| overpopulate | (verb) cause to have too great a population | - |
|---|
| ovulate | (verb) produce and discharge eggs | - |
|---|
| peculate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate |
|---|
| perambulate | (verb) walk with no particular goal | Synonyms: walk about, walk around |
|---|
| (verb) make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property) | - |
| percolate | (verb) gain or regain energy | Synonyms: gain vigor, perk, perk up, pick up |
|---|
| (verb) pass through | Synonyms: filter, permeate, sink in |
| (verb) cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent | - |
| (verb) prepare in a percolator | - |
| (verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: leach |
| (verb) spread gradually | - |
| plate | (verb) coat with a layer of metal | - |
|---|
| populate | (verb) fill with inhabitants | - |
|---|
| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, live |
| postulate | (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: posit |
|---|
| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: contend |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, require, take |
| preisolate | (verb) isolate beforehand | - |
|---|
| pullulate | (verb) breed freely and abundantly | - |
|---|
| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, shoot, sprout, spud |
| (verb) become abundant; increase rapidly | - |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, stream, swarm, teem |
| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: swarm, teem |
| recalculate | (verb) calculate anew | - |
|---|
| recapitulate | (verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recap |
|---|
| (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: repeat, reprise, reprize |
| (verb) repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life | - |
| reflate | (verb) become inflated again | - |
|---|
| (verb) inflate again | - |
| (verb) raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation | - |
| (verb) experience reflation | - |
| reformulate | (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: redevelop |
|---|
| regulate | (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: modulate |
|---|
| (verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: baffle |
| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, mould, shape |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regularize |
| relate | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, tie in |
|---|
| (verb) give an account of; narrate | - |
| (verb) have or establish a relationship to | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, touch, touch on |
| (verb) be in a relationship with | Synonyms: interrelate |
| reticulate | (verb) divide so as to form a network | - |
|---|
| (verb) distribute by a network, as of water or electricity | - |
| (verb) form a net or a network | - |
| retranslate | (verb) translate again | - |
|---|
| scintillate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |
|---|
| (verb) fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon | - |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: twinkle, winkle |
| (verb) give off | - |
| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |
| sibilate | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: hiss, siss, sizz |
|---|
| (verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: hiss, siss, sizz |
| (verb) utter a sibilant | - |
| (verb) pronounce with an initial sibilant | - |
| silverplate | (verb) plate with silver | Synonyms: silver-plate |
|---|
| simulate | (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, feign, sham |
|---|
| (verb) create a representation or simulation of | Synonyms: model |
| (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, imitate |
| slate | (verb) designate or schedule | - |
|---|
| (verb) cover with slate | - |
| (verb) enter on a list or slate for an election | - |
| somnambulate | (verb) walk in one's sleep | Synonyms: sleepwalk |
|---|
| speculate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think over |
|---|
| (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, suppose, theorise, theorize |
| (verb) talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion | - |
| (verb) invest at a risk | Synonyms: job |
| sphacelate | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, mortify, necrose |
|---|
| sporulate | (verb) convert into spores | - |
|---|
| (verb) produce spores | - |
| stimulate | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up |
|---|
| (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: excite |
| (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: provoke |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, make |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, rush |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stir |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: excite, stir |
| stipulate | (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, qualify, specify |
|---|
| (verb) give a guarantee or promise of | - |
| (verb) make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force | - |
| strangulate | (verb) become constricted | - |
|---|
| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, throttle |
| (verb) constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air | - |
| stridulate | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: clitter |
|---|
| tabulate | (verb) shape or cut with a flat surface | - |
|---|
| (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularise, tabularize |
| tessellate | (verb) tile with tesserae | - |
|---|
| (verb) fit together exactly, of identical shapes | - |
| tintinnabulate | (verb) ring or sound like a small bell | - |
|---|
| titillate | (verb) excite pleasurably or erotically | - |
|---|
| (verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: tickle, vellicate |
| translate | (verb) change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation | - |
|---|
| (verb) change from one form or medium into another | Synonyms: transform |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, read, understand |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: interpret, render |
| (verb) determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA | - |
| (verb) express, as in simple and less technical language | - |
| (verb) bring to a certain spiritual state | - |
| (verb) subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body | - |
| (verb) be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be equivalent in effect | - |
| triangulate | (verb) survey by triangulation | - |
|---|
| (verb) measure by using trigonometry | - |
| (verb) divide into triangles or give a triangular form to | - |
| tribulate | (verb) oppress or trouble greatly | - |
|---|
| ululate | (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, wail, yaup, yawl |
|---|
| undulate | (verb) increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves | - |
|---|
| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, roll, wave |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, ruffle |
| (verb) occur in soft rounded shapes | Synonyms: roll |
| vacillate | (verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: fluctuate, waver |
|---|
| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vibrate |
| ventilate | (verb) expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | Synonyms: air, air out, vent |
|---|
| (verb) furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape | - |
| (verb) give expression or utterance to | Synonyms: give vent, vent |
| (verb) circulate through and freshen | - |
| (verb) expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage | - |
| vermiculate | (verb) decorate with wavy or winding lines | - |
|---|
| vesiculate | (verb) cause to become vesicular or full of air cells | - |
|---|
| (verb) become vesicular or full of air cells | - |
| violate | (verb) destroy | - |
|---|
| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, spoil |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, transgress |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish |
| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, profane |
| (verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns | Synonyms: break, go against |