publicise | (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, bare, publicize |
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(verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, publicize |
publicize | (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, bare, publicise |
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(verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, publicise |
publish | (verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, issue, put out, release |
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(verb) have (one's work) issued for publication | - |
(verb) put into print | Synonyms: print |
pucker | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, rumple |
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(verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: gather, tuck |
(verb) become wrinkled or drawn together | Synonyms: ruck, ruck up |
puddle | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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(verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, muddle |
(verb) mess around, as in a liquid or paste | - |
(verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: muddle |
(verb) work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud | - |
(verb) make a puddle by splashing water | - |
(verb) dip into mud before planting | - |
(verb) subject to puddling or form by puddling | - |
(verb) wade or dabble in a puddle | - |
puff | (verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, heave, pant |
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(verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: chuff, huff |
(verb) to swell or cause to enlarge | Synonyms: blow up, puff out, puff up |
(verb) speak in a blustering or scornful manner | - |
(verb) praise extravagantly | Synonyms: puff up |
(verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: drag, draw |
(verb) smoke and exhale strongly | Synonyms: whiff |
(verb) make proud or conceited | - |
puke | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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pule | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, wail, whimper |
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pull | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: overstretch |
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(verb) take away | - |
(verb) take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for | Synonyms: root for, side with |
(verb) cause to move by pulling | Synonyms: draw |
(verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: rend, rip, rive |
(verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: attract, draw, draw in, pull in |
(verb) hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing | - |
(verb) apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion | - |
(verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, tear |
(verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, extract, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
(verb) steer into a certain direction | - |
(verb) move into a certain direction | - |
(verb) operate when rowing a boat | - |
(verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover | Synonyms: draw, get out, pull out, take out |
(verb) rein in to keep from winning a race | - |
(verb) cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw |
(verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, perpetrate |
pullulate | (verb) breed freely and abundantly | - |
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(verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, shoot, sprout, spud |
(verb) become abundant; increase rapidly | - |
(verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, stream, swarm, teem |
(verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: swarm, teem |
pulp | (verb) reduce to pulp | - |
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(verb) remove the pulp from, as from a fruit | - |
pulsate | (verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses | Synonyms: pulse |
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(verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulse, throb |
(verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, quiver |
pulse | (verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses | Synonyms: pulsate |
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(verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulsate, throb |
(verb) drive by or as if by pulsation | - |
pulverise | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverize |
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(verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverize |
(verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverize |
pulverize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverise |
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(verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise |
(verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverise |
pumice | (verb) rub with pumice, in order to clean or to smoothen | - |
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pummel | (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: biff, pommel |
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pump | (verb) question persistently | - |
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(verb) deliver forth | - |
(verb) operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal | - |
(verb) raise (gases or fluids) with a pump | - |
(verb) draw or pour with a pump | - |
(verb) flow intermittently | - |
(verb) move up and down | - |
(verb) supply in great quantities | - |
pun | (verb) make a play on words | - |
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punch | (verb) deliver a quick blow to | Synonyms: plug |
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(verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: perforate |
(verb) drive forcibly as if by a punch | - |
punctuate | (verb) insert punctuation marks into | Synonyms: mark |
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(verb) interrupt periodically | - |
(verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, stress |
puncture | (verb) cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing | - |
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(verb) be pierced or punctured | - |
(verb) reduce or lessen the size or importance of | Synonyms: deflate |
(verb) pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into | - |
(verb) make by piercing | - |
punish | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, penalize |
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punt | (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, game, stake |
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(verb) propel with a pole | Synonyms: pole |
(verb) kick the ball | - |
pup | (verb) give birth to (a puppy) | Synonyms: whelp |
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pupate | (verb) develop into a pupa | - |
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purchase | (verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: buy |
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puree | (verb) rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender | Synonyms: strain |
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purge | (verb) excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) | - |
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(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
(verb) rid of impurities | - |
(verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, scour |
(verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purify, sanctify |
(verb) clear of a charge | - |
(verb) oust politically | - |
purify | (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, sublimate |
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(verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, sanctify |
(verb) become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin | - |
purl | (verb) make a murmuring sound | Synonyms: sough |
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(verb) embroider with gold or silver thread | - |
(verb) edge or border with gold or silver embroidery | - |
(verb) knit with a purl stitch | - |
(verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, swirl, whirl, whirlpool |
purloin | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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purple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purpurate |
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(verb) become purple | - |
purport | (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purpose |
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(verb) have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming | - |
purpose | (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: resolve |
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(verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purport |
purpurate | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purple |
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purr | (verb) indicate pleasure by purring; characteristic of cats | Synonyms: make vibrant sounds |
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(verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: birr, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz |
purse | (verb) contract one's lips into a rounded shape | - |
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(verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: wrinkle |
pursue | (verb) go in search of or hunt for | Synonyms: go after, quest after, quest for |
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(verb) follow in or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: follow |
(verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: engage, prosecute |
(verb) carry further or advance | Synonyms: act on, follow up on |
purvey | (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: provision |
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push | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, promote |
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(verb) press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action | Synonyms: bear on |
(verb) make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby | Synonyms: press |
(verb) move with force | Synonyms: force |
(verb) approach a certain age or speed | Synonyms: crowd |
(verb) press against forcefully without moving | - |
(verb) move strenuously and with effort | - |
(verb) sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs) | - |
(verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, labour, tug |
(verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, fight, press |
pussyfoot | (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, mouse, sneak |
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pussyfuck | (verb) to have vaginal intercourse | - |
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put | (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: arrange, order, set up |
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(verb) estimate | Synonyms: place, set |
(verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, redact |
(verb) attribute or give | Synonyms: assign |
(verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, set |
(verb) cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation | - |
(verb) adapt | - |
(verb) cause (someone) to undergo something | - |
(verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, invest, place |
putrefy | (verb) become putrid; decay with an offensive smell | - |
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putt | (verb) strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter | - |
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(verb) hit a putt | - |
putter | (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter, potter around, putter around |
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(verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker |
(verb) work lightly | Synonyms: potter |
putty | (verb) apply putty in order to fix or fill | - |
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puzzle | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, stick, stupefy, vex |
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(verb) be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide | - |