| bid | (verb) ask someone in a friendly way to do something | Synonyms: invite |
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| (verb) invoke upon | Synonyms: wish |
| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, conjure, entreat, press |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: offer, tender |
| (verb) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands | Synonyms: call |
| (verb) make a serious effort to attain something | - |
| forbid | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| outbid | (verb) bid higher than others | - |
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| (verb) bid over an opponent's bid when one's partner has not bid or doubled | - |
| overbid | (verb) bid more than the object is worth | - |
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| (verb) to bid for more tricks than one can expect to win | - |
| underbid | (verb) bid too low | - |
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| (verb) bid lower than a competing bidder | - |
| (verb) bid (a hand of cards) at less than the strength of the hand warrants | - |