battle | (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: combat |
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belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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(verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
(verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
bottle | (verb) put into bottles | - |
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(verb) store (liquids or gases) in bottles | - |
brattle | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: clack, clatter |
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embattle | (verb) prepare for battle or conflict | - |
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(verb) fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense | - |
embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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fettle | (verb) remove mold marks or sand from (a casting) | - |
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guttle | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, pig, raven |
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mottle | (verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: cloud, dapple |
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(verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, streak |
nettle | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, rag, rile, vex |
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(verb) sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation | Synonyms: urticate |
prattle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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rattle | (verb) shake and cause to make a rattling noise | - |
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(verb) make short successive sounds | - |
resettle | (verb) settle in a new place | - |
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scuttle | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, skitter |
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settle | (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: locate |
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(verb) form a community | - |
(verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | Synonyms: root, settle down, steady down, take root |
(verb) establish or develop as a residence | - |
(verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, finalize, nail down |
(verb) become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet | - |
(verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, fall |
(verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, resolve |
(verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: determine, square off, square up |
(verb) end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement | - |
(verb) come to terms | Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, reconcile |
(verb) accept despite lack of complete satisfaction | - |
(verb) get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury | Synonyms: get back |
(verb) fix firmly | Synonyms: ensconce |
(verb) arrange or fix in the desired order | - |
(verb) come to rest | - |
(verb) settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground | Synonyms: settle down |
(verb) cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids) | - |
(verb) sink down or precipitate | Synonyms: subside |
(verb) go under | Synonyms: go down, go under, sink |
(verb) become clear by the sinking of particles | - |
(verb) dispose of; make a financial settlement | - |
shuttle | (verb) travel back and forth between two points | - |
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skittle | (verb) play skittles | - |
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tattle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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(verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk |
throttle | (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: choke |
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(verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrict, trammel |
(verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, strangulate |
unsettle | (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: enervate, faze, unnerve |
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wattle | (verb) interlace to form wattle | - |
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(verb) build of or with wattle | - |
whittle | (verb) cut small bits or pare shavings from | Synonyms: pare |
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