appall | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
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(verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, dismay, horrify |
ball | (verb) form into a ball by winding or rolling | - |
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(verb) to live very well | - |
befall | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, happen |
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(verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, betide |
blackball | (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
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(verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: negative, veto |
call | (verb) rouse somebody from sleep with a call | - |
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(verb) challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of | - |
(verb) consider or regard as being | - |
(verb) utter in a loud voice or announce | - |
(verb) ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality | - |
(verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call up, phone, ring, telephone |
(verb) assign a specified (usually proper) name to | Synonyms: be known as, know as, name |
(verb) utter a characteristic note or cry | - |
(verb) send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message | - |
(verb) order, request, or command to come | Synonyms: send for |
(verb) indicate a decision in regard to | - |
(verb) challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense | - |
(verb) declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee | - |
(verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
(verb) lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal | - |
(verb) present for redemption before maturation | - |
(verb) read aloud to check for omissions or absentees | - |
(verb) order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role | - |
(verb) order or request or give a command for | - |
(verb) give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance | Synonyms: call off |
(verb) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands | Synonyms: bid |
(verb) demand payment of (a loan) | Synonyms: call in |
(verb) pay a brief visit | Synonyms: call in, visit |
(verb) call a meeting; invite or command to meet | - |
(verb) make a stop in a harbour | - |
(verb) greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name | Synonyms: address |
(verb) stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather | - |
catcall | (verb) utter catcalls at | - |
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enthrall | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, ravish, transport |
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eyeball | (verb) look at | Synonyms: eye |
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fall | (verb) occur at a specified time or place | - |
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(verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen |
(verb) pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind | - |
(verb) be born, used chiefly of lambs | - |
(verb) come out; issue | - |
(verb) assume a disappointed or sad expression | - |
(verb) begin vigorously | - |
(verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, settle |
(verb) be cast down | - |
(verb) go as if by falling | - |
(verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: flow, hang |
(verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, descend, go down |
(verb) move in a specified direction | - |
(verb) descend in free fall under the influence of gravity | - |
(verb) slope downward | - |
(verb) drop oneself to a lower or less erect position | - |
(verb) lose an upright position suddenly | Synonyms: fall down |
(verb) to be given by assignment or distribution | - |
(verb) be captured | - |
(verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: light |
(verb) come into the possession of | Synonyms: accrue |
(verb) to be given by right or inheritance | - |
(verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, pass, return |
(verb) lose office or power | - |
(verb) yield to temptation or sin | - |
(verb) suffer defeat, failure, or ruin | - |
(verb) lose one's chastity | - |
(verb) die, as in battle or in a hunt | - |
(verb) be due | - |
(verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: come |
(verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: shine, strike |
(verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, precipitate |
forestall | (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, foresee |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, preclude, prevent |
gall | (verb) irritate or vex | Synonyms: irk |
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(verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: chafe, fret |
install | (verb) set up for use | Synonyms: instal, put in, set up |
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(verb) place | Synonyms: establish, instal, set up |
(verb) put into an office or a position | Synonyms: instal |
lowball | (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: underestimate |
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miscall | (verb) assign in incorrect name to | Synonyms: misname |
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mothball | (verb) put into long-term storage | - |
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outcall | (verb) make a higher bid than (the previous bid or player); in a card game | - |
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pall | (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, jade, tire, weary |
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(verb) lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to) | - |
(verb) become less interesting or attractive | Synonyms: dull |
(verb) lose sparkle or bouquet | Synonyms: become flat, die |
(verb) cause to become flat | - |
(verb) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing | Synonyms: cloy |
(verb) cover with a pall | - |
(verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare, scare away, scare off |
recall | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recollect, remember, retrieve, think |
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(verb) cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression | - |
(verb) go back to something earlier | Synonyms: come back, hark back, return |
(verb) summon to return | Synonyms: call back |
(verb) cause to be returned | Synonyms: call back, call in, withdraw |
(verb) make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution | - |
(verb) bring to mind | Synonyms: echo |
reinstall | (verb) install again | - |
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snowball | (verb) increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate | - |
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(verb) throw snowballs at | - |
squall | (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, yell |
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(verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: waul, wawl |
(verb) blow in a squall | - |
stall | (verb) deliberately delay an event or action | - |
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(verb) come to a stop | Synonyms: conk |
(verb) cause an engine to stop | - |
(verb) cause an airplane to go into a stall | - |
(verb) experience a stall in flight, of airplanes | - |
(verb) put into, or keep in, a stall | - |
(verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally |
stonewall | (verb) engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate | - |
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(verb) obstruct or hinder any discussion | - |
wall | (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, surround |
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