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