aline | (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: adjust, align, line up |
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aquaplane | (verb) ride on an aquaplane | - |
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(verb) rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road | - |
atone | (verb) turn away from sin or do penitence | Synonyms: repent |
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(verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, abye, expiate |
attune | (verb) adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with | - |
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bone | (verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: debone |
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(verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
brine | (verb) soak in brine | - |
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calcimine | (verb) cover with calcimine | - |
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calcine | (verb) heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces | - |
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cane | (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: flog, lambast, lambaste |
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carmine | (verb) color carmine | - |
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chaperone | (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperon |
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chicane | (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, cavil |
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(verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
chine | (verb) cut through the backbone of an animal | - |
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clone | (verb) make multiple identical copies of | - |
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cobblestone | (verb) pave with cobblestones | Synonyms: cobble |
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combine | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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(verb) put or add together | Synonyms: compound |
(verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: compound |
(verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: aggregate |
(verb) add together from different sources | - |
(verb) join for a common purpose or in a common action | - |
(verb) have or possess in combination | Synonyms: unite |
commune | (verb) receive Communion, in the Catholic church | Synonyms: communicate |
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(verb) communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity | - |
condone | (verb) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with | Synonyms: excuse |
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cone | (verb) make cone-shaped | - |
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confine | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel |
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(verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: constrain, hold, restrain |
(verb) prevent from leaving or from being removed | - |
(verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement | Synonyms: detain |
(verb) close in | Synonyms: enclose, hold in |
contravene | (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
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(verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, infringe, run afoul |
convene | (verb) call together | Synonyms: convoke |
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(verb) meet formally | - |
countermine | (verb) destroy enemy mines with one's own mines | - |
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(verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
crane | (verb) stretch (the neck) so as to see better | Synonyms: stretch out |
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damascene | (verb) inlay metal with gold and silver | - |
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dateline | (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, datemark |
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debone | (verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: bone |
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decline | (verb) grow smaller | Synonyms: go down, wane |
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(verb) grow worse | Synonyms: worsen |
(verb) show unwillingness towards | Synonyms: refuse |
(verb) inflect for number, gender, case, etc. | - |
(verb) go down | - |
(verb) fall in value | Synonyms: correct, slump |
(verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: pass up, refuse, reject, turn down |
define | (verb) give a definition for the meaning of a word | - |
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(verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: determine, fix, limit, set, specify |
(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify |
(verb) determine the nature of | - |
(verb) show the form or outline of | Synonyms: delineate |
deplane | (verb) get off an airplane | - |
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depone | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depose, swear |
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destine | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, intend, specify |
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(verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, doom, fate |
determine | (verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something | Synonyms: decide, make up one's mind |
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(verb) fix conclusively or authoritatively | Synonyms: set |
(verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: influence, mold, mould, regulate, shape |
(verb) fix in scope; fix the boundaries of | - |
(verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: ascertain, find, find out |
(verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, find out, learn, see, watch |
(verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, fix, limit, set, specify |
(verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: settle, square off, square up |
dethrone | (verb) remove a monarch from the throne | - |
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dine | (verb) have supper; eat dinner | - |
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(verb) give dinner to; host for dinner | - |
discipline | (verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: correct, sort out |
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(verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, train |
disincline | (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: indispose |
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divine | (verb) search by divining, as if with a rod | - |
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(verb) perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers | - |
drone | (verb) talk in a monotonous voice | Synonyms: drone on |
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(verb) make a monotonous low dull sound | - |
emplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: enplane |
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enplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: emplane |
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enshrine | (verb) enclose in a shrine | Synonyms: shrine |
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(verb) hold sacred | Synonyms: saint |
enthrone | (verb) put a monarch on the throne | Synonyms: throne |
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(verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: invest, vest |
entwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine |
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(verb) tie or link together | Synonyms: knit |
examine | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvass, study |
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(verb) question closely | - |
(verb) question or examine thoroughly and closely | Synonyms: probe |
(verb) observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect | Synonyms: see |
(verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, prove, test, try, try out |
fine | (verb) impose a fine on | Synonyms: mulct |
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(verb) record a fine as a penalty in a police record | Synonyms: ticket |
friendzone | (verb) To treat as a friend although the other party has romantic feelings | - |
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gangrene | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: mortify, necrose, sphacelate |
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guillotine | (verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine | - |
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headline | (verb) publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline | - |
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(verb) provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline | - |
heterodyne | (verb) combine (a radio frequency wave) with a locally generated wave of a different frequency so as to produce a new frequency equal to the sum or the difference between the two | - |
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holystone | (verb) scrub with a holystone | - |
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hone | (verb) make perfect or complete | Synonyms: perfect |
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(verb) sharpen with a hone | - |
hydroplane | (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: seaplane |
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illumine | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illuminate, light, light up |
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imagine | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, opine, reckon, suppose, think |
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(verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, ideate |
importune | (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: insist |
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incarnadine | (verb) make flesh-colored | - |
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incline | (verb) make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief | Synonyms: dispose |
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(verb) feel favorably disposed or willing | - |
(verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: pitch, slope |
(verb) lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow | - |
(verb) bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well | - |
(verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, lean, run, tend |
intertwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, lace, twine |
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(verb) make a loop in | Synonyms: loop |
(verb) make lacework by knotting or looping | Synonyms: tat |
intervene | (verb) occur between other event or between certain points of time | - |
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(verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interfere, interpose, step in |
(verb) be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events | - |
intone | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, chant, intonate |
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(verb) speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone | Synonyms: intonate |
(verb) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | Synonyms: chant, tone |
jawbone | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
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julienne | (verb) cut into long thin strips | - |
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line | (verb) fill plentifully | - |
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(verb) reinforce with fabric | - |
(verb) cover the interior of | - |
(verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, describe, draw, trace |
(verb) mark with lines | - |
(verb) be in line with; form a line along | Synonyms: run along |
machine | (verb) make by machinery | - |
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(verb) turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery | - |
mainline | (verb) inject into the vein | - |
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medicine | (verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicate |
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mine | (verb) lay mines | - |
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(verb) get from the earth by excavation | - |
moonshine | (verb) distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine | - |
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opine | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, imagine, reckon, suppose, think |
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(verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: animadvert, sound off, speak out, speak up |
outline | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: adumbrate, sketch |
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(verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: delineate, limn |
(verb) draw up an outline or sketch for something | Synonyms: draft |
outshine | (verb) attract more attention and praise than others | - |
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(verb) shine brighter than | - |
overrefine | (verb) refine too much or with excess of subtlety | Synonyms: over-refine |
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phone | (verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call, call up, ring, telephone |
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pine | (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, languish, yearn, yen |
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plane | (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: shave |
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(verb) make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane | - |
(verb) travel on the surface of water | Synonyms: skim |
postpone | (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
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predestine | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, preordain |
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(verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestinate |
(verb) decree or determine beforehand | - |
predetermine | (verb) determine beforehand | - |
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(verb) cause to be biased | Synonyms: bias |
profane | (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, violate |
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(verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, subvert, vitiate |
prune | (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, rationalise, rationalize |
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(verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, snip, trim |
quarantine | (verb) place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons | - |
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realine | (verb) align anew or better | Synonyms: realign |
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recline | (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recumb, repose |
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(verb) cause to recline | - |
(verb) move the upper body backwards and down | Synonyms: lean back |
recombine | (verb) undergo genetic recombination | - |
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(verb) cause genetic recombination | - |
(verb) to combine or put together again | - |
reconvene | (verb) meet again | - |
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redefine | (verb) give a new or different definition of (a word) | - |
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(verb) give a new or different definition to | - |
redetermine | (verb) fix, find, or establish again | - |
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redline | (verb) discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood | - |
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reexamine | (verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: review |
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refine | (verb) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities | Synonyms: rectify |
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(verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: down, fine-tune, polish |
(verb) treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition | - |
(verb) attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or intensity by polishing or purifying | - |
(verb) make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of | - |
(verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, elaborate, rarify |
reline | (verb) put new lines on | - |
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(verb) provide with a new lining | - |
repine | (verb) express discontent | - |
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sailplane | (verb) fly a plane without an engine | Synonyms: soar |
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seaplane | (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: hydroplane |
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seine | (verb) fish with a seine; catch fish with a seine | - |
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shine | (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, smooth, smoothen |
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(verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
(verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter |
(verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
(verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, strike |
(verb) be distinguished or eminent | - |
(verb) be clear and obvious | - |
(verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: beam |
(verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: reflect |
(verb) throw or flash the light of (a lamp) | - |
shrine | (verb) enclose in a shrine | Synonyms: enshrine |
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sideline | (verb) remove from the center of activity or attention; place into an inferior position | - |
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