| carouse | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: riot, roister |
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| case | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: encase, incase |
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| (verb) look over, usually with the intention to rob | - |
| catabolise | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolize |
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| catalyse | (verb) change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | Synonyms: catalyze |
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| catechise | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechize |
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| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechize |
| categorise | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorize |
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| catheterise | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterize |
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| catholicise | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicize, latinise, latinize |
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| cause | (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: get, have, induce, make, stimulate |
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| (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: do, make |
| cauterise | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterize |
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| (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterize |
| cease | (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
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| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: end, finish, stop, terminate |
| cense | (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: incense, thurify |
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| centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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| channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
| chase | (verb) cut a groove into | - |
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| (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chamfer, furrow |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail |
| (verb) pursue someone sexually or romantically | Synonyms: chase after |
| chasse | (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: sashay |
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| chastise | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, correct, objurgate |
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| cheese | (verb) wind onto a cheese | - |
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| (verb) used in the imperative (get away, or stop it) | - |
| choose | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: pick out, select, take |
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| (verb) see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way | - |
| (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: opt, prefer |
| chouse | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, jockey, screw, shaft |
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| chronologise | (verb) establish the order in time of something | Synonyms: chronologize |
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| cicatrise | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrize |
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| cinematise | (verb) make a film of or adopt so as to make into a film | Synonyms: cinematize |
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| circularise | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularize |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularize |
| circumcise | (verb) cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys | - |
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| (verb) cut the skin over the clitoris | - |
| circumfuse | (verb) spread something around something | - |
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| civilise | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilize |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| classicise | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicize |
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| cleanse | (verb) clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing | Synonyms: clean |
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| (verb) purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins | - |
| close | (verb) finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead | - |
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| (verb) complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement | - |
| (verb) move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut | Synonyms: shut |
| (verb) become closed | Synonyms: shut |
| (verb) bar access to | - |
| (verb) fill or stop up | Synonyms: fill up |
| (verb) bring together all the elements or parts of | - |
| (verb) unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of | Synonyms: close up |
| (verb) change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact | - |
| (verb) come together, as if in an embrace | Synonyms: come together |
| (verb) draw near | - |
| (verb) cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop | - |
| (verb) cease to operate or cause to cease operating | Synonyms: close down, close up, fold, shut down |
| (verb) finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.) | - |
| (verb) engage at close quarters | - |
| (verb) come to a close | Synonyms: conclude |
| (verb) be priced or listed when trading stops | - |
| cocainise | (verb) anesthetize with cocaine | Synonyms: cocainize |
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| cognise | (verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognize, know |
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| collapse | (verb) collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack | Synonyms: break down |
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| (verb) lose significance, effectiveness, or value | - |
| (verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, crack, crack up, crock up |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, fall in, founder, give, give way |
| (verb) fold or close up | - |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, crumble, crumple, tumble |
| (verb) cause to burst | Synonyms: burst |
| collectivise | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivize |
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| colonise | (verb) settle as colonists or establish a colony (in) | Synonyms: colonize |
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| (verb) settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world | Synonyms: colonize |
| colorise | (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize |
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| colourise | (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourize |
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| commercialise | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialize, market |
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| communalise | (verb) make something the property of the commune or community | Synonyms: communalize |
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| communise | (verb) make into property owned by the state | Synonyms: communize |
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| (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, bolshevize, communize |
| compartmentalise | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalize, cut up |
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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 | - |
| comprise | (verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: contain, incorporate |
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| (verb) be composed of | Synonyms: consist |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, constitute, make up, represent |
| compromise | (verb) settle by concession | - |
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| (verb) make a compromise; arrive at a compromise | - |
| (verb) expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute | - |
| computerise | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerize, cybernate |
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| (verb) store in a computer | Synonyms: computerize |
| (verb) provide with computers | Synonyms: computerize |
| conceptualise | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualize, gestate |
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| concertise | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertize |
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| concretise | (verb) become specific | Synonyms: concretize |
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| condense | (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, digest |
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| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: distil, distill |
| (verb) cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid | - |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, contract |
| (verb) remove water from | - |
| (verb) become more compact or concentrated | - |
| (verb) develop due to condensation | - |
| confuse | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, obnubilate, obscure |
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| (verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confound |
| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
| (verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: jumble, mix up |
| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: disconcert, flurry, put off |
| constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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| containerise | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerize |
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| contemporise | (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
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| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
| contredanse | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance |
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| contuse | (verb) injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of | Synonyms: bruise |
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| conventionalise | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalize |
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| converse | (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: discourse |
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| convulse | (verb) be overcome with laughter | - |
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| (verb) make someone convulse with laughter | - |
| (verb) contract involuntarily, as in a spasm | - |
| (verb) cause to contract | - |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) shake uncontrollably | - |
| copolymerise | (verb) polymerize together | Synonyms: copolymerize |
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| counterpoise | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpose, counterweight |
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| counterpose | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterweight |
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| course | (verb) hunt with hounds | - |
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| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: feed, flow, run |
| (verb) move swiftly through or over | - |
| crease | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: furrow, wrinkle |
| (verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: graze, rake |
| criminalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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| criticise | (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticize, knock, pick apart |
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| (verb) act as a critic | Synonyms: criticize |
| cruise | (verb) sail or travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing | - |
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| (verb) travel at a moderate speed | - |
| (verb) drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure | - |
| (verb) look for a sexual partner in a public place | - |
| crystalise | (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallize, effloresce |
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| (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallise, crystallize |
| (verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallise, crystallize |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| crystallise | (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
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| (verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| curse | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, cuss, imprecate, swear |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict |
| (verb) heap obscenities upon | - |
| (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: excommunicate, unchurch |
| customise | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customize |
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| (verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customize, tailor-make |
| debase | (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: alloy |
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| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, dilute, load, stretch |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| decarbonise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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| decarburise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburize, decoke |
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| decease | (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, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
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| decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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| decimalise | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalize |
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| (verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalize |
| decolonise | (verb) grant independence to (a former colony) | Synonyms: decolonize |
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| decolorise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolourise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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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 |
| decrease | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: diminish, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: lessen, minify |
| decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| defeminise | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminize |
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| defuse | (verb) remove the triggering device from | - |
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| deglycerolise | (verb) remove from glycerol | Synonyms: deglycerolize |
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| degrease | (verb) remove grease or oil from (a pan) | - |
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| dehumanise | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanize |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanize |
| delouse | (verb) free of lice | - |
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| demagnetise | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: degauss, demagnetize |
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| (verb) erase (a magnetic storage device) | Synonyms: demagnetize |
| demasculinise | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| dematerialise | (verb) become immaterial; disappear | Synonyms: dematerialize |
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| demilitarise | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarize |
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| (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarize, disarm |
| demineralise | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralize |
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| demise | (verb) transfer by a lease or by a will | - |
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| demobilise | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilize |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilize, inactivate |
| democratise | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
| demonetise | (verb) deprive of value for payment | Synonyms: demonetize |
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| demonise | (verb) make into a demon | Synonyms: demonize |
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| demoralise | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |