| liberate | (verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: free, release |
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| (verb) grant freedom to | Synonyms: set free |
| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: emancipate |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, loose, release, unloose, unloosen |
| librate | (verb) vibrate before coming to a total rest | - |
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| (verb) determine the weight of | Synonyms: weigh |
| ligate | (verb) bind with a bandage or ligature | - |
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| (verb) bind chemically | - |
| (verb) join letters in a ligature when writing | - |
| liquidate | (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, neutralise, neutralize, waste |
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| (verb) eliminate by paying off (debts) | Synonyms: pay off |
| (verb) convert into cash | - |
| (verb) settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off | - |
| litigate | (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, process, sue |
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| (verb) engage in legal proceedings | - |
| locate | (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: settle |
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| (verb) discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining | Synonyms: turn up |
| (verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: place, site |
| (verb) determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey | Synonyms: situate |
| lubricate | (verb) make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant | - |
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| (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lube |
| (verb) have lubricating properties | - |
| lucubrate | (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, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out |
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| lustrate | (verb) purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials | - |
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| luxate | (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, slip, splay |
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| luxuriate | (verb) thrive profusely or flourish extensively | - |
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| (verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: wanton |
| (verb) enjoy to excess | Synonyms: indulge |
| macerate | (verb) soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result | - |
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| (verb) become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking | - |
| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: emaciate, waste |
| (verb) separate into constituents by soaking | - |
| machicolate | (verb) supply with projecting galleries | - |
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| machinate | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, conspire |
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| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, organise, organize, prepare |
| maculate | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, defile, foul |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, stain, sully, tarnish |
| malversate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, misappropriate, peculate |
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| mandate | (verb) assign authority to | - |
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| (verb) make mandatory | - |
| (verb) assign under a mandate | - |
| manducate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, masticate |
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| manipulate | (verb) treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | - |
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| (verb) hold something in one's hands and move it | - |
| (verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: control, keep in line |
| (verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: rig |
| (verb) influence or control shrewdly or deviously | Synonyms: pull strings, pull wires |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle |
| marinate | (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinade |
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| masticate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, manducate |
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| (verb) grind and knead | - |
| masturbate | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, she-bop, wank |
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| (verb) stimulate sexually | - |
| mate | (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: checkmate |
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| (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, couple, pair |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, match, pair, twin |
| matriculate | (verb) enroll as a student | - |
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| maturate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, suppurate |
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| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, mature |
| (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, mature, senesce |
| mediate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, liaise |
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| (verb) occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others | - |
| medicate | (verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicine |
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| (verb) impregnate with a medicinal substance | - |
| meditate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, study |
| meliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, improve |
| menstruate | (verb) undergo menstruation | Synonyms: flow |
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| mensurate | (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure, measure out |
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| metricate | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricise, metricize, metrify |
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| micturate | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| migrate | (verb) move from one country or region to another and settle there | Synonyms: transmigrate |
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| (verb) move periodically or seasonally | - |
| militate | (verb) have force or influence; bring about an effect or change | - |
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| miniate | (verb) paint with red lead or vermilion | - |
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| (verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: rubricate |
| misappropriate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, peculate |
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| miscalculate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: misestimate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: misestimate |
| miscegenate | (verb) marry or cohabit with a person of another race | - |
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| miscreate | (verb) shape or form or make badly | - |
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| misdate | (verb) assign the wrong date to | - |
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| misestimate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
| mismate | (verb) provide with an unsuitable mate | - |
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| misstate | (verb) state something incorrectly | - |
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| mistranslate | (verb) translate incorrectly | - |
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| mitigate | (verb) to temper | - |
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| (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, palliate |
| moderate | (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: mollify, season, temper |
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| (verb) make less fast or intense | - |
| (verb) preside over | Synonyms: chair, lead |
| (verb) make less strong or intense; soften | Synonyms: tame, tone down |
| (verb) make less severe or harsh | Synonyms: mince, soften |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in |
| modulate | (verb) adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of | - |
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| (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: regulate |
| (verb) vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves) | - |
| (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: inflect, tone |
| (verb) change the key of, in music | - |
| motivate | (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, move, prompt, propel |
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| mussitate | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mutter |
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| mutate | (verb) undergo mutation | - |
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| mutilate | (verb) destroy or injure severely | Synonyms: mar |
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| (verb) damage or injure severely | Synonyms: cut up, mangle |
| (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, murder |
| narrate | (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: recite, recount, tell |
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| (verb) provide commentary for a film, for example | - |
| nauseate | (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, revolt, sicken |
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| (verb) upset and make nauseated | Synonyms: sicken, turn one's stomach |
| navigate | (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: pilot |
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| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: sail, voyage |
| (verb) direct carefully and safely | - |
| necessitate | (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, need, postulate, require, take |
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| (verb) cause to be a concomitant | - |
| negate | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: neutralise, neutralize, nullify |
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| (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: contradict |
| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, contravene |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, contradict |
| negociate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negotiate, talk terms |
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| (verb) confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement | - |
| (verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negotiate |
| (verb) transfer by endorsement to another in return for value received | - |
| (verb) sell or discount | - |
| (verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, manage, pull off |
| negotiate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negociate, talk terms |
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| (verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negociate |
| nictate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictitate, wink |
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| nictitate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictate, wink |
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| nitrate | (verb) treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate | - |
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| nominate | (verb) propose as a candidate for some honor | Synonyms: put forward, put up |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, constitute, name |
| (verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: make, name |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: propose |
| notate | (verb) put into notation, as of music or choreography | - |
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| novate | (verb) replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one | - |
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| nucleate | (verb) form into a nucleus | - |
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| numerate | (verb) read out loud as words written numbers | - |
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| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, number |
| nutate | (verb) rock, sway, or nod; usually involuntarily | - |
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| obfuscate | (verb) make obscure or unclear | - |
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| objurgate | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, reprobate |
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| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, correct |
| obligate | (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, oblige |
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| (verb) commit in order to fulfill an obligation | - |
| (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, oblige |
| obliterate | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: efface |
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| (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obscure, veil |
| (verb) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | Synonyms: kill, wipe out |
| (verb) do away with completely, without leaving a trace | - |
| obnubilate | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, confuse, obscure |
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| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obscure |
| obstinate | (verb) persist stubbornly | - |
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| obstipate | (verb) constipate severely | - |
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| obturate | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, occlude |
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| obviate | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, stave off, ward off |
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| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: eliminate, rid of |
| officiate | (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: function |
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| (verb) act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding | - |
| operate | (verb) perform surgery on | Synonyms: operate on |
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| (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre |
| (verb) handle and cause to function | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, mesh |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, run, work |
| (verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. | Synonyms: run |
| orate | (verb) talk pompously | - |
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| orchestrate | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, mastermind, organise, organize |
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| (verb) write an orchestra score for | - |
| ordinate | (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, coordinate |
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| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, order |
| orientate | (verb) determine one's position with reference to another point | Synonyms: orient |
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| originate | (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: initiate, start |
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| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, rise, spring up, uprise |
| (verb) begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc. | - |
| oscillate | (verb) move or swing from side to side regularly | Synonyms: vibrate |
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| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, vacillate, vibrate |
| osculate | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: buss, kiss, snog |
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| (verb) have at least three points in common with | - |
| (verb) be intermediate between two taxonomic groups | - |
| ostentate | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, show off, swank |
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| overcompensate | (verb) make excessive corrections for fear of making an error | Synonyms: over-correct |
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| (verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: compensate, cover |
| overcultivate | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcrop |
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| overestimate | (verb) make too high an estimate of | Synonyms: overrate |
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| (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overvalue |
| overpopulate | (verb) cause to have too great a population | - |
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| overrate | (verb) make too high an estimate of | Synonyms: overestimate |
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| overstate | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw |
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| ovulate | (verb) produce and discharge eggs | - |
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| oxidate | (verb) add oxygen to or combine with oxygen | Synonyms: oxidise, oxidize |
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| (verb) enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide | Synonyms: oxidise, oxidize |
| oxygenate | (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: aerate, oxygenise, oxygenize |
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| paginate | (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: foliate, page |
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| palliate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, relieve |
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| (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, mitigate |
| palpate | (verb) examine (a body part) by palpation | Synonyms: feel |
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| palpebrate | (verb) wink or blink, especially repeatedly | - |
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