| abduct
|
(verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom |
Synonyms:
nobble,
kidnap,
snatch |
|---|
| (verb) pull away from the body |
- |
| abet
|
(verb) assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing |
- |
|---|
| abort
|
(verb) terminate before completion |
- |
|---|
| (verb) cease development, die, and be aborted |
- |
| (verb) terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion |
- |
| abreact
|
(verb) discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization |
- |
|---|
| absent
|
(verb) stay away or leave |
Synonyms:
remove |
|---|
| abstract
|
(verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically |
- |
|---|
| (verb) make off with belongings of others |
Synonyms:
sneak,
lift,
hook,
nobble,
pilfer,
pinch,
purloin,
snarf,
swipe,
cabbage,
filch |
| (verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance |
- |
| (verb) give an abstract (of) |
- |
| abut
|
(verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary |
Synonyms:
march,
edge,
border,
adjoin,
butt,
butt against,
butt on |
|---|
| accent
|
(verb) to stress, single out as important |
Synonyms:
punctuate,
stress,
emphasise,
emphasize,
accentuate |
|---|
| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent |
Synonyms:
stress,
accentuate |
| accept
|
(verb) consider or hold as true |
- |
|---|
| (verb) receive willingly something given or offered |
Synonyms:
take,
have |
| (verb) give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to |
Synonyms:
go for,
consent |
| (verb) react favorably to; consider right and proper |
- |
| (verb) admit into a group or community |
Synonyms:
take,
take on,
admit |
| (verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person |
Synonyms:
assume,
bear,
take over |
| (verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to |
Synonyms:
swallow,
live with |
| (verb) be designed to hold or take |
Synonyms:
take |
| (verb) receive (a report) officially, as from a committee |
- |
| (verb) make use of or accept for some purpose |
Synonyms:
take |
| (verb) be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal |
- |
| accost
|
(verb) speak to someone |
Synonyms:
address,
come up to |
|---|
| (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors |
Synonyms:
hook,
solicit |
| account
|
(verb) be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something |
- |
|---|
| (verb) keep an account of |
Synonyms:
calculate |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words |
Synonyms:
describe,
report |
| (verb) furnish a justifying analysis or explanation |
Synonyms:
answer for |
| accredit
|
(verb) grant credentials to |
Synonyms:
recognise,
recognize |
|---|
| (verb) provide or send (envoys or ambassadors) with official credentials |
- |
| (verb) ascribe an achievement to |
Synonyms:
credit |
| acquaint
|
(verb) cause to come to know personally |
Synonyms:
introduce,
present |
|---|
| (verb) make familiar or conversant with |
Synonyms:
familiarise,
familiarize |
| (verb) inform |
- |
| acquit
|
(verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges |
Synonyms:
clear,
discharge,
exculpate,
exonerate,
assoil |
|---|
| (verb) behave in a certain manner |
Synonyms:
carry,
bear,
conduct,
deport,
comport,
behave |
| act
|
(verb) perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) |
Synonyms:
move |
|---|
| (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself |
Synonyms:
do,
behave |
| (verb) play a role or part |
Synonyms:
play,
represent |
| (verb) discharge one's duties |
- |
| (verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind |
Synonyms:
play,
act as |
| (verb) be suitable for theatrical performance |
- |
| (verb) have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected |
Synonyms:
work |
| (verb) be engaged in an activity, often for no particular purpose other than pleasure |
- |
| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly |
Synonyms:
pretend,
dissemble |
| (verb) perform on a stage or theater |
Synonyms:
play,
roleplay,
playact |
| adapt
|
(verb) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose |
Synonyms:
accommodate |
|---|
| (verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions |
Synonyms:
adjust,
conform |
| addict
|
(verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) |
Synonyms:
hook |
|---|
| adduct
|
(verb) draw a limb towards the body |
- |
|---|
| adjust
|
(verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard |
Synonyms:
set,
correct |
|---|
| (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight |
Synonyms:
align,
line up,
aline |
| (verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions |
Synonyms:
conform,
adapt |
| (verb) make correspondent or conformable |
- |
| (verb) decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim |
- |
| admit
|
(verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of |
Synonyms:
acknowledge |
|---|
| (verb) allow to enter; grant entry to |
Synonyms:
intromit,
allow in,
let in |
| (verb) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of |
Synonyms:
include,
let in |
| (verb) admit into a group or community |
Synonyms:
accept,
take,
take on |
| (verb) afford possibility |
Synonyms:
allow |
| (verb) give access or entrance to |
- |
| (verb) have room for; hold without crowding |
Synonyms:
hold,
accommodate |
| (verb) serve as a means of entrance |
- |
| adopt
|
(verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans |
Synonyms:
espouse,
follow |
|---|
| (verb) take up and practice as one's own |
Synonyms:
take up,
borrow,
take over |
| (verb) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities |
Synonyms:
assume,
take on,
take over |
| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect |
Synonyms:
acquire,
assume,
take,
take on |
| (verb) take into one's family |
Synonyms:
take in |
| (verb) put into dramatic form |
Synonyms:
dramatise,
dramatize |
| (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own |
Synonyms:
embrace,
espouse,
sweep up |
| advect
|
(verb) convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid |
- |
|---|
| advert
|
(verb) give heed (to) |
Synonyms:
hang,
attend,
pay heed,
give ear |
|---|
| (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to |
Synonyms:
touch,
allude |
| (verb) make reference to |
Synonyms:
refer,
name,
bring up,
mention,
cite |
| affect
|
(verb) have an effect upon |
Synonyms:
touch,
impact,
bear on,
bear upon,
touch on |
|---|
| (verb) act physically on; have an effect upon |
- |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly |
Synonyms:
regard,
involve |
| (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive |
Synonyms:
pretend,
dissemble,
sham,
feign |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon |
Synonyms:
impress,
strike,
move |
| afflict
|
(verb) cause great unhappiness for; distress |
- |
|---|
| (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in |
Synonyms:
smite |
| afforest
|
(verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land |
Synonyms:
forest |
|---|
| affright
|
(verb) cause fear in |
Synonyms:
scare,
fright,
frighten |
|---|
| affront
|
(verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely |
Synonyms:
insult,
diss |
|---|
| airfreight
|
(verb) transport (cargo) by air |
Synonyms:
air-freight,
air-ship |
|---|
| airlift
|
(verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means |
Synonyms:
lift |
|---|
| airt
|
(verb) channel into a new direction |
Synonyms:
redirect |
|---|
| alert
|
(verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness |
Synonyms:
alarm |
|---|
| alight
|
(verb) to come to rest, settle |
Synonyms:
perch,
light |
|---|
| (verb) come down |
Synonyms:
climb down |
| aliment
|
(verb) give nourishment to |
Synonyms:
nourish,
nutrify |
|---|
| allot
|
(verb) give out |
Synonyms:
assign,
portion |
|---|
| (verb) allow to have |
Synonyms:
grant,
accord |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions |
Synonyms:
deal,
distribute,
mete out,
deal out,
dish out,
dispense,
dole out,
parcel out,
shell out,
administer,
lot |
| amount
|
(verb) be tantamount or equivalent to |
- |
|---|
| (verb) add up in number or quantity |
Synonyms:
come,
number,
total,
add up |
| (verb) to measure up to in kind or quality |
Synonyms:
come,
add up |
| animadvert
|
(verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation |
Synonyms:
opine,
sound off,
speak out,
speak up |
|---|
| (verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark |
- |
| anoint
|
(verb) choose by or as if by divine intervention |
- |
|---|
| (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing |
Synonyms:
inunct,
oil,
embrocate,
anele |
| appoint
|
(verb) create and charge with a task or function |
Synonyms:
name,
nominate,
constitute |
|---|
| (verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to |
Synonyms:
charge |
| (verb) furnish |
- |
| aquatint
|
(verb) etch in aquatint |
- |
|---|
| arrest
|
(verb) take into custody |
Synonyms:
pick up,
apprehend,
nail,
cop,
nab,
collar |
|---|
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of |
Synonyms:
check,
stop,
turn back,
hold back,
contain |
| (verb) attract and fix |
Synonyms:
get,
catch |
| (verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop |
Synonyms:
hold,
halt |
| asphalt
|
(verb) cover with tar or asphalt |
- |
|---|
| assault
|
(verb) attack someone physically or emotionally |
Synonyms:
set on,
assail,
attack |
|---|
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will |
Synonyms:
dishonor,
dishonour,
rape,
ravish,
outrage,
violate |
| (verb) attack in speech or writing |
Synonyms:
round,
snipe,
assail,
attack,
lash out |
| assent
|
(verb) to agree or express agreement |
Synonyms:
accede,
acquiesce |
|---|
| assert
|
(verb) state categorically |
Synonyms:
maintain,
asseverate |
|---|
| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true |
Synonyms:
swear,
verify,
affirm,
swan,
aver,
avow |
| (verb) insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized |
Synonyms:
put forward |
| (verb) postulate positively and assertively |
Synonyms:
insist |
| assist
|
(verb) give help or assistance; be of service |
Synonyms:
help,
aid |
|---|
| (verb) act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function |
- |
| (verb) work for, or be a servant to |
Synonyms:
attend to,
serve,
wait on,
attend |
| assort
|
(verb) keep company with; hang out with |
Synonyms:
associate,
consort,
affiliate |
|---|
| (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories |
Synonyms:
separate,
sort,
sort out,
class,
classify |
| attaint
|
(verb) bring shame or dishonor upon |
Synonyms:
shame,
dishonor,
dishonour,
disgrace |
|---|
| (verb) condemn by attainder |
- |
| attempt
|
(verb) make an effort or attempt |
Synonyms:
assay,
seek,
essay,
try |
|---|
| (verb) enter upon an activity or enterprise |
Synonyms:
undertake,
set about |
| attest
|
(verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes |
Synonyms:
demonstrate,
certify,
manifest,
evidence |
|---|
| (verb) authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity |
- |
| (verb) give testimony in a court of law |
Synonyms:
bear witness,
take the stand,
testify |
| (verb) establish or verify the usage of |
- |
| attract
|
(verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes |
Synonyms:
draw,
draw in,
pull,
pull in |
|---|
| (verb) be attractive to |
Synonyms:
appeal |
| (verb) exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away |
- |
| audit
|
(verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification |
Synonyms:
inspect,
scrutinise,
scrutinize |
|---|
| (verb) attend academic courses without getting credit |
- |
| augment
|
(verb) enlarge or increase |
- |
|---|
| (verb) grow or intensify |
- |
| avert
|
(verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off |
Synonyms:
deflect,
ward off,
head off,
debar,
obviate,
stave off,
avoid,
fend off,
forefend,
forfend |
|---|
| (verb) turn away or aside |
Synonyms:
turn away |
| await
|
(verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of |
Synonyms:
expect,
wait,
look |
|---|
| babbitt
|
(verb) line with a Babbitt metal |
- |
|---|
| babysit
|
(verb) take watchful responsibility for |
Synonyms:
baby-sit |
|---|
| (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter |
Synonyms:
sit,
baby-sit |
| bait
|
(verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping |
Synonyms:
ride,
rally,
rag,
tease,
razz,
cod,
tantalise,
tantalize,
taunt,
twit |
|---|
| (verb) lure, entice, or entrap with bait |
- |
| (verb) attack with dogs or set dogs upon |
- |
| ballast
|
(verb) make steady with a ballast |
- |
|---|
| ballot
|
(verb) vote by ballot |
- |
|---|
| bankrupt
|
(verb) reduce to bankruptcy |
Synonyms:
break,
smash,
ruin |
|---|
| banquet
|
(verb) provide a feast or banquet for |
Synonyms:
junket,
feast |
|---|
| (verb) partake in a feast or banquet |
Synonyms:
junket,
feast |
| basset
|
(verb) appear at the surface |
Synonyms:
crop out |
|---|
| bat
|
(verb) strike with, or as if with a baseball bat |
- |
|---|
| (verb) wink briefly |
Synonyms:
flutter |
| (verb) have a turn at bat |
- |
| (verb) use a bat |
- |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight |
Synonyms:
lick,
thrash,
cream,
drub,
clobber |
| bayonet
|
(verb) stab or kill someone with a bayonet |
- |
|---|
| beat
|
(verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict |
Synonyms:
beat out,
shell,
vanquish,
crush,
trounce |
|---|
| (verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression |
Synonyms:
work over,
beat up |
| (verb) hit repeatedly |
- |
| (verb) move rhythmically |
Synonyms:
pound,
thump |
| (verb) shape by beating |
- |
| (verb) make a rhythmic sound |
Synonyms:
drum,
thrum |
| (verb) glare or strike with great intensity |
- |
| (verb) move with a thrashing motion |
Synonyms:
flap |
| (verb) sail with much tacking or with difficulty |
- |
| (verb) stir vigorously |
Synonyms:
scramble |
| (verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music |
- |
| (verb) be superior |
- |
| (verb) avoid paying |
Synonyms:
bunk |
| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer |
Synonyms:
tick,
ticktack,
ticktock |
| (verb) move with a flapping motion |
Synonyms:
flap |
| (verb) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks |
- |
| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion |
Synonyms:
pulsate,
quiver |
| (verb) make by pounding or trampling |
- |
| (verb) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly |
- |
| (verb) strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting |
- |
| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit |
Synonyms:
outfox,
outsmart,
outwit,
overreach,
circumvent |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to |
Synonyms:
nonplus,
mystify,
dumbfound,
perplex,
pose,
puzzle,
get,
gravel,
stick,
stupefy,
vex,
amaze,
baffle,
bewilder,
flummox |
| (verb) wear out completely |
Synonyms:
wash up,
exhaust,
tucker,
tucker out |
| bedight
|
(verb) decorate |
Synonyms:
deck,
bedeck |
|---|
| befit
|
(verb) accord or comport with |
Synonyms:
suit,
beseem |
|---|
| beget
|
(verb) make (offspring) by reproduction |
Synonyms:
get,
mother,
generate,
engender,
sire,
bring forth,
father |
|---|
| belt
|
(verb) sing loudly and forcefully |
Synonyms:
belt out |
|---|
| (verb) deliver a blow to |
- |
| (verb) fasten with a belt |
- |
| benefact
|
(verb) help as a benefactor |
- |
|---|
| benefit
|
(verb) derive a benefit from |
Synonyms:
gain,
profit |
|---|
| (verb) be beneficial for |
Synonyms:
do good |
| benight
|
(verb) overtake with darkness or night |
- |
|---|
| (verb) envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness |
- |
| (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight |
Synonyms:
bedim |
| beset
|
(verb) annoy continually or chronically |
Synonyms:
harass,
molest,
harry,
hassle,
plague,
provoke,
chevvy,
chevy,
chivvy,
chivy |
|---|
| (verb) assail or attack on all sides: |
Synonyms:
set upon |
| (verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) |
Synonyms:
incrust,
encrust |
| besot
|
(verb) make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation |
Synonyms:
stupefy |
|---|
| bespot
|
(verb) mark with, or as if with, spots |
- |
|---|
| best
|
(verb) get the better of |
Synonyms:
outflank,
outdo,
scoop,
trump |
|---|
| bet
|
(verb) maintain with or as if with a bet |
Synonyms:
wager |
|---|
| (verb) stake on the outcome of an issue |
Synonyms:
play,
wager |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in |
Synonyms:
reckon,
rely,
depend,
swear,
calculate,
count,
bank,
look |
| bight
|
(verb) fasten with a bight |
- |
|---|
| billet
|
(verb) provide housing for (military personnel) |
Synonyms:
quarter,
canton |
|---|
| birdnest
|
(verb) gather birdnests |
Synonyms:
bird-nest |
|---|
| bisect
|
(verb) cut in half or cut in two |
- |
|---|
| bitt
|
(verb) secure with a bitt |
- |
|---|
| blacklist
|
(verb) put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted |
- |
|---|
| blanket
|
(verb) cover as if with a blanket |
- |
|---|
| (verb) form a blanket-like cover (over) |
- |
| blast
|
(verb) make a strident sound |
Synonyms:
blare |
|---|
| (verb) hit with great force |
Synonyms:
smash,
nail,
boom |
| (verb) use explosives on |
Synonyms:
shell |
| (verb) apply a draft or strong wind to to |
- |
| (verb) create by using explosives |
Synonyms:
shell |
| (verb) make with or as if with an explosion |
- |
| (verb) fire a shot; release |
Synonyms:
shoot |
| (verb) criticize harshly or violently |
Synonyms:
savage,
pillory,
crucify |
| (verb) shatter as if by explosion |
Synonyms:
knock down |
| (verb) shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly |
- |
| blat
|
(verb) cry plaintively |
Synonyms:
baa,
blate,
bleat |
|---|
| bleat
|
(verb) talk whiningly |
- |
|---|
| (verb) cry plaintively |
Synonyms:
baa,
blat,
blate |
| blight
|
(verb) cause to suffer a blight |
Synonyms:
plague |
|---|
| bloat
|
(verb) become bloated or swollen or puff up |
- |
|---|
| (verb) make bloated or swollen |
- |
| blot
|
(verb) dry (ink) with blotting paper |
- |
|---|
| (verb) make a spot or mark onto |
Synonyms:
spot,
blob,
fleck |
| blueprint
|
(verb) make a blueprint of |
Synonyms:
draft,
draught |
|---|
| blunt
|
(verb) make less intense |
- |
|---|
| (verb) make numb or insensitive |
Synonyms:
dull,
numb,
benumb |
| (verb) make dull or blunt |
Synonyms:
dull |
| (verb) make less sharp |
- |
| (verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation |
Synonyms:
deaden |
| blurt
|
(verb) utter impulsively |
Synonyms:
blunder,
ejaculate,
blunder out,
blurt out |
|---|
| boast
|
(verb) show off |
Synonyms:
swash,
blow,
gas,
gasconade,
shoot a line,
vaunt,
bluster,
brag,
tout |
|---|
| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner |
Synonyms:
sport,
feature |
| boat
|
(verb) ride in a boat on water |
- |
|---|
| bodypaint
|
(verb) apply paint to a body |
- |
|---|
| bolt
|
(verb) move or jump suddenly |
- |
|---|
| (verb) secure or lock with a bolt |
- |
| (verb) swallow hastily |
- |
| (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along |
Synonyms:
run off,
make off,
decamp,
go off,
abscond,
absquatulate |
| (verb) leave suddenly and as if in a hurry |
Synonyms:
run off,
run out,
beetle off,
bolt out |
| (verb) eat hastily without proper chewing |
Synonyms:
gobble |
| (verb) make or roll into bolts |
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| bonnet
|
(verb) dress in a bonnet |
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| boost
|
(verb) increase |
Synonyms:
hike,
hike up |
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| (verb) give a boost to; be beneficial to |
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| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of |
Synonyms:
advance,
promote,
encourage,
further |
| (verb) increase or raise |
Synonyms:
advance,
supercharge |
| (verb) push or shove upward, as if from below or behind |
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