addle | (verb) become rotten | - |
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(verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: muddle, puddle |
amble | (verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: mosey |
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anele | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anoint, embrocate, inunct, oil |
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angle | (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: slant, weight |
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(verb) fish with a hook | - |
(verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: fish |
(verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: lean, slant, tilt, tip |
(verb) move or proceed at an angle | - |
article | (verb) bind by a contract; especially for a training period | - |
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assemble | (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together |
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(verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: foregather, forgather, gather, meet |
(verb) get people together | Synonyms: gather, get together |
automobile | (verb) travel in an automobile | - |
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babble | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: blather, blether, blither, smatter |
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(verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
(verb) utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way | - |
(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
baffle | (verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: regulate |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
bale | (verb) make into a bale | - |
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bamboozle | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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battle | (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: combat |
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bedazzle | (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: daze, dazzle |
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bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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beetle | (verb) beat with a beetle | - |
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(verb) fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle | - |
(verb) be suspended over or hang over | Synonyms: overhang |
befuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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(verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: fuddle |
beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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(verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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(verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
(verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
bespangle | (verb) dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects | - |
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(verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: spangle |
bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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besprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
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bicycle | (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bike, cycle, pedal, wheel |
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birle | (verb) cause a floating log to rotate by treading | Synonyms: birl |
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bobble | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, 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, spoil |
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boggle | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: bowl over, flabbergast |
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(verb) startle with amazement or fear | - |
(verb) hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear | - |
boondoggle | (verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
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bottle | (verb) put into bottles | - |
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(verb) store (liquids or gases) in bottles | - |
brabble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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braille | (verb) transcribe in braille | - |
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brattle | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: clack, clatter |
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bridle | (verb) respond to the reins, as of horses | - |
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(verb) put a bridle on | - |
(verb) anger or take offense | - |
bristle | (verb) react in an offended or angry manner | - |
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(verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: stand up, uprise |
(verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, burst |
(verb) have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles | - |
bubble | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, burp, eruct |
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(verb) form, produce, or emit bubbles | - |
(verb) cause to form bubbles | - |
(verb) rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles | - |
(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
buckle | (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: heave, warp |
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(verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: clasp |
(verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: crumple |
bugle | (verb) play on a bugle | - |
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bumble | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: falter, stammer, stutter |
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(verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: falter, stumble |
(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
bundle | (verb) sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed | Synonyms: practice bundling |
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(verb) make into a bundle | Synonyms: bundle up, roll up |
(verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: compact, pack, wad |
(verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
bungle | (verb) spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly | - |
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(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
burble | (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
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burgle | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burglarize, heist |
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bustle | (verb) move or cause to move energetically or busily | Synonyms: bustle about, hustle |
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buttonhole | (verb) detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | Synonyms: lobby |
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cable | (verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: telegraph, wire |
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(verb) fasten with a cable | - |
cackle | (verb) emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing | - |
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(verb) squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens | - |
(verb) talk or utter in a cackling manner | - |
(verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: gaggle |
cajole | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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candle | (verb) examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light | - |
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canoodle | (verb) fondle or pet affectionately | - |
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capriole | (verb) perform a capriole, in ballet | - |
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(verb) perform a capriole, of horses in dressage | - |
capsule | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsulise, capsulize, encapsulate |
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(verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsulise, capsulize |
caracole | (verb) make a half turn on a horse, in dressage | - |
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castle | (verb) move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king | - |
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chandelle | (verb) climb suddenly and steeply | - |
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chortle | (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chuckle, laugh softly |
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chronicle | (verb) record in chronological order; make a historical record | - |
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chuckle | (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chortle, laugh softly |
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circle | (verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: encircle |
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(verb) move in a circular path above (someone or something) | - |
(verb) travel around something | - |
cobble | (verb) repair or mend | - |
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(verb) pave with cobblestones | Synonyms: cobblestone |
cockle | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: crumple, knit, pucker, rumple |
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(verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
coddle | (verb) cook in nearly boiling water | - |
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(verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
coggle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: dodder, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle |
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(verb) move unsteadily | Synonyms: wobble |
commingle | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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(verb) mix or blend | - |
compile | (verb) put together out of existing material | Synonyms: compose |
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(verb) use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed | - |
(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, hoard, pile up, roll up |
condole | (verb) express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death | - |
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console | (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, solace, soothe |
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couple | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, mate, pair |
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(verb) link together | Synonyms: couple on, couple up |
(verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: match, mate, pair, twin |
(verb) form a pair or pairs | Synonyms: pair, pair off, partner off |
crackle | (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
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(verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
(verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
cradle | (verb) run with the stick | - |
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(verb) hold gently and carefully | - |
(verb) wash in a cradle | - |
(verb) cut grain with a cradle scythe | - |
(verb) hold or place in or as if in a cradle | - |
(verb) bring up from infancy | - |
crinkle | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
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(verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
cripple | (verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg | Synonyms: lame |
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(verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: stultify |
crumble | (verb) break or fall apart into fragments | Synonyms: fall apart |
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(verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: decay, dilapidate |
(verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumple, tumble |
crumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, rumple, wrinkle |
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(verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, knit, pucker, rumple |
(verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: buckle |
(verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, tumble |
cuddle | (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
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(verb) hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth | - |
curdle | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clabber, clot |
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(verb) turn from a liquid to a solid mass | - |
(verb) go bad or sour | - |
cycle | (verb) recur in repeating sequences | - |
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(verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: motorbike, motorcycle |
(verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, pedal, wheel |
(verb) pass through a cycle | - |
(verb) cause to go through a recurring sequence | - |
cyclostyle | (verb) print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil | - |
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dabble | (verb) dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid | - |
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(verb) bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water | - |
(verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: paddle, splash around |
(verb) work with in an amateurish manner | Synonyms: play around, smatter |
dandle | (verb) pet | - |
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(verb) move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees | - |
dangle | (verb) cause to dangle or hang freely | - |
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(verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: drop, swing |
dapple | (verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: cloud, mottle |
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dawdle | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: linger |
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(verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | Synonyms: fall back, fall behind, lag |
(verb) waste time | Synonyms: dally |
dazzle | (verb) amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill | - |
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(verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: bedazzle, daze |
decouple | (verb) reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) | - |
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(verb) eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) | - |
(verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: dissociate |
(verb) disconnect or separate | Synonyms: uncouple |
defile | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, foul, maculate |
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(verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: maculate, stain, sully, tarnish |
(verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, corrupt, sully, taint |
descale | (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: scale |
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dibble | (verb) plant with a wooden hand tool | - |
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(verb) make a hole with a wooden hand tool | - |
diddle | (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: fiddle, play, toy |
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(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
dimple | (verb) produce dimples while smiling | - |
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(verb) mark with, or as if with, dimples | - |
disable | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: handicap, incapacitate, invalid |
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(verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disenable, incapacitate |
disassemble | (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, dismantle, take apart |
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disenable | (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate |
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disentangle | (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb, comb out |
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(verb) extricate from entanglement | Synonyms: straighten out, unsnarl |
(verb) separate the tangles of | Synonyms: unwind |
(verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, extricate, untangle |
(verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disinvolve |
disgruntle | (verb) put into a bad mood or into bad humour | - |
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dismantle | (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: strip |
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(verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, disassemble, take apart |
(verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
dissemble | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, feign, pretend, sham |
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(verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, pretend |
(verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: cloak, mask |
domicile | (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domiciliate, reside, shack |
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doodle | (verb) make a doodle; draw aimlessly | - |
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double | (verb) increase twofold | Synonyms: duplicate |
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(verb) hit a two-base hit | - |
(verb) do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions | - |
(verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate |
(verb) bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain | Synonyms: double over, double up |
(verb) make a demand for (a card or suit) | - |
draggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: bedraggle |
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dribble | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
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(verb) propel | Synonyms: carry |
(verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: drip, drop |
(verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: filter, trickle |
drizzle | (verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: moisten |
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(verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: mizzle |