| trill | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, warble |
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| (verb) pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r' | - |
| trim | (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down |
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| (verb) adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used | - |
| (verb) cut closely | Synonyms: shave |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip |
| (verb) remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size | Synonyms: pare |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, garnish |
| (verb) decorate, as with ornaments | - |
| (verb) be in equilibrium during a flight | - |
| (verb) balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces | - |
| trip | (verb) get high, stoned, or drugged | Synonyms: get off, trip out, turn on |
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| (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off |
| (verb) miss a step and fall or nearly fall | Synonyms: stumble |
| (verb) cause to stumble | Synonyms: trip up |
| (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: jaunt, travel |
| triple | (verb) increase threefold | Synonyms: treble |
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| (verb) hit a three-base hit | - |
| triplicate | (verb) reproduce threefold | - |
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| trisect | (verb) cut in three | - |
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| triumph | (verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: crow, gloat |
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| (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, jubilate, rejoice |
| (verb) prove superior | Synonyms: prevail |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: rejoice, wallow |
| trivialise | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialize |
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| trivialize | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialise |
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| troat | (verb) emit a cry intended to attract other animals; used especially of animals at rutting time | - |
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| troll | (verb) sing loudly and without inhibition | - |
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| (verb) praise or celebrate in song | - |
| (verb) speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice | - |
| (verb) angle with a hook and line drawn through the water | - |
| (verb) sing the parts of (a round) in succession | - |
| (verb) cause to move round and round | - |
| (verb) circulate, move around | - |
| troop | (verb) move or march as if in a crowd | - |
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| (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: parade, promenade |
| trot | (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: clip, jog |
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| (verb) ride at a trot | - |
| (verb) cause to trot | - |
| trouble | (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: ail, pain |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, unhinge |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: disturb, upset |
| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out |
| (verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: bother, inconvenience oneself, trouble oneself |
| troubleshoot | (verb) solve problems | Synonyms: trouble-shoot |
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| trounce | (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, scold, take to task |
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| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip |
| trowel | (verb) use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work | - |
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| truck | (verb) convey (goods etc.) by truck | - |
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| truckle | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady |
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| (verb) yield to out of weakness | - |
| trudge | (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp |
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| true | (verb) make level, square, balanced, or concentric | Synonyms: true up |
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| trump | (verb) proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare | Synonyms: trump out |
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| (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: best, outdo, outflank, scoop |
| (verb) play a trump | Synonyms: ruff |
| (verb) produce a sound as if from a trumpet | - |
| trumpet | (verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet | - |
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| (verb) utter in trumpet-like sounds | - |
| (verb) play or blow on the trumpet | - |
| truncate | (verb) make shorter as if by cutting off | Synonyms: cut short |
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| (verb) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one | - |
| (verb) replace a corner by a plane | - |
| trundle | (verb) move heavily | - |
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| truss | (verb) support structurally | - |
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| (verb) tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it | - |
| (verb) secure with or as if with ropes | Synonyms: bind, tie down, tie up |
| trust | (verb) have confidence or faith in | - |
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| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: believe |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: desire, hope |
| (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, entrust, intrust |
| (verb) (chiefly archaic) extend credit to | - |
| (verb) allow without fear | - |
| try | (verb) put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice | Synonyms: try on |
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| (verb) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: sample, taste, try out |
| (verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: strain, stress |
| (verb) give pain or trouble to | - |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, essay, seek |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, test, try out |
| (verb) examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process | Synonyms: hear |
| (verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: adjudicate, judge |
| tsk | (verb) utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval | Synonyms: tut-tut, tut |
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| tube | (verb) place or enclose in a tube | - |
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| (verb) convey in a tube | - |
| (verb) ride or float on an inflated tube | - |
| (verb) provide with a tube or insert a tube into | - |
| tuck | (verb) fit snugly into | Synonyms: insert |
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| (verb) make a tuck or several folds in | - |
| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: gather, pucker |
| tucker | (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: beat, exhaust, tucker out, wash up |
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| tug | (verb) struggle in opposition | - |
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| (verb) pull hard | - |
| (verb) pull or strain hard at | - |
| (verb) move by pulling hard | - |
| (verb) carry with difficulty | Synonyms: lug, tote |
| (verb) tow (a vessel) with a tug | - |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, labour, push |
| tumble | (verb) do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully | - |
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| (verb) fall suddenly and sharply | - |
| (verb) suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat | - |
| (verb) put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying | - |
| (verb) understand, usually after some initial difficulty | Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, twig |
| (verb) throw together in a confused mass | - |
| (verb) fall down, as if collapsing | Synonyms: topple |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, crumple |
| (verb) roll over and over, back and forth | - |
| (verb) cause to topple or tumble by pushing | Synonyms: tip, topple |
| (verb) fly around | Synonyms: whirl, whirl around |
| tumefy | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell, swell up, tumesce |
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| (verb) cause to become very swollen | - |
| tumesce | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy |
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| tune | (verb) adjust the pitches of (musical instruments) | Synonyms: tune up |
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| (verb) adjust for (better) functioning | Synonyms: tune up |
| tunnel | (verb) force a way through | - |
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| (verb) move through by or as by digging | Synonyms: burrow |
| turf | (verb) cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots | - |
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| turn | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, twist, wrench, wrick |
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| (verb) change to the contrary | Synonyms: change by reversal, reverse |
| (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: ferment, sour, work |
| (verb) pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become | Synonyms: grow |
| (verb) undergo a transformation or a change of position or action | Synonyms: change state |
| (verb) change color | - |
| (verb) become officially one year older | - |
| (verb) have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to | Synonyms: call on |
| (verb) direct at someone | - |
| (verb) shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel | - |
| (verb) let (something) fall or spill from a container | Synonyms: release |
| (verb) alter the functioning or setting of | - |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, flex, twist |
| (verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plough, plow |
| (verb) to change orientation or direction | - |
| (verb) cause to move around a center so as to show another side of | Synonyms: turn over |
| (verb) cause to move around or rotate | - |
| (verb) pass to the other side of | Synonyms: move around |
| (verb) move around an axis or a center | - |
| (verb) to send or let go | - |
| (verb) cause to move along an axis or into a new direction | - |
| (verb) channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something | - |
| (verb) get by buying and selling | - |
| (verb) accomplish by rotating | - |
| (verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: become |
| (verb) cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics | - |
| turtle | (verb) hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation | - |
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| (verb) overturn accidentally | Synonyms: capsize, turn turtle |
| tusk | (verb) remove the tusks of animals | Synonyms: detusk |
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| (verb) stab or pierce with a horn or tusk | Synonyms: horn |
| tussle | (verb) make messy or untidy | Synonyms: muss |
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| (verb) fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters | Synonyms: scuffle |
| tut | (verb) utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval | Synonyms: tsk, tut-tut |
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| tutor | (verb) be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction | - |
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| (verb) act as a guardian to someone | - |
| twaddle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle |
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| twang | (verb) pronounce with a nasal twang | - |
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| (verb) pluck (strings of an instrument) | - |
| (verb) sound with a twang | - |
| (verb) cause to sound with a twang | - |
| (verb) twitch or throb with pain | - |
| tweak | (verb) adjust finely | Synonyms: fine-tune |
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| (verb) to be under the influence of methamphetamine | - |
| (verb) pull or pull out sharply | Synonyms: pick off, pluck, pull off |
| (verb) pinch or squeeze sharply | - |
| tweedle | (verb) entice through the use of music | - |
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| (verb) play negligently on a musical instrument | - |
| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: chirp |
| tweet | (verb) To post a message on Twitter; post tweets, i.e. short text messages on the popular social media website Twitter | - |
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| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) make a weak, chirping sound | Synonyms: twirp |
| tweeze | (verb) pluck with tweezers | - |
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| twerk | (verb) to dance with thrusting hip movements and a low squatting stance | - |
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| twiddle | (verb) manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: fiddle with |
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| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: swirl, twirl, whirl |
| twig | (verb) branch out in a twiglike manner | - |
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| (verb) understand, usually after some initial difficulty | Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, tumble |
| twill | (verb) weave diagonal lines into (textiles) | - |
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| twin | (verb) give birth to twins | - |
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| (verb) grow as twins | - |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, match, mate, pair |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: duplicate, parallel |
| twine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace |
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| (verb) make by twisting together or intertwining | - |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: roll, wind, wrap |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: distort, twist |
| twinge | (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twitch |
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| (verb) cause a stinging pain | Synonyms: prick, sting |
| (verb) feel a sudden sharp, local pain | - |
| twinkle | (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, wink, winkle |
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| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: scintillate, winkle |
| twirl | (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: swirl, twiddle, whirl |
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| (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: birl, spin, whirl |
| twirp | (verb) make a weak, chirping sound | Synonyms: tweet |
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| twist | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, wrench, wrick |
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| (verb) form into twists | - |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, sophisticate, twist around |
| (verb) turn in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: distort, twine |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, flex, turn |
| (verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: wrench |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
| (verb) do the twist | - |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: curve, wind |
| twit | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease |
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| twitch | (verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | Synonyms: jerk |
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| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge |
| (verb) move or pull with a sudden motion | - |
| (verb) toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air | Synonyms: flip |
| (verb) move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions | Synonyms: jerk |
| twitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: chitter |
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| type | (verb) identify as belonging to a certain type | Synonyms: typecast |
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| (verb) write by means of a keyboard with types | Synonyms: typewrite |
| typecast | (verb) identify as belonging to a certain type | Synonyms: type |
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| (verb) cast repeatedly in the same kind of role | - |
| typeset | (verb) set in type | Synonyms: set |
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| typewrite | (verb) write by means of a keyboard with types | Synonyms: type |
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| typify | (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: represent, stand for, symbolise, symbolize |
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| (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomise, epitomize |
| tyrannise | (verb) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner | Synonyms: domineer, tyrannize |
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| (verb) rule a country as a tyrant | Synonyms: grind down, tyrannize |
| tyrannize | (verb) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner | Synonyms: domineer, tyrannise |
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| (verb) rule a country as a tyrant | Synonyms: grind down, tyrannise |