| aid | (verb) improve the condition of | Synonyms: help |
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| (verb) give help or assistance; be of service | Synonyms: assist, help |
| avoid | (verb) stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something | - |
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| (verb) refrain from certain foods or beverages | Synonyms: keep off |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, invalidate, nullify, quash, void |
| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| (verb) refrain from doing something | - |
| bid | (verb) ask someone in a friendly way to do something | Synonyms: invite |
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| (verb) invoke upon | Synonyms: wish |
| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, conjure, entreat, press |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: offer, tender |
| (verb) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands | Synonyms: call |
| (verb) make a serious effort to attain something | - |
| braid | (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: pleach |
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| (verb) decorate with braids or ribbons | - |
| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: lace, plait |
| forbid | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| invalid | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, incapacitate |
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| (verb) force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen | - |
| kid | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, jolly, josh |
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| (verb) tell false information to for fun | Synonyms: pull the leg of |
| outbid | (verb) bid higher than others | - |
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| (verb) bid over an opponent's bid when one's partner has not bid or doubled | - |
| overbid | (verb) bid more than the object is worth | - |
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| (verb) to bid for more tricks than one can expect to win | - |
| pyramid | (verb) increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base | - |
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| (verb) arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid | - |
| (verb) enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts | - |
| (verb) use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal | - |
| raid | (verb) search for something needed or desired | - |
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| (verb) enter someone else's territory and take spoils | Synonyms: foray into |
| (verb) take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock | - |
| (verb) search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on | Synonyms: bust |
| rid | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: disembarrass, free |
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| skid | (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: slew, slide, slip, slue |
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| (verb) apply a brake or skid to | - |
| (verb) elevate onto skids | - |
| (verb) slide without control | - |
| unbraid | (verb) undo the braids of | - |
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| underbid | (verb) bid too low | - |
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| (verb) bid lower than a competing bidder | - |
| (verb) bid (a hand of cards) at less than the strength of the hand warrants | - |
| upbraid | (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: reproach |
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| void | (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: empty, evacuate |
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| (verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective | Synonyms: invalidate, vitiate |
| (verb) clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something | - |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash |