| advert | (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: allude, touch |
|---|
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: bring up, cite, mention, name, refer |
| (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: attend, give ear, hang, pay heed |
| advertise | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertize, promote, push |
|---|
| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertize, publicise, publicize |
| advertize | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, promote, push |
|---|
| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, publicise, publicize |
| animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
|---|
| (verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
| asseverate | (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, maintain |
|---|
| aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
|---|
| (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
| average | (verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
|---|
| (verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
| (verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
| avert | (verb) turn away or aside | Synonyms: turn away |
|---|
| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| beaver | (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
|---|
| cantilever | (verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
|---|
| (verb) project as a cantilever | - |
| cavern | (verb) hollow out as if making a cavern | Synonyms: cavern out |
|---|
| claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
|---|
| controvert | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: rebut, refute |
|---|
| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, oppose |
| converge | (verb) come together so as to form a single product | - |
|---|
| (verb) move or draw together at a certain location | - |
| (verb) be adjacent or come together | Synonyms: meet |
| (verb) approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit | - |
| converse | (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: discourse |
|---|
| convert | (verb) change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy | Synonyms: change over |
|---|
| (verb) change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief | - |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, commute, exchange |
| (verb) change the nature, purpose, or function of something | - |
| (verb) change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change | - |
| (verb) cause to adopt a new or different faith | - |
| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: commute, exchange |
| (verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convince, win over |
| (verb) score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone | - |
| cover | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, hatch, incubate |
|---|
| (verb) clothe, as if for protection from the elements | Synonyms: wrap up |
| (verb) protect by insurance | Synonyms: insure, underwrite |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, deal, handle, plow, treat |
| (verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism | Synonyms: report |
| (verb) maintain a check on; especially by patrolling | - |
| (verb) protect or defend (a position in a game) | - |
| (verb) hold within range of an aimed firearm | - |
| (verb) play a higher card than the one previously played | - |
| (verb) be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game | - |
| (verb) provide with a covering or cause to be covered | - |
| (verb) form a cover over | Synonyms: spread over |
| (verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: breed |
| (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: enshroud, hide, shroud |
| (verb) put something on top of something else | Synonyms: overlay |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse |
| (verb) hide from view or knowledge | Synonyms: cover up |
| (verb) spread over a surface to conceal or protect | - |
| (verb) be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of | - |
| (verb) to take an action to protect against future problems | - |
| (verb) invest with a large or excessive amount of something | - |
| (verb) help out by taking someone's place and temporarily assuming his responsibilities | - |
| (verb) provide for | - |
| (verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: continue, extend |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, embrace, encompass |
| (verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: compensate, overcompensate |
| deliver | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, give birth, have |
|---|
| (verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: render, return |
| (verb) utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.) | - |
| (verb) bring to a destination, make a delivery | - |
| (verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: pitch |
| (verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, render, turn in |
| (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, give up, surrender |
| (verb) carry out or perform | Synonyms: drive home |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deport, extradite |
| (verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: rescue |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: redeem, save |
| discover | (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see |
|---|
| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
| (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, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) make a discovery, make a new finding | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) see for the first time; make a discovery | - |
| (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, find, notice, observe |
| (verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike |
| dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
|---|
| diverge | (verb) move or draw apart | - |
|---|
| (verb) extend in a different direction | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, vary |
| (verb) have no limits as a mathematical series | - |
| diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
|---|
| (verb) make (more) diverse | - |
| (verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
| divert | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: deviate |
|---|
| (verb) send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one | - |
| (verb) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions | Synonyms: hive off |
| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, disport |
| evert | (verb) turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward | - |
|---|
| govern | (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: rule |
|---|
| (verb) direct or strongly influence the behavior of | - |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: order, regularise, regularize, regulate |
| (verb) require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood | - |
| hoover | (verb) clean with a vacuum cleaner | Synonyms: vacuum-clean, vacuum |
|---|
| hover | (verb) hang in the air; fly or be suspended above | - |
|---|
| (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: levitate |
| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: oscillate, vacillate, vibrate |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: linger |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: brood, bulk large, loom |
| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
|---|
| (verb) make poor | - |
| introvert | (verb) turn inside | - |
|---|
| (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: invaginate |
| invert | (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: reverse, turn back |
|---|
| (verb) make an inversion (in a musical composition) | - |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: reverse |
| lever | (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, prise, prize, pry |
|---|
| leverage | (verb) provide with leverage | - |
|---|
| (verb) supplement with leverage | - |
| malversate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, misappropriate, peculate |
|---|
| maneuver | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre, operate |
|---|
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre |
| manoeuver | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre, operate |
|---|
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre |
| misdeliver | (verb) deliver to the wrong address | - |
|---|
| misgovern | (verb) govern badly | - |
|---|
| outmaneuver | (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmanoeuvre, outsmart |
|---|
| overachieve | (verb) perform better or achieve a greater degree of success than expected | - |
|---|
| overact | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overplay |
|---|
| overarch | (verb) form an arch over | Synonyms: arch over |
|---|
| (verb) be central or dominant | - |
| overawe | (verb) subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats) | Synonyms: cow |
|---|
| overbalance | (verb) cause to be off balance | - |
|---|
| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, preponderate |
| overbear | (verb) contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery | Synonyms: bear down |
|---|
| (verb) bear too much | - |
| (verb) overcome | - |
| overbid | (verb) bid more than the object is worth | - |
|---|
| (verb) to bid for more tricks than one can expect to win | - |
| overboil | (verb) overflow or cause to overflow while boiling | Synonyms: boil over |
|---|
| (verb) boil excessively | - |
| overburden | (verb) burden with too much work or responsibility | - |
|---|
| (verb) load with excessive weight | - |
| overcapitalise | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
|---|
| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| overcapitalize | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
|---|
| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| overcast | (verb) sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next | - |
|---|
| (verb) sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches | - |
| (verb) make overcast or cloudy | Synonyms: cloud |
| overcharge | (verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overload, surcharge |
|---|
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| overclock | (verb) To run a processor (CPU), or any electronic logic device, at a speed higher than is recommended by the manufacturer. | - |
|---|
| overclothe | (verb) dress too warmly | Synonyms: overdress |
|---|
| overcloud | (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: bedim, obscure |
|---|
| (verb) become covered with clouds | Synonyms: cloud over, cloud up |
| overcome | (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, master, subdue, surmount |
|---|
| (verb) overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome | Synonyms: get the best, have the best |
| (verb) win a victory over | Synonyms: defeat, get the better of |
| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| overcompensate | (verb) make excessive corrections for fear of making an error | Synonyms: over-correct |
|---|
| (verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: compensate, cover |
| overcook | (verb) cook too long | - |
|---|
| overcrop | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcultivate |
|---|
| overcrowd | (verb) crowd together too much | - |
|---|
| (verb) cause to crowd together too much | - |
| overcultivate | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcrop |
|---|
| overdo | (verb) do something to an excessive degree | Synonyms: exaggerate |
|---|
| overdose | (verb) dose too heavily | Synonyms: o.d. |
|---|
| overdramatise | (verb) present in an overly dramatic manner | Synonyms: overdramatize |
|---|
| overdramatize | (verb) present in an overly dramatic manner | Synonyms: overdramatise |
|---|
| overdraw | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overstate |
|---|
| (verb) draw more money from than is available | - |
| overdress | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
|---|
| (verb) dress too warmly | Synonyms: overclothe |
| overdrive | (verb) make use of too often or too extensively | Synonyms: overuse |
|---|
| (verb) drive or work too hard | - |
| overeat | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
|---|
| overemphasise | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasize, overstress |
|---|
| overemphasize | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overstress |
|---|
| overestimate | (verb) make too high an estimate of | Synonyms: overrate |
|---|
| (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overvalue |
| overexert | (verb) exert (oneself) excessively and go beyond one's strength | - |
|---|
| overexploit | (verb) exploit excessively | - |
|---|
| overexpose | (verb) expose excessively | - |
|---|
| (verb) expose to too much light | - |
| overextend | (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overstrain |
|---|
| overfatigue | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overtire, overweary |
|---|
| overfeed | (verb) feed excessively | - |
|---|
| overfill | (verb) fill beyond capacity | - |
|---|
| overflow | (verb) overflow with a certain feeling | Synonyms: bubble over, spill over |
|---|
| (verb) flow or run over (a limit or brim) | Synonyms: brim over, overrun, run over, well over |
| overfly | (verb) fly over | Synonyms: pass over |
|---|
| overgeneralise | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralize |
|---|
| overgeneralize | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralise |
|---|
| overgorge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
|---|
| overgrow | (verb) grow beyond or across | Synonyms: grow over |
|---|
| (verb) become overgrown | - |
| (verb) grow too large | - |
| overhang | (verb) be suspended over or hang over | Synonyms: beetle |
|---|
| (verb) project over | - |
| overhaul | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
|---|
| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overtake, pass |
| overhear | (verb) hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers | Synonyms: catch, take in |
|---|
| overheat | (verb) get excessively and undesirably hot | - |
|---|
| (verb) make excessively or undesirably hot | - |
| overindulge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
|---|
| overjoy | (verb) cause to feel extremely joyful or happy | - |
|---|
| overlap | (verb) extend over and cover a part of | - |
|---|
| (verb) coincide partially or wholly | - |
| overlay | (verb) put something on top of something else | Synonyms: cover |
|---|
| (verb) kill by lying on | Synonyms: overlie |
| overleap | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overlook, pretermit |
|---|
| (verb) jump across or leap over (an obstacle) | Synonyms: vault |
| (verb) defeat (oneself) by going too far | - |
| overlie | (verb) kill by lying on | Synonyms: overlay |
|---|
| (verb) lie upon; lie on top of | - |
| overload | (verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired | Synonyms: clog |
|---|
| (verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overcharge, surcharge |
| (verb) become overloaded | - |
| overlook | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, pretermit |
|---|
| (verb) watch over | - |
| (verb) look past, fail to notice | - |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, dominate, overtop |
| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction | Synonyms: look across, look out on, look out over |
| overmaster | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overpower, overwhelm |
|---|
| overpay | (verb) pay too much | - |
|---|
| overplay | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overact |
|---|
| overpopulate | (verb) cause to have too great a population | - |
|---|