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Inculpate
To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt.
Misdoubt
To be suspicious of; to have suspicion.
Collect
To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
Overjoy
To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely.
Misguide
To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
Disaccommodate
To put to inconvenience; to incommode.
Overjump
To jump over; hence, to omit; to ignore.
Indagate
To seek or search out.
Dilapidate
To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building.
Encrust
To incrust. See Incrust.
Conciliate
To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.
Behappen
To happen to.
Peculiarize
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession.
Prove
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
Blink
To trick; to deceive.
Outpace
To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind.
Gnide
To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
Object
Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
Configure
To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.
Contentment
The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible.
Humanize
To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.
Decollate
To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.
Acquit
To clear one's self.
Aspirate
To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.
Thieve
To practice theft; to steal.
Nay
To refuse.
Increate
To create within.
Cock
To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
Estimate
To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the..
Previse
To inform beforehand; to warn.
Nol-pros
To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.
Machine
To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
Recalcitrate
To kick against; to show repugnance to; to rebuff.
Downbear
To bear down; to depress.
Recline
To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
Overprize
Toprize excessively; to overvalue.
Close
Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open.
Diminish
To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
Prig
To cheapen.
Redeem
To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
Spang
To spangle.
Evulgate
To publish abroad.
Empeople
To form into a people or community; to inhabit; to people.
Nuncupate
To declare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally.
Metamorphose
To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.
Decorticate
To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.
Unmanacle
To free from manacles.
Apprize
To appraise; to value; to appreciate.
Hauberk
A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used syn..
Colloquialize
To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.
Affranchise
To make free; to enfranchise.
Disfigure
To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
Composite
Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
Retund
To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence.
Misspell
To spell incorrectly.
Entrain
To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.
Miscall
To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.
Beslabber
To beslobber.
Algebraize
To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form.
Obnubilate
To cloud; to obscure.
Overstep
To step over or beyond; to transgress.
Embolden
To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.
Envenom
To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to ..
Vacillate
To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
Disentitle
To deprive of title or claim.
Wash
To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
Disedge
To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull.
Eke
To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply ..
Distrust
To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.
Disgust
To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.
Environ
To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.
Foliage
To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.
Italicize
To print in Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too much.
Anglicize
To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
Execrate
To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.
Disrobe
To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure.
Cross-examine
To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.
Overcloud
To cover or overspread with clouds; to becloud; to overcast.
Miscalculate
To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly.
Emasculate
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
Debauchee
One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.
Enrich
To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.
Inebriate
To make drunk; to intoxicate.
Explore
To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.
Dignify
To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
Accentuate
To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
Bastardize
To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
Cognize
To know or perceive; to recognize.
Assever
See Asseverate.
Ascertain
To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
Expropriate
To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.
Achromatize
To deprive of color; to make achromatic.
Stealth
The act of stealing; theft.
Hunch
To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
Blockade
To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
Pass
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
Work
To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
Supper
To supply with supper.
Rosin
To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.
Candy
A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flav..
Pommel
To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.
Colliquate
To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt.
Outtop
To overtop.
Usury
A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.
Sculp
To sculpture; to carve; to engrave.
Shill
To shell.
Immit
To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit.
Wooer
One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor.
Mark
To put a mark upon; to affix a significant mark to; to make recognizable by a mark; as, to mark a box or bale of merchandise; to mark clothing.
Punter
One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro.
Inculcate
To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility.
Discharge
Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.
Unlace
To loose by undoing a lacing; as, to unlace a shoe.
Disclaunder
To injure one's good name; to slander.
Amerce
To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.
Usance
Interest paid for money; usury.
Deacon
To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.
Tote
To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; -- a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes.
Rase
To rub along the surface of; to graze.
Yean
To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean.
Entitle
To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "H..
Publish
To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.
Liquefy
To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.
Accurse
To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
Lessee
The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.
Prompt
To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.
Rejoin
To join again; to unite after separation.
Pollenize
To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen.
Furl
To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten...
Consummate
To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
Palmer
One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
Becalm
To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.
Smatter
To talk superficially about.
Affray
To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
Outwear
To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.
Sneap
To check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide.
Uncurl
To loose from curls, or ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly.
Prediscover
To discover beforehand.
Annunciate
To announce.
Rate
To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
Erogate
To lay out, as money; to deal out; to expend.
Outwind
To extricate by winding; to unloose.
Decrepitate
To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
Empale
To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
Verify
To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like.
Jaunt
To jolt; to jounce.
React
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
F
The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F /) is a tone intermediate between F and G.
Ravish
To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.
Tousle
To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Slate
Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
Overgo
To travel over.
Avenge
To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
Embay
To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing.
Circumflex
To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
See
To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
Rubify
To redden.
Yodel
Alt. of Yodle
Ruddle
To raddle or twist.
Waylay
To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.
Overdo
To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.
Purfle
To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue and white.
Feel
To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
Entreat
To invite; to entertain.
Feign
To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
Detest
To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
Pace
To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
Miscolor
To give a wrong color to; figuratively, to set forth erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts.
Aliene
To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate.
Whip
The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
Efform
To form; to shape.
Embox
To inclose, as in a box; to imbox.
Becalm
To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.
Bask
To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
Nuzzle
To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
Ray
To array.
Unsay
To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said.
Excel
To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.
Bemist
To envelop in mist.
Bolt
To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
Spay
To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).
Infest
Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.
Recure
To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
Forger
One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
Enmist
To infold, as in a mist.
Adduct
To draw towards a common center or a middle line.
Couche
Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.
Record
An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
Leer
To learn.
Behead
To sever the head from; to take off the head of.
Wigwag
To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side according to a code adopted for the purpose.
Byname
To give a nickname to.
Despecificate
To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize.
Kidnap
To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place.
Cadge
To carry, as a burden.
Befool
To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.
Ladle
A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
Loathe
To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.
Besnow
To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.
Debark
To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.
Prank
To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink.
Outvie
To exceed in vying.
Vend
To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.
Violate
To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe.
Dizen
To dress; to attire.
Beseem
Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit.
Bren
Alt. of Brenne
Conn
See Con, to direct a ship.
Skirl
To utter in a shrill tone; to scream.
Accent
To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
Unturn
To turn in a reserve way, especially so as to open something; as, to unturn a key.
Manure
To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
Ambush
A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.
Claps
Variant of Clasp
Inarch
To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach.
Blond
Alt. of Blonde
Ossify
To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
Grege
Alt. of Gregge
Resent
To be sensible of; to feel
Throne
To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
Covet
To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense.
Engild
To gild; to make splendent.
Oxidate
To oxidize.
Illumine
To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.
Surcharge
To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
Exhume
To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
Broker
One who transacts business for another; an agent.
Cham
To chew.
Elute
To wash out.
Exceed
To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, pow..
Abduce
To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part.
Exert
To thrust forth; to emit; to push out.
Anneal
To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
Align
To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.
Ceil
To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.
Argufy
To argue pertinaciously.
Behave
To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
Assail
To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.
Clench
See Clinch.
Sundry
Several; divers; more than one or two; various.
Befall
To happen to.
Recast
To throw again.
Bemuse
To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.
Mazard
To knock on the head.
Enrobe
To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire.
Abduct
To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.
Chevy
See Chivy, v. t.
Gasify
To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.
Abhor
To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
Quarter
A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris.
Evince
To conquer; to subdue.
Pamper
To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.
Trawl
To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
Descry
To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
Assort
To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods. [Rarely applied to persons.]
Armada
A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.
Betroth
To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.
Rebate
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
Slumber
To lay to sleep.
Medicate
To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.
Deter
To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.
Matronize
To make a matron of; to make matronlike.
Spatter
To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with ..
Pummel
Same as Pommel.
Outweigh
To exceed in weight or value.
Counterweigh
To weigh against; to counterbalance.
Bash
To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
Decolorize
To deprive of color; to whiten.
Bloat
To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.
Overshoot
To shoot over or beyond.
Congeal
To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.
Activate
To make active.
Miscount
To count erroneously.
Heal
To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
Outstretch
To stretch out.
Sufflate
To blow up; to inflate; to inspire.
Upwind
To wind up.
Acclimate
To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
Ditty
A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme.
Anoint
To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
Splint
A piece split off; a splinter.
Milden
To make mild, or milder.
Averment
The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.
Propitiate
To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.
Arrogate
To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over king..
Reunite
To unite again; to join after separation or variance.
Colonize
To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.
Becloud
To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.
Unspell
To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant.
Unblindfold
To free from that which blindfolds.
Uncharm
To release from a charm, fascination, or secret power; to disenchant.
Haunt
To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
Refashion
To fashion anew; to form or mold into shape a second time.
Temporize
To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
Rivel
To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers.
Indemnify
To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.
Reinstate
To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom.
Postpone
To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinite..
Prepay
To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.
Recommit
To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.
Embark
To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
Unstrain
To relieve from a strain; to relax.
Shear
To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
Excerpt
To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.
Subduct
To withdraw; to take away.
Overdraw
To exaggerate; to overdo.
Grille
A lattice or grating.
Acquaint
Acquainted.
Ram
To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
Familiarize
To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.
Inform
To give form or share to; to give vital ororganizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion.
Reenact
To enact again.
Refill
To fill, or become full, again.
Recreate
To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to gratify.
Assassinate
To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence.
Resettle
To settle again.
Reestablish
To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reestablish a covenant; to reestablish health.
Reshape
To shape again.
Expurgate
To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.
Omit
To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.
Commentate
To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.
Recense
To review; to revise.
Reorganize
To organize again or anew; as, to reorganize a society or an army.
Reorder
To order a second time.
Edit
To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.
Vignette
To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.
Slay
To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.
Delectate
To delight; to charm.
Denounce
To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
Shunt
To shun; to move from.
Fuzz
To make drunk.
Estop
To impede or bar by estoppel.
Ponder
To weigh.
Introspect
To look into or within; to view the inside of.
Bejade
To jade or tire.
Catenate
To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain.
Colligate
To tie or bind together.
Contribute
To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute f..
Reembody
To embody again.
Federalize
To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution.
Subjoin
To add after something else has been said or written; to ANNEX; as, to subjoin an argument or reason.
Marry
To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the p..
Superadd
To add over and above; to add to what has been added; to annex, as something extrinsic.
Imprison
To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
Adduce
To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
Lenify
To assuage; to soften; to mitigate; to alleviate.
Purify
To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air...
Personalize
To make personal.
Distribute
To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
Hopple
To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.
Encage
To confine in a cage; to coop up.
Conserve
To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.
Abalienate
To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
Ascribe
To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.
Diversify
To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Anatomize
To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.
Elance
To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.
Presignify
To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.
Unfair
To deprive of fairness or beauty.
Muffle
A pulley block containing several sheaves.
Undrape
To strip of drapery; to uncover or unveil.
Mishandle
To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
Stratify
To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.
Buy
To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to ..
Deign
To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain.
Reprehend
To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure.
Mismanage
To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.
Congest
To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.
Disinherit
To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the ..
Divest
To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
Unhouse
To drive from a house or habitation; to dislodge; hence, to deprive of shelter.
Bereave
To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
Pardon
The state of being forgiven.
Incriminate
To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.
Enchain
To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.
Disarm
To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
Fossilize
To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.
Putrefy
To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.
Scent
To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
Perfume
To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
Uncoil
To unwind or open, as a coil of rope.
Unriddle
To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery.
Unthread
To draw or take out a thread from; as, to unthread a needle.
Disprove
To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
Darn
To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.
Reinvest
To invest again or anew.
Dishearten
To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
Capsize
To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body.
Uncrown
To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone.
Hybridize
To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.
Disallow
To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.
Disaffirm
To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted.
Interbreed
To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.
Disavow
To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the..
Mongrelize
To cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.
Fusil
Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible.
Synthesize
To combine by synthesis; to unite.
Legalize
To make legal.
Legitimatize
To legitimate.
Preorder
To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain.
Swelter
To oppress with heat.
Proselytize
To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.
Stopple
That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.
Misemploy
To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc.
Circumnavigate
To sail completely round.
Dispart
To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers.
Emove
To move.
Desiderate
To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want.
Arear
To raise; to set up; to stir up.
Evade
To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an ..
Turnip
The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.
Duck
To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
Vilify
To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
Laudation
The act of lauding; praise; high commendation.
Flattery
The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.
Limitary
Placed at the limit, as a guard.
Pun
To pound.
Depone
To lay, as a stake; to wager.
Asseverate
To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.
Overfreight
To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload.
Enjoin
To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
Seclude
To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.
Stockade
A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.
Embattle
To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
Moist
To moisten.
Ensue
To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake.
Inset
To infix.
Outleap
To surpass in leaping.
Disembody
To divest of the body or corporeal existence.
Revest
To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe.
Vouch
To call; to summon.
Avouch
To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.
Revert
To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
Reinstall
To install again.
Reintegrate
To renew with regard to any state or quality; to restore; to bring again together into a whole, as the parts off anything; to reestablish; as, to reintegrate a nation.
Frump
To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
Advise
To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
Amaze
To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
Prehend
To lay hold of; to seize.
Inflict
To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a ..
Mislead
To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
Unmake
To destroy the form and qualities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate.
Thresh
To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old stra..
Brutalize
To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
Outmaneuver
Alt. of Outmanoeuvre
Ruinate
To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin.
Uglify
To disfigure; to make ugly.
Discomfit
To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
Overbalance
To exceed equality with; to outweigh.
Acquire
To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
Demonize
To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.
Diabolize
To render diabolical.
Countersign
To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing.
Wrestle
To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
Infold
To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve.
Whelm
To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.
Ventilate
To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.
Untune
To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.
Unthrone
To remove from, or as from, a throne; to dethrone.
Unstring
To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads.
Unsettle
To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.
Unfrock
To deprive or divest or a frock; specifically, to deprive of priestly character or privilege; as, to unfrock a priest.
Underscore
To draw a mark or line under; to underline.
Unchurch
To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.
Unburden
To relieve from a burden.
Domiciliate
To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.
Bide
To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.
Inhabit
To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.
Live
To act habitually in conformity with; to practice.
Triturate
To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash.
Tourney
A tournament.
Swath
A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.
Supersede
To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.
Strum
To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.
Startle
To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
Stampede
A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
Squelch
To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.
Spy
To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.
Spurtle
To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner.
Skimp
To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
Skim
To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
Sicken
To make sick; to disease.
Shrive
To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.
Shatter
To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak ..
Sentimentalize
To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.
Scumble
To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce..
Scribble
To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
Propound
To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.
Salivate
To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.
Assert
To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.
Posit
To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.
Adjudicate
To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.
Allegorize
To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
Rhapsodize
To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody
Purvey
To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.
Pulverize
To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must b..
Perfuse
To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.
Percuss
To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.
Oxygenize
To oxidize.
Oxygenate
To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat with oxygen; to oxidize; as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide).
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