| dignify | (verb) raise the status of | - |
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| (verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: ennoble |
| dillydally | (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally, stall |
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| dirty | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, grime, soil |
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| disarray | (verb) bring disorder to | Synonyms: disorder |
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| disembody | (verb) free from a body or physical form or reality | - |
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| dismay | (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, horrify |
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| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dispirit, get down |
| disobey | (verb) refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient | - |
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| display | (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: exhibit, expose |
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| (verb) attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals | - |
| disqualify | (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: indispose, unfit |
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| (verb) declare unfit | - |
| dissatisfy | (verb) fail to satisfy | - |
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| disunify | (verb) break up or separate | Synonyms: break apart |
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| diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
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| (verb) make (more) diverse | - |
| (verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
| dizzy | (verb) make dizzy or giddy | - |
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| downplay | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: background, play down |
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| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: minimise, minimize, understate |
| dry | (verb) become dry or drier | Synonyms: dry out |
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| (verb) remove the moisture from and make dry | Synonyms: dry out |
| dulcify | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten |
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| dummy | (verb) make a dummy of | Synonyms: dummy up |
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| eddy | (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: purl, swirl, whirl, whirlpool |
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| edify | (verb) make understand | Synonyms: enlighten |
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| electrify | (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: wire |
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| (verb) charge (a conductor) with electricity | - |
| (verb) excite suddenly and intensely | - |
| embody | (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, personify |
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| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, incarnate, substantiate |
| (verb) represent or express something abstract in tangible form | - |
| employ | (verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: apply, use, utilise, utilize |
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| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: engage, hire |
| empty | (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: evacuate, void |
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| (verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: discharge |
| (verb) make void or empty of contents | - |
| (verb) remove the contents of a container | - |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: abandon, vacate |
| emulsify | (verb) form into or become an emulsion | - |
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| (verb) cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion | - |
| enjoy | (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: delight, revel |
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| (verb) have benefit from | - |
| (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, relish, savor, savour |
| (verb) get pleasure from | Synonyms: love |
| (verb) have for one's benefit | - |
| ensky | (verb) exalt to the skies; lift to the skies or to heaven with praise | - |
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| envy | (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: begrudge |
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| (verb) feel envious towards; admire enviously | - |
| epoxy | (verb) glue with epoxy | - |
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| espy | (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: descry, spot, spy |
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| essay | (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, seek, try |
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| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: examine, prove, test, try, try out |
| esterify | (verb) change (a compound) into an ester | - |
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| etherify | (verb) change into an ether | - |
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| exemplify | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: illustrate, instance |
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| (verb) be typical of | Synonyms: represent |
| falsify | (verb) falsify knowingly | - |
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| (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: alter, interpolate |
| (verb) prove false | - |
| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, garble, warp |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| fancify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, embellish, prettify |
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| fancy | (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
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| (verb) have a fancy or particular liking or desire for | Synonyms: go for, take to |
| fantasy | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasize |
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| ferry | (verb) travel by ferry | - |
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| (verb) transport by ferry | - |
| (verb) transport from one place to another | - |
| flay | (verb) strip the skin off | - |
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| flurry | (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, disconcert, put off |
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| (verb) move in an agitated or confused manner | - |
| fly | (verb) decrease rapidly and disappear | Synonyms: vanish, vaporize |
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| (verb) change quickly from one emotional state to another | - |
| (verb) transport by aeroplane | - |
| (verb) hit a fly | - |
| (verb) travel through the air; be airborne | Synonyms: wing |
| (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: aviate, pilot |
| (verb) move quickly or suddenly | - |
| (verb) run away quickly | Synonyms: flee, take flight |
| (verb) travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft | - |
| (verb) travel in an airplane | - |
| (verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fell, vanish |
| (verb) cause to fly or float | - |
| (verb) be dispersed or disseminated | - |
| (verb) display in the air or cause to float | - |
| foray | (verb) briefly enter enemy territory | - |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| fortify | (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: lace, spike |
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| (verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, strengthen |
| (verb) add nutrients to | - |
| (verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: arm, build up, gird |
| (verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fort |
| fray | (verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: frazzle |
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| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fret, rub, scratch |
| fructify | (verb) produce fruit | Synonyms: set |
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| (verb) become productive or fruitful | - |
| (verb) make productive or fruitful | - |
| fry | (verb) cook in hot fat or oil | - |
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| (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: electrocute |
| (verb) be excessively hot | - |
| gainsay | (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, dispute |
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| gasify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: aerify, vaporise, vaporize |
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| gentrify | (verb) renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations | - |
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| glorify | (verb) bestow glory upon | - |
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| (verb) cause to seem more splendid | - |
| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: spiritualize, transfigure |
| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, laud, proclaim |
| glory | (verb) rejoice proudly | - |
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| gratify | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: indulge, pander |
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| (verb) make happy or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfy |
| gray | (verb) turn grey | Synonyms: grey |
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| (verb) make grey | Synonyms: grey |
| grey | (verb) turn grey | Synonyms: gray |
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| (verb) make grey | Synonyms: gray |
| guy | (verb) steady or support with a guy wire or cable | - |
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| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast |
| harry | (verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes | Synonyms: ravage |
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| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
| hay | (verb) convert (plant material) into hay | - |
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| holiday | (verb) spend or take a vacation | Synonyms: vacation |
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| honey | (verb) sweeten with honey | - |
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| horrify | (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, dismay |
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| humidify | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: moisturise, moisturize |
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| humify | (verb) convert (plant remains) into humus | - |
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| hurry | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hasten, look sharp, rush |
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| (verb) urge to an unnatural speed | Synonyms: rush |
| (verb) move very fast | Synonyms: speed, travel rapidly, zip |
| hypertrophy | (verb) undergo hypertrophy | - |
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| identify | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: place |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, key, key out, name |
| (verb) consider to be equal or the same | - |
| (verb) conceive of as united or associated | - |
| (verb) consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else | - |
| (verb) give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property | Synonyms: name |
| imply | (verb) express or state indirectly | Synonyms: connote |
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| (verb) suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic | - |
| (verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: entail, mean |
| (verb) have as a necessary feature | Synonyms: involve |
| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: incriminate, inculpate |
| indemnify | (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, recompense, repair |
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| (verb) secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for | - |
| inlay | (verb) decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal | - |
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| inmarry | (verb) marry within one's own tribe or group | - |
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| intensify | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: deepen |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, deepen, heighten |
| (verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: escalate, step up |
| (verb) make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark | - |
| intermarry | (verb) marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group | - |
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| interstratify | (verb) arrange rocks in alternating strata | - |
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| inventory | (verb) make or include in an itemized record or report | Synonyms: stock-take, take stock |
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| jellify | (verb) become jelly | - |
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| (verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jelly |
| jelly | (verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jellify |
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| jimmy | (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: lever, prise, prize, pry |
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| jockey | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, screw, shaft |
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| (verb) ride a racehorse as a professional jockey | - |
| (verb) compete (for an advantage or a position) | - |
| jollify | (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, wassail, whoop it up |
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| jolly | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, josh, kid |
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| journey | (verb) undertake a journey or trip | Synonyms: travel |
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| (verb) travel upon or across | Synonyms: travel |
| joy | (verb) feel happiness or joy | Synonyms: rejoice |
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| (verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: gladden |
| justify | (verb) adjust the spaces between words | - |
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| (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: vindicate |
| (verb) (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin | - |
| key | (verb) harmonize with or adjust to | - |
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| (verb) regulate the musical pitch of | - |
| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, identify, key out, name |
| (verb) vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key | - |
| (verb) provide with a key | - |
| lapidify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: petrify |
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| lay | (verb) put in a horizontal position | Synonyms: put down, repose |
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| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: place, pose, position, put, set |
| (verb) lay eggs | - |
| (verb) prepare or position for action or operation | - |
| (verb) impose as a duty, burden, or punishment | - |
| lenify | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, mollify, pacify, placate |
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| levy | (verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: raise, recruit |
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| (verb) impose and collect | Synonyms: impose |
| lignify | (verb) convert into wood or cause to become woody | - |
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| liquefy | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquify |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquidise, liquidize, liquify |
| (verb) become liquid | - |
| liquify | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquefy |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquidize |
| lobby | (verb) detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | Synonyms: buttonhole |
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| magnify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: amplify |
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| (verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, enlarge |
| (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate |
| marry | (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, wed |
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| (verb) perform a marriage ceremony | Synonyms: splice, tie, wed |
| metrify | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricise, metricize |
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| (verb) compose in poetic meter | - |
| microcopy | (verb) photocopy printed or other graphic matter so that it is reduced in size | - |
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| minify | (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, lessen |
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| misally | (verb) make a bad alliance; ally inappropriately | - |
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| misapply | (verb) apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly | Synonyms: misuse |
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| miscarry | (verb) suffer a miscarriage | - |
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| (verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: fail, go wrong |
| misidentify | (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: mistake |
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