cub | (verb) give birth to cubs | - |
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cube | (verb) raise to the third power | - |
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(verb) cut into cubes | Synonyms: dice |
cuckold | (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, wander |
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cuckoo | (verb) repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call | - |
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cuddle | (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
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(verb) hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth | - |
cudgel | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: fustigate |
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cue | (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: prompt, remind |
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cuff | (verb) hit with the hand | Synonyms: whomp |
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(verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: handcuff, manacle |
(verb) to get involved in a relationship with another person | - |
cull | (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
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(verb) remove something that has been rejected | - |
culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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(verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
(verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
(verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
(verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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(verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
(verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
culture | (verb) grow in a special preparation | - |
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cumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: encumber, restrain |
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cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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cumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, gather, pile up |
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cup | (verb) treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin | Synonyms: transfuse |
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(verb) form into the shape of a cup | - |
(verb) put into a cup | - |
curb | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curtail, cut back, restrict |
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(verb) keep to the curb | - |
(verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, hold, hold in, moderate |
curdle | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clabber, clot |
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(verb) turn from a liquid to a solid mass | - |
(verb) go bad or sour | - |
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 | - |
curl | (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curve, kink |
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(verb) play the Scottish game of curling | - |
(verb) twist or roll into coils or ringlets | Synonyms: wave |
(verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: coil, loop |
(verb) shape one's body into a curl | Synonyms: curl up, draw in |
curry | (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: dress, groom |
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(verb) treat by incorporating fat | - |
(verb) season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking | - |
currycomb | (verb) clean (a horse) with a currycomb | - |
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curse | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, cuss, imprecate, swear |
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(verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict |
(verb) heap obscenities upon | - |
(verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: excommunicate, unchurch |
curtail | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, cut back, restrict |
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(verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: clip, cut short |
curtain | (verb) provide with drapery | - |
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curtsey | (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsy |
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curtsy | (verb) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect | Synonyms: bob |
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(verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsey |
curve | (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, kink |
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(verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
(verb) form an arch or curve | Synonyms: arc, arch |
(verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: crook |
(verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: twist, wind |
curvet | (verb) perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse | - |
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cushion | (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, soften |
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cuss | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, imprecate, swear |
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customise | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customize |
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(verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customize, tailor-make |
customize | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customise |
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(verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customise, tailor-make |
cut | (verb) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | Synonyms: geld |
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(verb) have grow through the gums | - |
(verb) grow through the gums | - |
(verb) cease, stop | Synonyms: cut off |
(verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: prune, rationalise, rationalize |
(verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: dilute, reduce, thin, thin out |
(verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down |
(verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: edit, edit out |
(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
(verb) have a reducing effect | - |
(verb) shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of | - |
(verb) dissolve by breaking down the fat of | - |
(verb) make out and issue | Synonyms: issue, make out, write out |
(verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: disregard, ignore, snub |
(verb) separate with or as if with an instrument | - |
(verb) divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult | - |
(verb) hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction | - |
(verb) cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch | Synonyms: switch off, turn off, turn out |
(verb) make an incision or separation | - |
(verb) allow incision or separation | - |
(verb) function as a cutting instrument | - |
(verb) fell by sawing; hew | - |
(verb) penetrate injuriously | - |
(verb) reap or harvest | - |
(verb) style and tailor in a certain fashion | Synonyms: tailor |
(verb) form by probing, penetrating, or digging | - |
(verb) record a performance on (a medium) | - |
(verb) make a recording of | - |
(verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: burn |
(verb) form or shape by cutting or incising | - |
(verb) perform or carry out | - |
(verb) stop filming | - |
(verb) make an abrupt change of image or sound | - |
(verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
(verb) pass through or across | - |
(verb) pass directly and often in haste | - |
(verb) move (one's fist) | - |
(verb) give the appearance or impression of | - |
(verb) be able to manage or manage successfully | Synonyms: hack |
(verb) discharge from a group | - |
(verb) intentionally fail to attend | Synonyms: skip |
cutinize | (verb) convert into cutin | - |
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