ground | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, found |
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(verb) instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject | - |
(verb) place or put on the ground | - |
(verb) confine or restrict to the ground | - |
(verb) connect to a ground | - |
(verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: prime, undercoat |
(verb) fix firmly and stably | Synonyms: anchor |
(verb) (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field. | - |
(verb) throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage | - |
(verb) hit or reach the ground | Synonyms: run aground |
(verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: run aground, strand |
group | (verb) arrange into a group or groups | - |
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(verb) form a group or group together | Synonyms: aggroup |
grouse | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, holler, squawk |
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(verb) hunt grouse | - |
grout | (verb) bind with grout | - |
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grovel | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, fawn |
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grow | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, produce |
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(verb) become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain | - |
(verb) cause to grow or develop | - |
(verb) increase in size by natural process | - |
(verb) pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become | Synonyms: turn |
(verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: maturate, mature |
(verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: develop |
(verb) become attached by or as if by the process of growth | - |
(verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: farm, produce, raise |
(verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
growl | (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: grumble, rumble |
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grub | (verb) search about busily | - |
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(verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, mooch, sponge |
grubstake | (verb) supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits | - |
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grudge | (verb) accept or admit unwillingly | - |
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(verb) bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings | Synonyms: stew |
grumble | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, murmur, mutter |
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(verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grouch, scold |
(verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, rumble |
(verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: rumble |
grunt | (verb) issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise | - |
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gruntle | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
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guarantee | (verb) give surety or assume responsibility | Synonyms: vouch |
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(verb) promise to do or accomplish | Synonyms: undertake |
(verb) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of | Synonyms: warrant |
(verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, ensure, insure, secure |
guard | (verb) watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect | Synonyms: ward |
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(verb) protect against a challenge or attack | Synonyms: defend, hold |
(verb) to keep watch over | - |
(verb) take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence | - |
guess | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: imagine, opine, reckon, suppose, think |
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(verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, gauge, judge |
(verb) guess correctly; solve by guessing | Synonyms: infer |
(verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: hazard, pretend, venture |
guesstimate | (verb) estimate based on a calculation | - |
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guffaw | (verb) laugh boisterously | Synonyms: laugh loudly |
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guggle | (verb) drink from a flask with a gurgling sound | Synonyms: gurgle |
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(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, gurgle, ripple |
(verb) make a sound like a liquid that is being poured from a bottle | - |
guide | (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, pass, run |
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(verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, direct, lead, take |
(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
(verb) use as a guide | Synonyms: guide on |
(verb) be a guiding or motivating force or drive | Synonyms: steer |
guillotine | (verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine | - |
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gull | (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, fool, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
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(verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: befool, fool |
gulp | (verb) utter or make a noise, as when swallowing too quickly | - |
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(verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught | Synonyms: quaff, swig |
gum | (verb) exude or form gum | - |
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(verb) become sticky | - |
(verb) grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty | Synonyms: mumble |
(verb) cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum | - |
gun | (verb) shoot with a gun | - |
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gurgle | (verb) utter with a gurgling sound | - |
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(verb) drink from a flask with a gurgling sound | Synonyms: guggle |
(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, guggle, ripple |
(verb) make sounds similar to gurgling water | - |
gush | (verb) praise enthusiastically | Synonyms: rave |
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(verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: jet |
(verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: spirt, spout, spurt |
gut | (verb) remove the guts of | - |
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(verb) empty completely; destroy the inside of | - |
gutter | (verb) provide with gutters | - |
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(verb) wear or cut gutters into | - |
(verb) flow in small streams | - |
(verb) burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker | - |
guttle | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, pig, raven |
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guy | (verb) steady or support with a guy wire or cable | - |
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(verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast |
guzzle | (verb) drink greedily or as if with great thirst | - |
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gybe | (verb) shift from one side of the ship to the other | Synonyms: change course, jib, jibe |
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gyp | (verb) (sometimes offensive) to cheat or swindle | Synonyms: gip |
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gyrate | (verb) to wind or move in a spiral course | Synonyms: coil, spiral |
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(verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | Synonyms: reel, spin, spin around, whirl |