| recuperate | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: convalesce, recover |
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| (verb) restore to good health or strength | - |
| (verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss | Synonyms: go back, recover |
| (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recoup, recover |
| recur | (verb) happen or occur again | Synonyms: repeat |
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| (verb) return in thought or speech to something | Synonyms: go back |
| (verb) have recourse to | Synonyms: fall back, resort |
| recurve | (verb) curve or bend (something) back or down | - |
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| recuse | (verb) challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law | - |
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| (verb) disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case | - |
| recycle | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: reprocess, reuse |
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| (verb) cause to repeat a cycle | - |
| redact | (verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting | Synonyms: edit |
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| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, put |
| redden | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, flush |
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| (verb) turn red or redder | - |
| (verb) make red | - |
| rede | (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: advise, counsel |
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| (verb) give an interpretation or explanation to | Synonyms: interpret |
| redecorate | (verb) redo the decoration of an apartment or house | - |
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| rededicate | (verb) dedicate anew | - |
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| redeem | (verb) convert into cash; of commercial papers | - |
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| (verb) pay off (loans or promissory notes) | Synonyms: pay off |
| (verb) exchange or buy back for money; under threat | Synonyms: ransom |
| (verb) to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange | - |
| (verb) restore the honor or worth of | - |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: deliver, save |
| redefine | (verb) give a new or different definition of (a word) | - |
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| (verb) give a new or different definition to | - |
| redeploy | (verb) deploy anew | - |
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| redeposit | (verb) deposit anew | - |
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| (verb) deposit once again | - |
| redesign | (verb) design anew, make a new design for | - |
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| redetermine | (verb) fix, find, or establish again | - |
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| redevelop | (verb) change the plans for the use of (land) | - |
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| (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: reformulate |
| (verb) develop for a second time, in order to improve the contrast, colour, etc., of a negative or print | - |
| redirect | (verb) channel into a new direction | Synonyms: airt |
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| rediscover | (verb) discover again | - |
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| redispose | (verb) dispose anew | - |
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| redistribute | (verb) distribute anew | - |
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| redline | (verb) discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood | - |
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| redo | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: reconstruct, remodel |
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| (verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, refashion, remake |
| redouble | (verb) double in magnitude, extent, or intensity | - |
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| (verb) make twice as great or intense | - |
| (verb) double again | - |
| redound | (verb) contribute | - |
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| (verb) have an effect for good or ill | - |
| (verb) return or recoil | - |
| redress | (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, right |
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| reduce | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin |
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| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) narrow or limit | Synonyms: tighten |
| (verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate |
| (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidise, deoxidize |
| (verb) make smaller | Synonyms: scale down |
| (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: shrink |
| (verb) make less complex | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, dilute, thin, thin out |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, decoct |
| (verb) be the essential element | Synonyms: boil down, come down |
| (verb) destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it | - |
| (verb) undergo meiosis | - |
| (verb) reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site | - |
| (verb) lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation | - |
| (verb) lessen and make more modest | - |
| (verb) simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another | - |
| (verb) bring to humbler or weaker state or condition | - |
| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate |
| reduplicate | (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, repeat, replicate |
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| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: geminate |
| reecho | (verb) repeat back like an echo | - |
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| (verb) repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back | - |
| (verb) echo repeatedly, echo again and again | - |
| reef | (verb) roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area | - |
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| (verb) reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef | - |
| (verb) lower and bring partially inboard | - |
| reek | (verb) be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face | Synonyms: fume |
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| (verb) smell badly and offensively | Synonyms: stink |
| (verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: smack, smell |
| (verb) give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc. | - |
| reel | (verb) wind onto or off a reel | - |
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| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, stagger, swag |
| (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | Synonyms: gyrate, spin, spin around, whirl |
| reelect | (verb) elect again | Synonyms: return |
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| reenact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, enact |
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| (verb) enact or perform again | - |
| (verb) enact again | - |
| reenforce | (verb) make stronger | Synonyms: reinforce |
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| reestablish | (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reinstate, restore |
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| 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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