| ablate | (verb) wear away through erosion or vaporization | - |
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| (verb) remove an organ or bodily structure | - |
| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| accumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| acetylate | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
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| (verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
| acidulate | (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, sour |
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| adulate | (verb) flatter in an obsequious manner | - |
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| ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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| angulate | (verb) make or become angular | - |
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| annihilate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| articulate | (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out |
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| (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: enunciate, vocalise, vocalize |
| (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: formulate, give voice, phrase, word |
| (verb) provide with a joint | Synonyms: joint |
| (verb) unite by forming a joint or joints | - |
| assibilate | (verb) change into a sibilant | - |
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| (verb) insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) | - |
| assimilate | (verb) become similar to one's environment | - |
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| (verb) make similar | - |
| (verb) become similar in sound | - |
| (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, ingest, take in |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: imbibe |
| blate | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blat, bleat |
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| bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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| butylate | (verb) introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound | - |
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| calculate | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, direct |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: forecast |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: account |
| cannulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulise, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| cantillate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: chant, intonate, intone |
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| canulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, intubate |
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| capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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| capsulate | (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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| catenulate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
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| chelate | (verb) form a chelate, in chemistry | - |
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| 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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| circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| coagulate | (verb) change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state | Synonyms: clot |
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| (verb) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state | Synonyms: clot |
| collate | (verb) compare critically; of texts | - |
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| (verb) to assemble in proper sequence | - |
| confabulate | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confer, consult |
| (verb) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory | - |
| conflate | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| congratulate | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: compliment |
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| (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: felicitate |
| (verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: preen |
| (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: plume, pride |
| constellate | (verb) form a constellation or cluster | - |
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| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, flock |
| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: dot, stud |
| contemplate | (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: meditate, study |
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| (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
| (verb) consider as a possibility | - |
| (verb) look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought | - |
| copulate | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair |
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| correlate | (verb) bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation | - |
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| (verb) to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation | - |
| crenelate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenellate |
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| crenellate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenelate |
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| cumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, gather, pile up |
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| decarboxylate | (verb) lose a carboxyl group | - |
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| (verb) remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound) | - |
| decollate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decapitate |
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| defibrillate | (verb) stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks | - |
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| deflate | (verb) become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air | - |
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| (verb) reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices | - |
| (verb) produce deflation in | - |
| (verb) reduce or lessen the size or importance of | Synonyms: puncture |
| (verb) release contained air or gas from | - |
| (verb) collapse by releasing contained air or gas | - |
| demodulate | (verb) extract information from a modulated carrier wave | - |
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| depilate | (verb) remove body hair | Synonyms: epilate |
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| depopulate | (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: desolate |
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| deregulate | (verb) lift the regulations on | - |
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| desolate | (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: depopulate |
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| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
| (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, forsake |
| dilate | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: distend |
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| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| disarticulate | (verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disjoint |
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| discombobulate | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, bewilder, throw |
| dissimilate | (verb) become dissimilar or less similar | - |
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| (verb) make dissimilar; cause to become less similar | - |
| (verb) become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities | - |
| dissimulate | (verb) hide (feelings) from other people | - |
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| ejaculate | (verb) eject semen | - |
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| (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out |
| elate | (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift |
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| electroplate | (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
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| emasculate | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize |
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| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: castrate |
| emulate | (verb) compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with | - |
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| (verb) strive to equal or match, especially by imitating | - |
| (verb) imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software | - |
| encapsulate | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule or other small container | - |
| epilate | (verb) remove body hair | Synonyms: depilate |
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| escalate | (verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: intensify, step up |
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| etiolate | (verb) make pale or sickly | - |
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| (verb) bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight | - |
| (verb) make weak by stunting the growth or development of | - |
| expostulate | (verb) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | - |
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| extrapolate | (verb) estimate the value of something based on known values | Synonyms: interpolate |
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| (verb) gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating | - |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, infer |
| fellate | (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: blow, go down on, suck |
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| fibrillate | (verb) make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements | - |
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| flagellate | (verb) whip | Synonyms: scourge |
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| flocculate | (verb) form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass | - |
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| (verb) cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate | - |
| formulate | (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, give voice, phrase, word |
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| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: develop, explicate |
| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, invent |
| (verb) prepare according to a formula | - |
| gesticulate | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesture, motion |
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| goldplate | (verb) plate with gold | Synonyms: gold-plate, gold plate |
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| granulate | (verb) form granulating tissue | - |
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| (verb) form into grains | Synonyms: grain |
| (verb) become granular | Synonyms: grain |
| horripilate | (verb) cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps | - |
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| (verb) have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps | - |
| hyperventilate | (verb) breathe excessively hard and fast | - |
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| (verb) produce hyperventilation in | - |
| immolate | (verb) offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction | - |
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| inflate | (verb) fill with gas or air | Synonyms: blow up |
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| (verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: amplify, blow up, expand |
| (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: balloon, billow |
| (verb) increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value | - |
| (verb) cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit | - |
| inoculate | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, immunize, vaccinate |
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| (verb) insert a bud for propagation | - |
| (verb) impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune | - |
| (verb) introduce a microorganism into | - |
| (verb) introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of | - |
| inosculate | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: anastomose |
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| (verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: anastomose |
| insolate | (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: solarise, solarize, sun |
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| insufflate | (verb) blow or breathe hard on or into | - |
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| (verb) treat by blowing a powder or vapor into a bodily cavity | - |
| (verb) breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit | - |
| insulate | (verb) place or set apart | Synonyms: isolate |
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| (verb) protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material | - |
| intercalate | (verb) insert (days) in a calendar | - |
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| interpellate | (verb) question formally about policy or government business | - |
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| interpolate | (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: alter, falsify |
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| (verb) estimate the value of something based on known values | Synonyms: extrapolate |
| interrelate | (verb) place into a mutual relationship | - |
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| (verb) be in a relationship with | Synonyms: relate |
| invigilate | (verb) watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) | Synonyms: proctor |
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| isolate | (verb) place or set apart | Synonyms: insulate |
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| (verb) obtain in pure form | - |
| (verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: keep apart, sequester, sequestrate, set apart |
| (verb) separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them | - |
| jubilate | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, rejoice, triumph |
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| (verb) celebrate a jubilee | - |
| legislate | (verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: pass |
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| machicolate | (verb) supply with projecting galleries | - |
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| maculate | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, defile, foul |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, stain, sully, tarnish |
| manipulate | (verb) treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | - |
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| (verb) hold something in one's hands and move it | - |
| (verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: control, keep in line |
| (verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: rig |
| (verb) influence or control shrewdly or deviously | Synonyms: pull strings, pull wires |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle |
| matriculate | (verb) enroll as a student | - |
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| miscalculate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: misestimate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: misestimate |
| mistranslate | (verb) translate incorrectly | - |
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| modulate | (verb) adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of | - |
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| (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: regulate |
| (verb) vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves) | - |
| (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: inflect, tone |
| (verb) change the key of, in music | - |
| mutilate | (verb) destroy or injure severely | Synonyms: mar |
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| (verb) damage or injure severely | Synonyms: cut up, mangle |
| (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, murder |
| obnubilate | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, confuse, obscure |
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| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obscure |
| oscillate | (verb) move or swing from side to side regularly | Synonyms: vibrate |
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| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, vacillate, vibrate |
| osculate | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: buss, kiss, snog |
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| (verb) have at least three points in common with | - |
| (verb) be intermediate between two taxonomic groups | - |