dwindle | (verb) become smaller or lose substance | Synonyms: dwindle away, dwindle down |
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eagle | (verb) shoot in two strokes under par | - |
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(verb) shoot two strokes under par | Synonyms: double birdie |
embattle | (verb) prepare for battle or conflict | - |
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(verb) fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense | - |
embezzle | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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empale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: impale, spike, transfix |
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empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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enable | (verb) render capable or able for some task | - |
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encircle | (verb) bind with something round or circular | Synonyms: gird |
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(verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: circle |
enfeeble | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: debilitate, drain |
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enkindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
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(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, inflame, kindle |
ennoble | (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: entitle, gentle |
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(verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: dignify |
ensile | (verb) store in a silo | - |
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entangle | (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: mat, snarl, tangle |
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(verb) entrap | Synonyms: mire |
entitle | (verb) give a title to | Synonyms: title |
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(verb) give the right to | - |
(verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: ennoble, gentle |
exhale | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, expire |
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(verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: emanate, give forth |
exile | (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, expatriate |
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facsimile | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: fax, telefax |
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fettle | (verb) remove mold marks or sand from (a casting) | - |
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fiddle | (verb) try to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinker |
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(verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, play, toy |
(verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: monkey, tamper |
(verb) play the violin or fiddle | - |
(verb) play on a violin | - |
(verb) commit fraud and steal from one's employer | - |
(verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: goldbrick, shirk, shrink from |
file | (verb) place in a container for keeping records | Synonyms: file away |
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(verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: charge, lodge |
(verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: register |
(verb) smooth with a file | - |
(verb) proceed in line | - |
finagle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: manage, wangle |
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fizzle | (verb) end weakly | Synonyms: fizzle out, peter out, taper off |
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fondle | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: caress |
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footle | (verb) act foolishly, as by talking nonsense | - |
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(verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
frazzle | (verb) exhaust physically or emotionally | - |
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(verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: fray |
freckle | (verb) mark with freckles | - |
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(verb) become freckled | - |
frizzle | (verb) fry something until it curls and becomes crisp | - |
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(verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, kink, kink up |
fuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, throw |
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(verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, drink, hit the bottle |
(verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: befuddle |
fumble | (verb) drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder | - |
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(verb) feel about uncertainly or blindly | Synonyms: grope |
(verb) handle clumsily | - |
(verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: blunder |
(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, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
gabble | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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gaggle | (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: cackle |
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gamble | (verb) play games for money | - |
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(verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
garble | (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, falsify, warp |
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gargle | (verb) rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash | Synonyms: rinse |
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(verb) utter with gargling or burbling sounds | - |
gentle | (verb) stroke soothingly | - |
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(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
(verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: ennoble, entitle |
giggle | (verb) laugh nervously | Synonyms: titter |
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girdle | (verb) put a girdle on or around | Synonyms: gird |
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(verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: deaden |
gobble | (verb) make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys | - |
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(verb) eat hastily without proper chewing | Synonyms: bolt |
goggle | (verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gape, gawk, gawp |
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google | (verb) search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine | - |
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grapple | (verb) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match | Synonyms: grip |
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(verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, make do, make out, manage |
griddle | (verb) cook on a griddle | - |
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grizzle | (verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: whine, yammer, yawp |
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(verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, stew |
grumble | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, murmur, mutter |
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(verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grouch, scold |
(verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, rumble |
(verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: rumble |
gruntle | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
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guggle | (verb) drink from a flask with a gurgling sound | Synonyms: gurgle |
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(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, gurgle, ripple |
(verb) make a sound like a liquid that is being poured from a bottle | - |
gurgle | (verb) utter with a gurgling sound | - |
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(verb) drink from a flask with a gurgling sound | Synonyms: guggle |
(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, guggle, ripple |
(verb) make sounds similar to gurgling water | - |
guttle | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, pig, raven |
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guzzle | (verb) drink greedily or as if with great thirst | - |
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hackle | (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hatchel, heckle |
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haggle | (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, higgle, huckster |
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hale | (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: cart, drag, haul |
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(verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, pressure, squeeze |
handle | (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, plow, treat |
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(verb) touch, lift, or hold with the hands | Synonyms: palm |
(verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: manage, wield |
(verb) show and train | - |
(verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, manage |
(verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, treat |
hassle | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, molest, plague, provoke |
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heckle | (verb) challenge aggressively | - |
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(verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, hatchel |
higgle | (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, huckster |
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hobble | (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hopple |
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(verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hitch, limp |
(verb) hamper the action or progress of | - |
hole | (verb) make holes in | - |
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(verb) hit the ball into the hole | Synonyms: hole out |
hopple | (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hobble |
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hornswoggle | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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huddle | (verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: cower |
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(verb) crowd or draw together | Synonyms: huddle together |
humble | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humiliate, mortify |
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(verb) cause to be unpretentious | - |
hurdle | (verb) jump a hurdle | - |
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hurtle | (verb) throw forcefully | Synonyms: cast, hurl |
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(verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, lunge, thrust |
(verb) move with or as if with a rushing sound | - |
hustle | (verb) pressure or urge someone into an action | - |
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(verb) move or cause to move energetically or busily | Synonyms: bustle, bustle about |
(verb) cause to move furtively and hurriedly | - |
(verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: pluck, roll |
(verb) get by trying hard | - |
idle | (verb) run disconnected or idle | Synonyms: tick over |
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(verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: laze, slug, stagnate |
immingle | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, intermingle, intermix |
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impale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, spike, transfix |
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(verb) kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole | Synonyms: stake |
inhale | (verb) draw in (air) | Synonyms: breathe in, inspire |
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(verb) draw deep into the lungs in by breathing | - |
intermingle | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, immingle, intermix |
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inveigle | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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jangle | (verb) make a sound typical of metallic objects | Synonyms: jingle-jangle, jingle |
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jiggle | (verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: joggle, wiggle |
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jingle | (verb) make a sound typical of metallic objects | Synonyms: jangle, jingle-jangle |
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joggle | (verb) fasten or join with a joggle | - |
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(verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: jiggle, wiggle |
jostle | (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: shove |
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(verb) make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving | - |
juggle | (verb) throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously | - |
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(verb) hold with difficulty and balance insecurely | - |
(verb) deal with simultaneously | - |
(verb) manipulate by or as if by moving around components | - |
(verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, hoodwink |
jumble | (verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: scramble, throw together |
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(verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: confuse, mix up |
(verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: mingle |
kindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, provoke, raise |
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(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, inflame |
(verb) catch fire | Synonyms: inflame |
knuckle | (verb) press or rub with the knuckles | - |
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(verb) shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground | - |
ladle | (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, laden |
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(verb) put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle | - |
manacle | (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff |
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mangle | (verb) damage or injure severely | Synonyms: cut up, mutilate |
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(verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: murder, mutilate |
(verb) press with a mangle | - |
(verb) injure badly by beating | Synonyms: maul |
manhandle | (verb) handle roughly | - |
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mantle | (verb) cover like a mantle | - |
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(verb) spread over a surface, like a mantle | - |
marble | (verb) paint or stain like marble | - |
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meddle | (verb) intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly | Synonyms: tamper |
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middle | (verb) put in the middle | - |
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mingle | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: amalgamate, commix, mix, unify |
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(verb) get involved or mixed-up with | - |
(verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: jumble |
mishandle | (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, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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(verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mismanage |
mizzle | (verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: drizzle |
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mollycoddle | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, pamper, spoil |
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motorcycle | (verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: cycle, motorbike |
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mottle | (verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: cloud, dapple |
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(verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, streak |
muddle | (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, puddle |
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(verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: puddle |
mudwrestle | (verb) wrestle in mud | Synonyms: mud-wrestle |
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muffle | (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: repress, smother, stifle, strangle |
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(verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, mute, tone down |
mumble | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mussitate, mutter |
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(verb) grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty | Synonyms: gum |