| backhand | (verb) hit a tennis ball backhand | - |
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| band | (verb) bind or tie together, as with a band | - |
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| (verb) attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify | Synonyms: ring |
| brand | (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
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| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| (verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
| command | (verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: require |
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| (verb) be in command of | - |
| (verb) demand as one's due | - |
| (verb) exercise authoritative control or power over | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop |
| countermand | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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| demand | (verb) request urgently and forcefully | - |
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| (verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: exact |
| (verb) summon to court | - |
| (verb) ask to be informed of | - |
| (verb) lay legal claim to | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
| disband | (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: dissolve |
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| (verb) cause to break up or cease to function | - |
| expand | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, flourish, thrive |
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| (verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: amplify, blow up, inflate |
| (verb) become larger in size or volume or quantity | - |
| (verb) expand the influence of | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity | - |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| (verb) extend in one or more directions | Synonyms: spread out |
| garland | (verb) adorn with bands of flowers or leaves | - |
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| grandstand | (verb) perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause | - |
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| hand | (verb) guide or conduct or usher somewhere | - |
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| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
| husband | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economise, economize |
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| land | (verb) bring into a different state | Synonyms: bring |
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| (verb) reach or come to rest | Synonyms: set down |
| (verb) cause to come to the ground | Synonyms: bring down, put down |
| (verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: set ashore, shore |
| (verb) bring ashore | - |
| (verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: down, shoot down |
| (verb) deliver (a blow) | - |
| misunderstand | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret |
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| remand | (verb) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision | Synonyms: remit, send back |
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| (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars |
| reprimand | (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, criminate |
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| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, scold, take to task, trounce |
| sand | (verb) rub with sandpaper | Synonyms: sandpaper |
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| stand | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) have or maintain a position or stand on an issue | - |
| (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: fend, resist |
| (verb) be standing; be upright | Synonyms: stand up |
| (verb) put into an upright position | Synonyms: place upright, stand up |
| (verb) be available for stud services | - |
| (verb) hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright | Synonyms: remain firm |
| (verb) be tall; have a height of; copula | - |
| (verb) be in effect; be or remain in force | - |
| (verb) occupy a place or location, also metaphorically | - |
| (verb) be in some specified state or condition | - |
| (verb) remain inactive or immobile | - |
| strand | (verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: ground, run aground |
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| (verb) drive (a vessel) ashore | - |
| (verb) leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue | Synonyms: maroon |
| understand | (verb) know and comprehend the nature or meaning of | - |
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| (verb) perceive (an idea or situation) mentally | Synonyms: realise, realize, see |
| (verb) believe to be the case | Synonyms: infer |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, read, translate |
| (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathise, sympathize |
| unhand | (verb) remove the hand from | - |
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| withstand | (verb) stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something | Synonyms: hold out, resist, stand firm |
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| (verb) resist or confront with resistance | Synonyms: defy, hold, hold up |