| table | (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: tabularise, tabularize, tabulate |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve |
| taboo | (verb) declare as sacred and forbidden | - |
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| tabularise | (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularize, tabulate |
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| tabularize | (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularise, tabulate |
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| tabulate | (verb) shape or cut with a flat surface | - |
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| (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularise, tabularize |
| tack | (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch |
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| (verb) fasten with tacks | - |
| (verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: baste |
| (verb) fix to; attach | Synonyms: append, hang on, tack on, tag on |
| (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack together |
| (verb) turn into the wind | Synonyms: wear round |
| tackle | (verb) seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball | - |
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| (verb) put a harness | Synonyms: harness |
| (verb) accept as a challenge | Synonyms: take on, undertake |
| tag | (verb) provide with a name or nickname | - |
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| (verb) attach a tag or label to | Synonyms: label, mark |
| (verb) touch a player while he is holding the ball | - |
| (verb) supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tail, track, trail |
| tail | (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: bob, dock |
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| (verb) remove the stalk of fruits or berries | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, track, trail |
| tailgate | (verb) follow at a dangerously close distance | - |
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| tailor | (verb) adjust to a specific need or market | Synonyms: orient |
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| (verb) create (clothes) with cloth | Synonyms: sew, tailor-make |
| (verb) style and tailor in a certain fashion | Synonyms: cut |
| taint | (verb) contaminate with a disease or microorganism | Synonyms: infect |
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| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, corrupt, defile, sully |
| take | (verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: contract, get |
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| (verb) remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract | Synonyms: remove, take away, withdraw |
| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, adopt, assume, take on |
| (verb) ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial | - |
| (verb) be seized or affected in a specified way | - |
| (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: choose, pick out, select |
| (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, read, study |
| (verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: consider, deal, look at |
| (verb) interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression | Synonyms: read |
| (verb) accept or undergo, often unwillingly | Synonyms: submit |
| (verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: claim, exact |
| (verb) make a film or photograph of something | Synonyms: film, shoot |
| (verb) lay claim to; as of an idea | Synonyms: claim |
| (verb) obtain by winning | - |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, direct, take aim, train |
| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: consume, have, ingest, take in |
| (verb) get into one's hands, take physically | Synonyms: get hold of |
| (verb) have sex with; archaic use | Synonyms: have |
| (verb) occupy or take on | Synonyms: assume, strike, take up |
| (verb) travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route | - |
| (verb) head into a specified direction | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, direct, guide, lead |
| (verb) take something or somebody with oneself somewhere | Synonyms: bring, convey |
| (verb) proceed along in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive |
| (verb) experience or feel or submit to | - |
| (verb) take into one's possession | - |
| (verb) conquer by force | - |
| (verb) buy, select | - |
| (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, lease, rent |
| (verb) receive or obtain regularly | Synonyms: subscribe, subscribe to |
| (verb) receive willingly something given or offered | Synonyms: accept, have |
| (verb) require (time or space) | Synonyms: occupy, use up |
| (verb) admit into a group or community | Synonyms: accept, admit, take on |
| (verb) to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort | - |
| (verb) make use of or accept for some purpose | Synonyms: accept |
| (verb) assume, as of positions or roles | Synonyms: fill, occupy |
| (verb) carry out | - |
| (verb) develop a habit; apply oneself to a practice or occupation | Synonyms: take to |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require |
| (verb) be designed to hold or take | Synonyms: accept |
| (verb) have with oneself; have on one's person | Synonyms: carry, pack |
| (verb) be capable of holding or containing | Synonyms: contain, hold |
| talc | (verb) apply talcum powder to (one's body) | - |
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| talk | (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) exchange thoughts; talk with | Synonyms: speak |
| (verb) reveal information | Synonyms: spill |
| (verb) use language | Synonyms: speak |
| (verb) deliver a lecture or talk | Synonyms: lecture |
| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, tattle |
| tally | (verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tot, tot up, total, tote up |
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| (verb) keep score, as in games | Synonyms: chalk up |
| (verb) gain points in a game | Synonyms: rack up, score |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match |
| talmbout | (verb) to talk about | - |
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| tame | (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: chasten, subdue |
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| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize |
| (verb) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans | Synonyms: domesticate |
| (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim |
| (verb) make less strong or intense; soften | Synonyms: moderate, tone down |
| tamp | (verb) press down tightly | Synonyms: pack, tamp down |
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| tamper | (verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: fiddle, monkey |
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| (verb) intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly | Synonyms: meddle |
| tampon | (verb) plug with a tampon | - |
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| tan | (verb) get a tan, from wind or sun | Synonyms: bronze |
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| (verb) treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather | - |
| tangle | (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: entangle, mat, snarl |
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| (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: dishevel, tousle |
| (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: knot, ravel |
| (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up |
| tango | (verb) dance a tango | - |
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| tank | (verb) treat in a tank | - |
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| (verb) consume excessive amounts of alcohol | - |
| (verb) store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it | - |
| tantalise | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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| tantalize | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, taunt, tease, twit |
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| tap | (verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: beg, solicit |
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| (verb) draw from; make good use of | Synonyms: exploit |
| (verb) strike lightly | Synonyms: tip |
| (verb) cut a female screw thread with a tap | - |
| (verb) pierce in order to draw a liquid from | - |
| (verb) walk with a tapping sound | - |
| (verb) dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes | Synonyms: tapdance |
| (verb) draw (liquor) from a tap | - |
| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, intercept, wiretap |
| (verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: knock, pink, rap |
| (verb) draw from or dip into to get something | - |
| (verb) furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it | - |
| tapdance | (verb) dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes | Synonyms: tap |
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| tape | (verb) register electronically | Synonyms: record |
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| (verb) record on videotape | Synonyms: videotape |
| (verb) fasten or attach with tape | - |
| taper | (verb) give a point to | Synonyms: point, sharpen |
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| (verb) diminish gradually | - |
| tar | (verb) coat with tar | - |
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| target | (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, place, point |
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| tariff | (verb) charge a tariff | - |
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| tarmac | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamise, macadamize |
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| tarnish | (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, sully |
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| tarry | (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: linger |
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| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around |
| task | (verb) use to the limit | Synonyms: tax |
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| (verb) assign a task to | - |
| taste | (verb) experience briefly | - |
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| (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: sample, try, try out |
| (verb) perceive by the sense of taste | - |
| (verb) distinguish flavors | - |
| (verb) have flavor; taste of something | Synonyms: savor, savour |
| (verb) have a distinctive or characteristic taste | Synonyms: smack |
| tat | (verb) make lacework by knotting or looping | Synonyms: intertwine |
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| tattle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk |
| tattoo | (verb) stain (skin) with indelible color | - |
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| taunt | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, tease, twit |
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| tauten | (verb) become taut or tauter | Synonyms: firm |
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| (verb) make taut or tauter | Synonyms: firm |
| tax | (verb) make a charge against or accuse | - |
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| (verb) use to the limit | Synonyms: task |
| (verb) levy a tax on | - |
| (verb) set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine) | Synonyms: assess |
| taxi | (verb) ride in a taxicab | Synonyms: cab |
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| (verb) travel slowly | - |
| teach | (verb) accustom gradually to some action or attitude | - |
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| (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: instruct, learn |
| team | (verb) form a team | Synonyms: team up |
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| tear | (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, rupture, snap |
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| (verb) to separate or be separated by force | - |
| (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, pull |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot, shoot down |
| (verb) fill with tears or shed tears | - |
| teargas | (verb) attack with teargas; subject to teargas fumes | - |
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| tease | (verb) ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect | Synonyms: fluff |
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| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, twit |
| (verb) mock or make fun of playfully | - |
| (verb) separate the fibers of | Synonyms: card |
| (verb) disentangle and raise the fibers of | Synonyms: loosen, tease apart |
| (verb) raise the nap of (fabrics) | - |
| (verb) tear into pieces | - |
| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, pester |
| (verb) to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them | - |
| tee | (verb) place on a tee | Synonyms: tee up |
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| (verb) connect with a tee | - |
| teem | (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, stream, swarm |
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| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: pullulate, swarm |
| teeter | (verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: seesaw, totter |
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| teetertotter | (verb) ride on a plank | Synonyms: seesaw, teeter-totter |
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| teethe | (verb) grow teeth; cut the baby teeth | - |
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| teetotal | (verb) practice teetotalism and abstain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages | - |
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| telecast | (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: televise |
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| telecommunicate | (verb) communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail | - |
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| telefax | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: facsimile, fax |
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| telegraph | (verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: cable, wire |
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| telepathise | (verb) communicate nonverbally by telepathy | Synonyms: telepathize |
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| telepathize | (verb) communicate nonverbally by telepathy | Synonyms: telepathise |
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| telephone | (verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call, call up, phone, ring |
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| teleport | (verb) transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another | - |
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| telescope | (verb) make smaller or shorter | - |
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| (verb) crush together or collapse | - |
| televise | (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: telecast |
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| telex | (verb) communicate by telex | - |
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| tell | (verb) discern or comprehend | - |
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| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell apart |
| (verb) let something be known | - |
| (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recite, recount |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, order, say |
| (verb) give evidence | Synonyms: evidence |
| (verb) express in words | Synonyms: say, state |
| (verb) inform positively and with certainty and confidence | Synonyms: assure |
| temper | (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: moderate, mollify, season |
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| (verb) adjust the pitch (of pianos) | - |
| (verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil | Synonyms: harden |
| (verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: chasten |
| (verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling | Synonyms: anneal, normalize |
| temporise | (verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time | Synonyms: temporize |
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| temporize | (verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time | Synonyms: temporise |
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| tempt | (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: charm, influence |
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| (verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: allure |
| (verb) try presumptuously | - |
| (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, lure |
| (verb) give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting | Synonyms: invite |
| (verb) try to seduce | - |
| tenant | (verb) occupy as a tenant | - |
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| tend | (verb) have care of or look after | - |
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| (verb) manage or run | - |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, run |
| tender | (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tenderise, tenderize |
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| (verb) make a tender of; in legal settlements | - |
| (verb) offer or present for acceptance | - |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: bid, offer |
| tenderise | (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tender, tenderize |
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| tenderize | (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tender, tenderise |
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| tense | (verb) cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | Synonyms: strain, tense up |
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| (verb) become tense, nervous, or uneasy | Synonyms: tense up |
| (verb) increase the tension on | - |
| (verb) become stretched or tense or taut | Synonyms: strain |
| tent | (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp |
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| tenure | (verb) give life-time employment to | - |
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| tergiversate | (verb) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances | Synonyms: apostatise, apostatize |
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| (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, prevaricate |
| term | (verb) name formally or designate with a term | - |
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| terminate | (verb) bring to an end or halt | Synonyms: end |
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| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, finish, stop |
| (verb) be the end of; be the last or concluding part of | Synonyms: end |
| terrace | (verb) make into terraces as for cultivation | - |
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| (verb) provide (a house) with a terrace | Synonyms: terrasse |
| terrasse | (verb) provide (a house) with a terrace | Synonyms: terrace |
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| terrify | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrorise, terrorize |
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| territorialise | (verb) extend by adding territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
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| (verb) place on a territorial basis | Synonyms: territorialize |
| (verb) organize as a territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
| territorialize | (verb) extend by adding territory | Synonyms: territorialise |
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| (verb) place on a territorial basis | Synonyms: territorialise |
| (verb) organize as a territory | Synonyms: territorialise |
| terrorise | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrify, terrorize |
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| (verb) coerce by violence or with threats | Synonyms: terrorize |
| terrorize | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrify, terrorise |
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| (verb) coerce by violence or with threats | Synonyms: terrorise |
| tessellate | (verb) tile with tesserae | - |
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| (verb) fit together exactly, of identical shapes | - |
| test | (verb) undergo a test | - |
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| (verb) examine someone's knowledge of something | Synonyms: quiz |
| (verb) determine the presence or properties of (a substance) | - |
| (verb) achieve a certain score or rating on a test | - |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, try, try out |
| (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) show a certain characteristic when tested | - |
| testify | (verb) give testimony in a court of law | Synonyms: attest, bear witness, take the stand |
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| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, show |
| tether | (verb) tie with a tether | - |
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| text | (verb) to send a message by SMS or similar text-based messaging service | - |
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| thank | (verb) express gratitude or show appreciation to | Synonyms: give thanks |
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| thatch | (verb) cover with thatch | - |
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| thaw | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, melt, unfreeze, unthaw |
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| theme | (verb) provide with a particular theme or motive | - |
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