pilfer | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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pillage | (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
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pillory | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, crucify, savage |
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(verb) punish by putting in a pillory | - |
(verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: gibbet |
pillow | (verb) rest on or as if on a pillow | Synonyms: rest |
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pilot | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: aviate, fly |
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(verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: navigate |
pimp | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, procure |
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pin | (verb) (chess) immobilize a piece | - |
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(verb) attach or fasten with pins | - |
(verb) pierce with a pin | - |
(verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilise, immobilize, trap |
pinch | (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: vellicate |
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(verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
(verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: crimp |
(verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: top |
(verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
pine | (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, languish, yearn, yen |
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ping | (verb) send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active | - |
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(verb) contact, usually in order to remind of something | - |
(verb) hit with a pinging noise | - |
(verb) make a short high-pitched sound | - |
(verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early | Synonyms: knock, pink |
pinion | (verb) cut the wings off (of birds) | - |
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(verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: shackle |
pink | (verb) cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing | - |
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(verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: knock, rap, tap |
(verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early | Synonyms: knock, ping |
pinkify | (verb) make pink | - |
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pinnacle | (verb) raise on or as if on a pinnacle | - |
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(verb) surmount with a pinnacle | - |
pinpoint | (verb) locate exactly | Synonyms: nail |
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pioneer | (verb) open up and explore a new area | - |
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(verb) open up an area or prepare a way | Synonyms: open up |
(verb) take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of | Synonyms: initiate |
pip | (verb) defeat thoroughly | Synonyms: mop up, rack up, whip, worst |
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(verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: hit, shoot |
(verb) kill by firing a missile | Synonyms: shoot |
pipe | (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe up, shriek, shrill |
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(verb) play on a pipe | - |
(verb) trim with piping | - |
(verb) transport by pipeline | - |
pique | (verb) cause to feel resentment or indignation | Synonyms: offend |
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pirate | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, highjack, hijack |
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(verb) copy illegally; of published material | - |
pirouette | (verb) do a pirouette, usually as part of a dance | - |
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piss | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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pit | (verb) remove the pits from | Synonyms: stone |
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(verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: match, oppose, play off |
(verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pock, scar |
pitch | (verb) set to a certain pitch | - |
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(verb) set the level or character of | Synonyms: gear |
(verb) lead (a card) and establish the trump suit | - |
(verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, sky, toss |
(verb) erect and fasten | Synonyms: set up |
(verb) hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin | - |
(verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: deliver |
(verb) fall or plunge forward | - |
(verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: incline, slope |
(verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, slant, tilt |
(verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, shift |
(verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend |
pitchfork | (verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: fork |
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pith | (verb) remove the pith from (a plant) | - |
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pity | (verb) share the suffering of | Synonyms: compassionate, condole with, feel for, sympathize with |
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pivot | (verb) turn on a pivot | Synonyms: swivel |
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placard | (verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: bill |
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(verb) post in a public place | - |
placate | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify |
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place | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: identify |
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(verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, range, rank, rate |
(verb) take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal | Synonyms: come in, come out |
(verb) estimate | Synonyms: put, set |
(verb) sing a note with the correct pitch | - |
(verb) to arrange for | - |
(verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: post, send, station |
(verb) finish second or better in a horse or dog race | - |
(verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, point, target |
(verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, pose, position, put, set |
(verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, localize, set |
(verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: locate, site |
(verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, invest, put |
(verb) assign to (a job or a home) | - |
(verb) place somebody in a particular situation or location | - |
(verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, localize |
plagiarise | (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: lift, plagiarize |
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plagiarize | (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: lift, plagiarise |
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plague | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, provoke |
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(verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: blight |
plain | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, quetch, sound off |
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plait | (verb) weave into plaits | - |
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(verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: braid, lace |
plan | (verb) make plans for something | - |
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(verb) have the will and intention to carry out some action | Synonyms: be after |
(verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, project |
plane | (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: shave |
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(verb) make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane | - |
(verb) travel on the surface of water | Synonyms: skim |
plank | (verb) cook and serve on a plank | - |
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(verb) cover with planks | Synonyms: plank over |
(verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
plant | (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: implant |
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(verb) put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground | Synonyms: set |
(verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, implant |
(verb) place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive | - |
(verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, institute |
(verb) place into a river | - |
plash | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
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(verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: pleach |
plaster | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: poultice |
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(verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: daub |
(verb) apply a heavy coat to | Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
(verb) apply a plaster cast to | - |
(verb) affix conspicuously | - |
(verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: beplaster |
plasticise | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticize |
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(verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticize |
plasticize | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticise |
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(verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticise |
plastinate | (verb) preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes | - |
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plat | (verb) make a plot of | Synonyms: plot |
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plate | (verb) coat with a layer of metal | - |
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platinize | (verb) coat with metallic platinum | - |
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platitudinize | (verb) utter platitudes | - |
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play | (verb) engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously | Synonyms: toy |
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(verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind | Synonyms: act, act as |
(verb) exhaust by allowing to pull on the line | - |
(verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, trifle |
(verb) participate in games or sport | - |
(verb) bet or wager (money) | - |
(verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: encounter, meet, take on |
(verb) put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game | - |
(verb) make bets | - |
(verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: bet, wager |
(verb) shoot or hit in a particular manner | - |
(verb) employ in a game or in a specific position | - |
(verb) use or move | - |
(verb) use to one's advantage | - |
(verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, fiddle, toy |
(verb) discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream | - |
(verb) replay (as a melody) | Synonyms: spiel |
(verb) perform music on (a musical instrument) | - |
(verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, represent |
(verb) perform on a certain location | - |
(verb) be performed or presented for public viewing | - |
(verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: run |
(verb) pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity | - |
(verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, playact, roleplay |
(verb) emit recorded sound | - |
(verb) play on an instrument | - |
(verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, work, wreak |
(verb) move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly | - |
(verb) cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space | - |
(verb) engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion | Synonyms: recreate |
(verb) behave in a certain way | - |
(verb) be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children | - |
(verb) act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome | - |
(verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, flirt, toy |
(verb) be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way | - |
playact | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, roleplay |
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pleach | (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: plash |
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(verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: braid |
plead | (verb) appeal or request earnestly | - |
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(verb) enter a plea, as in courts of law | - |
(verb) offer as an excuse or plea | - |
(verb) make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts | - |
please | (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: delight |
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(verb) be the will of or have the will (to) | - |
(verb) give satisfaction | - |
pleat | (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: ruffle |
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(verb) fold into pleats | Synonyms: plicate |
pledge | (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: plight |
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(verb) bind or secure by a pledge | - |
(verb) give as a guarantee | - |
(verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, salute, toast, wassail |
(verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: subscribe |
plicate | (verb) fold into pleats | Synonyms: pleat |
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plight | (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: pledge |
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(verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, betroth, engage |
plod | (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, slog, tramp, trudge |
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plonk | (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
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plop | (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
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(verb) drop with the sound of something falling into water | - |
(verb) drop something with a plopping sound | - |
plot | (verb) plan secretly, usually something illegal | - |
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(verb) make a plot of | Synonyms: plat |
(verb) make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed | Synonyms: diagram |
(verb) devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet) | - |
plough | (verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plow, turn |
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(verb) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil | Synonyms: plow |
plow | (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, treat |
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(verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plough, turn |
(verb) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil | Synonyms: plough |
pluck | (verb) pull or pull out sharply | Synonyms: pick off, pull off, tweak |
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(verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pick |
(verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pick, plunk |
(verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pull, tear |
(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
(verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, roll |
plug | (verb) persist in working hard | Synonyms: plug away |
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(verb) insert as a plug | - |
(verb) insert a plug into | - |
(verb) replace the center of a coin with a baser metal | - |
(verb) make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote | - |
(verb) deliver a quick blow to | Synonyms: punch |
(verb) fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug | Synonyms: secure, stop up |
plumb | (verb) adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical | - |
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(verb) measure the depth of something | - |
(verb) examine thoroughly and in great depth | - |
(verb) weight with lead | - |
plume | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, preen, primp |
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(verb) form a plume | - |
(verb) clean with one's bill | Synonyms: preen |
(verb) deck with a plume | - |
(verb) be proud of | Synonyms: congratulate, pride |
(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, rob, soak, surcharge |
plummet | (verb) drop sharply | Synonyms: plump |
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plump | (verb) give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number | Synonyms: go |
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(verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump out |
(verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
(verb) drop sharply | Synonyms: plummet |
plunder | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, rape, spoil, violate |
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(verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
(verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: sack |
(verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: loot |
plunge | (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: launch |
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(verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, soak up, steep |
(verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: immerse |
(verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, souse |
(verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: immerse |
(verb) fall abruptly | Synonyms: dump |
(verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunk |
(verb) dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity | - |
plunk | (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
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(verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk down |
(verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunge |
(verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clump, clunk |
pluralise | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralize |
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pluralize | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralise |
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ply | (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: cater, provide, supply |
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(verb) use diligently | - |
(verb) wield vigorously | - |
(verb) join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding | - |
(verb) travel a route regularly | Synonyms: run |
(verb) apply oneself diligently | - |
poach | (verb) cook in a simmering liquid | - |
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(verb) hunt illegally | - |
pock | (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pit, scar |
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pocket | (verb) put in one's pocket | - |
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(verb) take unlawfully | Synonyms: bag |
pockmark | (verb) mark with or as if with pockmarks | - |
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pod | (verb) produce pods, of plants | - |
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(verb) take something out of its shell or pod | - |
podcast | (verb) distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer | - |
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poetise | (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetize, verse, versify |
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poetize | (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetise, verse, versify |
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point | (verb) give a point to | Synonyms: sharpen, taper |
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(verb) repair the joints of bricks | Synonyms: repoint |
(verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, show |
(verb) indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle | - |
(verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, indicate, signal |
(verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, level |
(verb) be positionable in a specified manner | - |
(verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, place, target |
(verb) mark with diacritics | - |
(verb) mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes | - |
(verb) mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics | - |
(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, steer |
(verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: luff |
(verb) be oriented | Synonyms: orient |
poise | (verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: balance |
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(verb) cause to be balanced or suspended | - |
(verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: brace |
(verb) be motionless, in suspension | - |
poison | (verb) administer poison to | - |
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(verb) add poison to | Synonyms: envenom |
(verb) kill with poison | - |
(verb) kill by its poison | - |
(verb) spoil as if by poison | - |
poke | (verb) make a hole by poking | - |
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(verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, prod, stab |
(verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: pound, thump |
(verb) stir by poking | - |
(verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, intrude, nose, pry |
polarise | (verb) become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | Synonyms: polarize |
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(verb) cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions | Synonyms: polarize |
(verb) cause to vibrate in a definite pattern | Synonyms: polarize |
polarize | (verb) become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | Synonyms: polarise |
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(verb) cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions | Synonyms: polarise |
(verb) cause to vibrate in a definite pattern | Synonyms: polarise |
pole | (verb) deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole | - |
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(verb) propel with a pole | Synonyms: punt |
(verb) support on poles | - |
poleax | (verb) fell with or as if with a poleax | Synonyms: poleaxe |
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poleaxe | (verb) fell with or as if with a poleax | Synonyms: poleax |
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polemicise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicize, polemise, polemize |
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polemicize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemise, polemize |
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polemise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemize |
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polemize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemise |
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police | (verb) maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol | Synonyms: patrol |
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polish | (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish up, round, round off |
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(verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: down, fine-tune, refine |
(verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: shine, smooth, smoothen |
politicise | (verb) give a political character to | Synonyms: politicize |
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