| abjure | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: forswear, recant, resile, retract |
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| adjure | (verb) command solemnly | - |
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| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: beseech, bid, conjure, entreat, press |
| admeasure | (verb) determine the quantity of someone's share | - |
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| adventure | (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardize, stake, venture |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: chance, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| allure | (verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: tempt |
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| assure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) inform positively and with certainty and confidence | Synonyms: tell |
| (verb) assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence | - |
| (verb) make a promise or commitment | Synonyms: promise |
| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: ensure, guarantee, insure, secure |
| azure | (verb) color azure | - |
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| capture | (verb) capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping | Synonyms: catch |
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| (verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase | Synonyms: catch, get |
| (verb) succeed in representing or expressing something intangible | - |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, conquer, seize |
| (verb) bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit | - |
| caricature | (verb) represent in or produce a caricature of | Synonyms: ape |
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| censure | (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: criminate, reprimand |
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| closure | (verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: cloture |
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| cloture | (verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: closure |
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| coiffure | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, do, dress, set |
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| coinsure | (verb) take out coinsurance | - |
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| configure | (verb) set up for a particular purpose | - |
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| conjecture | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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| conjure | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conspire, machinate |
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| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, entreat, press |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| culture | (verb) grow in a special preparation | - |
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| cure | (verb) provide a cure for, make healthy again | Synonyms: bring around, heal |
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| (verb) prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve | - |
| (verb) be or become preserved | - |
| (verb) make (substances) hard and improve their usability | - |
| denature | (verb) make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes | - |
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| (verb) modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished | - |
| (verb) add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb | - |
| disfigure | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: blemish, deface |
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| endure | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) undergo or be subjected to | Synonyms: suffer |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive |
| (verb) last and be usable | Synonyms: hold out, wear |
| (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave, brave out, weather |
| (verb) persist for a specified period of time | Synonyms: last |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, persist, prevail, run |
| enrapture | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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| ensure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, control, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, guarantee, insure, secure |
| feature | (verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: have |
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| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, sport |
| figure | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) understand | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) be or play a part of or in | Synonyms: enter |
| fissure | (verb) break into fissures or fine cracks | - |
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| fracture | (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: break |
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| (verb) become fractured | - |
| (verb) violate or abuse | - |
| (verb) break into pieces | - |
| (verb) interrupt, break, or destroy | - |
| gesture | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesticulate, motion |
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| immure | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| indenture | (verb) bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant | Synonyms: indent |
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| injure | (verb) cause injuries or bodily harm to | Synonyms: wound |
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| (verb) cause damage or affect negatively | Synonyms: hurt |
| (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, offend, spite, wound |
| insure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, control, ensure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) protect by insurance | Synonyms: cover, underwrite |
| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, ensure, guarantee, secure |
| (verb) take out insurance for | - |
| inure | (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: harden, indurate |
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| lecture | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) deliver a lecture or talk | Synonyms: talk |
| lure | (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, tempt |
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| manicure | (verb) care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
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| (verb) trim carefully and neatly | - |
| manufacture | (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, fabricate |
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| (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, invent, make up |
| (verb) create or produce in a mechanical way | - |
| (verb) produce naturally | - |
| manure | (verb) spread manure, as for fertilization | Synonyms: muck |
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| mature | (verb) cause to ripen and discharge pus | Synonyms: suppurate |
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| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, maturate |
| (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, senesce |
| (verb) become due for repayment | - |
| (verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: ripen |
| (verb) develop and work out fully in one's mind | - |
| measure | (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: quantify |
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| (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure out, mensurate |
| (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, valuate, value |
| (verb) have certain dimensions | - |
| nurture | (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: foster |
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| (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nourish, sustain |
| (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, parent, raise, rear |
| obscure | (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: bedim, overcloud |
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| (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obliterate, veil |
| (verb) reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa | - |
| (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, confuse, obnubilate |
| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate |
| pasture | (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, graze, range |
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| (verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: crop, graze |
| pedicure | (verb) care for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
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| perjure | (verb) knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury | - |
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| picture | (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, render, show |
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| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| posture | (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, pose, sit |
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| (verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others | Synonyms: pose |
| prefigure | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) imagine or consider beforehand | - |
| pressure | (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, hale, squeeze |
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| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, blackmail |
| procure | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, pimp |
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| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: secure |
| puncture | (verb) cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing | - |
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| (verb) be pierced or punctured | - |
| (verb) reduce or lessen the size or importance of | Synonyms: deflate |
| (verb) pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into | - |
| (verb) make by piercing | - |
| reassure | (verb) give reassurance to; give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain | - |
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| recapture | (verb) capture again | Synonyms: retake |
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| (verb) take up anew | - |
| (verb) experience anew | - |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: retake |
| refracture | (verb) break (a bone) that was previously broken but mended in an abnormal way | - |
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| reinsure | (verb) insure again by transferring to another insurance company all or a part of a liability assumed | - |
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| (verb) insure again by assuming all or a part of the liability of an insurance company already covering a risk | - |
| (verb) provide additional insurance for | - |
| restructure | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: reconstitute |
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| rupture | (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, snap, tear |
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| sculpture | (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpt |
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| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpt |
| secure | (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, ensure, guarantee, insure |
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| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fasten, fix |
| (verb) fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug | Synonyms: plug, stop up |
| (verb) furnish with battens | Synonyms: batten, batten down |
| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: procure |
| (verb) assure payment of | - |
| structure | (verb) give a structure to | - |
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| suture | (verb) join with a suture | - |
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| tenure | (verb) give life-time employment to | - |
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| tincture | (verb) stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color | - |
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| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, instill |
| tonsure | (verb) shave the head of a newly inducted monk | - |
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| torture | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torment |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torment |
| transfigure | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: metamorphose, transmogrify |
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| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: glorify, spiritualize |
| treasure | (verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, cherish, hold dear |
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| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, prize, value |
| venture | (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, pretend |
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| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, jeopardize, stake |
| (verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: embark |
| vesture | (verb) provide or cover with a cloak | - |
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