| scoff | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, gibe, jeer |
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| (verb) treat with contemptuous disregard | Synonyms: flout |
| scold | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grouch, grumble |
| scollop | (verb) shape or cut in scallops | Synonyms: scallop |
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| (verb) fish for scallops | Synonyms: scallop |
| (verb) form scallops in | Synonyms: scallop |
| scoop | (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: best, outdo, outflank, trump |
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| (verb) take out or up with or as if with a scoop | Synonyms: lift out, scoop out, scoop up, take up |
| scoot | (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scud, shoot |
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| scorch | (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, char, sear |
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| (verb) make very hot and dry | Synonyms: sear |
| (verb) become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions | - |
| (verb) destroy completely by or as if by fire | - |
| (verb) become superficially burned | Synonyms: sear, singe |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scald, whip |
| score | (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: grade, mark |
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| (verb) make underscoring marks | Synonyms: mark |
| (verb) gain points in a game | Synonyms: rack up, tally |
| (verb) get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance | - |
| (verb) make small marks into the surface of | Synonyms: mark, nock |
| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: make, seduce |
| (verb) write a musical score for | - |
| scorn | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, spurn, turn down |
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| (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, disdain |
| scotch | (verb) make a small cut or score into | - |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, spoil, thwart |
| scour | (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, purge |
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| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: abrade |
| (verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scrub |
| (verb) examine minutely | - |
| scourge | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, waste |
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| (verb) whip | Synonyms: flagellate |
| (verb) punish severely; excoriate | - |
| scout | (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoiter, reconnoitre |
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| scowl | (verb) frown with displeasure | - |
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