| prepay | (verb) pay for something before receiving it | - |
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| prettify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, embellish, fancify |
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| prey | (verb) profit from in an exploitatory manner | Synonyms: feed |
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| (verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: predate, raven |
| prophesy | (verb) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration | Synonyms: vaticinate |
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| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: preach |
| proselytise | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytize |
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| proselytize | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytise |
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| pry | (verb) be nosey | - |
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| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, lever, prise, prize |
| (verb) make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry | Synonyms: prise |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, intrude, nose, poke |
| psychoanalyse | (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, psychoanalyze |
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| psychoanalyze | (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, psychoanalyse |
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| ptyalise | (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalize, spew, spit, spue |
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| ptyalize | (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalise, spew, spit, spue |
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| purify | (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, sublimate |
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| (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, sanctify |
| (verb) become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin | - |
| purvey | (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: provision |
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| pussyfoot | (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, mouse, sneak |
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| pussyfuck | (verb) to have vaginal intercourse | - |
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| putrefy | (verb) become putrid; decay with an offensive smell | - |
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| putty | (verb) apply putty in order to fix or fill | - |
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| pyramid | (verb) increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base | - |
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| (verb) arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid | - |
| (verb) enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts | - |
| (verb) use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal | - |
| qualify | (verb) make fit or prepared | Synonyms: dispose |
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| (verb) add a modifier to a constituent | Synonyms: modify |
| (verb) make more specific | - |
| (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, specify, stipulate |
| (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, characterize |
| (verb) pronounce fit or able | - |
| (verb) prove capable or fit; meet requirements | Synonyms: measure up |
| quantify | (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: measure |
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| (verb) use as a quantifier | - |
| quarry | (verb) extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry | - |
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| query | (verb) pose a question | Synonyms: question |
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| rally | (verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rebound |
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| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
| (verb) call to arms; of military personnel | Synonyms: call up, mobilise, mobilize |
| (verb) gather | Synonyms: beat up, drum up |
| (verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster, muster up, summon |
| ramify | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, separate |
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| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: branch |
| (verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: complexify |
| rarefy | (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: attenuate |
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| (verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: sublimate, subtilize |
| (verb) lessen the density or solidity of | - |
| rarify | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, elaborate, refine |
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| ratify | (verb) approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation | Synonyms: sign |
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| ray | (verb) expose to radiation | Synonyms: irradiate |
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| (verb) extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center | Synonyms: radiate |
| (verb) emit as rays | - |
| ready | (verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: fix, gear up, prepare, set, set up |
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| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, make, prepare |
| rebury | (verb) bury again | - |
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| reclassify | (verb) classify anew, change the previous classification | - |
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| recopy | (verb) copy again | - |
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| rectify | (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, remediate, remedy, repair |
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| (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: correct, right |
| (verb) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities | Synonyms: refine |
| (verb) convert into direct current | - |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, reform, regenerate |
| (verb) determine the length of | - |
| recycle | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: reprocess, reuse |
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| (verb) cause to repeat a cycle | - |
| redeploy | (verb) deploy anew | - |
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| reify | (verb) consider an abstract concept to be real | - |
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| relay | (verb) pass along | - |
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| (verb) control or operate by relay | - |
| rely | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, look, reckon, swear |
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| relyric | (verb) write new lyrics for (a song) | - |
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| remarry | (verb) marry, not for the first time | - |
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| remedy | (verb) provide relief for | Synonyms: relieve |
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| (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remediate, repair |
| repay | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, retort, return, riposte |
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| (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, refund, return |
| (verb) make repayment for or return something | Synonyms: requite |
| (verb) act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions | Synonyms: pay back, reward |
| replay | (verb) play again | - |
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| (verb) repeat a game against the same opponent | - |
| (verb) play (a melody) again | - |
| (verb) reproduce (a recording) on a recorder | Synonyms: play back |
| reply | (verb) react verbally | Synonyms: answer, respond |
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| retry | (verb) hear or try a court case anew | Synonyms: rehear |
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| reunify | (verb) unify again, as of a country | Synonyms: reunite |
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| revivify | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, vivify |
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| rhyme | (verb) compose rhymes | Synonyms: rime |
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| (verb) be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable | Synonyms: rime |
| rigidify | (verb) become rigid | - |
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| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: ossify, petrify |
| roleplay | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, playact |
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| rubify | (verb) make ruby red | - |
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| saccharify | (verb) convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate | - |
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| (verb) sweeten with sugar | Synonyms: sugar |
| sanctify | (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, purify |
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| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, hallow |
| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanction |
| saponify | (verb) convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali | - |
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| (verb) become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali | - |
| sashay | (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, strut, swagger, tittup |
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| (verb) move sideways | Synonyms: sidle |
| (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: chasse |
| satisfy | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, fulfill, meet |
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| (verb) make happy or satisfied | Synonyms: gratify |
| (verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfil, fulfill, live up to |
| savvy | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok |
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| say | (verb) express in words | Synonyms: state, tell |
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| (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, aver |
| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out |
| (verb) express a supposition | Synonyms: suppose |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, order, tell |
| (verb) communicate or express nonverbally | - |
| (verb) recite or repeat a fixed text | - |
| (verb) indicate | - |
| (verb) state as one's opinion or judgement; declare | - |
| (verb) utter aloud | - |
| (verb) have or contain a certain wording or form | Synonyms: read |
| scarify | (verb) puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals | - |
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| (verb) break up | - |
| (verb) scratch the surface of | - |
| scry | (verb) divine by gazing into crystals | - |
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| scurry | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scuttle, skitter |
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| scythe | (verb) cut with a scythe | - |
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| sensify | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensitise, sensitize |
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| shillyshally | (verb) be uncertain and vague | - |
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| (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, stall |
| shimmy | (verb) dance a shimmy | - |
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| (verb) tremble or shake | Synonyms: wobble |
| shinny | (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, skin, sputter, struggle |
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| shy | (verb) throw quickly | - |
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| (verb) start suddenly, as from fright | - |
| signify | (verb) convey or express a meaning | - |
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| (verb) make known with a word or signal | - |
| (verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: intend, mean, stand for |
| simplify | (verb) make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent | - |
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| sky | (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, pitch, toss |
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| skydive | (verb) jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute | Synonyms: sky dive |
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| skyjack | (verb) subject an aircraft to air piracy | - |
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| skylark | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, sport |
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| skype | (verb) to communicate using Skype or similar web conference software | - |
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| skyrocket | (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: rocket |
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| slay | (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove |
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| (verb) to succeed greatly | - |
| solidify | (verb) become solid | - |
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| (verb) make solid or more solid; cause to solidify | - |
| spay | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, castrate, neuter |
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| specify | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, destine, intend |
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| (verb) define clearly | Synonyms: nail down, narrow, narrow down, peg down, pin down |
| (verb) select something or someone for a specific purpose | Synonyms: assign, set apart |
| (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, particularize, specialise, specialize |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, limit, set |
| (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, qualify, stipulate |
| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delimitate, delineate |
| speechify | (verb) make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality | - |
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| splay | (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, slip |
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| (verb) turn outward | Synonyms: rotate, spread out, turn out |
| (verb) spread open or apart | - |
| spray | (verb) scatter in a mass or jet of droplets | - |
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| (verb) be discharged in sprays of liquid | - |
| (verb) cover by spraying with a liquid | - |
| spy | (verb) secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage | - |
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| (verb) watch, observe, or inquire secretly | Synonyms: sleuth, snoop, stag |
| (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: descry, espy, spot |
| (verb) catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes | Synonyms: sight |
| stay | (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state | Synonyms: remain, rest |
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| (verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: delay, detain |
| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: appease, quell |
| (verb) fasten with stays | - |
| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, remain, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) stop a judicial process | - |
| (verb) dwell | Synonyms: abide, bide |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: continue, remain, stay on |
| (verb) hang on during a trial of endurance | Synonyms: last out, outride, ride out |
| steady | (verb) make steady | Synonyms: becalm, calm |
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| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilise, stabilize |
| stereotype | (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: pigeonhole, stamp |
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| stratify | (verb) render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand | - |
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| (verb) form layers or strata | - |
| (verb) form, arrange, or deposit in layers | - |
| (verb) divide society into social classes or castes | - |
| (verb) develop different social levels, classes, or castes | - |
| stray | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, wander |
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| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: drift, err |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| study | (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, read, take |
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| (verb) learn by reading books | Synonyms: hit the books |
| (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvass, examine |
| (verb) be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning | - |
| (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, meditate |
| (verb) give careful consideration to | Synonyms: consider |
| stultify | (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: cripple |
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| (verb) cause to appear foolish | - |
| (verb) prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence | - |
| stupefy | (verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow | Synonyms: stun |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, vex |
| (verb) make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation | Synonyms: besot |
| style | (verb) designate by an identifying term | Synonyms: title |
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| (verb) make consistent with certain rules of style | - |
| (verb) make consistent with a certain fashion or style | - |
| stylise | (verb) represent according to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalize, stylize |
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| stylize | (verb) represent according to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalize, stylise |
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| stymie | (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymy |
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| stymy | (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie |
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| sully | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, tarnish |
| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, corrupt, defile, taint |
| supply | (verb) state or say further | Synonyms: add, append |
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| (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: cater, ply, provide |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, provide, render |
| (verb) circulate or distribute or equip with | Synonyms: issue |
| survey | (verb) consider in a comprehensive way | Synonyms: appraise |
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| (verb) plot a map of (land) | - |
| (verb) make a survey of; for statistical purposes | - |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, review |
| (verb) look over carefully or inspect | - |
| (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, surveil |
| 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 |