| barge | (verb) push one's way | Synonyms: push forward, thrust ahead |
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| (verb) transport by barge on a body of water | - |
| baronetise | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetize |
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| baronetize | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetise |
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| barrage | (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: bombard |
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| barricade | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
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| (verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
| base | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: establish, found, ground |
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| (verb) use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes | Synonyms: free-base |
| (verb) situate as a center of operations | - |
| bastardise | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardize |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardize |
| bastardize | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardise |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardise |
| baste | (verb) cover with liquid before cooking | - |
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| (verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: tack |
| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: batter, clobber |
| bate | (verb) soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments | - |
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| (verb) flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons | - |
| (verb) moderate or restrain; lessen the force of | - |
| bathe | (verb) cleanse the entire body | - |
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| (verb) suffuse or envelope with something | - |
| (verb) swim for pleasure or recreation | - |
| battle | (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: combat |
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| be | (verb) spend or use time | - |
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| (verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: follow |
| (verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: exist |
| (verb) have life, be alive | Synonyms: live |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: comprise, constitute, make up, represent |
| (verb) have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) | - |
| (verb) occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere | - |
| (verb) be identical to; be someone or something | - |
| (verb) be identical or equivalent to | Synonyms: equal |
| (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: embody, personify |
| (verb) be priced at | Synonyms: cost |
| (verb) to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form | - |
| bechance | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: befall, happen |
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| (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: befall, betide |
| become | (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: get, go |
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| (verb) come into existence | - |
| (verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: turn |
| (verb) enhance the appearance of | Synonyms: suit |
| bedaze | (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: daze, stun |
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| bedazzle | (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: daze, dazzle |
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| bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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| beetle | (verb) beat with a beetle | - |
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| (verb) fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle | - |
| (verb) be suspended over or hang over | Synonyms: overhang |
| befuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: fuddle |
| begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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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 |
| beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
| behave | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: comport |
| behoove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behove |
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| behove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behoove |
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| belie | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: misrepresent |
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| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
| believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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| (verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
| (verb) credit with veracity | - |
| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
| belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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| (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
| bellyache | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
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| bemire | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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| bemuse | (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bewilder, discombobulate, throw |
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| benefice | (verb) endow with a benefice | - |
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| beneficiate | (verb) process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
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| benficiate | (verb) subject to a reduction process | - |
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| berate | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| bereave | (verb) deprive through death | - |
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| besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
| (verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
| bespangle | (verb) dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects | - |
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| (verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: spangle |
| bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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| besprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
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| bestialise | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialize |
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| bestialize | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialise |
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| bestride | (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount, mount up |
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| betide | (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
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| beware | (verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: mind |
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| bicycle | (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bike, cycle, pedal, wheel |
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| bide | (verb) dwell | Synonyms: abide, stay |
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| bifurcate | (verb) divide into two branches | - |
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| (verb) split or divide into two | - |
| bike | (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, cycle, pedal, wheel |
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| bilge | (verb) take in water at the bilge | Synonyms: take in water |
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| (verb) cause to leak | - |
| binge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| (verb) to watch a large amount of media in a single seating | - |
| biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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| birdie | (verb) shoot in one stroke under par | - |
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| birdlime | (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: lime |
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| birle | (verb) cause a floating log to rotate by treading | Synonyms: birl |
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| bite | (verb) to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws | Synonyms: seize with teeth |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut, as with a knife | - |
| (verb) deliver a sting to | Synonyms: prick, sting |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: burn, sting |
| bituminise | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminize |
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| bituminize | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminise |
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| blame | (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: charge |
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| (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: fault |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: find fault, pick |
| blare | (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, claxon, honk, toot |
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| (verb) make a strident sound | Synonyms: blast |
| blaspheme | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: curse, cuss, imprecate, swear |
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| (verb) speak of in an irreverent or impious manner | - |
| blate | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blat, bleat |
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| blaze | (verb) indicate by marking trees with blazes | - |
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| (verb) shoot rapidly and repeatedly | Synonyms: blaze away |
| (verb) move rapidly and as if blazing | Synonyms: blaze out |
| (verb) burn brightly and intensely | - |
| (verb) shine brightly and intensively | - |
| blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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| (verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
| blockade | (verb) impose a blockade on | Synonyms: seal off |
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| (verb) obstruct access to | Synonyms: block off |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, stop |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| bloviate | (verb) orate verbosely and windily | - |
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| blue | (verb) turn blue | - |
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| bobble | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bodge, 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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| bode | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| 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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| boggle | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: bowl over, flabbergast |
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| (verb) startle with amazement or fear | - |
| (verb) hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear | - |
| boldface | (verb) print in boldface | - |
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| bolshevise | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevize, communise, communize |
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| bolshevize | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, communise, communize |
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| bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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| bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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| bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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| bonderize | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderise |
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| bone | (verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: debone |
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| (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
| boogie | (verb) dance to boogie music | - |
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| boondoggle | (verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
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| booze | (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: drink, fuddle, hit the bottle |
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| bore | (verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | Synonyms: drill |
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| (verb) cause to be bored | Synonyms: tire |
| botanise | (verb) collect and study plants | Synonyms: botanize |
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| botanize | (verb) collect and study plants | Synonyms: botanise |
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| bottle | (verb) put into bottles | - |
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| (verb) store (liquids or gases) in bottles | - |
| bounce | (verb) eject from the premises | - |
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| (verb) hit something so that it bounces | - |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) leap suddenly | - |
| (verb) move up and down repeatedly | Synonyms: jounce |
| (verb) come back after being refused | - |
| (verb) refuse to accept and send back | - |
| bouse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bowse |
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| bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowdlerize | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bouse |
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| brabble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| brace | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) support by bracing | - |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: stabilise, stabilize, steady |
| (verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: poise |
| brachiate | (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
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| braille | (verb) transcribe in braille | - |
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| braise | (verb) cook in liquid | - |
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| brake | (verb) cause to stop by applying the brakes | - |
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| (verb) stop travelling by applying a brake | - |
| brattice | (verb) supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines | - |
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| brattle | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: clack, clatter |
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