| pick | (verb) remove in small bits | - |
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| (verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) select carefully from a group | - |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: blame, find fault |
| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, piece |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, peck |
| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pluck |
| (verb) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pluck, plunk |
| (verb) provoke | - |
| (verb) pay for something | Synonyms: foot |
| (verb) pilfer or rob | - |
| picket | (verb) fasten with a picket | - |
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| (verb) serve as pickets or post pickets | - |
| pickle | (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
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| picnic | (verb) eat alfresco, in the open air | - |
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| picture | (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, render, show |
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| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| piddle | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away |
| piece | (verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: patch |
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| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, pick |
| (verb) join during spinning | - |
| (verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: patch |
| (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, put together, set up, tack, tack together |
| pierce | (verb) make a hole into | - |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) cut or make a way through | - |
| (verb) move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply | - |
| (verb) sound sharply or shrilly | - |
| piffle | (verb) act in a trivial or ineffective way | - |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| pig | (verb) give birth to (piglets) | Synonyms: farrow |
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| (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, guttle, raven |
| (verb) live like a pig, in squalor | Synonyms: pig it |
| pigeonhole | (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: stamp, stereotype |
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| (verb) place into a small compartment | - |
| piggyback | (verb) bring into alignment with | - |
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| (verb) support on the back and shoulders | - |
| (verb) haul by railroad car | - |
| (verb) haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars | - |
| (verb) ride on someone's shoulders or back | - |
| pigment | (verb) color or dye with a pigment | - |
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| (verb) acquire pigment; become colored or imbued | - |
| pile | (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, stack |
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| (verb) place or lay as if in a pile | - |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: jam, mob, pack, throng |
| 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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