| reevaluate | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reassess |
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| reeve | (verb) fasten by passing through a hole or around something | - |
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| (verb) pass through a hole or opening | - |
| (verb) pass a rope through | - |
| reexamine | (verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: review |
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| reface | (verb) put a new facing on (a garment) | - |
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| (verb) provide with a new facing | - |
| refashion | (verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, redo, remake |
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| refer | (verb) think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another | - |
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| (verb) have as a meaning | Synonyms: denote |
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, name |
| (verb) use a name to designate | - |
| (verb) seek information from | Synonyms: consult, look up |
| (verb) send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, relate, touch, touch on |
| referee | (verb) evaluate professionally a colleague's work | Synonyms: peer review |
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| (verb) be a referee or umpire in a sports competition | Synonyms: umpire |
| reference | (verb) refer to | Synonyms: cite |
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| refill | (verb) fill something that had previously been emptied | Synonyms: fill again, replenish |
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| refinance | (verb) renew the financing of | - |
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| refine | (verb) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities | Synonyms: rectify |
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| (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: down, fine-tune, polish |
| (verb) treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition | - |
| (verb) attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or intensity by polishing or purifying | - |
| (verb) make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of | - |
| (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, elaborate, rarify |
| refinish | (verb) give a new surface | - |
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| refit | (verb) fit out again | - |
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| reflate | (verb) become inflated again | - |
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| (verb) inflate again | - |
| (verb) raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation | - |
| (verb) experience reflation | - |
| reflect | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) give evidence of the quality of | - |
| (verb) give evidence of a certain behavior | - |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reverberate |
| (verb) manifest or bring back | - |
| (verb) show an image of | - |
| (verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: shine |
| reflectorise | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorize |
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| reflectorize | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorise |
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| refloat | (verb) set afloat again | - |
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| refocus | (verb) put again into focus or focus more sharply | - |
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| (verb) focus anew | - |
| (verb) focus once again | - |
| reforest | (verb) forest anew | - |
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| reforge | (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: recast, remodel |
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| reform | (verb) make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices | - |
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| (verb) break up the molecules of | - |
| (verb) produce by cracking | - |
| (verb) change for the better | Synonyms: see the light, straighten out |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, regenerate |
| (verb) improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition | - |
| reformulate | (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: redevelop |
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| refract | (verb) determine the refracting power of (a lens) | - |
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| (verb) subject to refraction | - |
| refracture | (verb) break (a bone) that was previously broken but mended in an abnormal way | - |
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| refrain | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: abstain, desist |
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| (verb) resist doing something | Synonyms: forbear |
| refresh | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, refreshen |
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| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, freshen up, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: freshen |
| (verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, review |
| refreshen | (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, freshen up, refresh |
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| (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, refresh |
| refrigerate | (verb) cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator | - |
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| (verb) preserve by chilling | - |
| refuel | (verb) take on more fuel, as of a plane, ship, or car | - |
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| (verb) provide with additional fuel, as of aircraft, ships, and cars | - |
| refund | (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, repay, return |
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| refurbish | (verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, renovate |
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| refurnish | (verb) furnish with new or different furniture | - |
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| refuse | (verb) show unwillingness towards | Synonyms: decline |
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| (verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: decline, pass up, reject, turn down |
| (verb) refuse to let have | Synonyms: deny |
| (verb) refuse entrance or membership | Synonyms: reject, turn away, turn down |
| (verb) elude, especially in a baffling way | Synonyms: defy, resist |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: reject, resist |
| refute | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: controvert, rebut |
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| (verb) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof | Synonyms: rebut |
| regain | (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, recover, retrieve |
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| (verb) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost | Synonyms: find |
| regale | (verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink | Synonyms: treat |
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| regard | (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: consider, reckon, see, view |
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| (verb) look at attentively | Synonyms: consider |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: affect, involve |
| regenerate | (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: revitalize |
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| (verb) undergo regeneration | - |
| (verb) form or produce anew | - |
| (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: rejuvenate, restore |
| (verb) replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue | - |
| (verb) be formed or shaped anew | - |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, reform |
| (verb) amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit | - |
| (verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: renew |
| regift | (verb) give a present that one has received to someone else | - |
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| regiment | (verb) assign to a regiment | - |
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| (verb) form (military personnel) into a regiment | - |
| (verb) subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization | - |
| register | (verb) enter into someone's consciousness | - |
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| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, show |
| (verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: file |
| (verb) send by registered mail | - |
| (verb) manipulate the registers of an organ | - |
| (verb) be aware of | Synonyms: record |
| (verb) show in one's face | - |
| (verb) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions | - |
| (verb) enroll to vote | - |
| (verb) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties | Synonyms: cross-file |
| regorge | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| regram | (verb) To repost on Instagram | - |
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| regress | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, relapse, retrogress |
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| (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: retrograde, retrogress |
| (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: retrovert, return, revert, turn back |
| (verb) go back to a statistical means | - |
| regret | (verb) decline formally or politely | - |
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| (verb) express with regret | - |
| (verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: repent, rue |
| (verb) feel sad about the loss or absence of | - |
| regroup | (verb) reorganize into new groups | - |
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| (verb) organize anew, as after a setback | Synonyms: reorganise, reorganize |
| regrow | (verb) grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption | - |
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| regularise | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularize |
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| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularize, regulate |
| regularize | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularise |
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| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regulate |
| regulate | (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: modulate |
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| (verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: baffle |
| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, mould, shape |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regularize |
| regurgitate | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: reproduce |
| (verb) feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food | - |
| (verb) pour or rush back | - |
| rehabilitate | (verb) help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute | - |
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| (verb) reinstall politically | - |
| (verb) restore to a state of good condition or operation | - |
| reharmonise | (verb) provide with a different harmony | Synonyms: reharmonize |
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| reharmonize | (verb) provide with a different harmony | Synonyms: reharmonise |
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| rehash | (verb) go back over | Synonyms: hash over, retrograde |
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| (verb) present or use over, with no or few changes | - |
| rehear | (verb) hear or try a court case anew | Synonyms: retry |
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| rehearse | (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practice, practise |
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| reheat | (verb) heat again | - |
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| reheel | (verb) put a new heel on | Synonyms: heel |
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| rehouse | (verb) put up in a new or different housing | - |
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| reify | (verb) consider an abstract concept to be real | - |
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| reign | (verb) have sovereign power | - |
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| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, prevail, rule |
| reignite | (verb) ignite anew, as of something burning | - |
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| reimburse | (verb) pay back for some expense incurred | - |
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| (verb) reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | Synonyms: recoup |
| reimpose | (verb) impose anew | - |
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| rein | (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: harness, rule |
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| (verb) stop or slow up one's horse or oneself by or as if by pulling the reins | Synonyms: rein in |
| (verb) stop or check by or as if by a pull at the reins | Synonyms: rein in |
| (verb) control and direct with or as if by reins | Synonyms: draw rein, harness, rein in |
| reincarnate | (verb) cause to appear in a new form | Synonyms: renew |
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| (verb) be born anew in another body after death | Synonyms: transmigrate |
| reinforce | (verb) make stronger | Synonyms: reenforce |
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| (verb) strengthen and support with rewards | Synonyms: reward |
| reinstall | (verb) install again | - |
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| reinstate | (verb) restore to the previous state or rank | - |
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| (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reestablish, restore |
| reinsure | (verb) insure again by transferring to another insurance company all or a part of a liability assumed | - |
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| (verb) insure again by assuming all or a part of the liability of an insurance company already covering a risk | - |
| (verb) provide additional insurance for | - |
| reintegrate | (verb) integrate again | - |
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| reinterpret | (verb) assign a new or different meaning to | - |
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| (verb) interpret from a different viewpoint | Synonyms: re-explain |
| reintroduce | (verb) introduce anew | Synonyms: re-introduce |
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| reinvent | (verb) create anew and make over | - |
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| (verb) bring back into existence | - |
| reinvigorate | (verb) impart vigor, strength, or vitality to | Synonyms: invigorate |
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| reissue | (verb) print anew | Synonyms: reprint |
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| (verb) issue (a new version of) | - |
| reiterate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, repeat, restate, retell |
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| reject | (verb) not accept something given or offered | - |
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| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: eliminate, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: disapprove |
| (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, scorn, spurn, turn down |
| (verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: decline, pass up, refuse, turn down |
| (verb) refuse entrance or membership | Synonyms: refuse, turn away, turn down |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: refuse, resist |
| rejig | (verb) re-equip a factory or plant | Synonyms: re-equip |
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| rejoice | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, jubilate, triumph |
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| (verb) feel happiness or joy | Synonyms: joy |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: triumph, wallow |
| rejoin | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, repay, retort, return, riposte |
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| (verb) join again | - |
| rejuvenate | (verb) become young again | - |
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| (verb) make younger or more youthful | - |
| (verb) develop youthful topographical features | - |
| (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: regenerate, restore |
| (verb) cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land | - |
| rekindle | (verb) arouse again | - |
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| (verb) kindle anew, as of a fire | - |
| relace | (verb) lace again | - |
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| relapse | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress |
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| (verb) deteriorate in health | Synonyms: get worse |
| relate | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, tie in |
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| (verb) give an account of; narrate | - |
| (verb) have or establish a relationship to | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, touch, touch on |
| (verb) be in a relationship with | Synonyms: interrelate |
| relativise | (verb) consider or treat as relative | Synonyms: relativize |
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| relativize | (verb) consider or treat as relative | Synonyms: relativise |
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| relax | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, slow down, unbend, unwind |
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| (verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, unlax, unstrain, unwind |
| (verb) make less taut | Synonyms: unbend |
| (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, loosen |
| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: slack, slack up, slacken |
| (verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner | Synonyms: loosen up |
| relay | (verb) pass along | - |
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| (verb) control or operate by relay | - |
| relearn | (verb) learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it | - |
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| release | (verb) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids | Synonyms: secrete |
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| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, exhaust, expel |
| (verb) make (assets) available | Synonyms: free, unblock, unfreeze |
| (verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, issue, publish, put out |
| (verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, relinquish |
| (verb) let (something) fall or spill from a container | Synonyms: turn |
| (verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: free, liberate |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, relinquish, resign |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, loose, unloose, unloosen |
| (verb) make (information) available for publication | Synonyms: free |
| relegate | (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: classify |
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| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs |
| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: banish, bar |
| (verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, submit |
| relent | (verb) give in, as to influence or pressure | Synonyms: soften, yield |
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| relieve | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, palliate |
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| (verb) provide relief for | Synonyms: remedy |
| (verb) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive | Synonyms: lighten |
| (verb) relieve oneself of troubling information | Synonyms: unbosom |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, exempt, let off |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, ease, still |
| (verb) take by stealing | - |
| (verb) free from a burden, evil, or distress | - |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: salvage, salve, save |
| (verb) free someone temporarily from his or her obligations | Synonyms: take over |
| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: exempt, free |
| reline | (verb) put new lines on | - |
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| (verb) provide with a new lining | - |
| relinquish | (verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, release |
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| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, renounce |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, release, resign |
| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, waive |
| relish | (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, enjoy, savor, savour |
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