| 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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