| restate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, retell |
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| restitute | (verb) restore to a previous or better condition | Synonyms: renovate |
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| (verb) give or bring back | Synonyms: restore |
| resuscitate | (verb) cause to regain consciousness | Synonyms: revive |
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| (verb) return to consciousness | Synonyms: come to, revive |
| retaliate | (verb) make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil | Synonyms: strike back |
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| (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, revenge |
| reticulate | (verb) divide so as to form a network | - |
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| (verb) distribute by a network, as of water or electricity | - |
| (verb) form a net or a network | - |
| retranslate | (verb) translate again | - |
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| reunite | (verb) have a reunion; unite again | - |
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| (verb) unify again, as of a country | Synonyms: reunify |
| reverberate | (verb) treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace | - |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, resound, ring |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves | - |
| (verb) have a long or continuing effect | - |
| rewrite | (verb) write differently; alter the writing of | - |
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| (verb) rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose | - |
| riposte | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, return |
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| (verb) make a return thrust | - |
| rotate | (verb) plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession | - |
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| (verb) perform a job or duty on a rotating basis | - |
| (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: circumvolve |
| (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, revolve |
| (verb) turn outward | Synonyms: splay, spread out, turn out |
| (verb) exchange on a regular basis | - |
| route | (verb) send via a specific route | - |
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| (verb) divert in a specified direction | - |
| (verb) send documents or materials to appropriate destinations | - |
| rubricate | (verb) sign with a mark instead of a name | - |
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| (verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: miniate |
| (verb) furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics | - |
| (verb) place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint | - |
| ruminate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) chew the cuds | - |
| rusticate | (verb) lend a rustic character to | - |
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| (verb) give (stone) a rustic look | - |
| (verb) send to the country | - |
| (verb) suspend temporarily from college or university, in England | Synonyms: send down |
| (verb) live in the country and lead a rustic life | - |
| salinate | (verb) make salty | - |
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| salivate | (verb) produce saliva | - |
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| (verb) be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something | Synonyms: drool |
| saltate | (verb) leap or skip, often in dancing | - |
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| (verb) move by saltation | - |
| salute | (verb) greet in a friendly way | - |
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| (verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers | - |
| (verb) express commendation of | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, toast, wassail |
| (verb) become noticeable | - |
| sanitate | (verb) provide with sanitary facilities or appliances | - |
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| sate | (verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: fill, replete, satiate |
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| satellite | (verb) broadcast or disseminate via satellite | - |
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| satiate | (verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: fill, replete, sate |
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| (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, scarf out, stuff |
| saturate | (verb) cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance | - |
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| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: impregnate |
| saute | (verb) fry briefly over high heat | - |
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| scintillate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |
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| (verb) fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon | - |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: twinkle, winkle |
| (verb) give off | - |
| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |
| secernate | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| secrete | (verb) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids | Synonyms: release |
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| (verb) place out of sight; keep secret | - |
| sedate | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
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| segregate | (verb) separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others | - |
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| (verb) divide from the main body or mass and collect | - |
| (verb) separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation | - |
| separate | (verb) become separated into pieces or fragments | Synonyms: break, come apart, fall apart, split up |
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| (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, ramify |
| (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, classify, sort, sort out |
| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
| (verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: divide, part |
| (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, divide, part |
| (verb) divide into components or constituents | - |
| (verb) go one's own way; move apart | Synonyms: part, split |
| (verb) make a division or separation | Synonyms: divide |
| (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: discriminate, single out |
| (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break, break up, part, split, split up |
| (verb) act as a barrier between; stand between | Synonyms: divide |
| sequestrate | (verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequester, set apart |
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| (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequester, withdraw |
| serrate | (verb) make saw-toothed or jag the edge of | - |
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| sibilate | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: hiss, siss, sizz |
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| (verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: hiss, siss, sizz |
| (verb) utter a sibilant | - |
| (verb) pronounce with an initial sibilant | - |
| silhouette | (verb) represent by a silhouette | - |
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| (verb) project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette | - |
| silverplate | (verb) plate with silver | Synonyms: silver-plate |
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| simulate | (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, feign, sham |
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| (verb) create a representation or simulation of | Synonyms: model |
| (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, imitate |
| site | (verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: locate, place |
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| situate | (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, fix, posit |
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| (verb) determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey | Synonyms: locate |
| skate | (verb) move along on skates | - |
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| slate | (verb) designate or schedule | - |
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| (verb) cover with slate | - |
| (verb) enter on a list or slate for an election | - |
| smite | (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in | Synonyms: afflict |
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| (verb) inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon | - |
| (verb) affect suddenly with deep feeling | - |
| solmizate | (verb) sing using syllables like `do', `re' and `mi' to represent the tones of the scale | - |
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| (verb) sing by the syllables of solmization | - |
| solvate | (verb) undergo solvation or convert into a solvate | - |
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| (verb) cause a solvation in (a substance) | - |
| somnambulate | (verb) walk in one's sleep | Synonyms: sleepwalk |
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| sophisticate | (verb) make more complex or refined | - |
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| (verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | Synonyms: doctor, doctor up |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, twist, twist around |
| (verb) make less natural or innocent | - |
| speciate | (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: differentiate, specialise, specialize |
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| spectate | (verb) be a spectator in a sports event | - |
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| speculate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think over |
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| (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, suppose, theorise, theorize |
| (verb) talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion | - |
| (verb) invest at a risk | Synonyms: job |
| sphacelate | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, mortify, necrose |
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| spite | (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, offend, wound |
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| sporulate | (verb) convert into spores | - |
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| (verb) produce spores | - |
| stagnate | (verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: idle, laze, slug |
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| (verb) cease to flow; stand without moving | - |
| (verb) stand still | - |
| (verb) cause to stagnate | - |
| stalemate | (verb) subject to a stalemate | - |
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| state | (verb) express in words | Synonyms: say, tell |
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| (verb) put before | Synonyms: posit, put forward, submit |
| (verb) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. | Synonyms: express |
| stimulate | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up |
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| (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: excite |
| (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: provoke |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, make |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, rush |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stir |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: excite, stir |
| stipulate | (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, qualify, specify |
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| (verb) give a guarantee or promise of | - |
| (verb) make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force | - |
| strangulate | (verb) become constricted | - |
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| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, throttle |
| (verb) constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air | - |
| striate | (verb) mark with striae or striations | - |
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| stridulate | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: clitter |
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| subjugate | (verb) make subservient; force to submit or subdue | Synonyms: subject |
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| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, reduce, repress, subdue |
| sublimate | (verb) vaporize and then condense right back again | Synonyms: sublime |
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| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, purify |
| (verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: rarefy, subtilize |
| (verb) change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting | Synonyms: sublime |
| (verb) direct energy or urges into useful activities | - |
| subluxate | (verb) sprain or dislocate slightly | - |
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| subordinate | (verb) make subordinate, dependent, or subservient | Synonyms: subdue |
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| (verb) rank or order as less important or consider of less value | - |
| subrogate | (verb) substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured | - |
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| substantiate | (verb) solidify, firm, or strengthen | - |
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| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, support, sustain |
| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, realize |
| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, incarnate |
| substitute | (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, interchange, replace |
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| (verb) be a substitute | Synonyms: fill in, stand in, sub |
| (verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, deputize, step in |
| sudate | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: perspire, sweat |
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| suffocate | (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, strangle |
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| (verb) feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air | - |
| (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle |
| (verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: choke |
| (verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: choke |
| (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: asphyxiate, smother |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, stifle |
| sulfate | (verb) convert into a sulfate | - |
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| sulfurette | (verb) combine with sulfur | Synonyms: sulphurette |
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| sulphurette | (verb) combine with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfurette |
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| summate | (verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up |
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| (verb) form or constitute a cumulative effect | - |
| superannuate | (verb) retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity | - |
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| (verb) become obsolete | - |
| (verb) declare to be obsolete | - |
| (verb) retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability | - |
| superfetate | (verb) conceive when a fetus is already present in the uterus | - |
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| superordinate | (verb) place in a superior order or rank | - |
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| supinate | (verb) turn (the hand or forearm) so that the back is downward or backward, or turn out (the leg) | - |
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| supplicate | (verb) ask humbly (for something) | - |
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| (verb) ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer | - |
| (verb) make a humble, earnest petition | - |
| suppurate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, maturate |
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| (verb) cause to ripen and discharge pus | Synonyms: mature |
| susurrate | (verb) issue soft noises | - |
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| syllabicate | (verb) divide into syllables | Synonyms: syllabify, syllabise, syllabize |
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| syncopate | (verb) modify the rhythm by stressing or accenting a weak beat | - |
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| (verb) omit a sound or letter in a word | - |
| syndicate | (verb) sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations | - |
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| (verb) organize into or form a syndicate | - |
| (verb) join together into a syndicate | - |
| tabulate | (verb) shape or cut with a flat surface | - |
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| (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularise, tabularize |
| tailgate | (verb) follow at a dangerously close distance | - |
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| taste | (verb) experience briefly | - |
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| (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: sample, try, try out |
| (verb) perceive by the sense of taste | - |
| (verb) distinguish flavors | - |
| (verb) have flavor; taste of something | Synonyms: savor, savour |
| (verb) have a distinctive or characteristic taste | Synonyms: smack |
| telecommunicate | (verb) communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail | - |
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| tergiversate | (verb) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances | Synonyms: apostatise, apostatize |
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| (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, prevaricate |
| terminate | (verb) bring to an end or halt | Synonyms: end |
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| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, finish, stop |
| (verb) be the end of; be the last or concluding part of | Synonyms: end |
| tessellate | (verb) tile with tesserae | - |
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| (verb) fit together exactly, of identical shapes | - |
| thoriate | (verb) impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission | - |
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| tintinnabulate | (verb) ring or sound like a small bell | - |
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| titillate | (verb) excite pleasurably or erotically | - |
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| (verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: tickle, vellicate |
| titivate | (verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, tittivate |
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| titrate | (verb) measure by (the volume or concentration of solutions) by titration | - |
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| tittivate | (verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, titivate |
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| tolerate | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support |
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| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: allow, permit |
| (verb) have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition | - |
| (verb) recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others) | - |
| tote | (verb) carry with difficulty | Synonyms: lug, tug |
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| transaminate | (verb) undergo transfer from one compound to another | - |
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| (verb) change (an amino group) by transferring it from one compound to another | - |
| translate | (verb) change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation | - |
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| (verb) change from one form or medium into another | Synonyms: transform |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, read, understand |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: interpret, render |
| (verb) determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA | - |
| (verb) express, as in simple and less technical language | - |
| (verb) bring to a certain spiritual state | - |
| (verb) subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body | - |
| (verb) be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be equivalent in effect | - |