aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
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(verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
beaver | (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
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cantilever | (verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
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(verb) project as a cantilever | - |
claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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cover | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, hatch, incubate |
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(verb) clothe, as if for protection from the elements | Synonyms: wrap up |
(verb) protect by insurance | Synonyms: insure, underwrite |
(verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, deal, handle, plow, treat |
(verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism | Synonyms: report |
(verb) maintain a check on; especially by patrolling | - |
(verb) protect or defend (a position in a game) | - |
(verb) hold within range of an aimed firearm | - |
(verb) play a higher card than the one previously played | - |
(verb) be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game | - |
(verb) provide with a covering or cause to be covered | - |
(verb) form a cover over | Synonyms: spread over |
(verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: breed |
(verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: enshroud, hide, shroud |
(verb) put something on top of something else | Synonyms: overlay |
(verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse |
(verb) hide from view or knowledge | Synonyms: cover up |
(verb) spread over a surface to conceal or protect | - |
(verb) be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of | - |
(verb) to take an action to protect against future problems | - |
(verb) invest with a large or excessive amount of something | - |
(verb) help out by taking someone's place and temporarily assuming his responsibilities | - |
(verb) provide for | - |
(verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: continue, extend |
(verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, embrace, encompass |
(verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: compensate, overcompensate |
deliver | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, give birth, have |
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(verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: present |
(verb) pass down | Synonyms: render, return |
(verb) utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.) | - |
(verb) bring to a destination, make a delivery | - |
(verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: pitch |
(verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, render, turn in |
(verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, give up, surrender |
(verb) carry out or perform | Synonyms: drive home |
(verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deport, extradite |
(verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: rescue |
(verb) save from sins | Synonyms: redeem, save |
discover | (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see |
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(verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
(verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
(verb) make a discovery, make a new finding | Synonyms: find |
(verb) see for the first time; make a discovery | - |
(verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, find, notice, observe |
(verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike |
dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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hoover | (verb) clean with a vacuum cleaner | Synonyms: vacuum-clean, vacuum |
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hover | (verb) hang in the air; fly or be suspended above | - |
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(verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: levitate |
(verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: oscillate, vacillate, vibrate |
(verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: linger |
(verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: brood, bulk large, loom |
lever | (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, prise, prize, pry |
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maneuver | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre, operate |
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(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
(verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre |
manoeuver | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre, operate |
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(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
(verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre |
misdeliver | (verb) deliver to the wrong address | - |
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outmaneuver | (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmanoeuvre, outsmart |
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palaver | (verb) have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds | - |
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(verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle |
(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
quaver | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: trill, warble |
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(verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: waver |
quiver | (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: palpitate, quake |
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(verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, pulsate |
(verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, waver |
recover | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: convalesce, recuperate |
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(verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss | Synonyms: go back, recuperate |
(verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, regain, retrieve |
(verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recoup, recuperate |
(verb) reuse (materials from waste products) | Synonyms: reclaim |
(verb) cover anew | - |
rediscover | (verb) discover again | - |
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sever | (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: discerp, lop |
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(verb) set or keep apart | Synonyms: break up |
shiver | (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shudder |
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(verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shudder, thrill, throb |
silver | (verb) make silver in color | - |
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(verb) turn silver | - |
(verb) coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam | - |
slaver | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slobber |
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sliver | (verb) break up into splinters or slivers | Synonyms: splinter |
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(verb) form into slivers | - |
(verb) divide into slivers or splinters | Synonyms: splinter |
uncover | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, unwrap |
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(verb) remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body | Synonyms: expose |
(verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: disclose, expose |
waver | (verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: quaver |
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(verb) sway from side to side | Synonyms: weave |
(verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: fluctuate, vacillate |
(verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, quiver |
(verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: falter |
(verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waffle |
(verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: falter |