| acclaim | (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: hail, herald |
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| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: applaud, clap, spat |
| accustom | (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) | Synonyms: habituate |
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| affirm | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: assert, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
| (verb) say yes to | - |
| aim | (verb) have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal | Synonyms: aspire, draw a bead on, shoot for |
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| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: propose, purport, purpose |
| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: calculate, direct |
| (verb) direct (a remark) toward an intended goal | - |
| (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: drive, get |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: direct, take, take aim, train |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: direct, place, point, target |
| alarm | (verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alert |
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| (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: appal, appall, dismay, horrify |
| anagram | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagrammatise, anagrammatize |
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| arm | (verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: build up, fortify, gird |
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| (verb) supply with arms | - |
| barnstorm | (verb) tour the country making political speeches, giving lectures, or presenting plays | - |
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| (verb) appear at county fairs and carnivals as a stunt flier and parachute jumper | - |
| beam | (verb) smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression | - |
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| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, broadcast, send, transmit |
| (verb) express with a beaming face or smile | - |
| (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
| (verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: shine |
| becalm | (verb) make steady | Synonyms: calm, steady |
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| becharm | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: charm |
| bedim | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: benight |
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| (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: obscure, overcloud |
| beseem | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: befit, suit |
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| bloom | (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: blossom, flower |
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| blossom | (verb) develop or come to a promising stage | Synonyms: blossom forth, blossom out, unfold |
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| (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, flower |
| boom | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: expand, flourish, thrive |
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| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, nail, smash |
| (verb) make a resonant sound, like artillery | Synonyms: din |
| (verb) make a deep hollow sound | Synonyms: boom out |
| (verb) be the case that thunder is being heard | Synonyms: thunder |
| bosom | (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: embrace, hug, squeeze |
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| (verb) hide in one's bosom | - |
| bottom | (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: fathom, penetrate |
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| (verb) strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom | - |
| (verb) provide with a bottom or a seat | - |
| brainstorm | (verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
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| bream | (verb) clean (a ship's bottom) with heat | - |
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| brim | (verb) fill as much as possible | - |
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| (verb) be completely full | - |
| broom | (verb) sweep with a broom or as if with a broom | Synonyms: sweep |
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| (verb) finish with a broom | - |
| buckram | (verb) stiffen with or as with buckram | - |
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| bum | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: cadge, grub, mooch, sponge |
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| (verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
| calm | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
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| (verb) make steady | Synonyms: becalm, steady |
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation | Synonyms: calm down, chill out, cool it, cool off, settle down, simmer down |
| carom | (verb) make a carom | - |
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| (verb) rebound after hitting | - |
| charm | (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: influence, tempt |
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| (verb) protect through supernatural powers or charms | - |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: becharm |
| chloroform | (verb) anesthetize with chloroform | - |
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| claim | (verb) assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing | - |
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| (verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: exact, take |
| (verb) ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example | - |
| (verb) lay claim to; as of an idea | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: arrogate, lay claim |
| clam | (verb) gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean | - |
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| confirm | (verb) make more firm | - |
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| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
| (verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: reassert |
| (verb) administer the rite of confirmation to | - |
| (verb) support a person for a position | - |
| conform | (verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adapt, adjust |
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| (verb) be similar, be in line with | - |
| counterclaim | (verb) set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim | - |
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| cram | (verb) prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam | - |
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| (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, jam, jampack, ram, wad |
| (verb) put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled | - |
| cream | (verb) add cream to one's coffee, for example | - |
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| (verb) make creamy by beating | - |
| (verb) remove from the surface | Synonyms: cream off, skim, skim off |
| (verb) put on cream, as on one's face or body | - |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, drub, lick, thrash |
| dam | (verb) obstruct with, or as if with, a dam | Synonyms: dam up |
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| daydream | (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: dream, stargaze, woolgather |
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| (verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: moon |
| declaim | (verb) recite in elocution | Synonyms: recite |
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| (verb) speak against in an impassioned manner | Synonyms: inveigh |
| deem | (verb) keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view | Synonyms: hold, take for, view as |
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| deform | (verb) become misshapen | - |
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| (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: distort, strain |
| (verb) assume a different shape or form | Synonyms: change form, change shape |
| (verb) make formless | - |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, flex, turn, twist |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, distort, wring |
| diagram | (verb) make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed | Synonyms: plot |
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| dim | (verb) make dim or lusterless | - |
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| (verb) become dim or lusterless | - |
| (verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: blind |
| (verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: blur, slur |
| (verb) switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam | Synonyms: dip |
| disarm | (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarise, demilitarize |
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| (verb) take away the weapons from; render harmless | Synonyms: unarm |
| (verb) make less hostile; win over | - |
| disclaim | (verb) make a disclaimer about | - |
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| (verb) renounce a legal claim or title to | - |
| disesteem | (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disrespect |
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| doom | (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law | Synonyms: condemn, sentence |
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| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, destine, fate |
| (verb) make certain of the failure or destruction of | - |
| dream | (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: daydream, stargaze, woolgather |
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| (verb) experience while sleeping | - |
| drum | (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
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| (verb) play a percussion instrument | - |
| (verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: beat, thrum |
| embalm | (verb) preserve a dead body | - |
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| envenom | (verb) add poison to | Synonyms: poison |
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| (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, embitter |
| esteem | (verb) look on as or consider | Synonyms: be known as, know as, look on, look upon, regard as, repute, take to be, think of |
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| (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: prise, prize, respect, value |
| exclaim | (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, outcry, shout |
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| (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: proclaim, promulgate |
| farm | (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: grow, produce, raise |
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| (verb) collect fees or profits | - |
| (verb) be a farmer; work as a farmer | - |
| fathom | (verb) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | Synonyms: sound |
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| (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, penetrate |
| film | (verb) make a film or photograph of something | Synonyms: shoot, take |
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| (verb) record in film | - |
| firm | (verb) become taut or tauter | Synonyms: tauten |
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| (verb) make taut or tauter | Synonyms: tauten |
| foam | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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| forearm | (verb) arm in advance of a confrontation | - |
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| foredoom | (verb) doom beforehand | - |
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| form | (verb) give shape or form to | Synonyms: shape |
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| (verb) assume a form or shape | - |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, mold, mould, shape, work |
| (verb) create (as an entity) | Synonyms: organise, organize |
| (verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind | Synonyms: imprint |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: constitute, make |
| (verb) develop into a distinctive entity | Synonyms: spring, take form, take shape |
| gleam | (verb) to shine with faint or brief light | - |
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| (verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: glimmer |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: glint, glisten, glitter, shine |
| glom | (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, hook, knock off, snitch, thieve |
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| (verb) seize upon or latch onto something | - |
| groom | (verb) care for one's external appearance | Synonyms: neaten |
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| (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: curry, dress |
| (verb) educate for a future role or function | Synonyms: prepare, train |
| gum | (verb) exude or form gum | - |
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| (verb) become sticky | - |
| (verb) grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty | Synonyms: mumble |
| (verb) cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum | - |
| ham | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham it up, overact, overplay |
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| harm | (verb) cause or do harm to | - |
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| helm | (verb) be at or take the helm of | - |
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| hem | (verb) utter `hem' or `ahem' | - |
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| (verb) fold over and sew together to provide with a hem | - |
| hum | (verb) sing with closed lips | - |
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| (verb) make a low continuous sound | - |
| (verb) sound with a monotonous hum | Synonyms: thrum |
| (verb) be noisy with activity | Synonyms: buzz, seethe |
| inform | (verb) give character or essence to | - |
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| (verb) impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to | - |
| (verb) act as an informer | - |
| jam | (verb) interfere with or prevent the reception of signals | Synonyms: block |
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| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jampack, ram, wad |
| (verb) get stuck and immobilized | - |
| (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
| (verb) crush or bruise | Synonyms: crush |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: mob, pack, pile, throng |
| (verb) push down forcibly | - |
| lam | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, thrash, thresh |
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| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| loom | (verb) weave on a loom | - |
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| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, predominate, tower |
| (verb) come into view indistinctly, often threateningly | - |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: brood, bulk large, hover |
| macadam | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadamise, macadamize, tarmac |
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| maim | (verb) injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation | - |
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| microfilm | (verb) record on microfilm | - |
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| misinform | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: mislead |
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| mushroom | (verb) grow and spread fast | - |
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| (verb) pick or gather mushrooms | - |
| outperform | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| overwhelm | (verb) charge someone with too many tasks | Synonyms: deluge, flood out |
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| (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overpower |
| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: drown, submerge |
| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overtake, sweep over, whelm |
| palm | (verb) touch, lift, or hold with the hands | Synonyms: handle |
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| perform | (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, execute |
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| (verb) give a performance (of something) | - |
| (verb) get (something) done | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) perform a function | - |
| perm | (verb) give a permanent wave to | - |
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| preform | (verb) form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand | - |
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| (verb) form into a shape resembling the final, desired one | - |
| prim | (verb) dress primly | Synonyms: prim out, prim up |
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| (verb) contract one's lips | - |
| (verb) assume a prim appearance | - |
| proclaim | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, promulgate |
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| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, glorify, laud |
| (verb) declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles | - |
| (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: predicate |
| program | (verb) arrange a program of or for | Synonyms: programme |
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| (verb) write a computer program | Synonyms: programme |
| psalm | (verb) sing or celebrate in psalms | - |
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| ram | (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: drive, force |
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| (verb) undergo damage or destruction on impact | Synonyms: crash |
| (verb) strike or drive against with a heavy impact | Synonyms: pound, ram down |
| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, jampack, wad |
| ransom | (verb) exchange or buy back for money; under threat | Synonyms: redeem |
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| reaffirm | (verb) affirm once again | - |
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| ream | (verb) enlarge with a reamer | - |
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| (verb) remove by making a hole or by boring | - |
| (verb) squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer | - |
| rearm | (verb) arm anew | Synonyms: re-arm |
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| (verb) arm again | - |
| reclaim | (verb) make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state | - |
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| (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, tame |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: rectify, reform, regenerate |
| (verb) claim back | Synonyms: repossess |
| (verb) reuse (materials from waste products) | Synonyms: recover |
| reconfirm | (verb) confirm again | - |
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| redeem | (verb) convert into cash; of commercial papers | - |
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| (verb) pay off (loans or promissory notes) | Synonyms: pay off |
| (verb) exchange or buy back for money; under threat | Synonyms: ransom |
| (verb) to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange | - |
| (verb) restore the honor or worth of | - |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: deliver, save |
| reform | (verb) make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices | - |
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| (verb) break up the molecules of | - |
| (verb) produce by cracking | - |
| (verb) change for the better | Synonyms: see the light, straighten out |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, regenerate |
| (verb) improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition | - |
| regram | (verb) To repost on Instagram | - |
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| rim | (verb) roll around the rim of | - |
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| (verb) furnish with a rim | - |
| (verb) run around the rim of | - |
| roam | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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