| roach | (verb) cut the mane off (a horse) | - |
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| (verb) comb (hair) into a roach | - |
| roam | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| roar | (verb) laugh unrestrainedly and heartily | Synonyms: howl |
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| (verb) make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles | Synonyms: howl |
| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl |
| (verb) utter words loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: thunder |
| (verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: bellow |
| (verb) act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way | - |
| roast | (verb) cook with dry heat, usually in an oven | - |
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| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule |
| rob | (verb) take something away by force or without the consent of the owner | - |
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| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, soak, surcharge |
| robe | (verb) clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes | Synonyms: vest |
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| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: cloak, clothe, drape |
| rock | (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: shake, sway |
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| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: sway |
| rocket | (verb) propel with a rocket | - |
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| (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: skyrocket |
| roil | (verb) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of | Synonyms: rile |
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| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, churn, moil |
| roister | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, riot |
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| roleplay | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, playact |
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| roll | (verb) execute a roll, in tumbling | - |
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| (verb) take the shape of a roll or cylinder | - |
| (verb) show certain properties when being rolled | Synonyms: roll up |
| (verb) boil vigorously | Synonyms: seethe |
| (verb) shape by rolling | - |
| (verb) pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/ | - |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: twine, wind, wrap |
| (verb) begin operating or running | - |
| (verb) flatten or spread with a roller | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) move by turning over or rotating | Synonyms: turn over |
| (verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: wheel |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, undulate, wave |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: revolve |
| (verb) move, rock, or sway from side to side | - |
| (verb) emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound | - |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, pluck |
| (verb) occur in soft rounded shapes | Synonyms: undulate |
| rollick | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| romance | (verb) tell romantic or exaggerated lies | - |
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| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander |
| (verb) have a love affair with | - |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, solicit, woo |
| romanticise | (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticize |
| romanticize | (verb) act in a romantic way | - |
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| (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticise |
| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticise |
| romp | (verb) win easily | - |
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| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, run around, skylark, sport |
| (verb) run easily and fairly fast | - |
| roneo | (verb) make copies on a Roneograph | - |
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| roof | (verb) provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof | - |
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| rook | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| room | (verb) live and take one's meals at or in | Synonyms: board |
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| roost | (verb) settle down or stay, as if on a roost | - |
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| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: perch, rest |
| root | (verb) take root and begin to grow | - |
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| (verb) cause to take roots | - |
| (verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | Synonyms: settle, settle down, steady down, take root |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: rootle, rout |
| (verb) plant by the roots | - |
| (verb) cheer for | - |
| (verb) come into existence, originate | - |
| rootle | (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rout |
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| rope | (verb) fasten with a rope | Synonyms: leash |
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| (verb) catch with a lasso | Synonyms: lasso |
| rosin | (verb) rub rosin onto | - |
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| rot | (verb) become physically weaker | Synonyms: waste |
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| (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, moulder |
| rotate | (verb) plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession | - |
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| (verb) perform a job or duty on a rotating basis | - |
| (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: circumvolve |
| (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, revolve |
| (verb) turn outward | Synonyms: splay, spread out, turn out |
| (verb) exchange on a regular basis | - |
| rouge | (verb) redden by applying rouge to | - |
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| rough | (verb) prepare in preliminary or sketchy form | Synonyms: rough in, rough out |
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| roughcast | (verb) hew roughly, without finishing the surface | Synonyms: rough-hew |
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| (verb) apply roughcast to | - |
| (verb) shape roughly | - |
| roughen | (verb) make rough or rougher | - |
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| roughhouse | (verb) engage in rough or disorderly play | - |
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| round | (verb) become round, plump, or shapely | Synonyms: fill out, flesh out |
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| (verb) make round | Synonyms: round off, round out |
| (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish, polish up, round off |
| (verb) express as a round number | Synonyms: round down, round off, round out |
| (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, labialize |
| (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, snipe |
| (verb) wind around; move along a circular course | - |
| rouse | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, turn on |
| (verb) force or drive out | Synonyms: drive out, force out, rout out |
| (verb) become active | Synonyms: bestir |
| rout | (verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: expel, rout out |
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| (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: spread-eagle, spreadeagle |
| (verb) make a groove in | Synonyms: gouge |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rootle |
| route | (verb) send via a specific route | - |
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| (verb) divert in a specified direction | - |
| (verb) send documents or materials to appropriate destinations | - |
| rove | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| row | (verb) propel with oars | - |
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