| 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 | - |
| 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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