filet | (verb) cut into filets | Synonyms: fillet |
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(verb) decorate with a lace of geometric designs | Synonyms: fillet |
filiate | (verb) fix the paternity of | - |
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filibuster | (verb) obstruct deliberately by delaying | - |
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filigree | (verb) make filigree, as with a precious metal | - |
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fill | (verb) become full | Synonyms: fill up |
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(verb) make full, also in a metaphorical sense | Synonyms: fill up, make full |
(verb) plug with a substance | - |
(verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: replete, sate, satiate |
(verb) eat until one is sated | Synonyms: fill up |
(verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fit, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
(verb) assume, as of positions or roles | Synonyms: occupy, take |
(verb) appoint someone to (a position or a job) | - |
(verb) occupy the whole of | Synonyms: occupy |
fillet | (verb) cut into filets | Synonyms: filet |
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(verb) decorate with a lace of geometric designs | Synonyms: filet |
film | (verb) make a film or photograph of something | Synonyms: shoot, take |
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(verb) record in film | - |
filter | (verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter out, filtrate, separate out, strain |
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(verb) pass through | Synonyms: percolate, permeate, sink in |
(verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
filtrate | (verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter, filter out, separate out, strain |
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fin | (verb) show the fins above the water while swimming | Synonyms: break water |
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(verb) propel oneself through the water in a finning motion | - |
(verb) equip (a car) with fins | - |
finagle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: manage, wangle |
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finalise | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalize, nail down, settle |
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finalize | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, nail down, settle |
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finance | (verb) obtain or provide money for | - |
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(verb) sell or provide on credit | - |
financier | (verb) conduct financial operations | - |
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find | (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: get, incur, obtain, receive |
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(verb) accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation | Synonyms: find oneself |
(verb) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds | Synonyms: feel |
(verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out |
(verb) decide on and make a declaration about | Synonyms: rule |
(verb) make a discovery, make a new finding | Synonyms: discover |
(verb) succeed in reaching; arrive at | - |
(verb) perceive or be contemporaneous with | Synonyms: see, witness |
(verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, discover, notice, observe |
(verb) perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place | - |
(verb) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost | Synonyms: regain |
(verb) get something or somebody for a specific purpose | Synonyms: come up, get hold, line up |
(verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, happen |
(verb) obtain through effort or management | - |
(verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: recover, regain, retrieve |
fine | (verb) impose a fine on | Synonyms: mulct |
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(verb) record a fine as a penalty in a police record | Synonyms: ticket |
finedraw | (verb) sew together very finely | - |
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finger | (verb) indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments | - |
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(verb) feel or handle with the fingers | Synonyms: thumb |
(verb) search for on the computer | - |
(verb) examine by touch | Synonyms: feel |
fingerprint | (verb) take an impression of a person's fingerprints | - |
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fingerspell | (verb) communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language | Synonyms: finger-spell |
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finish | (verb) finally be or do something | Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish up, land up, wind up |
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(verb) come or bring to a finish or an end | Synonyms: complete |
(verb) cause to finish a relationship with somebody | - |
(verb) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table | Synonyms: eat up, polish off |
(verb) provide with a finish | - |
(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, stop, terminate |
fink | (verb) confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure | Synonyms: confess, squeal |
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(verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
fire | (verb) bake in a kiln so as to harden | - |
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(verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn, burn down |
(verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: ignite, light |
(verb) become ignited | Synonyms: flame up |
(verb) cause to go off | Synonyms: discharge |
(verb) start firing a weapon | Synonyms: open fire |
(verb) go off or discharge | Synonyms: discharge, go off |
(verb) generate an electrical impulse | - |
(verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, kindle, provoke, raise |
(verb) drive out or away by or as if by fire | - |
(verb) provide with fuel | Synonyms: fuel |
(verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
firebomb | (verb) attack with incendiary bombs | - |
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fireproof | (verb) make resistant to fire | - |
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firm | (verb) become taut or tauter | Synonyms: tauten |
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(verb) make taut or tauter | Synonyms: tauten |
fish | (verb) catch or try to catch fish or shellfish | - |
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(verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: angle |
fishtail | (verb) slow down by moving the tail sideways | - |
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fissure | (verb) break into fissures or fine cracks | - |
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fistfight | (verb) fight with the fists | - |
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fit | (verb) make correspond or harmonize | Synonyms: match |
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(verb) make fit | - |
(verb) insert or adjust several objects or people | - |
(verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
(verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: equip, fit out, outfit |
(verb) be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired | Synonyms: go |
(verb) conform to some shape or size | - |
(verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
(verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: accommodate, suit |
fix | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
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(verb) make fixed, stable or stationary | Synonyms: fixate |
(verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
(verb) kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study | - |
(verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up |
(verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, limit, set, specify |
(verb) take vengeance on or get even | Synonyms: get, pay back, pay off |
(verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fasten, secure |
(verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, posit, situate |
(verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, make, prepare, ready |
(verb) set or place definitely | - |
(verb) to be about to do something | - |
(verb) influence an event or its outcome by illegal means | - |
fixate | (verb) become fixed (on) | Synonyms: settle on |
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(verb) make fixed, stable or stationary | Synonyms: fix |
(verb) pay attention to exclusively and obsessively | - |
(verb) attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way | - |
fizz | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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fizzle | (verb) end weakly | Synonyms: fizzle out, peter out, taper off |
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flabbergast | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: boggle, bowl over |
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flag | (verb) provide with a flag | - |
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(verb) become less intense | Synonyms: ease off, ease up, slacken off |
(verb) communicate or signal with a flag | - |
(verb) decorate with flags | - |
(verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: droop, sag, swag |
flagellate | (verb) whip | Synonyms: scourge |
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flail | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: lam, thrash, thresh |
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(verb) move like a flail; thresh about | Synonyms: thresh |
flake | (verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces | Synonyms: flake off, peel, peel off |
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(verb) cover with flakes or as if with flakes | - |
(verb) form into flakes | - |
flambe | (verb) pour liquor over and ignite (a dish) | - |
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flame | (verb) criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium | - |
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(verb) be in flames or aflame | - |
(verb) shine with a sudden light | Synonyms: flare |
flank | (verb) be located at the sides of something or somebody | - |
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flap | (verb) pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds | - |
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(verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: dither, pother |
(verb) to flutter noisily when moved by the wind | - |
(verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: roll, undulate, wave |
(verb) move with a flapping motion | Synonyms: beat |
(verb) move with a thrashing motion | Synonyms: beat |
flare | (verb) become flared and widen, usually at one end | Synonyms: flare out |
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(verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, erupt, flare up, irrupt |
(verb) burn brightly | Synonyms: blaze up, burn up, flame up |
(verb) shine with a sudden light | Synonyms: flame |
flash | (verb) appear briefly | - |
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(verb) emit a brief burst of light | - |
(verb) make known or cause to appear with great speed | - |
(verb) protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal | - |
(verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot |
(verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle |
(verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank |
(verb) expose or show briefly | - |
flatten | (verb) become flat or flatter | Synonyms: flatten out |
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(verb) make flat or flatter | - |
(verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes) | Synonyms: drop |
flatter | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: blandish |
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flaunt | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, ostentate, show off, swank |
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flavor | (verb) lend flavor to | Synonyms: flavour, season |
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flavour | (verb) lend flavor to | Synonyms: flavor, season |
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flaw | (verb) add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective | Synonyms: blemish |
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flay | (verb) strip the skin off | - |
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fleck | (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, blot, spot |
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fledge | (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: feather |
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(verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: flight |
(verb) feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight | - |
flee | (verb) run away quickly | Synonyms: fly, take flight |
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fleece | (verb) shear the wool from | Synonyms: shear |
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(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
fleer | (verb) to smirk contemptuously | - |
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fleet | (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, pass, pass off |
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(verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, flit, flutter |
flense | (verb) strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal) | - |
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flesh | (verb) remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture | - |
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flex | (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, turn, twist |
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(verb) bend a joint | Synonyms: bend |
(verb) form a curve | Synonyms: bend |
(verb) contract | - |
(verb) exhibit the strength of | - |
flick | (verb) remove with a flick (of the hand) | - |
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(verb) touch or hit with a light, quick blow | - |
(verb) cause to make a snapping sound | Synonyms: click, snap |
(verb) throw or toss with a quick motion | Synonyms: jerk |
(verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: riffle, ruffle |
(verb) cause to move with a flick | Synonyms: flip |
(verb) flash intermittently | Synonyms: flicker |
(verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flip, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb |
(verb) shine unsteadily | Synonyms: flicker |
flicker | (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flitter, flutter, quiver, waver |
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(verb) flash intermittently | Synonyms: flick |
(verb) shine unsteadily | Synonyms: flick |
flight | (verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
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(verb) fly in a flock | - |
(verb) shoot a bird in flight | - |
flinch | (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
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fling | (verb) throw with force or recklessness | - |
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(verb) move in an abrupt or headlong manner | - |
(verb) indulge oneself | Synonyms: splurge |
(verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
flip | (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, interchange, switch, tack |
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(verb) go mad, go crazy | Synonyms: flip out |
(verb) react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way | Synonyms: flip out |
(verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: pitch, sky, toss |
(verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: switch, throw |
(verb) turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse | Synonyms: flip over, turn over |
(verb) move with a flick or light motion | - |
(verb) lightly throw to see which side comes up | Synonyms: toss |
(verb) cause to move with a flick | Synonyms: flick |
(verb) toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air | Synonyms: twitch |
(verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb |
flirt | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, mash, philander, romance |
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(verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, play, toy |
flit | (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, fleet, flutter |
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flitter | (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flutter, quiver, waver |
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float | (verb) convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation | - |
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(verb) allow (currencies) to fluctuate | - |
(verb) make the surface of level or smooth | - |
(verb) put into the water | - |
(verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, drift |
(verb) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom | Synonyms: swim |
(verb) set afloat | - |
(verb) move lightly, as if suspended | - |
(verb) circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with | - |
flocculate | (verb) form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass | - |
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(verb) cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate | - |
flock | (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, constellate |
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(verb) move as a crowd or in a group | - |
flog | (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
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(verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, lambast, lambaste |
flood | (verb) cover with liquid, usually water | - |
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(verb) become filled to overflowing | - |
(verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp |
(verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: glut, oversupply |
floodlight | (verb) illuminate with floodlights | - |
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floor | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: coldcock, deck, dump, knock down |
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(verb) surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off | Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, shock, take aback |
flop | (verb) fall suddenly and abruptly | - |
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(verb) fall loosely | - |
(verb) fail utterly; collapse | Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, founder |
floss | (verb) use dental floss to clean | - |
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flounce | (verb) walk emphatically | - |
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flounder | (verb) walk with great difficulty | Synonyms: stagger |
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(verb) behave awkwardly; have difficulties | - |
flour | (verb) convert grain into flour | - |
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(verb) cover with flour | - |
flourish | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, thrive |
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(verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, wave |
(verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: fly high, prosper, thrive |
flout | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, gibe, jeer, scoff |
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(verb) treat with contemptuous disregard | Synonyms: scoff |
flow | (verb) undergo menstruation | Synonyms: menstruate |
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(verb) cover or swamp with water | - |
(verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: fall, hang |
(verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, feed, run |
(verb) move or progress freely as if in a stream | Synonyms: flux |
(verb) cause to flow | - |
(verb) be abundantly present | - |
flower | (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
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flub | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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fluctuate | (verb) be unstable | - |
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(verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: vacillate, waver |
(verb) cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern | - |
fluff | (verb) ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect | Synonyms: tease |
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(verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: ruffle |
(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
flummox | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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flump | (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
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(verb) fall heavily | Synonyms: flump down |
flunk | (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: bomb, fail, flush it |
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fluoresce | (verb) exhibit or undergo fluorescence | - |
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fluoridate | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridise, fluoridize |
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fluoridise | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridize |
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fluoridize | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridise |
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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 | - |
flush | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, redden |
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(verb) cause to flow through something | - |
(verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: purge, scour |
(verb) irrigate with water from a sluice | Synonyms: sluice |
(verb) cause to flow or flood with or as if with water | - |
(verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, level |
(verb) glow or cause to glow with warm color or light | - |