abduct | (verb) pull away from the body | - |
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(verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: kidnap, nobble, snatch |
abreact | (verb) discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization | - |
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abstract | (verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically | - |
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(verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance | - |
(verb) give an abstract (of) | - |
(verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
act | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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(verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind | Synonyms: act as, play |
(verb) discharge one's duties | - |
(verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: play, represent |
(verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: play, playact, roleplay |
(verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: dissemble, pretend |
(verb) perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) | Synonyms: move |
(verb) have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected | Synonyms: work |
(verb) be suitable for theatrical performance | - |
addict | (verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | Synonyms: hook |
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adduct | (verb) draw a limb towards the body | - |
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advect | (verb) convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid | - |
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affect | (verb) act physically on; have an effect upon | - |
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(verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on |
(verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: dissemble, feign, pretend, sham |
(verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: impress, move, strike |
(verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: involve, regard |
afflict | (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in | Synonyms: smite |
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(verb) cause great unhappiness for; distress | - |
attract | (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: draw, draw in, pull, pull in |
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(verb) exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away | - |
(verb) be attractive to | Synonyms: appeal |
benefact | (verb) help as a benefactor | - |
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bisect | (verb) cut in half or cut in two | - |
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cathect | (verb) inject with libidinal energy | - |
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coact | (verb) act together, as of organisms | - |
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collect | (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: garner, gather, pull together |
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(verb) get or bring together | Synonyms: pull in |
(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
(verb) call for and obtain payment of | Synonyms: take in |
(verb) gather or collect | Synonyms: call for, gather up, pick up |
compact | (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
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(verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, pack, wad |
(verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compress, pack together |
(verb) have the property of being packable or of compacting easily | Synonyms: pack |
complect | (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: interconnect, interlink |
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concoct | (verb) make a concoction (of) by mixing | - |
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(verb) devise or invent | Synonyms: dream up, hatch, think of, think up |
(verb) prepare or cook by mixing ingredients | Synonyms: cook up |
(verb) invent | Synonyms: trump up |
conduct | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, deport, do |
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(verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: direct, lead |
(verb) lead musicians in the performance of | - |
(verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, convey, impart, transmit |
(verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: direct, guide, lead, take |
(verb) direct the course of; manage or control | Synonyms: carry on, deal |
confect | (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: comfit, confection |
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(verb) make or construct | - |
conflict | (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: contravene, infringe, run afoul |
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(verb) be in conflict | - |
connect | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, link, link up, relate, tie in |
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(verb) join for the purpose of communication | - |
(verb) join by means of communication equipment | - |
(verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: link, link up, tie |
(verb) land on or hit solidly | - |
(verb) plug into an outlet | Synonyms: plug in, plug into |
(verb) hit or play a ball successfully | - |
(verb) establish communication with someone | Synonyms: get in touch, touch base |
(verb) establish a rapport or relationship | - |
(verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: join, link, link up, unite |
(verb) be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation | - |
constrict | (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constringe, narrow |
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(verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, contract, press, squeeze |
construct | (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: reconstruct, retrace |
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(verb) draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions | - |
(verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, make |
(verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: fabricate, manufacture |
(verb) create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts | - |
(verb) create by linking linguistic units | - |
contact | (verb) be in or establish communication with | Synonyms: get hold of, get through, reach |
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(verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, meet, touch |
contract | (verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: get, take |
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(verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: narrow |
(verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: shrink |
(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
(verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
(verb) enter into a contractual arrangement | Synonyms: undertake |
(verb) make smaller | - |
(verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, press, squeeze |
(verb) engage by written agreement | Synonyms: sign, sign on, sign up |
contradict | (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: negate |
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(verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contravene, negate |
(verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: controvert, oppose |
(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, negate |
convect | (verb) circulate hot air by convection | - |
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convict | (verb) find or declare guilty | - |
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correct | (verb) treat a defect | - |
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(verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: rectify, right |
(verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard | Synonyms: adjust, set |
(verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, objurgate |
(verb) fall in value | Synonyms: decline, slump |
(verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: discipline, sort out |
(verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, redress, right |
(verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up |
counteract | (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonise, antagonize |
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(verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
(verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: countercheck |
(verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counterbalance, countervail, neutralize |
decoct | (verb) extract the essence of something by boiling it | - |
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(verb) steep in hot water | - |
(verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, reduce |
deconstruct | (verb) interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing | - |
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deduct | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, derive, infer |
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(verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: subtract, take off |
(verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: recoup, withhold |
defect | (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: desert |
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deflect | (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: block, parry |
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(verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: distract |
(verb) turn aside and away from an initial or intended course | - |
(verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: bend, turn away |
(verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
deject | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
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depict | (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: describe, draw |
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(verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: picture, render, show |
(verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: limn, portray |
derestrict | (verb) make free from restrictions | - |
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destruct | (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destroy |
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(verb) destroy (one's own missile or rocket) | - |
detect | (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: discover, find, notice, observe |
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detract | (verb) take away a part from; diminish | Synonyms: take away |
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diffract | (verb) undergo diffraction | - |
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direct | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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(verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, calculate |
(verb) command with authority | - |
(verb) give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction | - |
(verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: address |
(verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, train |
(verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, place, point, target |
(verb) guide the actors in (plays and films) | - |
(verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, lead |
(verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take |
(verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: send |
(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
(verb) govern or manage | - |
disaffect | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, estrange |
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disconnect | (verb) make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten | - |
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(verb) pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable | Synonyms: unplug |
disinfect | (verb) destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing | - |
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disrespect | (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disesteem |
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(verb) show a lack of respect for | - |
dissect | (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, break down, take apart |
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(verb) cut open or cut apart | - |
distract | (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: deflect |
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(verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
district | (verb) regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns | Synonyms: zone |
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effect | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effectuate, set up |
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(verb) act so as to bring into existence | - |
eject | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, exhaust, expel, release |
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(verb) cause to come out in a squirt | Synonyms: force out, squeeze out, squirt |
(verb) put out or expel from a place | Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, exclude, turf out, turn out |
(verb) leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule | - |
elect | (verb) choose | - |
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(verb) select by a vote for an office or membership | - |
enact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, reenact |
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(verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: ordain |
erect | (verb) construct, build, or erect | Synonyms: put up, raise, rear, set up |
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(verb) cause to rise up | Synonyms: rear |
eruct | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, burp |
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(verb) eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical | Synonyms: spew, spew out |
evict | (verb) expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process | Synonyms: force out |
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(verb) expel or eject without recourse to legal process | - |
exact | (verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: demand |
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(verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: claim, take |
expect | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, carry, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
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(verb) look forward to the birth of a child | - |
(verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: anticipate |
(verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, look, wait |
(verb) consider reasonable or due | - |
(verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, require |
extract | (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill |
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(verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: excerpt, take out |
(verb) calculate the root of a number | - |
(verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, pull, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
(verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: express, press out |
(verb) separate (a metal) from an ore | - |
(verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, evoke |
(verb) get despite difficulties or obstacles | - |
genuflect | (verb) bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image | - |
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(verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: kowtow, scrape |
impact | (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, touch, touch on |
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(verb) press or wedge together; pack together | - |
indict | (verb) accuse formally of a crime | - |
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induct | (verb) introduce or initiate | - |
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(verb) produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes | Synonyms: induce |
(verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: invest, seat |
(verb) accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite | Synonyms: initiate |
(verb) admit as a member | - |
infect | (verb) contaminate with a disease or microorganism | Synonyms: taint |
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(verb) communicate a disease to | - |
(verb) affect in a contagious way | - |
(verb) corrupt with ideas or an ideology | - |
inflect | (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: modulate, tone |
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(verb) change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language | - |
inflict | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, impose, visit |
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infract | (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, offend, transgress, violate |
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inject | (verb) give an injection to | Synonyms: shoot |
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(verb) to introduce (a new aspect or element) | - |
(verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, interject, interpose, put in, throw in |
(verb) feed intravenously | - |
(verb) take by injection | - |
(verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | Synonyms: shoot |
inspect | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, scrutinise, scrutinize |
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(verb) come to see in an official or professional capacity | Synonyms: visit |
(verb) look over carefully | - |
instruct | (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: learn, teach |
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(verb) give instructions or directions for some task | - |
(verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
interact | (verb) act together or towards others or with others | - |
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interconnect | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interlink |
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(verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interlink |
interdict | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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(verb) destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication | - |
interject | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interpose, put in, throw in |
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intersect | (verb) meet at a point | Synonyms: cross |
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introject | (verb) incorporate (attitudes or ideas) into one's personality unconsciously | - |
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introspect | (verb) reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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inunct | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, embrocate, oil |
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maledict | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate |
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misconduct | (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: mishandle, mismanage |
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(verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misdemean |
misdirect | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misaddress |
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(verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misguide, mislead |
(verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
mulct | (verb) impose a fine on | Synonyms: fine |
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(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
neglect | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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(verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, ignore |
(verb) fail to attend to | - |
(verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: fail |
object | (verb) express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent | - |
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(verb) be averse to or express disapproval of | - |
obstruct | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obturate, occlude |
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(verb) shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight | Synonyms: block |
(verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, stymie, stymy |
overact | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overplay |
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overprotect | (verb) protect excessively | - |
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(verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, mother |
overreact | (verb) show an exaggerated response to something | - |
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perfect | (verb) make perfect or complete | Synonyms: hone |
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playact | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, roleplay |
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predict | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, prognosticate, promise |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
project | (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: propose |
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(verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, externalize |
(verb) communicate vividly | - |
(verb) throw, send, or cast forward | Synonyms: send off |
(verb) transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another | - |
(verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, see, visualise, visualize |
(verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, plan |
(verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, contrive, throw |
(verb) draw a projection of | - |
(verb) cause to be heard | - |
(verb) project on a screen | - |
(verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, protrude, stick out |
prospect | (verb) explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals | - |
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(verb) search for something desirable | - |
protect | (verb) shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage | - |
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(verb) use tariffs to favor domestic industry | - |
protract | (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, extend, prolong |
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react | (verb) undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions | - |
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(verb) show a response or a reaction to something | Synonyms: respond |
(verb) act against or in opposition to | Synonyms: oppose |
recollect | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, remember, retrieve, think |
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reconstruct | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: redo, remodel |
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(verb) cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically | - |
(verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: construct, retrace |
(verb) build again | Synonyms: rebuild |
(verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: restore |