wad | (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram |
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(verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, compact, pack |
waddle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, totter |
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wade | (verb) walk (through relatively shallow water) | - |
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waffle | (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waver |
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waft | (verb) be driven or carried along, as by the air | - |
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(verb) blow gently | - |
wag | (verb) move from side to side | Synonyms: waggle |
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wage | (verb) carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) | Synonyms: engage |
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wager | (verb) maintain with or as if with a bet | Synonyms: bet |
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(verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: bet, play |
waggle | (verb) move from side to side | Synonyms: wag |
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(verb) move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion | Synonyms: wamble |
wail | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, pule, whimper |
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(verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, yaup, yawl |
wait | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, expect, look |
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(verb) serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant | Synonyms: waitress |
(verb) stay in one place and anticipate or expect something | - |
(verb) wait before acting | Synonyms: hold back, hold off |
waitress | (verb) serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant | Synonyms: wait |
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waive | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard |
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(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, relinquish |
wake | (verb) be awake, be alert, be there | - |
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(verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake up, waken |
(verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake up, waken |
(verb) to alert someone to something | - |
(verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up |
waken | (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up |
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(verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up |
walk | (verb) obtain a base on balls | - |
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(verb) give a base on balls to | - |
(verb) use one's feet to advance; advance by steps | - |
(verb) accompany or escort | - |
(verb) walk at a pace | - |
(verb) traverse or cover by walking | - |
(verb) take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure | Synonyms: take the air |
(verb) make walk | - |
(verb) live or behave in a specified manner | - |
(verb) be or act in association with | - |
wall | (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, surround |
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wallop | (verb) defeat soundly and utterly | - |
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(verb) strike hard | Synonyms: whack, wham, whop |
wallow | (verb) delight greatly in | - |
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(verb) devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure | - |
(verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: rejoice, triumph |
(verb) roll around | Synonyms: welter |
(verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: billow |
wallpaper | (verb) cover with wallpaper | Synonyms: paper |
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waltz | (verb) dance a waltz | Synonyms: waltz around |
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wamble | (verb) move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion | Synonyms: waggle |
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wan | (verb) become pale and sickly | - |
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wander | (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, stray |
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(verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond |
(verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, weave, wind |
(verb) go via an indirect route or at no set pace | - |
(verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold |
wane | (verb) become smaller | - |
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(verb) decrease in phase | - |
(verb) grow smaller | Synonyms: decline, go down |
wangle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, manage |
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(verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent |
wank | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, masturbate, she-bop |
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want | (verb) wish or demand the presence of | - |
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(verb) have need of | Synonyms: need, require |
(verb) hunt or look for; want for a particular reason | - |
(verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly | Synonyms: desire |
(verb) be without, lack; be deficient in | - |
wanton | (verb) behave extremely cruelly and brutally | - |
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(verb) engage in amorous play | - |
(verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: luxuriate |
(verb) spend wastefully | Synonyms: trifle away, wanton away |
(verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, trifle, wanton away |
(verb) indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life | - |
war | (verb) make or wage war | - |
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warble | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, trill |
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(verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: descant, yodel |
ward | (verb) watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect | Synonyms: guard |
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ware | (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, squander, waste |
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warehouse | (verb) store in a warehouse | - |
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warm | (verb) get warm or warmer | Synonyms: warm up |
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(verb) make warm or warmer | - |
warn | (verb) notify of danger, potential harm, or risk | - |
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(verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, discourage, monish |
(verb) notify, usually in advance | - |
(verb) ask to go away | - |
warp | (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: buckle, heave |
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(verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, falsify, garble |
warrant | (verb) provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action) | - |
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(verb) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of | Synonyms: guarantee |
wash | (verb) cleanse (one's body) with soap and water | Synonyms: lave |
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(verb) to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking | - |
(verb) remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent | Synonyms: wash away, wash off, wash out |
(verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, moisten |
(verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lap, lave |
(verb) form by erosion | - |
(verb) wash by removing particles | Synonyms: hush |
(verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: launder |
(verb) separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) | - |
(verb) clean with some chemical process | Synonyms: rinse |
(verb) apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to | - |
(verb) move by or as if by water | - |
(verb) be capable of being washed | - |
(verb) admit to testing or proof | - |
wassail | (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, toast |
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(verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, whoop it up |
waste | (verb) become physically weaker | Synonyms: rot |
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(verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge |
(verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: emaciate, macerate |
(verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: languish, pine away |
(verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, squander, ware |
(verb) use inefficiently or inappropriately | - |
(verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize |
(verb) run off as waste | Synonyms: run off |
(verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, squander |
(verb) dispose of | - |
watch | (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, determine, find out, learn, see |
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(verb) look attentively | - |
(verb) be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful | Synonyms: look out, watch out |
(verb) observe without intervening | Synonyms: look on |
(verb) observe or determine by looking | - |
(verb) see or watch | Synonyms: catch, see, take in, view |
(verb) follow with the eyes or the mind | Synonyms: follow, keep an eye on, observe, watch over |
water | (verb) secrete or form water, as tears or saliva | - |
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(verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams | Synonyms: irrigate |
(verb) fill with tears | - |
(verb) provide with water | - |
watercolor | (verb) paint with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolour |
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watercolour | (verb) paint with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolor |
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waterproof | (verb) make watertight | - |
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wattle | (verb) interlace to form wattle | - |
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(verb) build of or with wattle | - |
waul | (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: squall, wawl |
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wave | (verb) set waves in | - |
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(verb) signal with the hands or nod | Synonyms: beckon |
(verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, flourish |
(verb) twist or roll into coils or ringlets | Synonyms: curl |
(verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, roll, undulate |
waver | (verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: quaver |
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(verb) sway from side to side | Synonyms: weave |
(verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: fluctuate, vacillate |
(verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, quiver |
(verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: falter |
(verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waffle |
(verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: falter |
wawl | (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: squall, waul |
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wax | (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: climb, mount, rise |
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(verb) increase in phase | Synonyms: full |
(verb) cover with wax | - |
waylay | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper |
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