| kayak | (verb) travel in a small canoe | - |
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| kayo | (verb) knock unconscious or senseless | Synonyms: knock cold, knock out |
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| keel | (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
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| keen | (verb) express grief verbally | Synonyms: lament |
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| keep | (verb) prevent (food) from rotting | Synonyms: preserve |
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| (verb) prevent the action or expression of | Synonyms: hold back, keep back, restrain |
| (verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: maintain, observe |
| (verb) maintain by writing regular records | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: maintain, sustain |
| (verb) hold and prevent from leaving | - |
| (verb) retain possession of | Synonyms: hold on |
| (verb) look after; be the keeper of; have charge of | - |
| (verb) retain rights to | Synonyms: hold open, keep open, save |
| (verb) maintain for use and service | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) have as a supply | - |
| (verb) store or keep customarily | - |
| (verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: prevent |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: continue, keep on, retain |
| (verb) conform one's action or practice to | Synonyms: observe |
| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: celebrate, observe |
| (verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: hold, maintain |
| (verb) supply with room and board | - |
| (verb) maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger | Synonyms: preserve |
| (verb) fail to spoil or rot | Synonyms: stay fresh |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, proceed |
| (verb) to rear | - |
| kennel | (verb) put up in a kennel | - |
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| keratinise | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinize |
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| (verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinize |
| keratinize | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
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| (verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
| kern | (verb) remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters) | - |
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| (verb) furnish with a kern | - |
| key | (verb) harmonize with or adjust to | - |
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| (verb) regulate the musical pitch of | - |
| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, identify, key out, name |
| (verb) vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key | - |
| (verb) provide with a key | - |
| keynote | (verb) set the keynote of | - |
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| (verb) give the keynote address to (an audience) | - |
| kibbitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibitz |
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| kibitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibbitz |
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| kibosh | (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, halt, stop |
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| kick | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
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| (verb) make a goal | - |
| (verb) stop consuming | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) strike with the foot | - |
| (verb) drive or propel with the foot | - |
| (verb) spring back, as from a forceful thrust | Synonyms: kick back, recoil |
| (verb) thrash about or strike out with the feet | - |
| (verb) kick a leg up | - |
| kid | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, jolly, josh |
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| (verb) tell false information to for fun | Synonyms: pull the leg of |
| kidnap | (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, nobble, snatch |
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| kill | (verb) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | Synonyms: obliterate, wipe out |
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| (verb) destroy a vitally essential quality of or in | - |
| (verb) cause to cease operating | - |
| (verb) tire out completely | - |
| (verb) end or extinguish by forceful means | Synonyms: stamp out |
| (verb) drink down entirely | Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, pop, pour down, toss off |
| (verb) cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly | - |
| (verb) cause the death of, without intention | - |
| (verb) deprive of life | - |
| (verb) hit with great force | - |
| (verb) hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games | - |
| (verb) overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration | - |
| (verb) be the source of great pain for | - |
| (verb) thwart the passage of | Synonyms: defeat, shoot down, vote down, vote out |
| (verb) be fatal | - |
| kindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, provoke, raise |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, inflame |
| (verb) catch fire | Synonyms: inflame |
| kink | (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, curve |
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| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink up |
| kip | (verb) be asleep | Synonyms: catch some Z's, log Z's, sleep, slumber |
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| kiss | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: buss, osculate, snog |
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| (verb) touch lightly or gently | - |
| kit | (verb) supply with a set of articles or tools | Synonyms: kit out, kit up |
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| kite | (verb) fly a kite | - |
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| (verb) soar or fly like a kite | - |
| (verb) get credit or money by using a bad check | - |
| (verb) increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently | - |
| kitten | (verb) give birth to kittens | - |
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| knap | (verb) strike sharply | Synonyms: rap |
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| (verb) break a small piece off from | Synonyms: break off, chip, cut off |
| knead | (verb) to mix into a homogeneous mass | Synonyms: work |
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| (verb) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes | Synonyms: massage, rub down |
| kneecap | (verb) shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning | - |
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| kneel | (verb) rest one's weight on one's knees | - |
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| knell | (verb) ring as in announcing death | - |
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| (verb) make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification | Synonyms: ring |
| knife | (verb) use a knife on | Synonyms: stab |
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| knight | (verb) raise (someone) to knighthood | Synonyms: dub |
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| knit | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, pucker, rumple |
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| (verb) make (textiles) by knitting | - |
| (verb) tie or link together | Synonyms: entwine |
| knock | (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticise, criticize, pick apart |
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| (verb) knock against with force or violence | Synonyms: bump |
| (verb) rap with the knuckles | - |
| (verb) deliver a sharp blow or push | Synonyms: strike hard |
| (verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: pink, rap, tap |
| (verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early | Synonyms: ping, pink |
| knot | (verb) tie or fasten into a knot | - |
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| (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: ravel, tangle |
| (verb) make into knots; make knots out of | - |
| know | (verb) be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object | - |
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| (verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognise, cognize |
| (verb) know how to do or perform something | - |
| (verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: experience, live |
| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: acknowledge, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) know the nature or character of | - |
| (verb) be able to distinguish, recognize as being different | - |
| (verb) perceive as familiar | - |
| (verb) have fixed in the mind | - |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| knuckle | (verb) press or rub with the knuckles | - |
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| (verb) shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground | - |
| kotow | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
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| kowtow | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, suck up, toady, truckle |
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| (verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: genuflect, scrape |
| kvetch | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, plain, quetch, sound off |
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