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