cordate | (adjective) (of a leaf) shaped like a heart | Synonyms: cordiform, heart-shaped |
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coronate | (verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: crown |
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corporate | (adjective) of or belonging to a corporation | - |
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(adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, embodied, incarnate |
(adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: collective |
(adjective) organized and maintained as a legal corporation | Synonyms: incorporated |
correlate | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlated, correlative |
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(noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlative |
(verb) bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation | - |
(verb) to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation | - |
corroborate | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, substantiate, support, sustain |
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(verb) give evidence for | Synonyms: validate |
(verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, support, underpin |
corrugate | (verb) fold into ridges | - |
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coruscate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
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(verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
costate | (adjective) having ribs | - |
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(adjective) (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture | Synonyms: ribbed |
craniate | (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: vertebrate |
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crate | (noun) a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping | - |
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(noun) the quantity contained in a crate | Synonyms: crateful |
(verb) put into a crate; as for protection | - |
create | (verb) make or cause to be or to become | Synonyms: make |
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(verb) pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity | - |
(verb) bring into existence | - |
(verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: make, produce |
(verb) create by artistic means | Synonyms: make |
(verb) invest with a new title, office, or rank | - |
cremate | (verb) reduce to ashes | - |
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crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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crenelate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenellate |
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crenellate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenelate |
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crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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crepitate | (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crackle |
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criminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, impeach, incriminate |
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(verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, reprimand |
crispate | (adjective) wavy or notched and curled very irregularly | - |
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cruciate | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciform |
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culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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(verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
(verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
(verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
(verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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(verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
(verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
cumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, gather, pile up |
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cuneate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base | Synonyms: wedge-shaped |
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cupulate | (adjective) shaped like (or supporting) a cupule | Synonyms: cupular |
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curate | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: minister, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
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cuspate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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cuspidate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidated |
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cybernate | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, computerize |
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cyclamate | (noun) any salt or ester of cyclamic acid. | - |
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date | (noun) sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed | - |
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(noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, engagement |
(noun) a participant in a date | Synonyms: escort |
(noun) the specified day of the month | Synonyms: day of the month |
(noun) the present | - |
(noun) the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred | - |
(noun) a particular day specified as the time something happens | - |
(verb) assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of | - |
(verb) provide with a dateline; mark with a date | - |
(verb) stamp with a date | Synonyms: date stamp |
(verb) go on a date with | - |
(verb) date regularly; have a steady relationship with | Synonyms: go out, go steady, see |
deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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(verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
deaerate | (verb) remove air or gas from | Synonyms: de-aerate |
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deaminate | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminize |
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deathrate | (noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year | Synonyms: death rate, fatality rate, mortality, mortality rate |
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debate | (noun) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) | Synonyms: disputation, public debate |
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(noun) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal | Synonyms: argument, argumentation |
(verb) argue with one another | - |
(verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: deliberate |
(verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, contend, fence |
(verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, deliberate, moot, turn over |
debilitate | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: drain, enfeeble |
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decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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decarbonate | (verb) remove carbon dioxide from | - |
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decarboxylate | (verb) lose a carboxyl group | - |
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(verb) remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound) | - |
decelerate | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: retard, slow, slow down, slow up |
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(verb) reduce the speed of | Synonyms: slow down |
decerebrate | (verb) remove the cerebrum from (a human body) | - |
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dechlorinate | (verb) remove chlorine from (water) | - |
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decimate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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(verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies | - |
decollate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decapitate |
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deconcentrate | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, decentralize |
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deconsecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: desecrate, unhallow |
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decontaminate | (verb) rid of contamination | - |
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decorate | (verb) provide with decoration | Synonyms: dress |
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(verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, embellish, grace, ornament |
(verb) award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to | - |
(verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, embellish, grace |
decorticate | (verb) remove the cortex of (an organ) | - |
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(verb) remove the outer layer of | - |
decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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(verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
decussate | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: intersectant, intersecting |
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(verb) cross or intersect so as to form a cross | - |
dedicate | (verb) set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church | - |
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(verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, devote, give |
(verb) inscribe or address by way of compliment | - |
(verb) open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building | - |
dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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defalcate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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defecate | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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defenestrate | (verb) throw through or out of the window | - |
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defibrillate | (verb) stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks | - |
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defibrinate | (verb) remove fibrin from (blood) | - |
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deflagrate | (verb) burn with great heat and intense light | - |
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(verb) cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity | - |
deflate | (verb) become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air | - |
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(verb) reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices | - |
(verb) produce deflation in | - |
(verb) reduce or lessen the size or importance of | Synonyms: puncture |
(verb) release contained air or gas from | - |
(verb) collapse by releasing contained air or gas | - |
defoliate | (adjective) deprived of leaves | Synonyms: defoliated |
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(verb) strip the leaves or branches from | - |
degenerate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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(noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: deviant, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
(verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: deteriorate, devolve, drop |
dehydrate | (verb) lose water or moisture | Synonyms: desiccate, dry up, exsiccate |
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(verb) remove water from | Synonyms: desiccate |
(verb) preserve by removing all water and liquids from | Synonyms: desiccate |
dehydrogenate | (verb) remove hydrogen from | - |
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delegate | (noun) a person appointed or elected to represent others | - |
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(verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, depute, designate |
(verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: depute |
deliberate | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: calculated, measured |
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(adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: careful, measured |
(adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: intentional, knowing |
(verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: debate |
(verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, moot, turn over |
delicate | (adjective) exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury | - |
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(adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragile, frail |
(adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: ticklish, touchy |
(adjective) developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety | Synonyms: finespun |
(adjective) of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely | - |
(adjective) marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique | - |
(adjective) easily hurt | Synonyms: soft |
delimitate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, demarcate |
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(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delineate, specify |
delineate | (adjective) represented accurately or precisely | Synonyms: delineated, represented |
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(verb) describe in vivid detail | - |
(verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: describe, draw, line, trace |
(verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: limn, outline |
(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delimitate, specify |
(verb) show the form or outline of | Synonyms: define |
demarcate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, delimitate |
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(verb) separate clearly, as if by boundaries | - |
demodulate | (verb) extract information from a modulated carrier wave | - |
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demonstrate | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: establish, prove, shew, show |
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(verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, evidence, manifest |
(verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, exhibit, present, show |
(verb) march in protest; take part in a demonstration | Synonyms: march |
demyelinate | (verb) destroy the myelin sheath of | - |
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denigrate | (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, derogate, minimize |
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(verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
denominate | (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: designate |
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dentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections in the margin | - |
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denticulate | (adjective) having a very finely toothed margin | - |
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denudate | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: bald, denuded |
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(verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denude, strip |
deoxygenate | (verb) remove oxygen from (water) | - |
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depilate | (verb) remove body hair | Synonyms: epilate |
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deplumate | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplume, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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depopulate | (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: desolate |
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deprecate | (verb) belittle | Synonyms: depreciate, vilipend |
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(verb) express strong disapproval of; deplore | - |
depreciate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: devaluate, devalue, undervalue |
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(verb) lower the value of something | - |
(verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, vilipend |
deracinate | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: extirpate, root out, uproot |
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(verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: uproot |
derate | (verb) lower the rated electrical capability of electrical apparatus | - |
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deregulate | (verb) lift the regulations on | - |
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derogate | (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, denigrate, minimize |
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desalinate | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinise, desalinize, desalt |
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desecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: deconsecrate, unhallow |
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(verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: outrage, profane, violate |
desegregate | (verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: integrate, mix |
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desiccate | (adjective) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless | Synonyms: arid, desiccated |
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(verb) lose water or moisture | Synonyms: dehydrate, dry up, exsiccate |
(verb) preserve by removing all water and liquids from | Synonyms: dehydrate |
(verb) remove water from | Synonyms: dehydrate |
designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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(verb) design or destine | Synonyms: destine, intend, specify |
(verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: denominate |
(verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: destine, doom, fate |
(verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: indicate, point, show |
(verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute |
desolate | (adjective) crushed by grief | - |
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(adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark |
(verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: depopulate |
(verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
(verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, forsake |
desperate | (adjective) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | Synonyms: heroic |
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(adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: dire |
(adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: despairing |
(adjective) showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | - |
(adjective) desperately determined | Synonyms: do-or-die |
(adjective) (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair | - |
(noun) a person who is frightened and in need of help | - |
desquamate | (verb) peel off in scales | Synonyms: peel off |
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deteriorate | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, devolve, drop |
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(verb) become worse or disintegrate | - |
determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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(adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
(adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |