| carmine | (verb) color carmine | - |
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| carnalise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalize, sensualise, sensualize |
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| carnalize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, sensualise, sensualize |
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| (verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: sensualize |
| (verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: sensualize |
| carouse | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: riot, roister |
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| carve | (verb) cut to pieces | Synonyms: cut up |
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| (verb) form by carving | - |
| (verb) engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface | Synonyms: chip at |
| cascade | (verb) arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible | - |
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| (verb) rush down in big quantities, like a cascade | Synonyms: cascade down |
| case | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: encase, incase |
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| (verb) look over, usually with the intention to rob | - |
| caseate | (verb) become cheeselike | - |
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| (verb) turn into cheese | - |
| castigate | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate |
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| (verb) inflict severe punishment on | - |
| castle | (verb) move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king | - |
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| castrate | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, neuter, spay |
| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: emasculate |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, shorten |
| catabolise | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolize |
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| catabolize | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolise |
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| catalogue | (verb) make an itemized list or catalog of; classify | Synonyms: catalog |
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| (verb) make a catalogue, compile a catalogue | Synonyms: catalog |
| catalyse | (verb) change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | Synonyms: catalyze |
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| catalyze | (verb) change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | Synonyms: catalyse |
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| catechise | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechize |
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| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechize |
| catechize | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechise |
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| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechise |
| categorise | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorize |
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| categorize | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorise |
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| catenate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenulate |
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| catenulate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
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| catheterise | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterize |
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| catheterize | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterise |
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| catholicise | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicize, latinise, latinize |
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| catholicize | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicise, latinise, latinize |
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| cause | (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: get, have, induce, make, stimulate |
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| (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: do, make |
| cauterise | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterize |
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| (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterize |
| cauterize | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterise |
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| (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterise |
| cave | (verb) explore natural caves | Synonyms: spelunk |
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| (verb) hollow out as if making a cave or opening | Synonyms: undermine |
| cease | (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
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| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: end, finish, stop, terminate |
| cede | (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: deliver, give up, surrender |
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| (verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: concede, grant, yield |
| celebrate | (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: fete |
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| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: keep, observe |
| (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: lionise, lionize |
| cense | (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: incense, thurify |
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| censure | (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: criminate, reprimand |
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| centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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| centralize | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, concentrate |
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| centre | (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet |
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| (verb) move into the center | Synonyms: center |
| (verb) center upon | Synonyms: center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around |
| centrifugate | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifuge |
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| centrifuge | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifugate |
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| cere | (verb) wrap up in a cerecloth | - |
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| cerebrate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cogitate, think |
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| certificate | (verb) authorize by certificate | - |
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| (verb) present someone with a certificate | - |
| chafe | (verb) warm by rubbing, as with the hands | - |
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| (verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: excoriate |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: fray, fret, rub, scratch |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| (verb) feel extreme irritation or anger | - |
| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: fret, gall |
| challenge | (verb) issue a challenge to | - |
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| (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: dispute, gainsay |
| (verb) raise a formal objection in a court of law | Synonyms: take exception |
| (verb) ask for identification | - |
| chance | (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, encounter, find, happen |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| (verb) be the case by chance | - |
| chandelle | (verb) climb suddenly and steeply | - |
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| change | (verb) undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature | - |
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| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: alter, modify |
| (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: alter, vary |
| (verb) change clothes; put on different clothes | - |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: commute, convert, exchange |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: shift, switch |
| (verb) remove or replace the coverings of | - |
| (verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: deepen |
| (verb) change from one vehicle or transportation line to another | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: exchange, interchange |
| channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| channelize | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| chaperone | (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperon |
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| characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
| characterize | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterise |
| charge | (verb) energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge | - |
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| (verb) cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on | - |
| (verb) saturate | - |
| (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: blame |
| (verb) set or ask for a certain price | - |
| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: file, lodge |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, saddle |
| (verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: accuse |
| (verb) make an accusatory claim | - |
| (verb) instruct or command with authority | - |
| (verb) instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence | - |
| (verb) to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle | Synonyms: bear down |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: level, point |
| (verb) fill or load to capacity | - |
| (verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: load |
| (verb) place a heraldic bearing on | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, shoot, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) lie down on command, of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt | - |
| (verb) enter a certain amount as a charge | - |
| (verb) demand payment | Synonyms: bill |
| (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: consign |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
| (verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: appoint |
| chase | (verb) cut a groove into | - |
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| (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chamfer, furrow |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail |
| (verb) pursue someone sexually or romantically | Synonyms: chase after |
| chasse | (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: sashay |
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| chastise | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, correct, objurgate |
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| chaturbate | (verb) to masturbate while chatting online | - |
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| checkmate | (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: mate |
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| cheese | (verb) wind onto a cheese | - |
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| (verb) used in the imperative (get away, or stop it) | - |
| chelate | (verb) form a chelate, in chemistry | - |
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| cheque | (verb) withdraw money by writing a check | Synonyms: check out |
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| chicane | (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, cavil |
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| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
| chide | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| chime | (verb) emit a sound | - |
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| chine | (verb) cut through the backbone of an animal | - |
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| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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| chlorinate | (verb) disinfect with chlorine | - |
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| (verb) treat or combine with chlorine | - |
| choke | (verb) breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion | - |
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| (verb) cause to retch or choke | Synonyms: gag |
| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: gag, strangle, suffocate |
| (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: strangle |
| (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: throttle |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: fret, gag |
| (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, crap up, foul |
| (verb) wring the neck of | Synonyms: scrag |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate |
| (verb) check or slow down the action or effect of | - |
| (verb) fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation | - |
| choose | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: pick out, select, take |
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| (verb) see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way | - |
| (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: opt, prefer |
| chortle | (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chuckle, laugh softly |
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| chouse | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, jockey, screw, shaft |
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| chrome | (verb) treat with a chromium compound | - |
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| (verb) plate with chromium | Synonyms: chromium-plate |
| chronicle | (verb) record in chronological order; make a historical record | - |
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| chronologise | (verb) establish the order in time of something | Synonyms: chronologize |
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| chronologize | (verb) establish the order in time of something | Synonyms: chronologise |
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| chuckle | (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chortle, laugh softly |
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| chute | (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: jump, parachute |
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| cicatrise | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrize |
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| cicatrize | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrise |
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| cinematise | (verb) make a film of or adopt so as to make into a film | Synonyms: cinematize |
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| cinematize | (verb) make a film of or adopt so as to make into a film | Synonyms: cinematise |
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| circle | (verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: encircle |
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| (verb) move in a circular path above (someone or something) | - |
| (verb) travel around something | - |
| circularise | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularize |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularize |
| circularize | (verb) make circular | - |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by using a questionnaire | - |
| circulate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: go around, spread |
| (verb) move around freely from person to person or from place to place | - |
| (verb) move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point | - |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) cause to move in a circuit or system | - |
| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| circumcise | (verb) cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys | - |
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| (verb) cut the skin over the clitoris | - |
| circumfuse | (verb) spread something around something | - |
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| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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| (verb) draw a line around | - |
| (verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
| circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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| circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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| circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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| cite | (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, mention, name, refer |
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| (verb) commend | Synonyms: mention |
| (verb) repeat a passage from | Synonyms: quote |
| (verb) refer to for illustration or proof | Synonyms: quote |
| (verb) advance evidence for | Synonyms: abduce, adduce |
| (verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | Synonyms: summon, summons |
| (verb) refer to | Synonyms: reference |
| citrate | (verb) cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
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| civilise | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilize |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| civilize | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilise |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| classicise | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicize |
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