| abandon
|
(verb) forsake, leave behind |
- |
|---|
| (verb) give up with the intent of never claiming again |
Synonyms:
give up |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of |
Synonyms:
empty,
vacate |
| (verb) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims |
Synonyms:
give up |
| (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch |
Synonyms:
desert,
desolate,
forsake |
| abstain
|
(verb) refrain from voting |
- |
|---|
| (verb) choose not to consume |
Synonyms:
refrain,
desist |
| accession
|
(verb) make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library |
- |
|---|
| action
|
(verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against |
Synonyms:
process,
sue,
litigate |
|---|
| (verb) put in effect |
Synonyms:
execute,
carry through,
accomplish,
carry out,
fulfil,
fulfill |
| adjoin
|
(verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary |
Synonyms:
march,
edge,
border,
abut,
butt,
butt against,
butt on |
|---|
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact |
Synonyms:
touch,
meet,
contact |
| (verb) attach or add |
- |
| adjourn
|
(verb) close at the end of a session |
Synonyms:
break up,
recess |
|---|
| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering |
Synonyms:
retire,
withdraw |
| adorn
|
(verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. |
Synonyms:
decorate,
embellish,
beautify,
ornament,
grace |
|---|
| (verb) be beautiful to look at |
Synonyms:
decorate,
embellish,
beautify,
deck,
grace |
| (verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors |
Synonyms:
invest,
clothe |
| alien
|
(verb) transfer property or ownership |
Synonyms:
alienate |
|---|
| align
|
(verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight |
Synonyms:
adjust,
line up,
aline |
|---|
| (verb) be or come into adjustment with |
- |
| (verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking |
Synonyms:
array |
| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation |
Synonyms:
ordinate,
coordinate |
| ambition
|
(verb) have as one's ambition |
- |
|---|
| appertain
|
(verb) be a part or attribute of |
Synonyms:
pertain |
|---|
| apportion
|
(verb) distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose |
Synonyms:
allocate |
|---|
| (verb) give out as one's portion or share |
Synonyms:
deal,
divvy up,
portion out,
share |
| arraign
|
(verb) call before a court to answer an indictment |
- |
|---|
| (verb) accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy |
- |
| ascertain
|
(verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study |
Synonyms:
determine,
find,
find out |
|---|
| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something |
Synonyms:
insure,
ensure,
see,
see to it,
check,
control,
assure |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort |
Synonyms:
determine,
see,
check,
find out,
learn,
watch |
| (verb) learn or discover with certainty |
- |
| assign
|
(verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) |
Synonyms:
designate,
delegate,
depute |
|---|
| (verb) give out |
Synonyms:
portion,
allot |
| (verb) attribute or credit to |
Synonyms:
impute,
ascribe,
attribute |
| (verb) select something or someone for a specific purpose |
Synonyms:
set apart,
specify |
| (verb) attribute or give |
Synonyms:
put |
| (verb) make undue claims to having |
Synonyms:
arrogate |
| (verb) transfer one's right to |
- |
| (verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme |
Synonyms:
attribute |
| attain
|
(verb) to gain with effort |
Synonyms:
reach,
accomplish,
achieve |
|---|
| (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level |
Synonyms:
reach,
hit |
| (verb) find unexpectedly |
Synonyms:
discover,
strike,
come across,
happen upon,
chance on,
chance upon,
come upon,
fall upon,
light upon |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract |
Synonyms:
make,
reach,
hit,
gain,
arrive at |
| attorn
|
(verb) acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord |
- |
|---|
| auction
|
(verb) sell at an auction |
Synonyms:
auction off,
auctioneer |
|---|
| audition
|
(verb) perform in order to get a role |
Synonyms:
try out |
|---|
| awaken
|
(verb) cause to become awake or conscious |
Synonyms:
rouse,
arouse,
wake,
wake up,
waken |
|---|
| (verb) stop sleeping |
Synonyms:
arouse,
wake,
wake up,
waken,
come alive,
awake |
| (verb) make aware |
- |
| balloon
|
(verb) ride in a hot-air balloon |
- |
|---|
| (verb) become inflated |
Synonyms:
billow,
inflate |
| ban
|
(verb) forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper) |
Synonyms:
censor |
|---|
| (verb) prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure |
- |
| (verb) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment |
Synonyms:
banish |
| (verb) expel from a community or group |
Synonyms:
banish,
cast out,
ostracise,
ostracize,
shun,
blackball |
| bargain
|
(verb) negotiate the terms of an exchange |
Synonyms:
dicker |
|---|
| (verb) come to terms; arrive at an agreement |
- |
| batten
|
(verb) furnish with battens |
Synonyms:
secure,
batten down |
|---|
| (verb) secure with battens |
- |
| beacon
|
(verb) shine like a beacon |
- |
|---|
| (verb) guide with a beacon |
- |
| bean
|
(verb) hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball |
- |
|---|
| beckon
|
(verb) signal with the hands or nod |
Synonyms:
wave |
|---|
| (verb) appear inviting |
- |
| (verb) summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture |
- |
| bedamn
|
(verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon |
Synonyms:
imprecate,
maledict,
damn,
curse,
anathemise,
anathemize,
beshrew |
|---|
| bedizen
|
(verb) decorate tastelessly |
- |
|---|
| (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly |
Synonyms:
dizen |
| begin
|
(verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action |
Synonyms:
get,
get down,
set out,
start,
start out,
set about,
commence |
|---|
| (verb) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense |
Synonyms:
start |
| (verb) set in motion, cause to start |
Synonyms:
start,
lead off,
commence |
| (verb) begin to speak or say |
- |
| (verb) be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series |
- |
| (verb) have a beginning, of a temporal event |
- |
| (verb) have a beginning characterized in some specified way |
Synonyms:
start |
| (verb) begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object |
Synonyms:
start |
| (verb) achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative |
- |
| (verb) begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language |
- |
| bemoan
|
(verb) regret strongly |
Synonyms:
lament,
deplore,
bewail |
|---|
| betoken
|
(verb) be a signal for or a symptom of |
Synonyms:
point,
indicate,
signal,
bespeak |
|---|
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen |
Synonyms:
forecast,
auspicate,
portend,
predict,
prefigure,
presage,
prognosticate,
omen,
augur,
bode,
foreshadow,
foretell |
| bin
|
(verb) store in bins |
- |
|---|
| blacken
|
(verb) make or become black |
Synonyms:
melanise,
melanize,
black |
|---|
| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color |
Synonyms:
scorch,
sear,
char |
| blazon
|
(verb) decorate with heraldic arms |
Synonyms:
emblazon |
|---|
| bludgeon
|
(verb) overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club |
- |
|---|
| (verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon |
Synonyms:
club |
| bourgeon
|
(verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate |
Synonyms:
shoot,
pullulate,
germinate,
sprout,
spud,
burgeon forth |
|---|
| brain
|
(verb) hit on the head |
- |
|---|
| (verb) kill by smashing someone's skull |
- |
| brazen
|
(verb) face with defiance or impudence |
- |
|---|
| brighten
|
(verb) make more cheerful through the use of color |
Synonyms:
lighten,
lighten up |
|---|
| (verb) become clear |
Synonyms:
clear,
clear up,
light up |
| brisken
|
(verb) become brisk |
Synonyms:
brisk,
brisk up |
|---|
| broaden
|
(verb) make broader |
- |
|---|
| (verb) extend in scope or range or area |
Synonyms:
extend,
widen |
| (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand |
Synonyms:
diversify,
branch out |
| (verb) become broader |
- |
| brown
|
(verb) fry in a pan until it changes color |
- |
|---|
| (verb) make brown in color |
Synonyms:
embrown |
| bulletin
|
(verb) make public by bulletin |
- |
|---|
| burden
|
(verb) weight down with a load |
Synonyms:
weight,
weight down,
burthen |
|---|
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to |
Synonyms:
charge,
saddle |
| burgeon
|
(verb) grow and flourish |
- |
|---|
| burn
|
(verb) destroy by fire |
Synonyms:
fire,
burn down |
|---|
| (verb) shine intensely, as if with heat |
Synonyms:
glow |
| (verb) undergo combustion |
Synonyms:
combust |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort |
Synonyms:
sting,
bite |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust |
Synonyms:
combust |
| (verb) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion |
- |
| (verb) cause to undergo combustion |
Synonyms:
incinerate |
| (verb) execute by tying to a stake and setting alight |
- |
| (verb) spend (significant amounts of money) |
- |
| (verb) feel hot or painful |
- |
| (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent |
Synonyms:
cauterise,
cauterize |
| (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun |
Synonyms:
sunburn |
| (verb) create by duplicating data |
Synonyms:
cut |
| (verb) use up (energy) |
Synonyms:
burn off,
burn up |
| (verb) damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation |
- |
| burthen
|
(verb) weight down with a load |
Synonyms:
weight,
burden,
weight down |
|---|
| button
|
(verb) provide with buttons |
- |
|---|
| (verb) fasten with buttons |
- |
| cabin
|
(verb) confine to a small space, such as a cabin |
- |
|---|
| campaign
|
(verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position |
Synonyms:
run |
|---|
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for |
Synonyms:
press,
push,
agitate,
crusade,
fight |
| (verb) go on a campaign; go off to war |
Synonyms:
take the field |
| can
|
(verb) preserve in a can or tin |
Synonyms:
put up,
tin |
|---|
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position |
Synonyms:
displace,
fire,
force out,
sack,
dismiss,
give notice,
give the axe,
give the sack,
send away,
terminate |
| cannon
|
(verb) make a cannon |
- |
|---|
| (verb) fire a cannon |
- |
| canton
|
(verb) provide housing for (military personnel) |
Synonyms:
quarter,
billet |
|---|
| (verb) divide into cantons, of a country |
- |
| caparison
|
(verb) put a caparison on |
Synonyms:
dress up,
bard,
barde |
|---|
| captain
|
(verb) be the captain of a sports team |
- |
|---|
| caption
|
(verb) provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing |
- |
|---|
| caravan
|
(verb) travel in a caravan |
- |
|---|
| careen
|
(verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements |
Synonyms:
reel,
keel,
stagger,
swag,
lurch |
|---|
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way |
Synonyms:
wobble,
shift,
tilt |
| cartoon
|
(verb) draw cartoons of |
- |
|---|
| caution
|
(verb) warn strongly; put on guard |
Synonyms:
monish,
admonish |
|---|
| cavern
|
(verb) hollow out as if making a cavern |
Synonyms:
cavern out |
|---|
| chagrin
|
(verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of |
Synonyms:
humble,
humiliate,
mortify,
abase |
|---|
| chain
|
(verb) connect or arrange into a chain by linking |
- |
|---|
| (verb) fasten or secure with chains |
- |
| chairman
|
(verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university |
Synonyms:
chair |
|---|
| champion
|
(verb) protect or fight for as a champion |
Synonyms:
defend |
|---|
| chaperon
|
(verb) accompany as a chaperone |
Synonyms:
chaperone |
|---|
| chasten
|
(verb) censure severely |
Synonyms:
correct,
castigate,
objurgate,
chastise |
|---|
| (verb) change by restraining or moderating |
Synonyms:
temper |
| (verb) correct by punishment or discipline |
Synonyms:
subdue,
tame |
| cheapen
|
(verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth |
Synonyms:
degrade |
|---|
| chin
|
(verb) raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar |
Synonyms:
chin up |
|---|
| christen
|
(verb) administer baptism to |
Synonyms:
baptise,
baptize |
|---|
| churn
|
(verb) stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter |
- |
|---|
| (verb) be agitated |
Synonyms:
roil,
moil,
boil |
| clarion
|
(verb) blow the clarion |
- |
|---|
| (verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion |
- |
| claxon
|
(verb) make a strident noise |
Synonyms:
honk,
beep,
blare,
toot |
|---|
| (verb) use the horn of a car |
Synonyms:
honk |
| clean
|
(verb) make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from |
Synonyms:
make clean |
|---|
| (verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits |
Synonyms:
pick |
| (verb) clean and tidy up the house |
Synonyms:
houseclean,
clean house |
| (verb) clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing |
Synonyms:
cleanse |
| (verb) be cleanable |
- |
| (verb) deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc. |
- |
| (verb) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely |
Synonyms:
strip |
| (verb) remove while making clean |
- |
| (verb) remove unwanted substances from |
Synonyms:
scavenge |
| (verb) remove shells or husks from |
- |
| clown
|
(verb) act as or like a clown |
Synonyms:
clown around,
antic |
|---|
| coarsen
|
(verb) make or become coarse or coarser |
- |
|---|
| (verb) make less subtle or refined |
- |
| cocoon
|
(verb) retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment |
- |
|---|
| (verb) wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection |
- |
| coffin
|
(verb) place into a coffin |
- |
|---|
| coin
|
(verb) make up |
- |
|---|
| (verb) form by stamping, punching, or printing |
Synonyms:
strike,
mint |
| commission
|
(verb) put into commission; equip for service; of ships |
- |
|---|
| (verb) place an order for |
- |
| (verb) charge with a task |
- |
| companion
|
(verb) be a companion to somebody |
Synonyms:
accompany,
keep company,
company |
|---|
| complain
|
(verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness |
Synonyms:
kick,
plain,
quetch,
kvetch,
sound off |
|---|
| (verb) make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge |
- |
| complexion
|
(verb) give a certain color to |
- |
|---|
| con
|
(verb) deprive of by deceit |
Synonyms:
nobble,
mulct,
rook,
hornswoggle,
defraud,
diddle,
goldbrick,
scam,
short-change,
swindle,
victimize,
bunco |
|---|
| (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart |
Synonyms:
memorise,
memorize,
learn |
| concern
|
(verb) be relevant to |
Synonyms:
refer,
relate,
touch,
come to,
bear on,
touch on,
have to do with,
pertain |
|---|
| (verb) be on the mind of |
Synonyms:
occupy,
interest,
worry |
| condemn
|
(verb) express strong disapproval of |
Synonyms:
reprobate,
decry,
objurgate,
excoriate |
|---|
| (verb) declare or judge unfit for use or habitation |
- |
| (verb) compel or force into a particular state or activity |
- |
| (verb) demonstrate the guilt of (someone) |
- |
| (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law |
Synonyms:
doom,
sentence |
| (verb) appropriate (property) for public use |
- |
| condition
|
(verb) establish a conditioned response |
- |
|---|
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control |
Synonyms:
check,
train,
discipline |
| (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement |
Synonyms:
specify,
qualify,
stipulate |
| (verb) put into a better state |
- |
| (verb) apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny |
- |
| confection
|
(verb) make into a confection |
Synonyms:
comfit,
confect |
|---|
| conjoin
|
(verb) make contact or come together |
Synonyms:
join |
|---|
| (verb) take in marriage; married |
Synonyms:
espouse,
hook up with,
marry,
get hitched with,
get married,
wed |
| conn
|
(verb) conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane |
- |
|---|
| consign
|
(verb) commit forever; commit irrevocably |
- |
|---|
| (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping |
Synonyms:
charge |
| (verb) send to an address |
- |
| constrain
|
(verb) compel to behave in a certain way |
Synonyms:
impose,
enforce |
|---|
| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement |
Synonyms:
hold,
restrain,
confine |
| (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent |
Synonyms:
stiffen,
tighten,
tighten up |
| contain
|
(verb) include or contain; have as a component |
Synonyms:
incorporate,
comprise |
|---|
| (verb) contain or hold; have within |
Synonyms:
hold,
carry,
bear |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits |
Synonyms:
hold,
check,
control,
hold in,
moderate,
curb |
| (verb) be divisible by |
- |
| (verb) be capable of holding or containing |
Synonyms:
hold,
take |
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of |
Synonyms:
check,
stop,
arrest,
turn back,
hold back |
| contemn
|
(verb) look down on with disdain |
Synonyms:
despise,
disdain,
scorn |
|---|
| corn
|
(verb) feed (cattle) with corn |
- |
|---|
| (verb) preserve with large-grained rock salt |
- |
| cosign
|
(verb) sign jointly |
Synonyms:
co-sign |
|---|
| (verb) sign and endorse (another person's signature), as for a loan |
Synonyms:
co-sign |
| cotton
|
(verb) take a liking to |
- |
|---|
| countersign
|
(verb) add one's signature to after another's to attest authenticity |
- |
|---|
| cozen
|
(verb) be false to; be dishonest with |
Synonyms:
deceive,
delude,
lead on |
|---|
| (verb) act with artful deceit |
- |
| (verb) cheat or trick |
- |