| frazzle | (verb) exhaust physically or emotionally | - |
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| (verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: fray |
| freak | (verb) lose one's nerve | Synonyms: freak out, gross out |
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| freckle | (verb) mark with freckles | - |
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| (verb) become freckled | - |
| free | (verb) make (assets) available | Synonyms: release, unblock, unfreeze |
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| (verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: absolve |
| (verb) free or remove obstruction from | Synonyms: disengage |
| (verb) remove or force out from a position | Synonyms: dislodge |
| (verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: liberate, release |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: give up, release, relinquish, resign |
| (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: disembarrass, rid |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen |
| (verb) make (information) available for publication | Synonyms: release |
| (verb) free from obligations or duties | Synonyms: discharge |
| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: exempt, relieve |
| freelance | (verb) work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer | - |
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| freeload | (verb) live off somebody's generosity | - |
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| freewheel | (verb) coast in a vehicle using the freewheel | - |
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| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: drift |
| freeze | (verb) be cold | - |
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| (verb) anesthetize by cold | - |
| (verb) suddenly behave coldly and formally | - |
| (verb) change to ice | - |
| (verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | Synonyms: suspend |
| (verb) cause to freeze | - |
| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, immobilise, immobilize |
| (verb) change from a liquid to a solid when cold | Synonyms: freeze down, freeze out |
| (verb) stop moving or become immobilized | Synonyms: stop dead |
| (verb) be very cold, below the freezing point | - |
| freight | (verb) load with goods for transportation | - |
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| (verb) transport commercially as cargo | - |
| frequent | (verb) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place | Synonyms: haunt |
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| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, patronise, patronize, shop, shop at, sponsor |
| fresco | (verb) paint onto wet plaster on a wall | - |
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| freshen | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: refresh, refreshen |
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| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen up, refresh, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: refresh |
| fress | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: gluttonise, gluttonize |
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| fret | (verb) wear away or erode | Synonyms: eat away |
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| (verb) remove soil or rock | Synonyms: eat away, erode |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, rub, scratch |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: choke, gag |
| (verb) decorate with an interlaced design | - |
| (verb) carve a pattern into | - |
| (verb) be agitated or irritated | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in | - |
| (verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, grate, rankle |
| (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fuss, niggle |
| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: chafe, gall |
| (verb) provide (a musical instrument) with frets | - |
| fricassee | (verb) make a fricassee of by cooking | - |
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| friendzone | (verb) To treat as a friend although the other party has romantic feelings | - |
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| fright | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, frighten, scare |
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| frighten | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, scare |
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| fringe | (verb) decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe | - |
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| (verb) adorn with a fringe | - |
| frisk | (verb) search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets | - |
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| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
| fritter | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| frivol | (verb) act frivolously | Synonyms: trifle |
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| frizz | (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizzle, kink, kink up |
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| frizzle | (verb) fry something until it curls and becomes crisp | - |
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| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, kink, kink up |
| frock | (verb) put a frock on | - |
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| frog | (verb) hunt frogs for food | - |
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| frogmarch | (verb) carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person | - |
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| (verb) march a person against his will by any method | - |
| frolic | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| front | (verb) confront bodily | Synonyms: breast |
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| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: face, look |
| frost | (verb) damage by frost | - |
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| (verb) decorate with frosting | Synonyms: ice |
| (verb) provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance | - |
| (verb) cover with frost | - |
| froth | (verb) exude or expel foam | - |
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| (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, sparkle |
| (verb) make froth or foam and become bubbly | Synonyms: spume, suds |
| frown | (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: glower, lour, lower |
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| fructify | (verb) produce fruit | Synonyms: set |
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| (verb) become productive or fruitful | - |
| (verb) make productive or fruitful | - |
| fruit | (verb) bear fruit | - |
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| (verb) cause to bear fruit | - |
| frustrate | (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, rag, torment |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| fry | (verb) cook in hot fat or oil | - |
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| (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: electrocute |
| (verb) be excessively hot | - |
| fuck | (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
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| fuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, throw |
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| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, drink, hit the bottle |
| (verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: befuddle |
| fudge | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| fuel | (verb) stimulate | - |
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| (verb) provide with a combustible substance that provides energy | - |
| (verb) provide with fuel | Synonyms: fire |
| (verb) take in fuel, as of a ship | - |
| fulfil | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
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| (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfill |
| (verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfill, live up to, satisfy |
| fulfill | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, meet, satisfy |
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| (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil |
| (verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfil, live up to, satisfy |
| full | (verb) increase in phase | Synonyms: wax |
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| (verb) make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering | - |
| (verb) beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening | - |
| fullback | (verb) play the fullback | - |
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| fulminate | (verb) cause to explode violently and with loud noise | - |
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| (verb) come on suddenly and intensely | - |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: rail |
| fumble | (verb) drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder | - |
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| (verb) feel about uncertainly or blindly | Synonyms: grope |
| (verb) handle clumsily | - |
| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: blunder |
| (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, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| fume | (verb) be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face | Synonyms: reek |
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| (verb) be mad, angry, or furious | - |
| (verb) treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests | Synonyms: fumigate |
| (verb) emit a cloud of fine particles | Synonyms: smoke |
| fumigate | (verb) treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests | Synonyms: fume |
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| function | (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: officiate |
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| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: go, operate, run, work |
| (verb) serve a purpose, role, or function | Synonyms: serve |
| fund | (verb) furnish money for | - |
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| (verb) place or store up in a fund for accumulation | - |
| (verb) convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds | - |
| (verb) accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability | - |
| (verb) invest money in government securities | - |
| (verb) provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest | - |
| fundraise | (verb) raise money for a cause or project | Synonyms: fund-raise, fund raise |
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| funk | (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
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| funnel | (verb) move or pour through a funnel | - |
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| furbish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, burnish |
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| furcate | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, ramify, separate |
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| furl | (verb) form into a cylinder by rolling | Synonyms: roll up |
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| furlough | (verb) grant a leave to | - |
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| (verb) dismiss, usually for economic reasons | Synonyms: lay off |
| furnish | (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: offer, provide, render, supply |
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| (verb) provide or equip with furniture | - |
| furrow | (verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: groove, rut |
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| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: crease, wrinkle |
| (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chamfer, chase |
| further | (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, promote |
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| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, foster |
| fuse | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) make liquid or plastic by heating | - |
| (verb) become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat | - |
| (verb) equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse | - |
| fusillade | (verb) attack with fusillade | - |
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| fuss | (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fret, niggle |
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| (verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: mother, overprotect |
| fustigate | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: cudgel |
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