| rive | (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rend, rip |
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| (verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cleave, split |
| rove | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| salve | (verb) apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing | - |
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| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, save |
| save | (verb) make unnecessary an expenditure or effort | Synonyms: make unnecessary |
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| (verb) record data on a computer | Synonyms: write |
| (verb) to keep up and reserve for personal or special use | Synonyms: preserve |
| (verb) accumulate money for future use | Synonyms: lay aside, save up |
| (verb) spend less; buy at a reduced price | - |
| (verb) retain rights to | Synonyms: hold open, keep, keep open |
| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economise, economize |
| (verb) bring into safety | Synonyms: bring through, carry through, pull through |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, salve |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: deliver, redeem |
| (verb) refrain from harming | Synonyms: spare |
| serve | (verb) do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function | - |
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| (verb) put the ball into play | - |
| (verb) provide (usually but not necessarily food) | Synonyms: dish, dish out, dish up, serve up |
| (verb) help to some food; help with food or drink | Synonyms: help |
| (verb) deliver a warrant or summons to someone | Synonyms: process, swear out |
| (verb) mate with | Synonyms: service |
| (verb) be used by; as of a utility | Synonyms: service |
| (verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: assist, attend, attend to, wait on |
| (verb) devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas | - |
| (verb) do military service | - |
| (verb) spend time in prison or in a labor camp | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) contribute or conduce to | - |
| (verb) promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to | Synonyms: serve well |
| (verb) serve a purpose, role, or function | Synonyms: function |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: answer, do, suffice |
| shave | (verb) remove body hair with a razor | - |
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| (verb) touch the surface of lightly | - |
| (verb) cut closely | Synonyms: trim |
| (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: plane |
| (verb) make shavings of or reduce to shavings | - |
| (verb) cut the price of | Synonyms: knock off |
| shelve | (verb) place on a shelf | - |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, table |
| shove | (verb) push roughly | - |
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| (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: jostle |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: squeeze, stuff, thrust |
| shrive | (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: absolve |
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| sieve | (verb) distinguish and separate out | Synonyms: sift |
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| (verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sift, strain |
| (verb) check and sort carefully | Synonyms: sift |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen, screen out, sort |
| skive | (verb) remove the surface of | - |
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| skydive | (verb) jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute | Synonyms: sky dive |
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| slave | (verb) work very hard, like a slave | Synonyms: break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down |
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| solve | (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, lick, puzzle out, work, work out |
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| (verb) find the solution | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) settle, as of a debt | Synonyms: clear |
| starve | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: famish, hunger |
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| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, thirst |
| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: famish |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: famish |
| (verb) deprive of a necessity and cause suffering | - |
| stave | (verb) burst or force (a hole) into something | Synonyms: stave in |
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| (verb) furnish with staves | - |
| strive | (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strain |
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| (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour |
| subserve | (verb) be helpful or useful | - |
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| survive | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, subsist |
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| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on |
| (verb) continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) | Synonyms: come through, make it, pull round, pull through |
| (verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlast, outlive |
| swerve | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, trend, veer |
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| thieve | (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, hook, knock off, snitch |
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| thrive | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, flourish |
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| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: flourish, fly high, prosper |
| undeceive | (verb) free from deception or illusion | - |
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| underachieve | (verb) perform less well or with less success than expected | Synonyms: underperform |
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| unlive | (verb) live so as to annul some previous behavior | Synonyms: live down |
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| unnerve | (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: enervate, faze, unsettle |
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| unweave | (verb) undo strands that have been woven together | - |
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| upheave | (verb) lift forcefully from beneath | - |
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| waive | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, relinquish |
| wave | (verb) set waves in | - |
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| (verb) signal with the hands or nod | Synonyms: beckon |
| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, flourish |
| (verb) twist or roll into coils or ringlets | Synonyms: curl |
| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, roll, undulate |
| weave | (verb) interlace by or as if by weaving | Synonyms: interweave |
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| (verb) create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton | Synonyms: tissue |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, wander, wind |
| (verb) sway from side to side | Synonyms: waver |
| wive | (verb) provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife | - |
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| (verb) marry a woman, take a wife | - |
| (verb) take (someone) as a wife | - |