| bread | (verb) cover with bread crumbs | - |
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| copyread | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, subedit |
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| dispread | (verb) spread abroad or out | - |
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| dread | (verb) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of | Synonyms: fear |
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| lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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| misread | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misinterpret |
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| (verb) read or interpret wrongly | - |
| overspread | (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: spread |
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| proofread | (verb) read for errors | Synonyms: proof |
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| read | (verb) interpret something that is written or printed | - |
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| (verb) look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed | - |
| (verb) interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior | - |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, translate, understand |
| (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, study, take |
| (verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: scan |
| (verb) to hear and understand | - |
| (verb) interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: record, register, show |
| (verb) audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role | - |
| (verb) have or contain a certain wording or form | Synonyms: say |
| reread | (verb) read anew; read again | - |
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| retread | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, remould |
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| (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, rework |
| sightread | (verb) perform music from a score without having seen the score before | Synonyms: sight-read |
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| spread | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate |
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| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: circulate, go around |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: distribute |
| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: open, spread out, unfold |
| (verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: propagate |
| (verb) cover by spreading something over | - |
| (verb) distribute over a surface in a layer | - |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: scatter, spread out |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread out |
| (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: overspread |
| thread | (verb) pass a thread through | - |
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| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, string |
| (verb) remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string | - |
| (verb) pass through or into | - |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, wander, weave, wind |
| tread | (verb) crush as if by treading on | - |
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| (verb) brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center | - |
| (verb) mate with (used of male birds) | - |
| (verb) tread or stomp heavily or roughly | Synonyms: trample |
| (verb) put down or press the foot, place the foot | Synonyms: step |
| (verb) apply (the tread) to a tire | - |