absorb | (verb) cause to become one with | - |
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(verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: assimilate, ingest, take in |
(verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: engage, engross, occupy |
(verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: engross, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
(verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
(verb) become imbued | - |
(verb) assimilate or take in | - |
(verb) take up, as of debts or payments | Synonyms: take over |
(verb) suck or take up or in | Synonyms: take in |
adsorb | (verb) accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface | - |
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barb | (verb) provide with barbs | - |
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bedaub | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: besmear |
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benumb | (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: blunt, dull, numb |
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bib | (verb) drink moderately but regularly | Synonyms: tipple |
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blab | (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
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(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
blob | (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blot, fleck, spot |
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blub | (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blubber, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
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bob | (verb) cut hair in the style of a bob | - |
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(verb) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect | Synonyms: curtsy |
(verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: dock, tail |
(verb) move up and down repeatedly in a quick, short movement | - |
(verb) ride a bobsled | Synonyms: bobsled |
bomb | (verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bombard |
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(verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: fail, flunk, flush it |
boob | (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: blunder, drop the ball, goof, sin |
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cab | (verb) ride in a taxicab | Synonyms: taxi |
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chemisorb | (verb) take up a substance by chemisorption | - |
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climb | (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: mount, rise, wax |
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(verb) increase in value or to a higher point | Synonyms: go up, rise |
(verb) improve one's social status | - |
(verb) go upward with gradual or continuous progress | Synonyms: climb up, go up, mount |
(verb) move with effort, by grasping | - |
(verb) slope upward | - |
club | (verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: bludgeon |
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(verb) gather into a club-like mass | - |
(verb) gather and spend time together | - |
(verb) unite with a common purpose | - |
comb | (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb out, disentangle |
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(verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: ransack |
(verb) straighten with a comb | - |
confab | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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(verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confabulate, confer, consult |
crab | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
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(verb) fish for crab | - |
(verb) scurry sideways like a crab | - |
(verb) direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind | - |
crib | (verb) line with beams or planks | - |
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(verb) take unauthorized (intellectual material) | - |
(verb) use a crib, as in an exam | - |
crumb | (verb) remove crumbs from | - |
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(verb) break into crumbs | - |
(verb) coat with bread crumbs | - |
cub | (verb) give birth to cubs | - |
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curb | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curtail, cut back, restrict |
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(verb) keep to the curb | - |
(verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, hold, hold in, moderate |
currycomb | (verb) clean (a horse) with a currycomb | - |
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dab | (verb) to smoke marijuana using butane hash oil | - |
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(verb) hit lightly | Synonyms: pat |
(verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: swab, swob |
(verb) to perform a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing | - |
daub | (verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: smear |
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(verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: plaster |
(verb) apply to a surface | - |
demob | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
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desorb | (verb) go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed | - |
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(verb) remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed | - |
disturb | (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: interrupt |
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(verb) damage as if by shaking or jarring | - |
(verb) tamper with | Synonyms: touch |
(verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, commove, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
(verb) move deeply | Synonyms: trouble, upset |
drub | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, lick, thrash |
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dub | (verb) give a nickname to | Synonyms: nickname |
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(verb) provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language | - |
(verb) raise (someone) to knighthood | Synonyms: knight |
ebb | (verb) fall away or decline | - |
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(verb) hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb | - |
(verb) flow back or recede | Synonyms: ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out |
entomb | (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: bury, inhume, inter, lay to rest |
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fib | (verb) tell a relatively insignificant lie | - |
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firebomb | (verb) attack with incendiary bombs | - |
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flub | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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fob | (verb) deceive somebody | Synonyms: flim-flam, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick |
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gab | (verb) talk profusely | Synonyms: yak |
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garb | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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grab | (verb) capture the attention or imagination of | Synonyms: seize |
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(verb) take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of | Synonyms: catch |
(verb) take or grasp suddenly | - |
(verb) make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand | - |
(verb) get hold of or seize quickly and easily | Synonyms: snaffle, snap up |
(verb) obtain illegally or unscrupulously | - |
grub | (verb) search about busily | - |
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(verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, mooch, sponge |
hob | (verb) cut with a hob | - |
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hobnob | (verb) rub elbows with | - |
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honeycomb | (verb) make full of cavities, like a honeycomb | - |
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(verb) penetrate thoroughly and into every part | - |
(verb) carve a honeycomb pattern into | - |
jab | (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, poke, prod, stab |
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(verb) strike or punch with quick and short blows | - |
(verb) stab or pierce | Synonyms: stab |
jib | (verb) shift from one side of the ship to the other | Synonyms: change course, gybe, jibe |
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(verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, baulk, resist |
job | (verb) invest at a risk | Synonyms: speculate |
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(verb) work occasionally | - |
(verb) profit privately from public office and official business | - |
(verb) arranged for contracted work to be done by others | Synonyms: farm out, subcontract |
lamb | (verb) give birth to a lamb | - |
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lob | (verb) propel in a high arc | - |
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mob | (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: jam, pack, pile, throng |
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nab | (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nail, pick up |
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(verb) seize suddenly | - |
(verb) tag the base runner to get him out | - |
numb | (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, blunt, dull |
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orb | (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orbit, revolve |
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perturb | (verb) throw into great confusion or disorder | Synonyms: derange, throw out of kilter |
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(verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, trouble, unhinge |
(verb) cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull | - |
(verb) disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom | - |
photobomb | (verb) to jump into someone's photo | - |
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plumb | (verb) adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical | - |
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(verb) measure the depth of something | - |
(verb) examine thoroughly and in great depth | - |
(verb) weight with lead | - |
reabsorb | (verb) undergo resorption | Synonyms: resorb |
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recumb | (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recline, repose |
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resorb | (verb) undergo resorption | Synonyms: reabsorb |
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rib | (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, ridicule, roast |
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(verb) form vertical ribs by knitting | - |
rob | (verb) take something away by force or without the consent of the owner | - |
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(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, soak, surcharge |
rub | (verb) move over something with pressure | - |
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(verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, scratch |
(verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: itch, scratch |
scab | (verb) form a scab | - |
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(verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, fink, rat |
scrub | (verb) wash thoroughly | Synonyms: scrub up |
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(verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scour |
(verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scratch |
snub | (verb) reject outright and bluntly | Synonyms: rebuff, repel |
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(verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: cut, disregard, ignore |
sob | (verb) weep convulsively | - |
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sorb | (verb) take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption | Synonyms: take up |
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stab | (verb) stab or pierce | Synonyms: jab |
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(verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, poke, prod |
(verb) use a knife on | Synonyms: knife |
stub | (verb) strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object | - |
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(verb) clear of weeds by uprooting them | - |
(verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, extinguish, press out, stub out |
(verb) pull up (weeds) by their roots | - |
sub | (verb) be a substitute | Synonyms: fill in, stand in, substitute |
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succumb | (verb) consent reluctantly | Synonyms: buckle under, give in, knuckle under, yield |
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(verb) be fatally overwhelmed | Synonyms: yield |
swab | (verb) wash with a swab or a mop | Synonyms: swob |
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(verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: dab, swob |
swob | (verb) wash with a swab or a mop | Synonyms: swab |
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(verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: dab, swab |
throb | (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, shudder, thrill |
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(verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulsate, pulse |
(verb) pulsate or pound with abnormal force | - |
thumb | (verb) feel or handle with the fingers | Synonyms: finger |
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(verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitch, hitchhike |
(verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, riffle |
web | (verb) construct or form a web, as if by weaving | Synonyms: net |
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