| appose | (verb) place side by side or in close proximity | - |
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| compose | (verb) make up plans or basic details for | Synonyms: draw up, frame |
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| (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: indite, pen, write |
| (verb) write music | Synonyms: write |
| (verb) put together out of existing material | Synonyms: compile |
| (verb) calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet | - |
| (verb) form the substance of | - |
| counterpose | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterweight |
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| decompose | (verb) separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts | Synonyms: break down, break up |
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| (verb) break down | Synonyms: molder, moulder, rot |
| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, disintegrate |
| depose | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depone, swear |
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| (verb) force to leave (an office) | Synonyms: force out |
| discompose | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, disconcert, untune, upset |
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| dispose | (verb) make fit or prepared | Synonyms: qualify |
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| (verb) make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief | Synonyms: incline |
| (verb) place or put in a particular order | - |
| (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
| (verb) give, sell, or transfer to another | - |
| expose | (verb) abandon by leaving out in the open air | - |
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| (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: debunk |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, peril, queer, scupper |
| (verb) remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body | Synonyms: uncover |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, exhibit |
| (verb) expose to light, of photographic film | - |
| (verb) expose or make accessible to some action or influence | - |
| (verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: disclose, uncover |
| impose | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, inflict, visit |
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| (verb) impose and collect | Synonyms: levy |
| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: constrain, enforce |
| indispose | (verb) cause to feel unwell | - |
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| (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: disqualify, unfit |
| (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: disincline |
| interpose | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interject, put in, throw in |
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| (verb) to put forth by way of intervention | - |
| (verb) be or come between | - |
| (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interfere, intervene, step in |
| juxtapose | (verb) place side by side | - |
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| oppose | (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, controvert |
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| (verb) be against; express opposition to | - |
| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: match, pit, play off |
| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: defend, fight, fight back, fight down |
| (verb) act against or in opposition to | Synonyms: react |
| (verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: counterbalance |
| overexpose | (verb) expose excessively | - |
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| (verb) expose to too much light | - |
| pose | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: impersonate, personate |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, position, put, set |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, posture, sit |
| (verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others | Synonyms: posture |
| (verb) offer for others to consider | Synonyms: present |
| postpose | (verb) place after another constituent in the sentence | - |
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| predispose | (verb) make susceptible | - |
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| prepose | (verb) place before another constituent in the sentence | - |
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| presuppose | (verb) require as a necessary antecedent or precondition | Synonyms: suppose |
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| (verb) take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand | Synonyms: suppose |
| propose | (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: project |
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| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, purport, purpose |
| (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: advise, suggest |
| (verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, offer, pop the question |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: nominate |
| purpose | (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: resolve |
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| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purport |
| redispose | (verb) dispose anew | - |
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| reimpose | (verb) impose anew | - |
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| repose | (verb) put or confide something in a person or thing | - |
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| (verb) lie when dead | - |
| (verb) put in a horizontal position | Synonyms: lay, put down |
| (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recline, recumb |
| (verb) to put something (eg trust) in something | - |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: reside, rest |
| superimpose | (verb) place on top of | Synonyms: lay over, superpose |
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| superpose | (verb) place (one geometric figure) upon another so that their perimeters coincide | - |
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| (verb) place on top of | Synonyms: lay over, superimpose |
| suppose | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, imagine, opine, reckon, think |
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| (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, theorise, theorize |
| (verb) require as a necessary antecedent or precondition | Synonyms: presuppose |
| (verb) take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand | Synonyms: presuppose |
| (verb) express a supposition | Synonyms: say |
| transpose | (verb) change the order or arrangement of | Synonyms: commute, permute |
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| (verb) change key | - |
| (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: counterchange, interchange |
| (verb) exchange positions without a change in value | Synonyms: commute |
| (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transfer, transplant |
| (verb) put (a piece of music) into another key | - |
| (verb) transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality | - |
| underexpose | (verb) expose insufficiently | - |
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| (verb) expose to too little light | - |