| seize | (verb) capture the attention or imagination of | Synonyms: grab |
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| (verb) affect | Synonyms: clutch, get hold of |
| (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: clutch, prehend, take hold, take hold of |
| (verb) take or capture by force | - |
| (verb) hook by a pull on the line | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, capture, conquer |
| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, sequester |
| (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: arrogate, assume, take over, usurp |
| seizer | (noun) a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship | Synonyms: shanghaier |
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| seltzer | (noun) naturally effervescent mineral water | - |
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| (noun) effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: carbonated water, club soda, soda water, sparkling water |
| sensibilize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensify, sensitise, sensitize |
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| sensitize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise |
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| (verb) make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) make sensitive to a drug or allergen | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) cause to sense; make sensitive | Synonyms: sensitise |
| sensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| sensitizer | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitiser |
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| sensualize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, carnalize, sensualise |
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| (verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: carnalize |
| (verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: carnalize |
| sentimentalize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| sentimentize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentise |
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| serialize | (verb) arrange serially | Synonyms: serialise |
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| sermonize | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, preachify, sermonise |
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| sermonizer | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher, preacher man, sermoniser |
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| severalize | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) distinguish or separate | Synonyms: severalise |
| sexualize | (verb) make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to | Synonyms: sexualise |
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| sezession | (noun) an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s | Synonyms: secession |
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| shamanize | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanise |
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| shlimazel | (noun) (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything | Synonyms: schlimazel |
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| shmooze | (noun) (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk | - |
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| (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose |
| signalize | (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: distinguish, signalise |
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| (verb) communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs | Synonyms: sign, signal, signalise |
| (verb) point out carefully and clearly | Synonyms: call attention, point out, signalise |
| (verb) provide with traffic signals | Synonyms: signalise |
| singularize | (verb) distinguish as singular | Synonyms: singularise |
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| size | (adjective) (used in combination) sized | - |
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| (noun) the physical magnitude of something (how big it is) | - |
| (noun) the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing) | - |
| (noun) a large magnitude | - |
| (noun) the actual state of affairs | Synonyms: size of it |
| (noun) any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics | Synonyms: sizing |
| (verb) make to a size; bring to a suitable size | - |
| (verb) sort according to size | - |
| (verb) cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance) | - |
| sizeable | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, tidy |
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| (adjective) fairly large in size | Synonyms: ample, sizable |
| sizeableness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, vastness, wideness |
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| sized | (adjective) having a specified size | - |
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| (adjective) having the surface treated or coated with sizing | - |
| sleaze | (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: cheapness, tackiness, tat |
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| slenderize | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slim, slim down, thin |
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| (verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderise |
| sneeze | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneezing, sternutation |
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| (verb) exhale spasmodically, as when an irritant entered one's nose | - |
| sneezer | (noun) a person who sneezes | - |
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| sneezeweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Helenium characteristically causing sneezing | - |
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| sneezewort | (noun) Eurasian herb having loose heads of button-shaped white flowers and long grey-green leaves that cause sneezing when powdered | Synonyms: Achillea ptarmica, sneezeweed yarrow |
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| snooze | (noun) sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) | Synonyms: catnap, forty winks, light sleep, nap, short sleep |
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| (verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: doze, drowse |
| socialize | (verb) make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies | Synonyms: socialise |
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| (verb) prepare for social life | Synonyms: socialise |
| (verb) train for a social environment | Synonyms: socialise |
| (verb) take part in social activities; interact with others | Synonyms: socialise |
| socialized | (adjective) under group or government control | Synonyms: socialised |
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| socializer | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socialiser |
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| sodomize | (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: bugger, sodomise |
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| (verb) copulate with an animal | Synonyms: sodomise |
| solarize | (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: insolate, solarise, sun |
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| (verb) overexpose to sunlight | Synonyms: solarise |
| (verb) become overexposed | Synonyms: solarise |
| (verb) reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it | Synonyms: solarise |
| solemnize | (verb) make solemn and grave | Synonyms: solemnise |
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| (verb) observe or perform with dignity or gravity | Synonyms: solemnise |
| (verb) perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies | Synonyms: solemnise |
| soliloquize | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, monologuize, soliloquise |
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| sorcerize | (verb) transform or change by means of sorcery | Synonyms: sorcerise |
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| sovietize | (verb) model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union | Synonyms: sovietise |
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| (verb) bring under Soviet control, of a country | Synonyms: sovietise |
| specialize | (verb) become more focused on an area of activity or field of study | Synonyms: narrow, narrow down, specialise |
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| (verb) suit to a special purpose | Synonyms: specialise |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: differentiate, specialise, speciate |
| (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, particularize, specialise, specify |
| (verb) devote oneself to a special area of work | Synonyms: specialise |
| specialized | (adjective) developed or designed for a special activity or function | Synonyms: specialised |
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| specializer | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialiser, specialist |
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| spiritize | (verb) imbue with a spirit | Synonyms: spiritise |
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| spiritualize | (verb) purify from the corrupting influences of the world | Synonyms: spiritualise |
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| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: glorify, transfigure |
| (verb) give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense | Synonyms: spiritualise |
| spondaize | (verb) make spondaic | Synonyms: spondaise |
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| spritzer | (noun) a mixed drink made of wine mixed with a sparkling water | - |
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| squeeze | (noun) the act of gripping and pressing firmly | Synonyms: squeezing |
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| (noun) an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power | Synonyms: power play, squeeze play |
| (noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: clinch, hug |
| (noun) the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space | - |
| (noun) a twisting squeeze | Synonyms: wring |
| (noun) (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend | - |
| (noun) a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer | - |
| (noun) a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high | Synonyms: credit crunch, liquidity crisis |
| (verb) press firmly | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, contract, press |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, tweet, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: force, wedge |
| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: bosom, embrace, hug |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, mash, squash, squelch |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, stuff, thrust |
| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, gouge, rack, wring |
| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, hale, pressure |
| squeezer | (noun) a kitchen utensil for squeezing juice from fruit | - |
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| stabilize | (verb) become stable or more stable | Synonyms: stabilise |
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| (verb) make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium | Synonyms: stabilise |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilise, steady |
| stabilized | (adjective) made stable or firm | Synonyms: stabilised |
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| stabilizer | (noun) a device for making something stable | Synonyms: stabiliser |
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| (noun) airfoil consisting of a device for stabilizing an aircraft | - |
| (noun) a chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state | - |
| stalinize | (verb) transform in accordance with Stalin's policies | Synonyms: stalinise |
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| standardize | (verb) cause to conform to standard or norm | Synonyms: standardise |
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| (verb) evaluate by comparing with a standard | Synonyms: standardise |
| standardized | (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, interchangeable, similar, standardised |
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| (adjective) brought into conformity with a standard | Synonyms: standardised |
| standardizer | (noun) a person who sets a standard for things to conform to | Synonyms: standardiser |
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| stargaze | (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: daydream, dream, woolgather |
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| (verb) observe the stars | - |
| stargazer | (noun) heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head | - |
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| (noun) a physicist who studies astronomy | Synonyms: astronomer, uranologist |
| (noun) someone indifferent to the busy world | Synonyms: lotus-eater |
| sterilize | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, unsex |
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| (verb) make free from bacteria | Synonyms: sterilise |
| sterilized | (adjective) made infertile | Synonyms: sterilised |
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| sterilizer | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: autoclave, steriliser |
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| stigmatize | (verb) mark with a stigma or stigmata | Synonyms: stigmatise |
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| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: brand, denounce, mark, stigmatise |
| stylize | (verb) represent according to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalize, stylise |
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| stylized | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalised, conventionalized, stylised |
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| subsidize | (verb) support through subsidies | Synonyms: subsidise |
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| (verb) secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces | Synonyms: subsidise |
| subsidized | (adjective) having partial financial support from public funds | Synonyms: subsidised |
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| subsidizer | (noun) someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidiser |
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| subtilize | (verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: rarefy, sublimate |
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| (verb) make (senses) more keen | Synonyms: subtilise |
| (verb) mark fine distinctions and subtleties, as among words | - |
| suburbanize | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
| suburbanized | (adjective) surrounded by many suburbs | Synonyms: suburbanised |
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| subvocalize | (verb) articulate without making audible sounds | Synonyms: subvocalise |
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| subvocalizer | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocaliser |
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| sulfurized | (adjective) treated or impregnated with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfuretted, sulphuretted |
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| summarize | (verb) give a summary (of) | Synonyms: resume, sum up, summarise |
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| (verb) be a summary of | Synonyms: sum, sum up, summarise |
| summerize | (verb) prepare for summer | Synonyms: summerise |
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| supersensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive |
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| suzerain | (noun) a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs | - |
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| suzerainty | (noun) the domain of a suzerain | - |
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| (noun) the position or authority of a suzerain | - |
| syllabize | (verb) utter with distinct articulation of each syllable | Synonyms: syllabise |
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| (verb) divide into syllables | Synonyms: syllabicate, syllabify, syllabise |
| syllogize | (verb) reason by syllogisms | Synonyms: syllogise |
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| syllogizer | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogiser, syllogist |
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| symbolize | (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: represent, stand for, symbolise, typify |
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| (verb) represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols | Synonyms: symbolise |
| symbolizer | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symboliser, symbolist |
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| symmetrize | (verb) make symmetric | Synonyms: symmetrise |
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| sympathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathise, understand |
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| (verb) to feel or express sympathy or compassion | Synonyms: commiserate, sympathise |
| (verb) share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of | Synonyms: sympathise |
| sympathizer | (noun) someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful | Synonyms: sympathiser, well-wisher |
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| (noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: comforter, sympathiser |
| symphonize | (verb) play or sound together, in harmony | Synonyms: symphonise |
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| synchronize | (verb) make synchronous and adjust in time or manner | Synonyms: sync, synchronise |
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| (verb) operate simultaneously | Synonyms: synchronise |
| (verb) cause to indicate the same time or rate | Synonyms: synchronise |
| (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporise, contemporize, synchronise |
| (verb) make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action | Synonyms: synchronise |
| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporise, contemporize, synchronise |
| synchronized | (adjective) operating in unison | Synonyms: synchronised |
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| synchronizer | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchroniser, synchronoscope, synchroscope |
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| syncretize | (verb) become fused | Synonyms: syncretise |
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| (verb) unite (beliefs or conflicting principles) | Synonyms: syncretise |
| synezesis | (noun) the contraction of chromatin towards one side of the nucleus during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: synizesis |
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| synizesis | (noun) the contraction of chromatin towards one side of the nucleus during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: synezesis |
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| synthesize | (verb) combine so as to form a more complex, product | Synonyms: synthesise |
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| (verb) combine and form a synthesis | - |
| synthesizer | (noun) (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments | Synonyms: synthesiser |
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| (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesiser, synthesist |
| systematize | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systemise, systemize |
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| systematizer | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systemiser, systemizer |
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| systemize | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systematize, systemise |
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| systemizer | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemiser |
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