| probate | (verb) establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents) | - |
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| (verb) put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence | - |
| probe | (verb) question or examine thoroughly and closely | Synonyms: examine |
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| (verb) examine physically with or as if with a probe | Synonyms: dig into, poke into |
| proceed | (verb) follow a certain course | Synonyms: go |
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| (verb) continue talking | Synonyms: carry on, continue, go on |
| (verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space | Synonyms: continue, go forward, move ahead |
| (verb) follow a procedure or take a course | Synonyms: go, move |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, keep |
| process | (verb) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | Synonyms: treat |
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| (verb) perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information | - |
| (verb) deliver a warrant or summons to someone | Synonyms: serve, swear out |
| (verb) shape, form, or improve a material | Synonyms: work, work on |
| (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, litigate, sue |
| (verb) deal with in a routine way | - |
| (verb) march in a procession | Synonyms: march |
| proclaim | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, promulgate |
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| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, glorify, laud |
| (verb) declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles | - |
| (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: predicate |
| procrastinate | (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, stall |
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| (verb) postpone or delay needlessly | - |
| procreate | (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: multiply, reproduce |
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| proctor | (verb) watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) | Synonyms: invigilate |
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| procure | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, pimp |
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| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: secure |
| prod | (verb) urge on; cause to act | Synonyms: egg on, incite |
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| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, poke, stab |
| (verb) to push against gently | Synonyms: nudge, poke at |
| produce | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, grow |
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| (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: create, make |
| (verb) bring forth or yield | Synonyms: bring forth |
| (verb) cause to happen, occur or exist | Synonyms: bring about, give rise |
| (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: farm, grow, raise |
| (verb) bring onto the market or release | Synonyms: bring on, bring out |
| (verb) bring out for display | Synonyms: bring forth |
| profane | (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, violate |
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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, subvert, vitiate |
| profess | (verb) practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about | - |
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| (verb) take vows, as in religious order | - |
| (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: concede, confess |
| (verb) confess one's faith in, or allegiance to | - |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: pretend |
| (verb) receive into a religious order or congregation | - |
| (verb) state freely | - |
| professionalise | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalize |
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| (verb) become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalize |
| professionalize | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalise |
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| (verb) become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalise |
| proffer | (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offer |
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| profile | (verb) represent in profile, by drawing or painting | - |
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| (verb) write about | - |
| profit | (verb) make a profit; gain money or materially | Synonyms: turn a profit |
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| (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: benefit, gain |
| profiteer | (verb) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | - |
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| prognosticate | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage |
| program | (verb) arrange a program of or for | Synonyms: programme |
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| (verb) write a computer program | Synonyms: programme |
| programme | (verb) arrange a program of or for | Synonyms: program |
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| (verb) write a computer program | Synonyms: program |
| progress | (verb) develop in a positive way | Synonyms: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, shape up |
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| (verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build, build up, work up |
| (verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | Synonyms: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on |
| prohibit | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, proscribe, veto |
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| project | (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: propose |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, externalize |
| (verb) communicate vividly | - |
| (verb) throw, send, or cast forward | Synonyms: send off |
| (verb) transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, plan |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, contrive, throw |
| (verb) draw a projection of | - |
| (verb) cause to be heard | - |
| (verb) project on a screen | - |
| (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, protrude, stick out |
| prolapse | (verb) slip or fall out of place, as of body parts | - |
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| proliferate | (verb) grow rapidly | - |
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| (verb) cause to grow or increase rapidly | - |
| prologise | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologize, prologuize |
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| prologize | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologise, prologuize |
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| prologuize | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologise, prologize |
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| prolong | (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, extend, protract |
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| (verb) lengthen or extend in duration or space | Synonyms: keep up, sustain |
| promenade | (verb) take a leisurely walk | - |
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| (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: parade, troop |
| promise | (verb) make a promise or commitment | Synonyms: assure |
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| (verb) promise to undertake or give | - |
| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate |
| (verb) give grounds for expectations | - |
| promote | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, push |
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| (verb) change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent | - |
| (verb) be changed for a superior chess or checker piece | - |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, raise, upgrade |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, further |
| prompt | (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, instigate |
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| (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: cue, remind |
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, propel |
| promulgate | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, proclaim |
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| (verb) put a law into effect by formal declaration | - |
| pronate | (verb) turn the forearm or the hand so that the palm is directed downwards | - |
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| pronk | (verb) jump straight up | - |
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| pronounce | (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: judge, label |
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| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, say, sound out |
| proof | (verb) make resistant (to harm) | - |
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| (verb) activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk | - |
| (verb) read for errors | Synonyms: proofread |
| (verb) knead to reach proper lightness | - |
| (verb) make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset | - |
| proofread | (verb) read for errors | Synonyms: proof |
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| prop | (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop up, shore, shore up |
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| propagandise | (verb) spread by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |
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| (verb) subject to propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |
| propagandize | (verb) spread by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandise |
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| (verb) subject to propaganda | Synonyms: propagandise |
| propagate | (verb) multiply sexually or asexually | - |
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| (verb) cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering | - |
| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, spread |
| (verb) transmit | - |
| (verb) transmit or cause to broaden or spread | - |
| (verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) travel through the air | - |
| (verb) transmit from one generation to the next | - |
| propel | (verb) cause to move forward with force | Synonyms: impel |
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| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, prompt |
| prophesy | (verb) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration | Synonyms: vaticinate |
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| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: preach |
| propitiate | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: appease |
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| proportion | (verb) adjust in size relative to other things | - |
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| (verb) give pleasant proportions to | - |
| propose | (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: project |
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| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, purport, purpose |
| (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: advise, suggest |
| (verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, offer, pop the question |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: nominate |
| proposition | (verb) suggest sex to | - |
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| propound | (verb) put forward, as of an idea | - |
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| prorate | (verb) divide or assess proportionally | - |
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| (verb) make a proportional settlement or distribution | - |
| prorogue | (verb) adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body | - |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
| proscribe | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, veto |
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| prosecute | (verb) bring a criminal action against (in a trial) | - |
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| (verb) conduct a prosecution in a court of law | - |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: engage, pursue |
| proselytise | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytize |
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| proselytize | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytise |
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| prospect | (verb) explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals | - |
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| (verb) search for something desirable | - |
| prosper | (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: flourish, fly high, thrive |
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| prostitute | (verb) sell one's body; exchange sex for money | - |
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| prostrate | (verb) render helpless or defenseless | - |
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| (verb) throw down flat, as on the ground | - |
| (verb) get into a prostrate position, as in submission | Synonyms: bow down |
| protect | (verb) shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage | - |
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| (verb) use tariffs to favor domestic industry | - |
| protest | (verb) utter words of protest | - |
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| (verb) affirm or avow formally or solemnly | - |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, resist |
| protract | (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, extend, prolong |
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| protrude | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: bulge, pouch |
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| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, start |
| (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, project, stick out |
| protuberate | (verb) form a rounded prominence | - |
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| (verb) cause to bulge out or project | - |
| prove | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, shew, show |
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| (verb) obtain probate of | - |
| (verb) prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof | - |
| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, show, testify |
| (verb) take a trial impression of | - |
| (verb) cause to puff up with a leaven | Synonyms: leaven, raise |
| (verb) increase in volume | Synonyms: rise |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, test, try, try out |
| (verb) be shown or be found to be | Synonyms: turn out, turn up |
| provide | (verb) take measures in preparation for | - |
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| (verb) determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation | - |
| (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: cater, ply, supply |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, render, supply |
| (verb) supply means of subsistence; earn a living | Synonyms: bring home the bacon |
| (verb) mount or put up | Synonyms: offer, put up |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow, allow for, leave |
| provision | (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: purvey |
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| provoke | (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, evoke, kick up |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, raise |
| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague |
| prowl | (verb) move about in or as if in a predatory manner | - |
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| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: lurch |