appall | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
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(verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, dismay, horrify |
ball | (verb) form into a ball by winding or rolling | - |
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(verb) to live very well | - |
bankroll | (verb) provide with sufficient funds; finance | - |
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befall | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, happen |
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(verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, betide |
bell | (verb) attach a bell to | - |
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bill | (verb) advertise especially by posters or placards | - |
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(verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: placard |
(verb) demand payment | Synonyms: charge |
blackball | (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
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(verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: negative, veto |
bull | (verb) advance in price | - |
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(verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bullshit, fake, talk through one's hat |
(verb) try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying | - |
(verb) push or force | Synonyms: bull through |
call | (verb) rouse somebody from sleep with a call | - |
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(verb) challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of | - |
(verb) consider or regard as being | - |
(verb) utter in a loud voice or announce | - |
(verb) ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality | - |
(verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call up, phone, ring, telephone |
(verb) assign a specified (usually proper) name to | Synonyms: be known as, know as, name |
(verb) utter a characteristic note or cry | - |
(verb) send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message | - |
(verb) order, request, or command to come | Synonyms: send for |
(verb) indicate a decision in regard to | - |
(verb) challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense | - |
(verb) declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee | - |
(verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
(verb) lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal | - |
(verb) present for redemption before maturation | - |
(verb) read aloud to check for omissions or absentees | - |
(verb) order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role | - |
(verb) order or request or give a command for | - |
(verb) give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance | Synonyms: call off |
(verb) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands | Synonyms: bid |
(verb) demand payment of (a loan) | Synonyms: call in |
(verb) pay a brief visit | Synonyms: call in, visit |
(verb) call a meeting; invite or command to meet | - |
(verb) make a stop in a harbour | - |
(verb) greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name | Synonyms: address |
(verb) stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather | - |
catcall | (verb) utter catcalls at | - |
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chill | (verb) loose heat | Synonyms: cool, cool down |
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(verb) make cool or cooler | Synonyms: cool, cool down |
(verb) depress or discourage | - |
cull | (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
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(verb) remove something that has been rejected | - |
distill | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distil |
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(verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil |
(verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, extract |
(verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, make pure, purify, sublimate |
(verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distil |
drill | (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practise |
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(verb) teach by repetition | - |
(verb) train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons | - |
(verb) undergo military training or do military exercises | - |
(verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | Synonyms: bore |
dull | (verb) become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness | - |
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(verb) make less lively or vigorous | - |
(verb) become less interesting or attractive | Synonyms: pall |
(verb) make dull in appearance | - |
(verb) make dull or blunt | Synonyms: blunt |
(verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, muffle, mute, tone down |
(verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, blunt, numb |
dwell | (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: brood |
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(verb) come back to | Synonyms: harp |
(verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: inhabit, live, populate |
(verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: consist, lie, lie in |
(verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: inhabit |
enroll | (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enter, inscribe, raise, recruit |
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enthrall | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, ravish, transport |
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eyeball | (verb) look at | Synonyms: eye |
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fall | (verb) occur at a specified time or place | - |
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(verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen |
(verb) pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind | - |
(verb) be born, used chiefly of lambs | - |
(verb) come out; issue | - |
(verb) assume a disappointed or sad expression | - |
(verb) begin vigorously | - |
(verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, settle |
(verb) be cast down | - |
(verb) go as if by falling | - |
(verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: flow, hang |
(verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, descend, go down |
(verb) move in a specified direction | - |
(verb) descend in free fall under the influence of gravity | - |
(verb) slope downward | - |
(verb) drop oneself to a lower or less erect position | - |
(verb) lose an upright position suddenly | Synonyms: fall down |
(verb) to be given by assignment or distribution | - |
(verb) be captured | - |
(verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: light |
(verb) come into the possession of | Synonyms: accrue |
(verb) to be given by right or inheritance | - |
(verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, pass, return |
(verb) lose office or power | - |
(verb) yield to temptation or sin | - |
(verb) suffer defeat, failure, or ruin | - |
(verb) lose one's chastity | - |
(verb) die, as in battle or in a hunt | - |
(verb) be due | - |
(verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: come |
(verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: shine, strike |
(verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, precipitate |
fell | (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | Synonyms: cut down, drop, strike down |
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(verb) sew a seam by folding the edges | - |
(verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fly, vanish |
fill | (verb) become full | Synonyms: fill up |
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(verb) make full, also in a metaphorical sense | Synonyms: fill up, make full |
(verb) plug with a substance | - |
(verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: replete, sate, satiate |
(verb) eat until one is sated | Synonyms: fill up |
(verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fit, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
(verb) assume, as of positions or roles | Synonyms: occupy, take |
(verb) appoint someone to (a position or a job) | - |
(verb) occupy the whole of | Synonyms: occupy |
fingerspell | (verb) communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language | Synonyms: finger-spell |
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forestall | (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, foresee |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, preclude, prevent |
foretell | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
(verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald |
fulfill | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, meet, satisfy |
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(verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil |
(verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfil, live up to, satisfy |
full | (verb) increase in phase | Synonyms: wax |
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(verb) make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering | - |
(verb) beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening | - |
gall | (verb) irritate or vex | Synonyms: irk |
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(verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: chafe, fret |
grill | (verb) cook over or under a grill | - |
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(verb) examine thoroughly | - |
gull | (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, fool, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
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(verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: befool, fool |
hill | (verb) form into a hill | - |
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hull | (verb) remove the hulls from | - |
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indwell | (verb) to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle | - |
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install | (verb) set up for use | Synonyms: instal, put in, set up |
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(verb) place | Synonyms: establish, instal, set up |
(verb) put into an office or a position | Synonyms: instal |
instill | (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, tincture |
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(verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, ingrain |
(verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: inculcate, infuse |
(verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instil |
(verb) impart gradually | Synonyms: transfuse |
jell | (verb) become gelatinous | Synonyms: congeal, set |
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kill | (verb) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | Synonyms: obliterate, wipe out |
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(verb) destroy a vitally essential quality of or in | - |
(verb) cause to cease operating | - |
(verb) tire out completely | - |
(verb) end or extinguish by forceful means | Synonyms: stamp out |
(verb) drink down entirely | Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, pop, pour down, toss off |
(verb) cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly | - |
(verb) cause the death of, without intention | - |
(verb) deprive of life | - |
(verb) hit with great force | - |
(verb) hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games | - |
(verb) overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration | - |
(verb) be the source of great pain for | - |
(verb) thwart the passage of | Synonyms: defeat, shoot down, vote down, vote out |
(verb) be fatal | - |
knell | (verb) ring as in announcing death | - |
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(verb) make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification | Synonyms: ring |
logroll | (verb) work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes | - |
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loll | (verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
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(verb) hang loosely or laxly | Synonyms: droop |
lowball | (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: underestimate |
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lull | (verb) become quiet or less intensive | Synonyms: calm down |
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(verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
(verb) calm by deception | - |
mill | (verb) grind with a mill | - |
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(verb) produce a ridge around the edge of | - |
(verb) roll out (metal) with a rolling machine | - |
(verb) move about in a confused manner | Synonyms: mill about, mill around |
miscall | (verb) assign in incorrect name to | Synonyms: misname |
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misspell | (verb) spell incorrectly | - |
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mothball | (verb) put into long-term storage | - |
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mull | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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(verb) heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink | - |
outcall | (verb) make a higher bid than (the previous bid or player); in a card game | - |
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outsell | (verb) sell more than others | - |
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(verb) be sold more often than other, similar products | - |
overfill | (verb) fill beyond capacity | - |
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pall | (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, jade, tire, weary |
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(verb) lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to) | - |
(verb) become less interesting or attractive | Synonyms: dull |
(verb) lose sparkle or bouquet | Synonyms: become flat, die |
(verb) cause to become flat | - |
(verb) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing | Synonyms: cloy |
(verb) cover with a pall | - |
(verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare, scare away, scare off |
poll | (verb) convert into a pollard | Synonyms: pollard |
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(verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: canvass |
(verb) vote in an election at a polling station | - |
(verb) get the votes of | - |
pull | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: overstretch |
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(verb) take away | - |
(verb) take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for | Synonyms: root for, side with |
(verb) cause to move by pulling | Synonyms: draw |
(verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: rend, rip, rive |
(verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: attract, draw, draw in, pull in |
(verb) hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing | - |
(verb) apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion | - |
(verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, tear |
(verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, extract, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
(verb) steer into a certain direction | - |
(verb) move into a certain direction | - |
(verb) operate when rowing a boat | - |
(verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover | Synonyms: draw, get out, pull out, take out |
(verb) rein in to keep from winning a race | - |
(verb) cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw |
(verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, perpetrate |
quell | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quench, squelch |
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(verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: appease, stay |
recall | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recollect, remember, retrieve, think |
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(verb) cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression | - |
(verb) go back to something earlier | Synonyms: come back, hark back, return |
(verb) summon to return | Synonyms: call back |
(verb) cause to be returned | Synonyms: call back, call in, withdraw |
(verb) make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution | - |
(verb) bring to mind | Synonyms: echo |
refill | (verb) fill something that had previously been emptied | Synonyms: fill again, replenish |
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reinstall | (verb) install again | - |
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resell | (verb) sell (something) again after having bought it | - |
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retell | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate |
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(verb) render verbally | Synonyms: recite |
(verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize |
roll | (verb) execute a roll, in tumbling | - |
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(verb) take the shape of a roll or cylinder | - |
(verb) show certain properties when being rolled | Synonyms: roll up |
(verb) boil vigorously | Synonyms: seethe |
(verb) shape by rolling | - |
(verb) pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/ | - |
(verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: twine, wind, wrap |
(verb) begin operating or running | - |
(verb) flatten or spread with a roller | Synonyms: roll out |
(verb) move by turning over or rotating | Synonyms: turn over |
(verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: wheel |
(verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
(verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, undulate, wave |
(verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: revolve |
(verb) move, rock, or sway from side to side | - |
(verb) emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound | - |
(verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, pluck |
(verb) occur in soft rounded shapes | Synonyms: undulate |
scroll | (verb) move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen | - |
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scull | (verb) propel with sculls | - |
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sell | (verb) persuade somebody to accept something | - |
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(verb) exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent | - |
(verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: deal, trade |
(verb) give up for a price or reward | - |
(verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: betray |
(verb) be sold at a certain price or in a certain way | - |
(verb) be responsible for the sale of | - |
(verb) be approved of or gain acceptance | - |
shell | (verb) remove from its shell or outer covering | - |
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(verb) remove the husks from | Synonyms: husk |
(verb) use explosives on | Synonyms: blast |
(verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish |
(verb) hit the pitches of hard and regularly | - |
(verb) look for and collect shells by the seashore | - |
(verb) fall out of the pod or husk | - |
(verb) create by using explosives | Synonyms: blast |
shill | (verb) act as a shill | - |
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shrill | (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shriek |
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smell | (verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: sense, smell out |
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(verb) emit an odor | - |
(verb) inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense | - |
(verb) smell bad | - |
(verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: reek, smack |
snowball | (verb) increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate | - |
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(verb) throw snowballs at | - |
spell | (verb) take turns working | - |
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(verb) orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of | Synonyms: spell out |
(verb) indicate or signify | Synonyms: import |
(verb) place under a spell | - |
(verb) write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) | Synonyms: write |
(verb) relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn | - |
spill | (verb) reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail) | - |
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(verb) reveal information | Synonyms: talk |
(verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: disgorge, shed |
(verb) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: pour forth, shed |
(verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, splatter |
(verb) flow, run or fall out and become lost | Synonyms: run out |
squall | (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, yell |
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(verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: waul, wawl |
(verb) blow in a squall | - |
stall | (verb) deliberately delay an event or action | - |
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(verb) come to a stop | Synonyms: conk |
(verb) cause an engine to stop | - |
(verb) cause an airplane to go into a stall | - |
(verb) experience a stall in flight, of airplanes | - |
(verb) put into, or keep in, a stall | - |
(verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally |
steamroll | (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroller |
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(verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
(verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
(verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroller |
still | (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, silence |
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(verb) make motionless | - |
(verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
(verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, ease, relieve |
stonewall | (verb) engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate | - |
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(verb) obstruct or hinder any discussion | - |
stroll | (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: saunter |
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swell | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
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(verb) cause to become swollen | - |
(verb) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity | - |
(verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: well |
(verb) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger | Synonyms: puff up |
(verb) come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) | Synonyms: well up |
swill | (verb) drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink) | Synonyms: swill down |
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(verb) feed pigs | Synonyms: slop |
tell | (verb) discern or comprehend | - |
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(verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell apart |
(verb) let something be known | - |
(verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recite, recount |
(verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, order, say |
(verb) give evidence | Synonyms: evidence |
(verb) express in words | Synonyms: say, state |
(verb) inform positively and with certainty and confidence | Synonyms: assure |
thrill | (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, tickle pink |
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(verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: tickle, vibrate |
(verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, shudder, throb |
(verb) cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input | - |
till | (verb) work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation | - |
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toll | (verb) ring slowly | - |
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(verb) charge a fee for using | - |
trill | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, warble |
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(verb) pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r' | - |
troll | (verb) sing loudly and without inhibition | - |
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(verb) praise or celebrate in song | - |
(verb) speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice | - |
(verb) angle with a hook and line drawn through the water | - |
(verb) sing the parts of (a round) in succession | - |
(verb) cause to move round and round | - |
(verb) circulate, move around | - |
twill | (verb) weave diagonal lines into (textiles) | - |
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undersell | (verb) sell cheaper than one's competition | Synonyms: undercut |
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unroll | (verb) unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state | Synonyms: unfurl |
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(verb) reverse the winding or twisting of | Synonyms: unwind, wind off |
unspell | (verb) release from a spell | - |
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wall | (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, surround |
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well | (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: swell |
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will | (verb) determine by choice | - |
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(verb) decree or ordain | - |
(verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: bequeath, leave |
yell | (verb) utter or declare in a very loud voice | Synonyms: scream |
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(verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall |