| abseil | (verb) descend by means of a rappel | Synonyms: rappel, rope down |
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| ail | (verb) be ill or unwell | - |
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| (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: pain, trouble |
| airmail | (verb) send or transport by airmail | - |
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| assail | (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assault, attack, lash out, round, snipe |
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| (verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assault, attack, set on |
| (verb) launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with | Synonyms: attack |
| assoil | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, clear, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
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| avail | (verb) take advantage of | - |
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| (verb) take or use | Synonyms: help |
| (verb) be of use to, be useful to | - |
| bail | (verb) remove (water) from a vessel with a container | - |
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| (verb) empty (a vessel) by bailing | - |
| (verb) secure the release of (someone) by providing security | - |
| (verb) deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period | - |
| (verb) release after a security has been paid | - |
| bedevil | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
| bewail | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, deplore, lament |
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| blackmail | (verb) obtain through threats | - |
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| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, pressure |
| boil | (verb) immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes | - |
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| (verb) come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor | - |
| (verb) bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point | - |
| (verb) be in an agitated emotional state | Synonyms: seethe |
| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: churn, moil, roil |
| brail | (verb) haul fish aboard with brails | - |
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| (verb) take in a sail with a brail | - |
| broil | (verb) cook under a broiler | Synonyms: oven broil |
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| (verb) heat by a natural force | Synonyms: bake |
| (verb) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | Synonyms: bake |
| cavil | (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, chicane |
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| coil | (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: curl, loop |
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| (verb) make without a potter's wheel | Synonyms: hand-build, handbuild |
| (verb) to wind or move in a spiral course | Synonyms: gyrate, spiral |
| countervail | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, neutralize |
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| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: offset |
| curtail | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: clip, cut short |
| derail | (verb) run off or leave the rails | Synonyms: jump |
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| (verb) cause to run off the tracks | - |
| despoil | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: plunder, rape, spoil, violate |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| detail | (verb) assign to a specific task | - |
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| (verb) provide details for | - |
| devil | (verb) coat or stuff with a spicy paste | - |
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| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| disembroil | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disentangle, disinvolve |
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| distil | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distill |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, extract |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distill |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| dovetail | (verb) fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail | - |
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| email | (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, netmail |
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| embroil | (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
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| entail | (verb) limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs | Synonyms: fee-tail |
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| (verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result | Synonyms: implicate |
| (verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: imply, mean |
| fail | (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, give out, give way, go, go bad |
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| (verb) deteriorate | - |
| (verb) prove insufficient | Synonyms: give out, run out |
| (verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: betray |
| (verb) become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close | - |
| (verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: go wrong, miscarry |
| (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: bomb, flunk, flush it |
| (verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: neglect |
| (verb) judge unacceptable | - |
| (verb) be unable | - |
| (verb) fall short in what is expected | - |
| fishtail | (verb) slow down by moving the tail sideways | - |
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| flail | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: lam, thrash, thresh |
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| (verb) move like a flail; thresh about | Synonyms: thresh |
| foil | (verb) cover or back with foil | - |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| (verb) enhance by contrast | - |
| fulfil | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
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| (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfill |
| (verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfill, live up to, satisfy |
| hail | (verb) greet enthusiastically or joyfully | Synonyms: herald |
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| (verb) call for | - |
| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: acclaim, herald |
| (verb) be a native of | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) precipitate as small ice particles | - |
| hightail | (verb) retreat at full speed | Synonyms: high-tail |
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| hobnail | (verb) supply with hobnails | - |
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| imperil | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
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| instil | (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instill |
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| jail | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| mail | (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: post, send |
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| (verb) send via the postal service | Synonyms: get off |
| moil | (verb) moisten or soil | - |
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| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, churn, roil |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, toil, travail |
| nail | (verb) complete a pass | Synonyms: complete |
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| (verb) attach something somewhere by means of nails | - |
| (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nab, pick up |
| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, boom, smash |
| (verb) locate exactly | Synonyms: pinpoint |
| (verb) succeed at easily | Synonyms: ace, breeze through, pass with flying colors, sail through, sweep through |
| (verb) succeed in obtaining a position | Synonyms: nail down, peg |
| netmail | (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, email |
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| oil | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, embrocate, inunct |
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| (verb) cover with oil, as if by rubbing | - |
| outsail | (verb) sail faster or better than | - |
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| overboil | (verb) overflow or cause to overflow while boiling | Synonyms: boil over |
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| (verb) boil excessively | - |
| parboil | (verb) cook (vegetables) briefly | Synonyms: blanch |
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| pencil | (verb) write, draw, or trace with a pencil | - |
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| peril | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, queer, scupper |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, threaten |
| prevail | (verb) use persuasion successfully | - |
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| (verb) prove superior | Synonyms: triumph |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, run |
| (verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: hold, obtain |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, reign, rule |
| quail | (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
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| rail | (verb) complain bitterly | Synonyms: inveigh |
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| (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: revile, vilify, vituperate |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: fulminate |
| (verb) fish with a handline over the rails of a boat | - |
| (verb) lay with rails | - |
| (verb) travel by rail or train | Synonyms: train |
| (verb) separate with a railing | Synonyms: rail off |
| (verb) convey (goods etc.) by rails | - |
| (verb) provide with rails | - |
| (verb) enclose with rails | Synonyms: rail in |
| reassail | (verb) assail again | - |
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| recoil | (verb) spring back, as from a forceful thrust | Synonyms: kick, kick back |
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| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, shrink, squinch, wince |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, backlash |
| retail | (verb) sell on the retail market | - |
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| (verb) be sold at the retail level | - |
| roil | (verb) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of | Synonyms: rile |
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| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, churn, moil |
| sail | (verb) travel on water propelled by wind | - |
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| (verb) move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions | Synonyms: sweep |
| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: navigate, voyage |
| (verb) traverse or travel on (a body of water) | - |
| snail | (verb) gather snails | - |
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| soil | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime |
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| spoil | (verb) become unfit for consumption or use | Synonyms: go bad |
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| (verb) alter from the original | Synonyms: corrupt |
| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, vitiate |
| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, violate |
| (verb) have a strong desire or urge to do something | Synonyms: itch |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, thwart |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, 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 |
| stencil | (verb) mark or print with a stencil | - |
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| surveil | (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, survey |
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| tail | (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: bob, dock |
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| (verb) remove the stalk of fruits or berries | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, track, trail |
| toenail | (verb) drive obliquely | Synonyms: toe |
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| toil | (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, travail |
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| trail | (verb) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground | Synonyms: train |
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| (verb) hang down so as to drag along the ground | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track |
| (verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: shack |
| (verb) to lag or linger behind | Synonyms: drag, drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back |
| travail | (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil |
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| uncoil | (verb) unwind or untwist | - |
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| unveil | (verb) remove the veil from | - |
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| (verb) remove the cover from | - |
| (verb) make manifest | Synonyms: bring out, reveal |
| veil | (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obliterate, obscure |
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| (verb) to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil | - |
| wail | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, pule, whimper |
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| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, yaup, yawl |
| wassail | (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, toast |
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| (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, whoop it up |