybernate |
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| (verb) store in a computer | Synonyms: computerize |
| (verb) provide with computers | Synonyms: computerize |
| computerize | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, cybernate |
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| (verb) store in a computer | Synonyms: computerise |
| (verb) provide with computers | Synonyms: computerise |
| confute | (verb) prove to be false | Synonyms: disprove |
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| conglutinate | (verb) stick together | - |
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| (verb) cause to adhere | Synonyms: coapt |
| constitute | (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: establish, found, institute, plant |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, name, nominate |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, make up, represent |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: form, make |
| constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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| constitutionalize | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalise |
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| (verb) take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal | - |
| (verb) provide with a constitution, as of a country | - |
| contribute | (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, give, kick in |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, impart, lend |
| (verb) provide | Synonyms: put up |
| (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, lead |
| convolute | (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: pervert, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
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| (verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolve |
| crosscut | (verb) cut using a diagonal line | Synonyms: cut across |
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| cut | (verb) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | Synonyms: geld |
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| (verb) have grow through the gums | - |
| (verb) grow through the gums | - |
| (verb) cease, stop | Synonyms: cut off |
| (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: prune, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: dilute, reduce, thin, thin out |
| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: edit, edit out |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| (verb) have a reducing effect | - |
| (verb) shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of | - |
| (verb) dissolve by breaking down the fat of | - |
| (verb) make out and issue | Synonyms: issue, make out, write out |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: disregard, ignore, snub |
| (verb) separate with or as if with an instrument | - |
| (verb) divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult | - |
| (verb) hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch | Synonyms: switch off, turn off, turn out |
| (verb) make an incision or separation | - |
| (verb) allow incision or separation | - |
| (verb) function as a cutting instrument | - |
| (verb) fell by sawing; hew | - |
| (verb) penetrate injuriously | - |
| (verb) reap or harvest | - |
| (verb) style and tailor in a certain fashion | Synonyms: tailor |
| (verb) form by probing, penetrating, or digging | - |
| (verb) record a performance on (a medium) | - |
| (verb) make a recording of | - |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: burn |
| (verb) form or shape by cutting or incising | - |
| (verb) perform or carry out | - |
| (verb) stop filming | - |
| (verb) make an abrupt change of image or sound | - |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) pass through or across | - |
| (verb) pass directly and often in haste | - |
| (verb) move (one's fist) | - |
| (verb) give the appearance or impression of | - |
| (verb) be able to manage or manage successfully | Synonyms: hack |
| (verb) discharge from a group | - |
| (verb) intentionally fail to attend | Synonyms: skip |
| cutinize | (verb) convert into cutin | - |
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| debut | (verb) appear for the first time in public | - |
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| (verb) make one's debut | - |
| (verb) present for the first time to the public | - |
| declutch | (verb) disengage the clutch of a car | - |
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| depute | (verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: delegate |
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| (verb) appoint as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, deputize |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, designate |
| deputise | (verb) appoint as a substitute | Synonyms: depute, deputize |
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| (verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputize, step in, substitute |
| deputize | (verb) appoint as a substitute | Synonyms: depute, deputise |
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| (verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, step in, substitute |
| dilute | (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, reduce, thin, thin out |
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| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, load, stretch |
| dispute | (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, gainsay |
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| (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, quarrel, scrap |
| distribute | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: stagger |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) give to several people | Synonyms: give out, hand out, pass out |
| (verb) release | - |
| (verb) be mathematically distributive | - |
| (verb) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | - |
| (verb) spread throughout a given area | - |
| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
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| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| elocute | (verb) declaim in an elocutionary manner | - |
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| elute | (verb) wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography | - |
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| englut | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| euthanatise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatize, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanatize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanise, mercy kill |
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| execute | (verb) sign in the presence of witnesses | - |
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| (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, fulfil, fulfill |
| (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, perform |
| (verb) kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment | Synonyms: put to death |
| (verb) murder in a planned fashion | - |
| (verb) carry out the legalities of | - |
| (verb) carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine | Synonyms: run |
| flout | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, gibe, jeer, scoff |
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| (verb) treat with contemptuous disregard | Synonyms: scoff |
| flute | (verb) form flutes in | - |
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| flutter | (verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: bat |
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| (verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: palpitate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, quiver, waver |
| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, fleet, flit |
| (verb) flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements | - |
| glut | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: flood, oversupply |
| gluttonise | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonize |
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| gluttonize | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonise |
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| grout | (verb) bind with grout | - |
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| gut | (verb) remove the guts of | - |
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| (verb) empty completely; destroy the inside of | - |
| gutter | (verb) provide with gutters | - |
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| (verb) wear or cut gutters into | - |
| (verb) flow in small streams | - |
| (verb) burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker | - |
| guttle | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, pig, raven |
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| haemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: hemagglutinate |
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| headbutt | (verb) butt with the head | - |
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| hemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: haemagglutinate |
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| impute | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, attribute |
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| (verb) attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source | - |
| input | (verb) enter (data or a program) into a computer | - |
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| institute | (verb) advance or set forth in court | Synonyms: bring |
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| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, plant |
| institutionalise | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalize, send |
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| institutionalize | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, send |
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| jut | (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut out, project, protrude, stick out |
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| mouth | (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) articulate silently; form words with the lips only | - |
| (verb) touch with the mouth | - |
| mutate | (verb) undergo mutation | - |
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| mute | (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, muffle, tone down |
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| mutilate | (verb) destroy or injure severely | Synonyms: mar |
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| (verb) damage or injure severely | Synonyms: cut up, mangle |
| (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, murder |
| mutiny | (verb) engage in a mutiny against an authority | - |
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| mutter | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, murmur |
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| (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mussitate |
| neuter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, castrate, spay |
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| neutralise | (verb) make chemically neutral | Synonyms: neutralize |
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| (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralize, nullify |
| (verb) make incapable of military action | Synonyms: neutralize |
| (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralize, waste |