| demythologise | (verb) remove the mythical element from (writings) | Synonyms: demythologize |
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| denationalise | (verb) put under private control or ownership | Synonyms: denationalize |
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| denaturalise | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalize |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalize |
| deodorise | (verb) eliminate the odor from | Synonyms: deodorize, deodourise |
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| deodourise | (verb) eliminate the odor from | Synonyms: deodorise, deodorize |
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| deoxidise | (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidize, reduce |
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| depersonalise | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalize, objectify |
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| depolarise | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarize |
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| depose | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depone, swear |
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| (verb) force to leave (an office) | Synonyms: force out |
| depressurise | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurize |
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| deputise | (verb) appoint as a substitute | Synonyms: depute, deputize |
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| (verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputize, step in, substitute |
| derecognise | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: decertify, derecognize |
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| desalinise | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinate, desalinize, desalt |
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| desensitise | (verb) make insensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
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| (verb) cause not to be sensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
| desexualise | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
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| (verb) direct one's libidinous urges into another direction | Synonyms: desexualize |
| despise | (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, disdain, scorn |
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| destabilise | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
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| (verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
| destalinise | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinize |
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| desynchronise | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronize |
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| detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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| detribalise | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalize |
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| devilise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilize, diabolise, diabolize |
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| devise | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare |
| (verb) give by will, especially real property | - |
| devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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| diabolise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolize |
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| diagnose | (verb) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis | Synonyms: name |
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| (verb) subject to a medical analysis | - |
| diagonalise | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalize |
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| dialyse | (verb) separate by dialysis | Synonyms: dialyze |
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| dichotomise | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomize |
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| diffuse | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: fan out, spread, spread out |
| digitalise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalize, digitise, digitize |
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| digitise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitalize, digitize |
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| diphthongise | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongize |
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| disabuse | (verb) free somebody (from an erroneous belief) | - |
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| disburse | (verb) expend, as from a fund | Synonyms: pay out |
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| discase | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| disclose | (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, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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| (verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: expose, uncover |
| discolorise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorize, discolourise |
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| discolourise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize |
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| discompose | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, disconcert, untune, upset |
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| discourse | (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: dissertate, hold forth |
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| (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: converse |
| (verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing | Synonyms: discuss, talk about |
| disenfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disfranchise |
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| disfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disenfranchise |
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| disguise | (verb) make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mask |
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| disorganise | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganize |
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| dispense | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: administer |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) grant a dispensation; grant an exemption | - |
| disperse | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, scatter |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) separate (light) into spectral rays | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: dissipate, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, dissipate, scatter |
| displease | (verb) give displeasure to | - |
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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 | - |
| dogmatise | (verb) state as a dogma | Synonyms: dogmatize |
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| (verb) speak dogmatically | Synonyms: dogmatize |
| domesticise | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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| dose | (verb) administer a drug to | Synonyms: drug |
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| (verb) treat with an agent; add (an agent) to | - |
| douse | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) slacken | Synonyms: dowse |
| (verb) lower quickly | - |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, dunk, plunge, souse |
| (verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: dip, duck |
| (verb) wet thoroughly | Synonyms: dowse |
| (verb) put out, as of a candle or a light | Synonyms: put out |
| dowse | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, drench, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) slacken | Synonyms: douse |
| (verb) use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal | - |
| (verb) wet thoroughly | Synonyms: douse |
| dramatise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| (verb) represent something in a dramatic manner | Synonyms: dramatize |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: adopt, dramatize |
| drowse | (verb) be on the verge of sleeping | - |
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| (verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: doze, snooze |
| dynamise | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamize |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamize |
| ease | (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: comfort |
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| (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, facilitate |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, relieve, still |
| (verb) move gently or carefully | - |
| ebonise | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonize |
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| eclipse | (verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: occult |
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| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, overshadow |
| economise | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economize, husband |
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| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economize, save |
| editorialise | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialize |
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| effeminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effuse | (verb) give out or emit (also metaphorically) | - |
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| (verb) flow or spill forth | Synonyms: flow out |
| (verb) pour out liberally | Synonyms: pour out |
| elapse | (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
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| elegise | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegize |
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| empathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| emphasise | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasize, underline, underscore |
| encase | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: case, incase |
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| enclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, inclose, shut in |
| (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap |
| (verb) close in | Synonyms: confine, hold in |
| endorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: indorse |
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| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, indorse |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, indorse, second |
| energise | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energize, excite |
| enfranchise | (verb) grant voting rights | - |
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| (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: affranchise |
| enthuse | (verb) utter with enthusiasm | - |
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| (verb) cause to feel enthusiasm | - |
| epitomise | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomize, typify |
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| equalise | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalize, equate, match |
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| (verb) compensate; make the score equal | Synonyms: equalize, get even |
| equilibrise | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize |
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| erase | (verb) remove from memory or existence | Synonyms: wipe out |
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| (verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information | Synonyms: delete |
| (verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing | Synonyms: efface, rub out, score out, wipe off |
| espouse | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, embrace, sweep up |
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| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, follow |
| (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed |
| eternalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| etherialise | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherealize |
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| etherise | (verb) anesthetize with ether | Synonyms: etherize |
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| etymologise | (verb) construct the history of words | Synonyms: etymologize |
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| (verb) give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) | Synonyms: etymologize |
| eulogise | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogize |
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| euphemise | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemize |
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| euthanatise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatize, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| evangelise | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelize |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelize |
| excise | (verb) remove by cutting | - |
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| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: expunge, scratch, strike |
| (verb) levy an excise tax on | - |
| excuse | (verb) accept an excuse for | Synonyms: pardon |
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| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, apologize, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with | Synonyms: condone |
| (verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: explain |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: exempt, let off, relieve |
| (verb) ask for permission to be released from an engagement | Synonyms: beg off |
| exercise | (verb) do physical exercise | Synonyms: work out |
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| (verb) give a workout to | Synonyms: work, work out |
| (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, practice, practise |
| (verb) put to use | Synonyms: exert |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, practice, practise |
| exorcise | (verb) expel through adjuration or prayers | Synonyms: exorcize |
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| expense | (verb) reduce the estimated value of something | Synonyms: write down, write off |
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| 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 |
| extemporise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporize, improvise, improvize |
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| exteriorise | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorize, externalise, externalize, objectify |
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| externalise | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalize, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalize, project |
| factorise | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorize |
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| familiarise | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarize |
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