access | (verb) reach or gain access to | Synonyms: get at |
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(verb) obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer | - |
address | (verb) adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting | - |
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(verb) speak to | Synonyms: turn to |
(verb) speak to someone | Synonyms: accost, come up to |
(verb) give a speech to | Synonyms: speak |
(verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: direct |
(verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: cover, deal, handle, plow, treat |
(verb) direct a question at someone | - |
(verb) address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question | - |
(verb) access or locate by address | - |
(verb) greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name | Synonyms: call |
aggress | (verb) take the initiative and go on the offensive | Synonyms: attack |
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amass | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
assess | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, evaluate, measure, valuate, value |
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(verb) estimate the value of (property) for taxation | - |
(verb) set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine) | Synonyms: tax |
(verb) charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine | - |
backcross | (verb) mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents | - |
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bias | (verb) cause to be biased | Synonyms: predetermine |
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(verb) influence in an unfair way | - |
bless | (verb) give a benediction to | - |
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(verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: consecrate, hallow, sanctify |
(verb) make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate | Synonyms: sign |
(verb) confer prosperity or happiness on | - |
bollocks | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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boss | (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: emboss, stamp |
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bus | (verb) remove used dishes from the table in restaurants | - |
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(verb) ride in a bus | - |
(verb) send or move around by bus | - |
buss | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: kiss, osculate, snog |
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buttress | (verb) make stronger or defensible | - |
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(verb) reinforce with a buttress | - |
bypass | (verb) avoid something unpleasant or laborious | Synonyms: get around, go around, short-circuit |
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callous | (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
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callus | (verb) form a callus or calluses | - |
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(verb) cause a callus to form on | - |
canvas | (verb) cover with canvas | - |
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canvass | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, examine, study |
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(verb) solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign | - |
(verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: poll |
caress | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: fondle |
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caucus | (verb) meet to select a candidate or promote a policy | - |
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census | (verb) conduct a census | - |
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chorus | (verb) utter in unison | - |
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(verb) sing in a choir | Synonyms: choir |
class | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, classify, separate, sort, sort out |
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compass | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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(verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: circumnavigate |
(verb) bring about; accomplish | - |
compress | (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
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(verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compact, pack together |
concuss | (verb) injure the brain; sustain a concussion | - |
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(verb) shake violently | - |
confess | (verb) confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure | Synonyms: fink, squeal |
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(verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: concede, profess |
(verb) confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith | - |
crisscross | (verb) mark with a pattern of crossing lines | - |
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(verb) mark with or consist of a pattern of crossed lines | - |
(verb) cross in a pattern, often random | - |
cross | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed |
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(verb) trace a line through or across | - |
(verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse |
(verb) meet and pass | - |
(verb) meet at a point | Synonyms: intersect |
(verb) fold so as to resemble a cross | - |
(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
(verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: span, sweep, traverse |
cuss | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, imprecate, swear |
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decompress | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind |
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(verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: depressurise, depressurize |
(verb) restore to its uncompressed form | Synonyms: uncompress |
degas | (verb) remove gas from | - |
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degauss | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: demagnetise, demagnetize |
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depress | (verb) lessen the activity or force of | - |
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(verb) press down | Synonyms: press down |
(verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: lower |
(verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, dismay, dispirit, get down |
(verb) lower (prices or markets) | - |
destress | (verb) reduce the emphasis | Synonyms: de-emphasise, de-emphasize |
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digress | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: divagate, stray, wander |
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(verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, sidetrack, straggle |
discuss | (verb) speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion | Synonyms: hash out, talk over |
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(verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing | Synonyms: discourse, talk about |
disembarrass | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: free, rid |
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dismiss | (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dissolve |
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(verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, disregard, ignore, push aside |
(verb) end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave | Synonyms: usher out |
(verb) cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration | Synonyms: throw out |
(verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
(verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: drop, send away, send packing |
dispossess | (verb) deprive of the possession of real estate | - |
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diss | (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: affront, insult |
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distress | (verb) cause mental pain to | - |
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(verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: straiten |
doss | (verb) sleep in a convenient place | Synonyms: crash, doss down |
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dress | (verb) put on clothes | Synonyms: get dressed |
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(verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
(verb) apply a bandage or medication to | - |
(verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, set |
(verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: plume, preen, primp |
(verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: curry, groom |
(verb) dress in a certain manner | Synonyms: dress up |
(verb) kill and prepare for market or consumption | Synonyms: dress out |
(verb) convert into leather | - |
(verb) put a dressing on | - |
(verb) put a finish on | - |
(verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, lop, prune, snip, trim |
(verb) provide with decoration | Synonyms: decorate |
(verb) cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width | - |
(verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: garnish, trim |
(verb) arrange in ranks | Synonyms: line up |
egress | (verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, emerge, go forth, issue |
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embarrass | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: abash |
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(verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
emboss | (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: boss, stamp |
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encompass | (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, embrace |
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engross | (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engage, occupy |
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(verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
express | (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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(verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, show |
(verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, convey |
(verb) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. | Synonyms: state |
(verb) send by rapid transport or special messenger service | - |
(verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: extract, press out |
(verb) manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait) | - |
eyewitness | (verb) be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes | - |
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floss | (verb) use dental floss to clean | - |
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focus | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize |
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(verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, sharpen |
(verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, pore, rivet |
(verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focalize |
(verb) cause to converge on or toward a central point | - |
fress | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: gluttonise, gluttonize |
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fuss | (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fret, niggle |
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(verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: mother, overprotect |
gas | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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(verb) attack with gas; subject to gas fumes | - |
glass | (verb) become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance | Synonyms: glass over, glaze, glaze over |
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(verb) put in a glass container | - |
(verb) enclose with glass | Synonyms: glass in |
(verb) scan (game in the forest) with binoculars | - |
(verb) furnish with glass | Synonyms: glaze |
gloss | (verb) provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase | - |
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(verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: annotate, comment |
(verb) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for | Synonyms: color, colour |
(verb) give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing | - |
grass | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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(verb) shoot down, of birds | - |
(verb) feed with grass | - |
(verb) cover with grass | Synonyms: grass over |
(verb) spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach | - |
gross | (verb) earn before taxes, expenses, etc. | - |
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guess | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: imagine, opine, reckon, suppose, think |
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(verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, gauge, judge |
(verb) guess correctly; solve by guessing | Synonyms: infer |
(verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: hazard, pretend, venture |
harass | (verb) exhaust by attacking repeatedly | - |
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(verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
harness | (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: rein, rule |
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(verb) exploit the power of | - |
(verb) put a harness | Synonyms: tackle |
(verb) control and direct with or as if by reins | Synonyms: draw rein, rein, rein in |
hiss | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: sibilate, siss, sizz |
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(verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: sibilate, siss, sizz |
(verb) show displeasure, as after a performance or speech | Synonyms: boo |
(verb) move with a whooshing sound | Synonyms: whoosh |
impress | (verb) dye (fabric) before it is spun | Synonyms: yarn-dye |
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(verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: ingrain, instill |
(verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: imprint |
(verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: shanghai |
(verb) reproduce by printing | Synonyms: print |
(verb) impress positively | - |
(verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, move, strike |
kiss | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: buss, osculate, snog |
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(verb) touch lightly or gently | - |
mass | (verb) join together into a mass or collect or form a mass | - |
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mess | (verb) make a mess of or create disorder in | Synonyms: mess up |
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(verb) eat in a mess hall | - |
misaddress | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misdirect |
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miss | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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(verb) fail to experience | Synonyms: escape |
(verb) fail to reach | - |
(verb) feel or suffer from the lack of | - |
(verb) fail to reach or get to | - |
(verb) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: lose |
(verb) be without | Synonyms: lack |
(verb) fail to attend an event or activity | - |
(verb) be absent | - |
muss | (verb) make messy or untidy | Synonyms: tussle |
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nonplus | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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obsess | (verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue | Synonyms: ghost, haunt |
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(verb) be preoccupied with something | - |
oppress | (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: crush, suppress |
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(verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: persecute |
outclass | (verb) cause to appear in a lower class | - |
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outguess | (verb) attempt to anticipate or predict | Synonyms: second-guess |
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overdress | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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(verb) dress too warmly | Synonyms: overclothe |
overstress | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overemphasize |
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pass | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, excrete |
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(verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass off, take place |
(verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass off |
(verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
(verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, authorize, clear |
(verb) transmit information | Synonyms: communicate, pass along, pass on, put across |
(verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, run |
(verb) go across or through | - |
(verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, overtake |
(verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, sink |
(verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, slide by, slip away, slip by |
(verb) cause to pass | Synonyms: make pass |
(verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass by, surpass, travel by |
(verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass on, reach, turn over |
(verb) throw (a ball) to another player | - |
(verb) transfer to another; of rights or property | - |
(verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, return |
(verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: legislate |
(verb) go unchallenged; be approved | Synonyms: clear |
(verb) accept or judge as acceptable | - |
(verb) go successfully through a test or a selection process | Synonyms: make it |
(verb) allow to go without comment or censure | - |
(verb) use up a period of time in a specific way | Synonyms: spend |
(verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, top, transcend |
(verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, run |
percuss | (verb) strike or tap firmly | - |
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piss | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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possess | (verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: have, own |
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(verb) have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill | - |
(verb) enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas | - |
precess | (verb) move in a gyrating fashion | - |
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precis | (verb) make a summary (of) | - |
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premiss | (verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premise |
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prepossess | (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prejudice |
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(verb) cause to be preoccupied | - |
(verb) make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand | - |
(verb) possess beforehand | - |
press | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: exhort, urge, urge on |
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(verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, entreat |
(verb) lift weights | Synonyms: weight-lift, weightlift |
(verb) exert pressure or force to or upon | - |
(verb) place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure | - |
(verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, contract, squeeze |
(verb) press and smooth with a heated iron | Synonyms: iron, iron out |
(verb) make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby | Synonyms: push |
(verb) press from a plastic | Synonyms: press out |
(verb) create by pressing | - |
(verb) crowd closely | - |
(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, campaign, crusade, fight, push |
(verb) be urgent | - |
(verb) to be oppressive or burdensome | Synonyms: weigh |
process | (verb) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | Synonyms: treat |
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(verb) perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information | - |
(verb) deliver a warrant or summons to someone | Synonyms: serve, swear out |
(verb) shape, form, or improve a material | Synonyms: work, work on |
(verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, litigate, sue |
(verb) deal with in a routine way | - |
(verb) march in a procession | Synonyms: march |
profess | (verb) practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about | - |
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(verb) take vows, as in religious order | - |
(verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: concede, confess |
(verb) confess one's faith in, or allegiance to | - |
(verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: pretend |
(verb) receive into a religious order or congregation | - |
(verb) state freely | - |
progress | (verb) develop in a positive way | Synonyms: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, shape up |
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(verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build, build up, work up |
(verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | Synonyms: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on |
reassess | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reevaluate |
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recess | (verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: adjourn, break up |
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(verb) make a recess in | - |
(verb) put into a recess | - |
redress | (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, right |
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refocus | (verb) put again into focus or focus more sharply | - |
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(verb) focus anew | - |
(verb) focus once again | - |
regress | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, relapse, retrogress |
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(verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: retrograde, retrogress |
(verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: retrovert, return, revert, turn back |
(verb) go back to a statistical means | - |
rendezvous | (verb) meet at a rendezvous | - |
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repercuss | (verb) cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect | - |
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repossess | (verb) claim back | Synonyms: reclaim |
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(verb) regain possession of something | Synonyms: take back |
repress | (verb) block the action of | - |
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(verb) put out of one's consciousness | Synonyms: suppress |
(verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, smother, stifle, strangle |
(verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, reduce, subdue, subjugate |
(verb) impede or hinder the natural development or self-expression of | - |
reprocess | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: recycle, reuse |
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