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