dizzy | (verb) make dizzy or giddy | - |
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dogmatize | (verb) state as a dogma | Synonyms: dogmatise |
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(verb) speak dogmatically | Synonyms: dogmatise |
domesticize | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, reclaim, tame |
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downsize | (verb) (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees | - |
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(verb) design or manufacture in a smaller size | - |
(verb) dismiss from work | - |
doze | (verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: drowse, snooze |
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dramatize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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(verb) represent something in a dramatic manner | Synonyms: dramatise |
(verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: adopt, dramatise |
drizzle | (verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: moisten |
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(verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: mizzle |
dynamize | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamise |
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(verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamise |
ebonize | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonise |
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economize | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economise, husband |
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(verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economise, save |
editorialize | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialise |
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effeminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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elegize | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegise |
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embezzle | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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emblazon | (verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: blazon |
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(verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: color, colour |
empathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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emphasize | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress |
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(verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore |
energize | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energise, perk up, stimulate |
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(verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energise, excite |
epitomize | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomise, typify |
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equalize | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalise, equate, match |
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(verb) compensate; make the score equal | Synonyms: equalise, get even |
equilibrize | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrise |
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eroticize | (verb) give erotic character to or make more interesting | Synonyms: sex up |
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eternalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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eternize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, immortalise, immortalize |
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(verb) cause to continue indefinitely | - |
etherealize | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherialise |
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etherize | (verb) anesthetize with ether | Synonyms: etherise |
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etymologize | (verb) construct the history of words | Synonyms: etymologise |
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(verb) give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) | Synonyms: etymologise |
eulogize | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogise |
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euphemize | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemise |
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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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euthanize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanise, mercy kill |
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evangelize | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelise |
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(verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelise |
exorcize | (verb) expel through adjuration or prayers | Synonyms: exorcise |
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extemporize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, improvise, improvize |
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(verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: improvise |
exteriorize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, externalise, externalize, objectify |
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(verb) bring outside the body for surgery, of organs | Synonyms: bring outside |
externalize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, objectify |
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(verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, project |
factorize | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorise |
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familiarize | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarise |
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fantasize | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasy |
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(verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasise |
faze | (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: enervate, unnerve, unsettle |
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federalize | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
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(verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalise |
(verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
feminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminise, womanize |
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(verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminise |
fertilize | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, inseminate |
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(verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilise |
(verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise |
fetishize | (verb) make a fetish of | - |
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feudalize | (verb) bring (a country or people) under feudalism | - |
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fictionalize | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, novelise, novelize |
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(verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, retell |
finalize | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, nail down, settle |
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fizz | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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fizzle | (verb) end weakly | Synonyms: fizzle out, peter out, taper off |
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fluoridize | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridise |
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focalize | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus |
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(verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus, sharpen |
(verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focus |
(verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, localise, localize |
formalize | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalise |
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(verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalise, validate |
formularize | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularise |
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fossilize | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilise |
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(verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilise |
fragmentize | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentise |
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fraternize | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternise |
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frazzle | (verb) exhaust physically or emotionally | - |
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(verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: fray |
freeze | (verb) be cold | - |
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(verb) anesthetize by cold | - |
(verb) suddenly behave coldly and formally | - |
(verb) change to ice | - |
(verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | Synonyms: suspend |
(verb) cause to freeze | - |
(verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, immobilise, immobilize |
(verb) change from a liquid to a solid when cold | Synonyms: freeze down, freeze out |
(verb) stop moving or become immobilized | Synonyms: stop dead |
(verb) be very cold, below the freezing point | - |
friendzone | (verb) To treat as a friend although the other party has romantic feelings | - |
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frizz | (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizzle, kink, kink up |
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frizzle | (verb) fry something until it curls and becomes crisp | - |
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(verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, kink, kink up |
galvanize | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanise |
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(verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanise |
(verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanise, startle |
gaze | (verb) look at with fixed eyes | Synonyms: stare |
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gazette | (verb) publish in a gazette | - |
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gazump | (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
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(verb) raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price | - |
gelatinize | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
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(verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
(verb) coat with gelatin | - |
generalize | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalise |
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(verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalise |
(verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, infer |
(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
ghettoize | (verb) put in a ghetto | Synonyms: ghettoise |
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glamorize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamourise, glamourize |
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(verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamourise, romanticise, romanticize |
glamourize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourise |
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glaze | (verb) become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance | Synonyms: glass, glass over, glaze over |
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(verb) coat with a glaze | - |
(verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: candy, sugarcoat |
(verb) furnish with glass | Synonyms: glass |
globalize | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalise |
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gluttonize | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonise |
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glycerolize | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolise |
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gormandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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gourmandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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graze | (verb) eat lightly, try different dishes | Synonyms: browse |
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(verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: crease, rake |
(verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, pasture, range |
(verb) break the skin (of a body part) by scraping | - |
(verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: crop, pasture |
grizzle | (verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: whine, yammer, yawp |
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(verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, stew |
guzzle | (verb) drink greedily or as if with great thirst | - |
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harmonize | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: chord, harmonise |
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(verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonise, reconcile |
(verb) bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously | Synonyms: harmonise |
(verb) sing or play in harmony | Synonyms: harmonise |
(verb) write a harmony for | Synonyms: harmonise |
(verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise |
hazard | (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, pretend, venture |
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(verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
(verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, jeopardize, stake, venture |
haze | (verb) harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions | - |
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(verb) become hazy, dull, or cloudy | - |
homogenize | (verb) become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenise |
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(verb) cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenise |
(verb) break up the fat globules of | Synonyms: homogenise |
homologize | (verb) make homologous | Synonyms: homologise |
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(verb) be homologous | - |
hospitalize | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalise |
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humanize | (verb) make more humane | Synonyms: humanise |
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hybridize | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, interbreed |
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hydrolize | (verb) make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis | Synonyms: hydrolise |
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hydrolyze | (verb) undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water | Synonyms: hydrolyse |
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hygienize | (verb) make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing | Synonyms: hygienise, sanitise, sanitize |
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hyperbolize | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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hypnotize | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, mesmerise, mesmerize |
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hypophysectomize | (verb) remove the pituitary glands | Synonyms: hypophysectomise |
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hypostatize | (verb) construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity | Synonyms: hypostatise |
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hypothesize | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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idealize | (verb) consider or render as ideal | Synonyms: idealise |
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(verb) form ideals | Synonyms: idealise |
idolize | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, revere, worship |
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illegalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, outlaw |
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immaterialize | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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immobilize | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilise |
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(verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilise |
(verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
(verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilise |
(verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilise, pin, trap |
(verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilise |