| alien | (verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alienate |
|---|
| awaken | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
|---|
| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) make aware | - |
| batten | (verb) secure with battens | - |
|---|
| (verb) furnish with battens | Synonyms: batten down, secure |
| bedizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: dizen |
|---|
| (verb) decorate tastelessly | - |
| betoken | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
|---|
| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, indicate, point, signal |
| blacken | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, melanise, melanize |
|---|
| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: char, scorch, sear |
| brazen | (verb) face with defiance or impudence | - |
|---|
| brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
|---|
| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
| brisken | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk, brisk up |
|---|
| broaden | (verb) become broader | - |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down |
| burthen | (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, weight, weight down |
|---|
| careen | (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: shift, tilt, wobble |
|---|
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: keel, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
| chasten | (verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: temper |
|---|
| (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: subdue, tame |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chastise, correct, objurgate |
| cheapen | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: degrade |
|---|
| christen | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, baptize |
|---|
| coarsen | (verb) make less subtle or refined | - |
|---|
| (verb) make or become coarse or coarser | - |
| cozen | (verb) cheat or trick | - |
|---|
| (verb) act with artful deceit | - |
| (verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: deceive, delude, lead on |
| crispen | (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crisp, toast |
|---|
| dampen | (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, soften, weaken |
|---|
| (verb) make moist | Synonyms: moisten, wash |
| (verb) check; keep in check (a fire) | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, deaden |
| (verb) reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves) | - |
| (verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: stifle |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
| darken | (verb) become dark or darker | - |
|---|
| (verb) make dark or darker | - |
| (verb) tarnish or stain | - |
| deaden | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | - |
|---|
| (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 |
| deafen | (verb) make soundproof | - |
|---|
| (verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deaf |
| (verb) be unbearably loud | - |
| deepen | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: intensify |
|---|
| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, heighten, intensify |
| (verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: change |
| (verb) make deeper | - |
| disburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: unburden |
|---|
| dishearten | (verb) take away the enthusiasm of | Synonyms: put off |
|---|
| dizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: bedizen |
|---|
| embolden | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, hearten, recreate |
|---|
| enlighten | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
|---|
| (verb) make understand | Synonyms: edify |
| (verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion | Synonyms: irradiate |
| enliven | (verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, invigorate, liven, liven up |
|---|
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
| even | (verb) become even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
|---|
| (verb) make even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even out, flush, level |
| fasten | (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: tighten |
|---|
| (verb) become fixed or fastened | - |
| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fix, secure |
| (verb) attach to | - |
| fatten | (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fat, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
|---|
| flatten | (verb) become flat or flatter | Synonyms: flatten out |
|---|
| (verb) make flat or flatter | - |
| (verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes) | Synonyms: drop |
| foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
|---|
| (verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
| freshen | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: refresh, refreshen |
|---|
| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen up, refresh, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: refresh |
| frighten | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, scare |
|---|
| garden | (verb) work in the garden | - |
|---|
| gladden | (verb) become glad or happy | - |
|---|
| (verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: joy |
| glisten | (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glitter, shine |
|---|
| green | (verb) turn or become green | - |
|---|
| happen | (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
|---|
| (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: materialise, materialize |
| (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, find |
| (verb) chance to be or do something, without intention or causation | - |
| harden | (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
|---|
| (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 |
| harken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, hearken |
|---|
| harshen | (verb) make harsh or harsher | - |
|---|
| hasten | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hurry, look sharp, rush |
|---|
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: induce, rush, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: expedite |
| hearken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, harken |
|---|
| hearten | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, embolden, recreate |
|---|
| heighten | (verb) increase the level of | Synonyms: enhance, raise |
|---|
| (verb) become more extreme | Synonyms: rise |
| (verb) make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity | - |
| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, deepen, intensify |
| (verb) make (one's senses) more acute | Synonyms: sharpen |
| (verb) increase the height of | - |
| hyphen | (verb) divide or connect with a hyphen | Synonyms: hyphenate |
|---|
| keen | (verb) express grief verbally | Synonyms: lament |
|---|
| kitten | (verb) give birth to kittens | - |
|---|
| laden | (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, ladle |
|---|
| (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, load, load up |
| leaven | (verb) cause to puff up with a leaven | Synonyms: prove, raise |
|---|
| lengthen | (verb) become long or longer | - |
|---|
| (verb) make longer | - |
| lessen | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, diminish, fall |
|---|
| (verb) wear off or die down | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, minify |
| lighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: brighten, lighten up |
|---|
| (verb) become lighter | Synonyms: lighten up |
| (verb) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive | Synonyms: relieve |
| (verb) become more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| (verb) reduce the weight on; make lighter | - |
| (verb) make more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| liken | (verb) consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous | Synonyms: compare, equate |
|---|
| listen | (verb) hear with intention | - |
|---|
| (verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: hear, take heed |
| (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, mind |
| liven | (verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, enliven, invigorate, liven up |
|---|
| loosen | (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, relax |
|---|
| (verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loose |
| (verb) make less dense | - |
| (verb) disentangle and raise the fibers of | Synonyms: tease, tease apart |
| (verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: undo, untie |
| (verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| (verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| louden | (verb) cause to become loud | - |
|---|
| (verb) become louder | - |
| madden | (verb) make mad | - |
|---|
| (verb) drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves | - |
| (verb) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind | Synonyms: craze |
| moisten | (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, wash |
|---|
| (verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: drizzle |
| neaten | (verb) care for one's external appearance | Synonyms: groom |
|---|
| (verb) put (things or places) in order | Synonyms: clean up, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy, tidy up |
| omen | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
|---|
| open | (verb) make available | Synonyms: open up |
|---|
| (verb) become available | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) make the opening move | - |
| (verb) cause to open or to become open | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) become open | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: spread, spread out, unfold |
| (verb) display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer | - |
| (verb) afford access to | Synonyms: afford, give |
| (verb) start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc. | - |
| (verb) have an opening or passage or outlet | - |
| overburden | (verb) burden with too much work or responsibility | - |
|---|
| (verb) load with excessive weight | - |
| pen | (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, indite, write |
|---|
| preen | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, plume, primp |
|---|
| (verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: congratulate |
| (verb) clean with one's bill | Synonyms: plume |
| queen | (verb) become a queen | - |
|---|
| (verb) promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess | - |
| quicken | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
|---|
| (verb) show signs of life | - |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: invigorate |
| (verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed, speed up |
| (verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: whet |
| quieten | (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, shut up, silence, still |
|---|
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down |
| raven | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, guttle, pig |
|---|
| (verb) feed greedily | - |
| (verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: predate, prey |
| (verb) obtain or seize by violence | - |
| reawaken | (verb) awaken once again | - |
|---|
| redden | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, flush |
|---|
| (verb) turn red or redder | - |
| (verb) make red | - |
| refreshen | (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, freshen up, refresh |
|---|
| (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, refresh |
| reopen | (verb) open again or anew | - |
|---|
| restrengthen | (verb) make strong again | - |
|---|
| ripen | (verb) grow ripe | - |
|---|
| (verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: mature |
| roughen | (verb) make rough or rougher | - |
|---|
| sadden | (verb) come to feel sad | - |
|---|
| (verb) make unhappy | - |
| screen | (verb) examine methodically | - |
|---|
| (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm | Synonyms: shield |
| (verb) prevent from entering | Synonyms: block out |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: riddle |
| (verb) project onto a screen for viewing | - |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen out, sieve, sort |
| (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: test |
| sharpen | (verb) become sharp or sharper | - |
|---|
| (verb) make crisp or more crisp and precise | - |
| (verb) raise the pitch of (musical notes) | - |
| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, focus |
| (verb) make (one's senses) more acute | Synonyms: heighten |
| (verb) give a point to | Synonyms: point, taper |
| (verb) make sharp or sharper | - |
| (verb) make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper | - |
| shorten | (verb) become short or shorter | - |
|---|
| (verb) make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate |
| (verb) make short or shorter | - |
| sicken | (verb) get sick | Synonyms: come down |
|---|
| (verb) make sick or ill | - |
| (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, nauseate, revolt |
| (verb) upset and make nauseated | Synonyms: nauseate, turn one's stomach |
| silkscreen | (verb) print by silkscreen | - |
|---|
| slacken | (verb) become looser or slack | - |
|---|
| (verb) make slack as by lessening tension or firmness | Synonyms: remit |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slack, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: relax, slack, slack up |
| smoothen | (verb) become smooth | - |
|---|
| (verb) make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing | Synonyms: smooth |
| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, shine, smooth |
| soften | (verb) become soft or softer | - |
|---|
| (verb) make soft or softer | - |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, dampen, weaken |
| (verb) make less severe or harsh | Synonyms: mince, moderate |
| (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, cushion |
| (verb) make (images or sounds) soft or softer | - |
| (verb) give in, as to influence or pressure | Synonyms: relent, yield |
| steepen | (verb) make steeper | - |
|---|
| (verb) become steeper | - |
| stiffen | (verb) become stiff or stiffer | - |
|---|
| (verb) make stiff or stiffer | - |
| (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: constrain, tighten, tighten up |
| straighten | (verb) put (things or places) in order | Synonyms: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten out, tidy, tidy up |
|---|
| (verb) make straight or straighter | - |
| (verb) make straight | Synonyms: straighten out |
| (verb) straighten by unrolling | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) straighten up or out; make straight | Synonyms: unbend |
| (verb) get up from a sitting or slouching position | - |
| straiten | (verb) squeeze together | - |
|---|
| (verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: distress |
| strengthen | (verb) give a healthy elasticity to | Synonyms: tone, tone up |
|---|
| (verb) gain strength | - |
| (verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, fortify |
| sweeten | (verb) make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable | - |
|---|
| (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate |
| tauten | (verb) become taut or tauter | Synonyms: firm |
|---|
| (verb) make taut or tauter | Synonyms: firm |
| thicken | (verb) become thick or thicker | Synonyms: inspissate |
|---|
| (verb) make thick or thicker | Synonyms: inspissate |
| (verb) make viscous or dense | Synonyms: inspissate |
| threaten | (verb) to utter intentions of injury or punishment against | - |
|---|
| (verb) to be a menacing indication of something | - |
| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril |
| tighten | (verb) become tight or tighter | - |
|---|
| (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: fasten |
| (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: constrain, stiffen, tighten up |
| (verb) narrow or limit | Synonyms: reduce |