fabricate | (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, invent, make up, manufacture |
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(verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, manufacture |
face | (verb) deal with (something unpleasant) head on | Synonyms: confront, face up |
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(verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: confront, present |
(verb) oppose, as in hostility or a competition | Synonyms: confront |
(verb) line the edge (of a garment) with a different material | - |
(verb) cover the front or surface of | - |
(verb) turn so as to face; turn the face in a certain direction | - |
(verb) turn so as to expose the face | - |
(verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: front, look |
(verb) be opposite | - |
facilitate | (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, ease |
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(verb) increase the likelihood of (a response) | - |
(verb) be of use | Synonyms: help |
facsimile | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: fax, telefax |
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factor | (verb) resolve into factors | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
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(verb) consider as relevant when making a decision | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
(verb) be a contributing factor | - |
factorise | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorize |
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factorize | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorise |
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fade | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: languish |
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(verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fleet, pass, pass off |
(verb) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality | Synonyms: wither |
(verb) become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly | Synonyms: melt |
fag | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
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(verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
(verb) act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools | - |
faggot | (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot | Synonyms: faggot up, fagot |
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(verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them | Synonyms: fagot |
(verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch | Synonyms: fagot |
fagot | (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot | Synonyms: faggot, faggot up |
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(verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them | Synonyms: faggot |
(verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch | Synonyms: faggot |
fail | (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, give out, give way, go, go bad |
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(verb) deteriorate | - |
(verb) prove insufficient | Synonyms: give out, run out |
(verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: betray |
(verb) become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close | - |
(verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: go wrong, miscarry |
(verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: bomb, flunk, flush it |
(verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: neglect |
(verb) judge unacceptable | - |
(verb) be unable | - |
(verb) fall short in what is expected | - |
faint | (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: conk, pass out, swoon |
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fair | (verb) join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly | - |
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fake | (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, talk through one's hat |
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(verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: counterfeit, forge |
(verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
falcon | (verb) hunt with falcons | - |
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fall | (verb) occur at a specified time or place | - |
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(verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen |
(verb) pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind | - |
(verb) be born, used chiefly of lambs | - |
(verb) come out; issue | - |
(verb) assume a disappointed or sad expression | - |
(verb) begin vigorously | - |
(verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, settle |
(verb) be cast down | - |
(verb) go as if by falling | - |
(verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: flow, hang |
(verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, descend, go down |
(verb) move in a specified direction | - |
(verb) descend in free fall under the influence of gravity | - |
(verb) slope downward | - |
(verb) drop oneself to a lower or less erect position | - |
(verb) lose an upright position suddenly | Synonyms: fall down |
(verb) to be given by assignment or distribution | - |
(verb) be captured | - |
(verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: light |
(verb) come into the possession of | Synonyms: accrue |
(verb) to be given by right or inheritance | - |
(verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, pass, return |
(verb) lose office or power | - |
(verb) yield to temptation or sin | - |
(verb) suffer defeat, failure, or ruin | - |
(verb) lose one's chastity | - |
(verb) die, as in battle or in a hunt | - |
(verb) be due | - |
(verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: come |
(verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: shine, strike |
(verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, precipitate |
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 |
falter | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, stammer, stutter |
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(verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, stumble |
(verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: waver |
(verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: waver |
familiarise | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarize |
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familiarize | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarise |
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famish | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: hunger, starve |
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(verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: starve |
(verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: starve |
fan | (verb) make (an emotion) fiercer | - |
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(verb) blow away or off with a current of air | Synonyms: winnow |
(verb) strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher) | - |
(verb) agitate the air | - |
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 |
fangirl | (verb) to be a extreme female fan of something | - |
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fantasise | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasize, fantasy |
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(verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasize |
fantasize | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasy |
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(verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasise |
fantasy | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasize |
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farce | (verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking | Synonyms: stuff |
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fare | (verb) eat well | - |
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(verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: come, do, get along, make out |
farm | (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: grow, produce, raise |
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(verb) collect fees or profits | - |
(verb) be a farmer; work as a farmer | - |
farrow | (verb) give birth to (piglets) | Synonyms: pig |
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fart | (verb) expel intestinal gases through the anus | Synonyms: break wind |
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fascinate | (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: grip, spellbind, transfix |
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(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, trance |
(verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: intrigue |
fashion | (verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: forge |
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fast | (verb) abstain from eating | - |
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(verb) abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons | - |
fasten | (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: tighten |
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(verb) become fixed or fastened | - |
(verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fix, secure |
(verb) attach to | - |
fat | (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
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fate | (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, destine, doom |
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father | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, generate, get, mother, sire |
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fathom | (verb) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | Synonyms: sound |
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(verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, penetrate |
fatigue | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
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(verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: jade, pall, tire, weary |
fatten | (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fat, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
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fault | (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: blame |
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favor | (verb) consider as the favorite | Synonyms: favour |
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(verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favour, prefer |
(verb) treat gently or carefully | Synonyms: favour |
(verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favour, privilege |
favorite | (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favourite |
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favour | (verb) consider as the favorite | Synonyms: favor |
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(verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, prefer |
(verb) treat gently or carefully | Synonyms: favor |
(verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, privilege |
favourite | (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favorite |
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fawn | (verb) have fawns | - |
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(verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
(verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, grovel |
fax | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: facsimile, telefax |
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faze | (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: enervate, unnerve, unsettle |
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fear | (verb) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of | Synonyms: dread |
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(verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: revere, reverence, venerate |
(verb) be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement | - |
(verb) be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event | - |
(verb) be uneasy or apprehensive about | - |
feast | (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, junket |
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(verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, junket |
(verb) gratify | Synonyms: feed |
feather | (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
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(verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: square |
(verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: square |
(verb) cover or fit with feathers | - |
(verb) join tongue and groove, in carpentry | - |
featherbed | (verb) hire more workers than are necessary | - |
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(verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
feature | (verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: have |
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(verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, sport |
fecundate | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize, inseminate |
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(verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize |
federalise | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
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(verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalize |
(verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
federalize | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
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(verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalise |
(verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
federate | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federalize |
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(verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federalize |
fee | (verb) give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on | Synonyms: bung, tip |
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feed | (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize |
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(verb) introduce continuously | Synonyms: feed in |
(verb) take in food; used of animals only | Synonyms: eat |
(verb) give food to | Synonyms: give |
(verb) serve as food for; be the food for | - |
(verb) feed into; supply | - |
(verb) provide as food | - |
(verb) gratify | Synonyms: feast |
(verb) profit from in an exploitatory manner | Synonyms: prey |
(verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, flow, run |
(verb) support or promote | - |
feel | (verb) be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state | - |
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(verb) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds | Synonyms: find |
(verb) have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude | - |
(verb) examine by touch | Synonyms: finger |
(verb) examine (a body part) by palpation | Synonyms: palpate |
(verb) pass one's hands over the sexual organs of | - |
(verb) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind | Synonyms: experience |
(verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles | Synonyms: sense |
(verb) undergo passive experience of | - |
(verb) produce a certain impression | - |
(verb) grope or feel in search of something | - |
(verb) find by testing or cautious exploration | - |
(verb) be felt or perceived in a certain way | - |
feign | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, pretend, sham |
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(verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, sham, simulate |
feint | (verb) deceive by a mock action | - |
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felicitate | (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: congratulate |
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fell | (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | Synonyms: cut down, drop, strike down |
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(verb) sew a seam by folding the edges | - |
(verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fly, vanish |
fellate | (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: blow, go down on, suck |
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felt | (verb) change texture so as to become matted and felt-like | Synonyms: felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up |
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(verb) cover with felt | - |
(verb) mat together and make felt-like | - |
feminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminize, womanize |
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(verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminize |
feminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminise, womanize |
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(verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminise |
fence | (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, contend, debate |
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(verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence in, palisade, surround, wall |
(verb) fight with fencing swords | - |
(verb) enclose with a fence | Synonyms: fence in |
(verb) receive stolen goods | - |
fend | (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: resist, stand |
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(verb) try to manage without help | - |
ferment | (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: sour, turn, work |
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(verb) cause to undergo fermentation | Synonyms: work |
(verb) work up into agitation or excitement | - |
(verb) be in an agitated or excited state | - |
ferret | (verb) search and discover through persistent investigation | Synonyms: ferret out |
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(verb) hunt with ferrets | - |
(verb) hound or harry relentlessly | - |
ferry | (verb) travel by ferry | - |
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(verb) transport by ferry | - |
(verb) transport from one place to another | - |
fertilise | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize, inseminate |
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(verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilize |
(verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize |
fertilize | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, inseminate |
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(verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilise |
(verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise |
fester | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: maturate, suppurate |
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festinate | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: hasten, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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festoon | (verb) decorate with strings of flowers | - |
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fetch | (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, convey, get |
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(verb) remove | - |
(verb) be sold for a certain price | Synonyms: bring, bring in |
fete | (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: celebrate |
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fetishize | (verb) make a fetish of | - |
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fetter | (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: shackle |
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fettle | (verb) remove mold marks or sand from (a casting) | - |
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feud | (verb) carry out a feud | - |
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feudalize | (verb) bring (a country or people) under feudalism | - |
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fib | (verb) tell a relatively insignificant lie | - |
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fibrillate | (verb) make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements | - |
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fictionalise | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalize, novelise, novelize |
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(verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalize, retell |
fictionalize | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, novelise, novelize |
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(verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, retell |
fiddle | (verb) try to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinker |
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(verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, play, toy |
(verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: monkey, tamper |
(verb) play the violin or fiddle | - |
(verb) play on a violin | - |
(verb) commit fraud and steal from one's employer | - |
(verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: goldbrick, shirk, shrink from |
fidget | (verb) move restlessly | - |
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field | (verb) select (a team or individual player) for a game | - |
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(verb) answer adequately or successfully | - |
(verb) play as a fielder | - |
(verb) catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket | - |
fight | (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, struggle |
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(verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: defend, fight back, fight down, oppose |
(verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: struggle |
(verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, press, push |
figure | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, reckon, work out |
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(verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, forecast, reckon |
(verb) understand | - |
(verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
(verb) be or play a part of or in | Synonyms: enter |
filch | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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file | (verb) place in a container for keeping records | Synonyms: file away |
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(verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: charge, lodge |
(verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: register |
(verb) smooth with a file | - |
(verb) proceed in line | - |