| straddle | (verb) be noncommittal | - |
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| (verb) sit or stand astride of | - |
| (verb) range or extend over; occupy a certain area | Synonyms: range |
| strafe | (verb) attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane | - |
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| straggle | (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, digress, sidetrack |
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| (verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: sprawl |
| straighten | (verb) put (things or places) in order | Synonyms: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten out, tidy, tidy up |
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| (verb) make straight or straighter | - |
| (verb) make straight | Synonyms: straighten out |
| (verb) straighten by unrolling | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) straighten up or out; make straight | Synonyms: unbend |
| (verb) get up from a sitting or slouching position | - |
| strain | (verb) cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | Synonyms: tense, tense up |
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| (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, distort |
| (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strive |
| (verb) use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter, filter out, filtrate, separate out |
| (verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sieve, sift |
| (verb) become stretched or tense or taut | Synonyms: tense |
| (verb) rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender | Synonyms: puree |
| (verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: stress, try |
| straiten | (verb) squeeze together | - |
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| (verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: distress |
| strand | (verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: ground, run aground |
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| (verb) drive (a vessel) ashore | - |
| (verb) leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue | Synonyms: maroon |
| strangle | (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: choke |
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| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, suffocate |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, halter, hamper |
| (verb) die from strangulation | - |
| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangulate, throttle |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, stifle |
| strangulate | (verb) become constricted | - |
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| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, throttle |
| (verb) constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air | - |
| strap | (verb) secure (a sprained joint) with a strap | - |
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| (verb) sharpen with a strap | - |
| (verb) tie with a strap | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, trounce, welt, whip |
| stratify | (verb) render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand | - |
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| (verb) form layers or strata | - |
| (verb) form, arrange, or deposit in layers | - |
| (verb) divide society into social classes or castes | - |
| (verb) develop different social levels, classes, or castes | - |
| straw | (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: strew |
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| (verb) cover or provide with or as if with straw | - |
| stray | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, wander |
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| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: drift, err |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| streak | (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, mottle |
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| (verb) move quickly in a straight line | - |
| (verb) run naked in a public place | - |
| stream | (verb) exude profusely | - |
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| (verb) flow freely and abundantly | Synonyms: well out |
| (verb) to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind | - |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, swarm, teem |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs |
| streamline | (verb) contour economically or efficiently | - |
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| streetwalk | (verb) walk the streets in search of customers | Synonyms: street-walk |
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| strengthen | (verb) give a healthy elasticity to | Synonyms: tone, tone up |
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| (verb) gain strength | - |
| (verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, fortify |
| stress | (verb) to suffer from stress | - |
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| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate |
| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, accentuate |
| (verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: strain, try |
| stretch | (verb) extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body | Synonyms: extend |
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| (verb) extend one's body or limbs | Synonyms: stretch out |
| (verb) become longer by being stretched and pulled | - |
| (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: elongate |
| (verb) extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly | - |
| (verb) increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, load |
| (verb) pull in opposite directions | - |
| (verb) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | Synonyms: extend, stretch out, unfold |
| (verb) lie down comfortably | Synonyms: stretch out |
| (verb) occupy a large, elongated area | Synonyms: stretch along |
| strew | (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: straw |
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| (verb) cover; be dispersed over | - |
| striate | (verb) mark with striae or striations | - |
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| strickle | (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strike |
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| (verb) level off with a strickle in a measuring container | - |
| stride | (verb) walk with long steps | - |
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| stridulate | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: clitter |
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| strike | (verb) cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp | - |
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| (verb) arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing | - |
| (verb) indicate (a certain time) by striking | - |
| (verb) make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon | - |
| (verb) hit against; come into sudden contact with | Synonyms: collide with, hit, impinge on, run into |
| (verb) affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, expunge, scratch |
| (verb) pierce with force | - |
| (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strickle |
| (verb) hook by a pull on the line | Synonyms: seize |
| (verb) produce by ignition or a blow | - |
| (verb) form by stamping, punching, or printing | Synonyms: coin, mint |
| (verb) disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set | - |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, impress, move |
| (verb) drive something violently into a location | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) occupy or take on | Synonyms: assume, take, take up |
| (verb) cause to experience suddenly | Synonyms: come to, hit |
| (verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon |
| (verb) stop work in order to press demands | Synonyms: walk out |
| (verb) attain | Synonyms: come to |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, shine |
| string | (verb) add as if on a string | Synonyms: string up |
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| (verb) provide with strings | - |
| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, thread |
| (verb) remove the stringy parts of | - |
| (verb) string together; tie or fasten with a string | - |
| (verb) stretch out or arrange like a string | - |
| (verb) move or come along | Synonyms: string along |
| strip | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| (verb) draw the last milk (of cows) | - |
| (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: dismantle |
| (verb) remove a constituent from a liquid | - |
| (verb) remove the thread (of screws) | - |
| (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denudate, denude |
| (verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid | Synonyms: leach |
| (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, divest, undress |
| (verb) remove the surface from | - |
| (verb) strip the cured leaves from | - |
| (verb) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, divest |
| stripe | (verb) mark with stripes | - |
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| strive | (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strain |
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| (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour |
| stroke | (verb) treat gingerly or carefully | - |
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| (verb) strike a ball with a smooth blow | - |
| (verb) row at a particular rate | - |
| (verb) touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions | - |
| stroll | (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: saunter |
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| strop | (verb) sharpen on a strop | - |
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| structure | (verb) give a structure to | - |
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| struggle | (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, fight |
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| (verb) to exert strenuous effort against opposition | - |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter |
| (verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: fight |
| strum | (verb) sound the strings of (a stringed instrument) | Synonyms: thrum |
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| strut | (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, swagger, tittup |
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