| satisfy | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, fulfill, meet |
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| (verb) make happy or satisfied | Synonyms: gratify |
| (verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfil, fulfill, live up to |
| savvy | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok |
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| say | (verb) express in words | Synonyms: state, tell |
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| (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, aver |
| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out |
| (verb) express a supposition | Synonyms: suppose |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, order, tell |
| (verb) communicate or express nonverbally | - |
| (verb) recite or repeat a fixed text | - |
| (verb) indicate | - |
| (verb) state as one's opinion or judgement; declare | - |
| (verb) utter aloud | - |
| (verb) have or contain a certain wording or form | Synonyms: read |
| scarify | (verb) puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals | - |
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| (verb) break up | - |
| (verb) scratch the surface of | - |
| scry | (verb) divine by gazing into crystals | - |
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| scurry | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scuttle, skitter |
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| sensify | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensitise, sensitize |
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| shillyshally | (verb) be uncertain and vague | - |
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| (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, stall |
| shimmy | (verb) dance a shimmy | - |
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| (verb) tremble or shake | Synonyms: wobble |
| shinny | (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, skin, sputter, struggle |
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| shy | (verb) throw quickly | - |
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| (verb) start suddenly, as from fright | - |
| signify | (verb) convey or express a meaning | - |
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| (verb) make known with a word or signal | - |
| (verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: intend, mean, stand for |
| simplify | (verb) make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent | - |
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| sky | (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, pitch, toss |
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| slay | (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove |
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| (verb) to succeed greatly | - |
| solidify | (verb) become solid | - |
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| (verb) make solid or more solid; cause to solidify | - |
| spay | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, castrate, neuter |
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| specify | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, destine, intend |
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| (verb) define clearly | Synonyms: nail down, narrow, narrow down, peg down, pin down |
| (verb) select something or someone for a specific purpose | Synonyms: assign, set apart |
| (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, particularize, specialise, specialize |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, limit, set |
| (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, qualify, stipulate |
| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delimitate, delineate |
| speechify | (verb) make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality | - |
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| splay | (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, slip |
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| (verb) turn outward | Synonyms: rotate, spread out, turn out |
| (verb) spread open or apart | - |
| spray | (verb) scatter in a mass or jet of droplets | - |
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| (verb) be discharged in sprays of liquid | - |
| (verb) cover by spraying with a liquid | - |
| spy | (verb) secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage | - |
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| (verb) watch, observe, or inquire secretly | Synonyms: sleuth, snoop, stag |
| (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: descry, espy, spot |
| (verb) catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes | Synonyms: sight |
| stay | (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state | Synonyms: remain, rest |
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| (verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: delay, detain |
| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: appease, quell |
| (verb) fasten with stays | - |
| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, remain, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) stop a judicial process | - |
| (verb) dwell | Synonyms: abide, bide |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: continue, remain, stay on |
| (verb) hang on during a trial of endurance | Synonyms: last out, outride, ride out |
| steady | (verb) make steady | Synonyms: becalm, calm |
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| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilise, stabilize |
| stratify | (verb) render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand | - |
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| (verb) form layers or strata | - |
| (verb) form, arrange, or deposit in layers | - |
| (verb) divide society into social classes or castes | - |
| (verb) develop different social levels, classes, or castes | - |
| stray | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, wander |
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| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: drift, err |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| study | (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, read, take |
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| (verb) learn by reading books | Synonyms: hit the books |
| (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvass, examine |
| (verb) be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning | - |
| (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, meditate |
| (verb) give careful consideration to | Synonyms: consider |
| stultify | (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: cripple |
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| (verb) cause to appear foolish | - |
| (verb) prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence | - |
| stupefy | (verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow | Synonyms: stun |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, vex |
| (verb) make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation | Synonyms: besot |
| stymy | (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie |
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| sully | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, tarnish |
| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, corrupt, defile, taint |
| supply | (verb) state or say further | Synonyms: add, append |
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| (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: cater, ply, provide |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, provide, render |
| (verb) circulate or distribute or equip with | Synonyms: issue |
| survey | (verb) consider in a comprehensive way | Synonyms: appraise |
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| (verb) plot a map of (land) | - |
| (verb) make a survey of; for statistical purposes | - |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, review |
| (verb) look over carefully or inspect | - |
| (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, surveil |
| sway | (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, shake |
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| (verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner | Synonyms: swing |
| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: rock |
| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, persuade |
| syllabify | (verb) divide into syllables | Synonyms: syllabicate, syllabise, syllabize |
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| tally | (verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tot, tot up, total, tote up |
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| (verb) keep score, as in games | Synonyms: chalk up |
| (verb) gain points in a game | Synonyms: rack up, score |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match |
| tarry | (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: linger |
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| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around |
| terrify | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrorise, terrorize |
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| testify | (verb) give testimony in a court of law | Synonyms: attest, bear witness, take the stand |
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| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, show |
| thurify | (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: cense, incense |
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| tidy | (verb) put (things or places) in order | Synonyms: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy up |
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| toady | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, truckle |
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| tourney | (verb) engage in a tourney | - |
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| toy | (verb) engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously | Synonyms: play |
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| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, fiddle, play |
| (verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, flirt, play |
| transmogrify | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: metamorphose, transfigure |
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| travesty | (verb) make a travesty of | - |
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| try | (verb) put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice | Synonyms: try on |
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| (verb) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: sample, taste, try out |
| (verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: strain, stress |
| (verb) give pain or trouble to | - |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, essay, seek |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, test, try out |
| (verb) examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process | Synonyms: hear |
| (verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: adjudicate, judge |
| tumefy | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell, swell up, tumesce |
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| (verb) cause to become very swollen | - |
| typify | (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: represent, stand for, symbolise, symbolize |
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| (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomise, epitomize |
| uglify | (verb) make ugly | - |
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| underlay | (verb) provide with a base, support, lining, or backing | - |
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| (verb) put (something) under or beneath | - |
| (verb) raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type | - |
| underpay | (verb) pay too little | - |
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| underplay | (verb) play a card lower than (a held high card) | - |
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| (verb) act (a role) with great restraint | Synonyms: underact |
| understudy | (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: alternate |
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| unify | (verb) become one | Synonyms: merge, unite |
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| (verb) join or combine | Synonyms: merge, unite |
| (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: amalgamate, commix, mingle, mix |
| (verb) act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief | Synonyms: unite |
| (verb) bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation | Synonyms: unite |
| unsanctify | (verb) remove the sanctification from or make unsanctified | - |
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| unsay | (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: swallow, take back, withdraw |
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| vary | (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: alter, change |
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| (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: motley, variegate |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, diverge |
| (verb) be subject to change in accordance with a variable | - |
| verbify | (verb) make into a verb | - |
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| verify | (verb) confirm the truth of | - |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, swear |
| (verb) attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition) | - |
| (verb) check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard | Synonyms: control |
| versify | (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetise, poetize, verse |
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| vilify | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, revile, vituperate |
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| vinify | (verb) convert a juice into wine by fermentation | - |
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| vitrify | (verb) undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like | - |
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| (verb) change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat | - |
| vivify | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify |
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| (verb) make more striking or animated | - |
| volley | (verb) utter rapidly | - |
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| (verb) make a volley | - |
| (verb) discharge in, or as if in, a volley | - |
| (verb) hit before it touches the ground | - |
| (verb) be dispersed in a volley | - |
| waylay | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper |
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| weary | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon |
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| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, jade, pall, tire |
| whinny | (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whicker |
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| worry | (verb) lacerate by biting | - |
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| (verb) touch or rub constantly | - |
| (verb) be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy | - |
| (verb) disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress | Synonyms: vex |
| (verb) be concerned with | Synonyms: care |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, interest, occupy |