| abridge | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) lessen, diminish, or curtail | - |
| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| adjudge | (verb) declare to be | Synonyms: declare, hold |
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| badge | (verb) put a badge on | - |
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| begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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| (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
| bodge | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| bridge | (verb) make a bridge across | - |
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| (verb) cross over on a bridge | - |
| (verb) connect or reduce the distance between | Synonyms: bridge over |
| budge | (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, shift, stir |
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| cadge | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, grub, mooch, sponge |
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| (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: schnorr, scrounge, shnorr |
| dislodge | (verb) remove or force out from a position | Synonyms: free |
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| (verb) remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied | Synonyms: bump |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: reposition, shift |
| dodge | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid | - |
| (verb) move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course | - |
| dredge | (verb) remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water | - |
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| (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | Synonyms: drag |
| (verb) cover before cooking | - |
| drudge | (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
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| edge | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, march |
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| (verb) provide with an edge | - |
| (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: inch |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: border |
| fledge | (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: feather |
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| (verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: flight |
| (verb) feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight | - |
| fudge | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| grudge | (verb) accept or admit unwillingly | - |
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| (verb) bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings | Synonyms: stew |
| hedge | (verb) minimize loss or risk | - |
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| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
| (verb) enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges | Synonyms: hedge in |
| (verb) hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge | - |
| judge | (verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: evaluate, pass judgment |
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| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, gauge, guess |
| (verb) determine the result of (a competition) | - |
| (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: label, pronounce |
| (verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: adjudicate, try |
| lodge | (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: charge, file |
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| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, stick, wedge |
| (verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: accommodate |
| (verb) be a lodger; stay temporarily | - |
| misjudge | (verb) judge incorrectly | - |
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| nudge | (verb) push into action by pestering or annoying gently | - |
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| (verb) to push against gently | Synonyms: poke at, prod |
| pledge | (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: plight |
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| (verb) bind or secure by a pledge | - |
| (verb) give as a guarantee | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, salute, toast, wassail |
| (verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: subscribe |
| prejudge | (verb) judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence | - |
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| resmudge | (verb) smudge again | - |
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| ridge | (verb) form into a ridge | - |
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| (verb) spade into alternate ridges and troughs | - |
| (verb) throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides | - |
| (verb) plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip | - |
| (verb) extend in ridges | - |
| sledge | (verb) beat with a sledgehammer | Synonyms: sledgehammer |
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| (verb) transport in a sleigh | - |
| (verb) ride in or travel with a sledge | - |
| smudge | (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: blur, smear, smutch |
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| trudge | (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp |
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| wedge | (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: force, squeeze |
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| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, lodge, stick |