| persevere | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persist |
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| perspire | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: sudate, sweat |
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| picture | (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, render, show |
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| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| pore | (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, focus, rivet |
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| posture | (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, pose, sit |
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| (verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others | Synonyms: pose |
| prefigure | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) imagine or consider beforehand | - |
| premiere | (verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
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| (verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
| prepare | (verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: fix, gear up, ready, set, set up |
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| (verb) undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession | Synonyms: train |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, educate, train |
| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, machinate, organise, organize |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, make, ready |
| (verb) to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery | - |
| (verb) lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord | - |
| (verb) educate for a future role or function | Synonyms: groom, train |
| pressure | (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, hale, squeeze |
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| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, blackmail |
| procure | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, pimp |
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| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: secure |
| puncture | (verb) cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing | - |
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| (verb) be pierced or punctured | - |
| (verb) reduce or lessen the size or importance of | Synonyms: deflate |
| (verb) pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into | - |
| (verb) make by piercing | - |
| reassure | (verb) give reassurance to; give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain | - |
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| recapture | (verb) capture again | Synonyms: retake |
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| (verb) take up anew | - |
| (verb) experience anew | - |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: retake |
| reconnoitre | (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoiter, scout |
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| refracture | (verb) break (a bone) that was previously broken but mended in an abnormal way | - |
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| reinsure | (verb) insure again by transferring to another insurance company all or a part of a liability assumed | - |
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| (verb) insure again by assuming all or a part of the liability of an insurance company already covering a risk | - |
| (verb) provide additional insurance for | - |
| require | (verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: command |
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| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, expect |
| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: need, want |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take |
| respire | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: breathe, suspire, take a breath |
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| (verb) undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide | - |
| (verb) breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety | - |
| restore | (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: regenerate, rejuvenate |
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| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, touch on |
| (verb) give or bring back | Synonyms: restitute |
| (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reestablish, reinstate |
| (verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: reconstruct |
| restructure | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: reconstitute |
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| retire | (verb) prepare for sleep | Synonyms: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, sack out, turn in |
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| (verb) cause to get out | Synonyms: strike out |
| (verb) cause to be out on a fielding play | Synonyms: put out |
| (verb) lose interest | Synonyms: withdraw |
| (verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retreat, withdraw |
| (verb) dispose of (something no longer useful or needed) | - |
| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: adjourn, withdraw |
| (verb) go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position | - |
| (verb) withdraw from active participation | Synonyms: withdraw |
| (verb) make (someone) retire | - |
| (verb) withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds | - |
| revere | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, reverence, venerate |
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| (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, idolize, worship |
| rewire | (verb) provide with new wiring | - |
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| rupture | (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, snap, tear |
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| sabre | (verb) kill with a saber | Synonyms: saber |
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| (verb) cut or injure with a saber | Synonyms: saber |
| scare | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, frighten |
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| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare away, scare off |
| score | (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: grade, mark |
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| (verb) make underscoring marks | Synonyms: mark |
| (verb) gain points in a game | Synonyms: rack up, tally |
| (verb) get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance | - |
| (verb) make small marks into the surface of | Synonyms: mark, nock |
| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: make, seduce |
| (verb) write a musical score for | - |
| sculpture | (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpt |
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| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpt |
| secure | (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, ensure, guarantee, insure |
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| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fasten, fix |
| (verb) fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug | Synonyms: plug, stop up |
| (verb) furnish with battens | Synonyms: batten, batten down |
| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: procure |
| (verb) assure payment of | - |
| semaphore | (verb) convey by semaphore, of information | - |
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| (verb) send signals by or as if by semaphore | - |
| share | (verb) communicate | - |
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| (verb) give out as one's portion or share | Synonyms: apportion, deal, divvy up, portion out |
| (verb) have, give, or receive a share of | Synonyms: partake, partake in |
| (verb) use jointly or in common | - |
| (verb) have in common | - |
| shore | (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop, prop up, shore up |
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| (verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: land, set ashore |
| (verb) serve as a shore to | - |
| sire | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother |
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| snare | (verb) entice and trap | Synonyms: hook |
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| (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, trammel, trap |
| snore | (verb) breathe noisily during one's sleep | Synonyms: saw logs, saw wood |
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| spare | (verb) use frugally or carefully | - |
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| (verb) give up what is not strictly needed | Synonyms: dispense with, give up, part with |
| (verb) refrain from harming | Synonyms: save |
| (verb) save or relieve from an experience or action | - |
| square | (verb) make square | Synonyms: square up |
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| (verb) raise to the second power | - |
| (verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: feather |
| (verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: feather |
| (verb) position so as to be square | - |
| (verb) pay someone and settle a debt | - |
| (verb) be compatible with | - |
| (verb) cause to match, as of ideas or acts | - |
| squire | (verb) attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire | - |
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| stare | (verb) fixate one's eyes | - |
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| (verb) look at with fixed eyes | Synonyms: gaze |
| store | (verb) keep or lay aside for future use | Synonyms: hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away |
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| (verb) find a place for and put away for storage | - |
| structure | (verb) give a structure to | - |
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| suspire | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: breathe, respire, take a breath |
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| (verb) heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily | Synonyms: sigh |
| suture | (verb) join with a suture | - |
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| tenure | (verb) give life-time employment to | - |
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| tincture | (verb) stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color | - |
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| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, instill |
| tire | (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, jade, pall, weary |
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| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| (verb) cause to be bored | Synonyms: bore |
| (verb) deplete | Synonyms: exhaust, play out, run down, sap |
| tonsure | (verb) shave the head of a newly inducted monk | - |
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| torture | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torment |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torment |
| transfigure | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: metamorphose, transmogrify |
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| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: glorify, spiritualize |
| transpire | (verb) give off (water) through the skin | - |
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| (verb) come to light; become known | - |
| (verb) exude water vapor | - |
| (verb) come about, happen, or occur | - |
| (verb) pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas | Synonyms: transpirate |
| treasure | (verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, cherish, hold dear |
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| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, prize, value |
| umpire | (verb) be a referee or umpire in a sports competition | Synonyms: referee |
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| underscore | (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, emphasize, underline |
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| (verb) draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to | Synonyms: underline |
| unwire | (verb) undo the wiring of | - |
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| venture | (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, pretend |
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| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, jeopardize, stake |
| (verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: embark |
| vesture | (verb) provide or cover with a cloak | - |
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| ware | (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, squander, waste |
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| whore | (verb) compromise oneself for money or other gains | - |
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| (verb) have unlawful sex with a whore | - |
| (verb) work as a prostitute | - |
| wire | (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: electrify |
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| (verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: cable, telegraph |
| (verb) fasten with wire | - |
| (verb) string on a wire | - |
| (verb) provide with electrical circuits | - |