| broaden | (verb) become broader | - |
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| (verb) make broader | - |
| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: extend, widen |
| (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, diversify |
| burden | (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: charge, saddle |
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| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down |
| deaden | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | - |
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| (verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: blunt |
| (verb) lessen the momentum or velocity of | - |
| (verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit | - |
| (verb) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, dampen |
| (verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: girdle |
| disburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: unburden |
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| embolden | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, hearten, recreate |
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| garden | (verb) work in the garden | - |
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| gladden | (verb) become glad or happy | - |
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| (verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: joy |
| harden | (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
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| (verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
| (verb) make healthy | Synonyms: season |
| (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: indurate, inure |
| (verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil | Synonyms: temper |
| laden | (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, ladle |
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| (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, load, load up |
| louden | (verb) cause to become loud | - |
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| (verb) become louder | - |
| madden | (verb) make mad | - |
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| (verb) drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves | - |
| (verb) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind | Synonyms: craze |
| overburden | (verb) burden with too much work or responsibility | - |
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| (verb) load with excessive weight | - |
| redden | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, flush |
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| (verb) turn red or redder | - |
| (verb) make red | - |
| sadden | (verb) come to feel sad | - |
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| (verb) make unhappy | - |
| unburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: disburden |
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| (verb) free or relieve (someone) of a burden | - |
| widen | (verb) become broader or wider or more extensive | - |
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| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: broaden, extend |
| (verb) make wider | - |
| (verb) make (clothes) larger | Synonyms: let out |