aby | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: abye, atone, expiate |
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abye | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, atone, expiate |
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accompany | (verb) perform an accompaniment to | Synonyms: follow, play along |
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(verb) go or travel along with | - |
(verb) be present or associated with an event or entity | Synonyms: attach to, come with, go with |
(verb) be a companion to somebody | Synonyms: companion, company, keep company |
acetify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acidify |
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(verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acidify, acidulate, sour |
acetylate | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
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(verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
acetylise | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
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(verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
acetylize | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylise |
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(verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylise |
acidify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acetify |
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(verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidulate, sour |
aerify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: gasify, vaporise, vaporize |
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alkalify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalise, alkalize, basify |
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allay | (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: assuage, quench, slake |
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(verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: ease, relieve, still |
alloy | (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: debase |
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(verb) make an alloy of | - |
ally | (verb) become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage | - |
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ammonify | (verb) treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification | - |
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amnesty | (verb) grant a pardon to (a group of people) | - |
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amplify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: magnify |
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(verb) increase the volume of | - |
(verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: blow up, expand, inflate |
(verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
analyse | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyze, canvass, examine, study |
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(verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze, break down, dissect, take apart |
(verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyze, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
(verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze |
analyze | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, canvass, examine, study |
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(verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, break down, dissect, take apart |
(verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
(verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse |
ancylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ankylose |
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(verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ankylose |
ankylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ancylose |
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(verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ancylose |
annoy | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
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apply | (verb) ask (for something) | - |
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(verb) refer (a word or name) to a person or thing | - |
(verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: employ, use, utilise, utilize |
(verb) coat, cover or smear a surface with | Synonyms: put on |
(verb) give or convey physically | Synonyms: give |
(verb) avail oneself to | Synonyms: practice, use |
(verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: enforce, implement |
(verb) apply oneself to | - |
(verb) be pertinent or relevant or applicable | Synonyms: go for, hold |
(verb) be applicable to; as to an analysis | Synonyms: lend oneself |
argufy | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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array | (verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: align |
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(verb) lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line | Synonyms: lay out, range, set out |
asphyxiate | (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: stifle, suffocate |
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(verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: smother, suffocate |
(verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: choke, stifle, suffocate |
assay | (verb) analyze (chemical substances) | - |
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(verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: attempt, essay, seek, try |
atrophy | (verb) undergo atrophy | - |
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aurify | (verb) turn golden | - |
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(verb) transform into gold | - |
autopsy | (verb) perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem | - |
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baby | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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babysit | (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, sit |
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(verb) take watchful responsibility for | Synonyms: baby-sit |
ballyhoo | (verb) advertize noisily or blatantly | - |
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ballyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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bandy | (verb) discuss lightly | Synonyms: kick around |
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(verb) exchange blows | - |
(verb) toss or strike a ball back and forth | - |
basify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalise, alkalize |
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bay | (verb) bark with prolonged noises, of dogs | Synonyms: quest |
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(verb) utter in deep prolonged tones | - |
bayonet | (verb) stab or kill someone with a bayonet | - |
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beatify | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood | - |
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(verb) make blessedly happy | - |
(verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
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 |
belay | (verb) fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | - |
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(verb) turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him | - |
belly | (verb) swell out or bulge out | Synonyms: belly out |
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bellyache | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
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bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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benday | (verb) reproduce by the Benday process | - |
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berry | (verb) pick or gather berries | - |
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betray | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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(verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: bewray |
(verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: deceive, lead astray |
(verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: fail |
(verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: sell |
(verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
bewray | (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: betray |
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bicycle | (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bike, cycle, pedal, wheel |
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bioassay | (verb) subject to a bio-assay | - |
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blackberry | (verb) pick or gather blackberries | - |
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blarney | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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bloody | (verb) cover with blood | - |
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body | (verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: personify |
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bodypaint | (verb) apply paint to a body | - |
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bogey | (verb) to shoot in one stroke over par | - |
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boycott | (verb) refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with | - |
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bray | (verb) laugh loudly and harshly | - |
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(verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: comminute, crunch, grind, mash |
(verb) braying characteristic of donkeys | Synonyms: hee-haw |
breathalyse | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyze |
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breathalyze | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyse |
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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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buoy | (verb) mark with a buoy | - |
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(verb) keep afloat | Synonyms: buoy up |
(verb) float on the surface of water | - |
bury | (verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering | Synonyms: forget |
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(verb) place in the earth and cover with soil | - |
(verb) embed deeply | Synonyms: sink |
(verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: eat up, immerse, swallow, swallow up |
(verb) cover from sight | - |
(verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest |
busy | (verb) keep busy with | Synonyms: occupy |
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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 | - |
butylate | (verb) introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound | - |
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buy | (verb) accept as true | - |
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(verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: purchase |
(verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: bribe, corrupt, grease one's palms |
(verb) acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange | - |
(verb) be worth or be capable of buying | - |
bypass | (verb) avoid something unpleasant or laborious | Synonyms: get around, go around, short-circuit |
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caddy | (verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddie |
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calcify | (verb) turn into lime; become calcified | - |
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(verb) convert into lime | - |
(verb) become impregnated with calcium salts | - |
(verb) become inflexible and unchanging | - |
candy | (verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: glaze, sugarcoat |
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canopy | (verb) cover with a canopy | - |
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carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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carnify | (verb) become muscular or fleshy | - |
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carry | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
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(verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, comport, conduct, deport, do |
(verb) continue or extend | Synonyms: extend |
(verb) include, as on a list | - |
(verb) sing or play against other voices or parts | - |
(verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: convey, express |
(verb) pass on a communication | - |
(verb) win in an election | - |
(verb) secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions) | - |
(verb) cover a certain distance or advance beyond | - |
(verb) have a certain range | - |
(verb) be successful in | - |
(verb) drink alcohol without showing ill effects | Synonyms: hold |
(verb) be able to feed | - |
(verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: bear, hold |
(verb) move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body | Synonyms: transport |
(verb) propel | Synonyms: dribble |
(verb) bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of | - |
(verb) propel or give impetus to | - |
(verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize | Synonyms: run |
(verb) bear (a crop) | - |
(verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: channel, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
(verb) pursue a line of scent or be a bearer | - |
(verb) transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication | - |
(verb) have on hand | Synonyms: stock, stockpile |
(verb) capture after a fight | - |
(verb) have on the surface or on the skin | - |
(verb) transfer (entries) from one account book to another | Synonyms: post |
(verb) extend to a certain degree | - |
(verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: persuade, sway |
(verb) compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance | - |
(verb) take further or advance | - |
(verb) have with oneself; have on one's person | Synonyms: pack, take |
(verb) be necessarily associated with or result in or involve | - |
(verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, contain, hold |
(verb) be equipped with (a mast or sail) | - |
(verb) have or possess something abstract | - |
(verb) have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence | - |
(verb) keep up with financial support | - |
(verb) be conveyed over a certain distance | - |
catalyse | (verb) change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | Synonyms: catalyze |
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catalyze | (verb) change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | Synonyms: catalyse |
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causeway | (verb) pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles | - |
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(verb) provide with a causeway | - |
certify | (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, demonstrate, evidence, manifest |
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(verb) declare legally insane | - |
(verb) guarantee payment on; of checks | - |
(verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: endorse, indorse |
(verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: licence, license |
chevvy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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chevy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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chivvy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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chivy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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chondrify | (verb) turn into cartilage | - |
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citify | (verb) accustom to urban ways | - |
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clarify | (verb) make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating | - |
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(verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clear up, elucidate |
classify | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, separate, sort, sort out |
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(verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: relegate |
(verb) declare unavailable, as for security reasons | - |
cloy | (verb) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing | Synonyms: pall |
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(verb) supply or feed to surfeit | Synonyms: surfeit |
codify | (verb) organize into a code or system, such as a body of law | - |
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colly | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, dirty, grime, soil |
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company | (verb) be a companion to somebody | Synonyms: accompany, companion, keep company |
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complexify | (verb) make complex | - |
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(verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: ramify |
comply | (verb) act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes | Synonyms: abide by, follow |
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convey | (verb) (of information) make known; pass on | - |
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(verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, express |
(verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, fetch, get |
(verb) take something or somebody with oneself somewhere | Synonyms: bring, take |
(verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, impart, transmit |
(verb) transmit a title or property | - |
(verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: communicate, transmit |
convoy | (verb) escort in transit | - |
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copolymerise | (verb) polymerize together | Synonyms: copolymerize |
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copolymerize | (verb) polymerize together | Synonyms: copolymerise |
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copy | (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: imitate, simulate |
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(verb) make a replica of | Synonyms: re-create, recreate |
(verb) reproduce or make an exact copy of | Synonyms: replicate |
(verb) copy down as is | - |
copyedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyread, subedit |
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copyread | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, subedit |
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