| powerwash | (verb) wash before painting to remove old paint and mildew | Synonyms: pressure-wash |
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| powwow | (verb) hold a powwow, talk, conference or meeting | - |
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| prawn | (verb) fish for prawns | - |
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| preview | (verb) watch (a movie or play) before it is released to the general public | - |
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| prowl | (verb) move about in or as if in a predatory manner | - |
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| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: lurch |
| reawaken | (verb) awaken once again | - |
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| regrow | (verb) grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption | - |
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| renew | (verb) cause to appear in a new form | Synonyms: reincarnate |
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| (verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: regenerate |
| resew | (verb) sew again | - |
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| review | (verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: reexamine |
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| (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, retrospect |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, survey |
| (verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, refresh |
| (verb) appraise critically | Synonyms: critique |
| reward | (verb) strengthen and support with rewards | Synonyms: reinforce |
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| (verb) act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions | Synonyms: pay back, repay |
| (verb) bestow honor or rewards upon | Synonyms: honor, honour |
| rewatch | (verb) to watch a show or television one more time | - |
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| rewind | (verb) wind (up) again | - |
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| rewire | (verb) provide with new wiring | - |
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| reword | (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: paraphrase, rephrase |
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| rework | (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, retread |
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| rewrite | (verb) write differently; alter the writing of | - |
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| (verb) rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose | - |
| row | (verb) propel with oars | - |
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| sallow | (verb) cause to become sallow | - |
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| sandwich | (verb) insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects | - |
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| (verb) make into a sandwich | - |
| saw | (verb) cut with a saw | - |
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| scowl | (verb) frown with displeasure | - |
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| scrawl | (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scribble |
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| screw | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, shaft |
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| (verb) tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions | - |
| (verb) cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion | Synonyms: drive in |
| (verb) turn like a screw | - |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, sleep together, sleep with |
| seesaw | (verb) move up and down as if on a seesaw | - |
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| (verb) ride on a plank | Synonyms: teeter-totter, teetertotter |
| (verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: teeter, totter |
| sew | (verb) fasten by sewing; do needlework | Synonyms: run up, sew together, stitch |
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| (verb) create (clothes) with cloth | Synonyms: tailor-make, tailor |
| shadow | (verb) follow, usually without the person's knowledge | - |
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| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, overshadow |
| (verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade, shade off |
| shadowbox | (verb) go through boxing motions without an opponent | - |
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| shallow | (verb) become shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
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| (verb) make shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
| shew | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, show |
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| shipwreck | (verb) destroy a ship | - |
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| (verb) cause to experience shipwreck | - |
| (verb) ruin utterly | - |
| (verb) suffer failure, as in some enterprise | - |
| show | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, shew |
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| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, testify |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, point |
| (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, express |
| (verb) give evidence of, as of records | - |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, register |
| (verb) finish third or better in a horse or dog race | - |
| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, render |
| (verb) take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums | Synonyms: usher |
| (verb) make visible or noticeable | - |
| (verb) be or become visible or noticeable | Synonyms: show up |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, present |
| shower | (verb) take a shower; wash one's body in the shower | - |
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| (verb) provide abundantly with | - |
| (verb) spray or sprinkle with | - |
| (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: lavish |
| (verb) rain abundantly | Synonyms: shower down |
| shrinkwrap | (verb) wrap something tightly with heated plastic that shrinks upon cooling | - |
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| sideswipe | (verb) strike from the side | - |
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| skew | (verb) turn or place at an angle | - |
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| skewer | (verb) drive a skewer through | Synonyms: spit |
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| sleepwalk | (verb) walk in one's sleep | Synonyms: somnambulate |
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| slew | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
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| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slide, slip, slue |
| slow | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: decelerate, retard, slow down, slow up |
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| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slack, slacken, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) cause to proceed more slowly | Synonyms: slow down, slow up |
| snow | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: bamboozle, hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes |
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| (verb) fall as snow | - |
| snowball | (verb) increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate | - |
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| (verb) throw snowballs at | - |
| snowboard | (verb) glide down a snow-covered slope while standing on a board | - |
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| snowmobile | (verb) ride a snowmobile | - |
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| snowshoe | (verb) travel on snowshoes | - |
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| sorrow | (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: grieve |
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| sow | (verb) introduce into an environment | - |
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| (verb) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth | Synonyms: seed |
| (verb) place seeds in or on (the ground) | Synonyms: inseminate, sow in |
| spacewalk | (verb) move in space outside a space craft | - |
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| spawn | (verb) lay spawn | - |
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| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: breed, engender |
| spew | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalise, ptyalize, spit, spue |
| (verb) eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical | Synonyms: eruct, spew out |
| spotweld | (verb) make circular welds | Synonyms: spot-weld |
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| sprawl | (verb) sit or lie with one's limbs spread out | - |
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| (verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: straggle |
| squawk | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler |
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| (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, skreigh |
| stew | (verb) cook slowly and for a long time in liquid | - |
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| (verb) bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings | Synonyms: grudge |
| (verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, grizzle |
| stonewall | (verb) engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate | - |
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| (verb) obstruct or hinder any discussion | - |
| stonewash | (verb) wash with stones to achieve a worn appearance | Synonyms: stone-wash |
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| stow | (verb) fill by packing tightly | - |
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| straw | (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: strew |
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| (verb) cover or provide with or as if with straw | - |
| streetwalk | (verb) walk the streets in search of customers | Synonyms: street-walk |
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| strew | (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: straw |
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| (verb) cover; be dispersed over | - |
| swab | (verb) wash with a swab or a mop | Synonyms: swob |
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| (verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: dab, swob |
| swaddle | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swathe |
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| swag | (verb) sway heavily or unsteadily | - |
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| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, reel, stagger |
| (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: droop, flag, sag |
| swage | (verb) form metals with a swage | Synonyms: upset |
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| swagger | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swash |
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| (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: browbeat, bully |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, strut, tittup |
| swallow | (verb) believe or accept without questioning or challenge | - |
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| (verb) keep from expressing | - |
| (verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: accept, live with |
| (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: take back, unsay, withdraw |
| (verb) utter unclearly | - |
| (verb) engulf and destroy | - |
| (verb) pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking | Synonyms: get down |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, immerse, swallow up |
| swamp | (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundate |
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| (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: drench |
| swan | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swear, verify |
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| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) sweep majestically | - |
| swank | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, ostentate, show off |
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| swap | (verb) move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science | - |
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| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: switch, swop, trade |
| swarm | (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, stream, teem |
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| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: pullulate, teem |
| swash | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swagger |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh |
| (verb) make violent, noisy movements | - |
| swat | (verb) to make an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location | - |
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| (verb) hit swiftly with a violent blow | - |
| swathe | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swaddle |
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| swatter | (verb) splash and flutter about in or as if in water | - |
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| sway | (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, shake |
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| (verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner | Synonyms: swing |
| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: rock |
| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, persuade |
| swear | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, look, reckon, rely |
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| (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depone, depose |
| (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, cuss, imprecate |
| (verb) promise solemnly; take an oath | - |
| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, verify |
| sweat | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: perspire, sudate |
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| sweep | (verb) win an overwhelming victory in or on | - |
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| (verb) sweep with a broom or as if with a broom | Synonyms: broom |
| (verb) clean by sweeping | - |
| (verb) make a big sweeping gesture or movement | Synonyms: swing, swing out |
| (verb) move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions | Synonyms: sail |
| (verb) sweep across or over | Synonyms: brush |
| (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, embroil, sweep up, tangle |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: cross, span, traverse |
| (verb) cover the entire range of | - |
| sweeten | (verb) make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable | - |
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| (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate |
| swell | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
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| (verb) cause to become swollen | - |
| (verb) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: well |
| (verb) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) | Synonyms: well up |
| swelter | (verb) suffer from intense heat | - |
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| (verb) be uncomfortably hot | - |
| swerve | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, trend, veer |
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| swig | (verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught | Synonyms: gulp, quaff |
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| (verb) strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat | Synonyms: slog, slug |
| swill | (verb) drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink) | Synonyms: swill down |
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| (verb) feed pigs | Synonyms: slop |
| swim | (verb) travel through water | - |
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| (verb) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom | Synonyms: float |
| (verb) move as if gliding through water | - |
| (verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid | Synonyms: drown |
| (verb) be dizzy or giddy | - |
| swindle | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, victimize |
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| swing | (verb) alternate dramatically between high and low values | - |
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| (verb) hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement | - |
| (verb) make a big sweeping gesture or movement | Synonyms: sweep, swing out |
| (verb) engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends | - |
| (verb) play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm | - |
| (verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner | Synonyms: sway |
| (verb) move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting | - |
| (verb) change direction with a swinging motion; turn | - |
| (verb) be a social swinger; socialize a lot | Synonyms: get around |
| (verb) influence decisively | Synonyms: swing over |
| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: dangle, drop |
| (verb) live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style | - |
| (verb) have a certain musical rhythm | - |
| swinge | (verb) burn superficially or lightly | Synonyms: singe |
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| swipe | (verb) strike with a swiping motion | - |
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| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak |
| swirl | (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, purl, whirl, whirlpool |
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| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: twiddle, twirl, whirl |
| swish | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swoosh, swosh |
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| switch | (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, tack |
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| (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, shift |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, shift |
| (verb) change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence | Synonyms: exchange, switch over |
| (verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: flip, throw |
| (verb) flog with or as if with a flexible rod | - |
| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
| swivel | (verb) turn on a pivot | Synonyms: pivot |
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| swob | (verb) wash with a swab or a mop | Synonyms: swab |
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| (verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: dab, swab |
| swoon | (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: conk, faint, pass out |
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| swoop | (verb) seize or catch with a swooping motion | Synonyms: swoop up |
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| (verb) move down on as if in an attack | Synonyms: pounce |
| (verb) move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc | - |
| swoosh | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swish, swosh |
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| swop | (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, switch, trade |
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| swosh | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swish, swoosh |
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