administer | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: dispense |
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(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
(verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually | - |
(verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administrate |
(verb) direct the taking of | - |
beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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blister | (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
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(verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
(verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
bluster | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: swagger, swash |
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(verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
(verb) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind | - |
bolster | (verb) add padding to | Synonyms: pad |
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(verb) support and strengthen | Synonyms: bolster up |
(verb) prop up with a pillow or bolster | - |
cloister | (verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
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(verb) surround with a cloister | - |
(verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
cluster | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, clump |
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(verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, constellate, flock |
fester | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: maturate, suppurate |
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filibuster | (verb) obstruct deliberately by delaying | - |
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fluster | (verb) cause to be nervous or upset | - |
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(verb) be flustered; behave in a confused manner | - |
foster | (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: nurture |
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(verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, further |
(verb) bring up under fosterage; of children | - |
huckster | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
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(verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, higgle |
master | (verb) have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of | Synonyms: control |
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(verb) be or become completely proficient or skilled in | Synonyms: get the hang |
(verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, overcome, subdue, surmount |
(verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: dominate |
minister | (verb) work as a minister | - |
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(verb) attend to the wants and needs of others | - |
muster | (verb) call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. | - |
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(verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster up, rally, summon |
overmaster | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overpower, overwhelm |
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oyster | (verb) gather oysters, dig oysters | - |
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pester | (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, tease |
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plaster | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: poultice |
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(verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: daub |
(verb) apply a heavy coat to | Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
(verb) apply a plaster cast to | - |
(verb) affix conspicuously | - |
(verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: beplaster |
register | (verb) enter into someone's consciousness | - |
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(verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, show |
(verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: file |
(verb) send by registered mail | - |
(verb) manipulate the registers of an organ | - |
(verb) be aware of | Synonyms: record |
(verb) show in one's face | - |
(verb) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions | - |
(verb) enroll to vote | - |
(verb) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties | Synonyms: cross-file |
roister | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, riot |
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sequester | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw |
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(verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequestrate, set apart |
(verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion | - |
(verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, seize |
(verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property | - |
upholster | (verb) provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers | - |
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