master | (verb) have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of | Synonyms: control |
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(verb) be or become completely proficient or skilled in | Synonyms: get the hang |
(verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, overcome, subdue, surmount |
(verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: dominate |
matter | (verb) have weight; have import, carry weight | Synonyms: count, weigh |
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maunder | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: mumble, mussitate, mutter |
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(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
(verb) wander aimlessly | - |
meander | (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: thread, wander, weave, wind |
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meter | (verb) measure with a meter | - |
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(verb) stamp with a meter indicating the postage | - |
minister | (verb) work as a minister | - |
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(verb) attend to the wants and needs of others | - |
misdeliver | (verb) deliver to the wrong address | - |
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misremember | (verb) remember incorrectly | - |
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miter | (verb) bevel the edges of, to make a miter joint | - |
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(verb) fit together in a miter joint | - |
(verb) confer a miter on (a bishop) | - |
molder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, moulder, rot |
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monger | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, peddle, pitch, vend |
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mother | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, sire |
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(verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, overprotect |
moulder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, rot |
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mountaineer | (verb) climb mountains for pleasure as a sport | - |
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murder | (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, mutilate |
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(verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, off, polish off, remove, slay |
muster | (verb) call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. | - |
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(verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster up, rally, summon |
mutter | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, murmur |
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(verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mussitate |
natter | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, shoot the breeze, visit |
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neuter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, castrate, spay |
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nicker | (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
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number | (verb) place a limit on the number of | Synonyms: keep down |
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(verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, numerate |
(verb) enumerate | Synonyms: list |
(verb) give numbers to | - |
(verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, come, total |
(verb) put into a group | Synonyms: count |
offer | (verb) put forward for consideration | - |
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(verb) threaten to do something | - |
(verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, pop the question, propose |
(verb) produce or introduce on the stage | - |
(verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer |
(verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: bid, tender |
(verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, provide, render, supply |
(verb) make available for sale | - |
(verb) offer verbally | Synonyms: extend |
(verb) make available; provide | Synonyms: extend |
(verb) agree freely | Synonyms: volunteer |
(verb) mount or put up | Synonyms: provide, put up |
(verb) present as an act of worship | Synonyms: offer up |
officer | (verb) direct or command as an officer | - |
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order | (verb) bring order to or into | - |
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(verb) place in a certain order | - |
(verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, place, range, rank, rate |
(verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: arrange, put, set up |
(verb) make a request for something | - |
(verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, say, tell |
(verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, prescribe |
(verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, regularise, regularize, regulate |
(verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, ordinate |
outmaneuver | (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmanoeuvre, outsmart |
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outnumber | (verb) be larger in number | - |
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overmaster | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overpower, overwhelm |
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overpower | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overwhelm |
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(verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
overwinter | (verb) spend the winter | Synonyms: winter |
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oyster | (verb) gather oysters, dig oysters | - |
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palaver | (verb) have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds | - |
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(verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle |
(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
palter | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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pamper | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, spoil |
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pander | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pimp, procure |
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(verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: gratify, indulge |
paper | (verb) cover with paper | - |
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(verb) cover with wallpaper | Synonyms: wallpaper |
partner | (verb) provide with a partner | - |
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(verb) act as a partner | - |
patter | (verb) make light, rapid and repeated sounds | Synonyms: pitter-patter |
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(verb) rain gently | Synonyms: pitter-patter, spatter, spit, sprinkle |
peer | (verb) look searchingly | - |
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pepper | (verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | Synonyms: pelt |
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(verb) add pepper to | - |
pester | (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, tease |
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philander | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, romance |
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(verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: womanise, womanize |
pilfer | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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pioneer | (verb) open up and explore a new area | - |
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(verb) open up an area or prepare a way | Synonyms: open up |
(verb) take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of | Synonyms: initiate |
plaster | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: poultice |
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(verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: daub |
(verb) apply a heavy coat to | Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
(verb) apply a plaster cast to | - |
(verb) affix conspicuously | - |
(verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: beplaster |
plunder | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, rape, spoil, violate |
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(verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
(verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: sack |
(verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: loot |
ponder | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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porter | (verb) carry luggage or supplies | - |
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pother | (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: dither, flap |
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(verb) make upset or troubled | - |
potter | (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter around, putter, putter around |
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(verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, putter, tinker |
(verb) work lightly | Synonyms: putter |
powder | (verb) apply powder to | - |
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(verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
power | (verb) supply the force or power for the functioning of | - |
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prefer | (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: choose, opt |
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(verb) like better; value more highly | - |
(verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, favour |
(verb) give preference to one creditor over another | - |
premier | (verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
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(verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
proffer | (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offer |
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profiteer | (verb) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | - |
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prosper | (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: flourish, fly high, thrive |
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pucker | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, rumple |
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(verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: gather, tuck |
(verb) become wrinkled or drawn together | Synonyms: ruck, ruck up |
putter | (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter, potter around, putter around |
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(verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker |
(verb) work lightly | Synonyms: potter |
quarter | (verb) divide by four; divide into quarters | - |
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(verb) divide into quarters | - |
(verb) pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him | Synonyms: draw, draw and quarter |
(verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: billet, canton |
quaver | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: trill, warble |
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(verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: waver |
queer | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, peril, scupper |
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(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, scotch, spoil, thwart |
quiver | (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: palpitate, quake |
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(verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, pulsate |
(verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, waver |
racketeer | (verb) carry on illegal business activities involving crime | - |
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rafter | (verb) provide (a ceiling) with rafters | - |
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reconnoiter | (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoitre, scout |
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reconquer | (verb) conquer anew | - |
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reconsider | (verb) consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing | - |
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(verb) consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it | - |
recover | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: convalesce, recuperate |
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(verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss | Synonyms: go back, recuperate |
(verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, regain, retrieve |
(verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recoup, recuperate |
(verb) reuse (materials from waste products) | Synonyms: reclaim |
(verb) cover anew | - |
rediscover | (verb) discover again | - |
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refer | (verb) think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another | - |
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(verb) have as a meaning | Synonyms: denote |
(verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, name |
(verb) use a name to designate | - |
(verb) seek information from | Synonyms: consult, look up |
(verb) send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision | - |
(verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, relate, touch, touch on |
register | (verb) enter into someone's consciousness | - |
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(verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, show |
(verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: file |
(verb) send by registered mail | - |
(verb) manipulate the registers of an organ | - |
(verb) be aware of | Synonyms: record |
(verb) show in one's face | - |
(verb) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions | - |
(verb) enroll to vote | - |
(verb) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties | Synonyms: cross-file |
remainder | (verb) sell cheaply as remainders | - |
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remember | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, retrieve, think |
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(verb) keep in mind for attention or consideration | Synonyms: think of |
(verb) recapture the past; indulge in memories | Synonyms: think back |
(verb) exercise, or have the power of, memory | - |
(verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: commemorate |
(verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: commend |
(verb) mention favorably, as in prayer | - |
(verb) show appreciation to | - |
render | (verb) cause to become | - |
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(verb) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities | Synonyms: try |
(verb) bestow | Synonyms: give |
(verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, return |
(verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: interpret, translate |
(verb) coat with plastic or cement | - |
(verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, return, yield |
(verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: interpret |
(verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, show |
(verb) give back | Synonyms: return |
(verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: submit |
(verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, provide, supply |
(verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: deliver, fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, turn in |
reorder | (verb) assign a new order to | - |
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(verb) make a new request to be supplied with | - |
roister | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, riot |
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rubber | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubberise, rubberize |
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saber | (verb) kill with a saber | Synonyms: sabre |
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(verb) cut or injure with a saber | Synonyms: sabre |
sandpaper | (verb) rub with sandpaper | Synonyms: sand |
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saunter | (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: stroll |
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scamper | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scurry, scuttle, skitter |
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scarper | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
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scatter | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, disperse |
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(verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, sprinkle |
(verb) sow by scattering | - |
(verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, spread out |
(verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, dissipate |
(verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: spread, spread out |
scupper | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, peril, queer |
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(verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, waylay |
sequester | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw |
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(verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequestrate, set apart |
(verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion | - |
(verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, seize |
(verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property | - |
sever | (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: discerp, lop |
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(verb) set or keep apart | Synonyms: break up |
shatter | (verb) break into many pieces | - |
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(verb) cause to break into many pieces | - |
(verb) damage or destroy | - |
sheer | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
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(verb) cause to sheer | - |
shelter | (verb) invest (money) so that it is not taxable | - |
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(verb) provide shelter for | - |
shimmer | (verb) give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk | - |
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(verb) shine with a weak or fitful light | - |
shiver | (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shudder |
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(verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shudder, thrill, throb |
shoulder | (verb) push with the shoulders | - |
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(verb) carry a burden, either real or metaphoric | - |
(verb) lift onto one's shoulders | - |
shower | (verb) take a shower; wash one's body in the shower | - |
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(verb) provide abundantly with | - |
(verb) spray or sprinkle with | - |
(verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: lavish |
(verb) rain abundantly | Synonyms: shower down |
shudder | (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shiver |
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(verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, thrill, throb |
shutter | (verb) close with shutters | - |
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silver | (verb) make silver in color | - |
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(verb) turn silver | - |
(verb) coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam | - |
simmer | (verb) boil slowly at low temperature | - |
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simper | (verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: smirk |
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sinter | (verb) cause (ores or powdery metals) to become a coherent mass by heating without melting | - |
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skewer | (verb) drive a skewer through | Synonyms: spit |
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