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abandon {v} (to give up) abandon {v} (to leave behind or desert) abase {v} (to lower so as to hurt feelings) abash {v} (to make ashamed, to embarrass) abate {v} (obsolete: to bring entirely down or put an end to) abate {v} (to bring down a person physically or mentally) abate {v} (to bring down or reduce to a lower state) abate {v} (to decrease or become less in strength) abbreviate {v} (to make shorter) abbreviate {v} (to reduce to lower terms) abdicate {v} (disinherit) abdicate {v} (reject) abdicate {v} (renounce a throne) abdicate {v} (surrender or relinquish) abduct {v} (to take away) abet {v} (to assist or encourage in crime) abet {v} (to support, uphold, or aid) abhor {v} (to regard with horror or detestation) abide {v} (to await) abide {v} (to dwell) abide {v} (to endure) abide {v} (to tolerate) abide by {v} (to accept a decision or law and act in accordance with it; to conform to; to acquiesce) abide by {v} (to remain faithful to something or someone; to stand to; to adhere) abjure {v} (to renounce with solemnity) able {v} (enable) SEE: enable :: able {v} (vouch for) SEE: vouch for :: abnegate {v} (to deny oneself something) abolish {v} (to destroy) abolish {v} (to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice) abominate {v} (to feel disgust towards, to hate in the highest degree) abort {v} (computing: to terminate a process prior to completion) abound {v} (to be copiously supplied) abound {v} (to be plentiful) abound with {v} (abound) SEE: abound :: abrade {v} ((transitive) to rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction) abreact {v} (eliminate previously repressed emotions) abridge {v} (to make shorter) abridge {v} (to shorten or contract by using fewer words) abrogate {v} (to annul by an authoritative act) abrogate {v} (to put an end to) abscond {v} (to depart secretly) abscond {v} (to hide (something)) abscond {v} (to withdraw from) abseil {v} (to descend a vertical drop using a rope) absent {v} (to withhold from being present) absolve {v} (theology: to pronounce free or give absolution from sin) absolve {v} (to pronounce free or give absolution) absolve {v} (to set free) absorb {v} (physics: to take up by chemical or physical action) absorb {v} (to consume completely) absorb {v} (to endure) absorb {v} (to include so that it no longer has separate existence) absorb {v} (to learn) absorb {v} (to occupy fully) absorb {v} (to suck up or drink in) absquatulate {v} (to die) absquatulate {v} (to leave quickly or in a hurry; to take oneself off; to decamp; to depart) abstain {v} (hinder, withhold) abstain {v} (refrain from) abstain {v} (refrain from voting) abstract {v} (to consider abstractly) abstract {v} (to remove; to take away; to withdraw) abstract {v} (to separate; to disengage) abuse {v} (to adulterate) SEE: adulterate :: abuse {v} (to hurt) abuse {v} (to insult) abuse {v} (to rape) abuse {v} (to use improperly) abut {v} (to border on) accelerate {v} (to become faster) accelerate {v} (to cause to move faster) accelerate {v} (to hasten) accelerate {v} (to quicken natural or ordinary progression or process) accentuate {v} (to mark with a written accent) accentuate {v} (to pronounce with an accent) accept {v} (to agree to) accept {v} (to agree to pay) accept {v} (to endure patiently) accept {v} (to receive officially) accept {v} (to receive with consent) access {v} (computing: to have access to (data)) acclaim {v} (to applaud) acclaim {v} (to shout applause) acclaim {v} (to shout) acclimatize {v} (to get used to a new climate) acclimatize {v} (to make used to a new climate) accoil {v} (nautical sense) SEE: coil :: accommodate {v} (to adapt one's self) accommodate {v} (to adapt to fit) accommodate {v} (to bring into agreement) accommodate {v} (to furnish with something desired) accommodate {v} (to provide housing for) accommodate {v} (to render fit or suitable) accompany {v} beiliegen accompany {v} (to attend as a companion) accompany {v} (to keep company) accompany {v} (to perform an accompanying part next to another instrument) accompany {v} (to perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition) accomplish {v} (to bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform) accomplish {v} (to complete, as time or distance) accomplish {v} (to equip or furnish thoroughly) accomplish {v} (to finish successfully) accost {v} sich nähern account {v} (account for) SEE: account for :: account {v} (credit (to)) SEE: credit :: account to {v} (to be responsible to) accourage {v} (encourage) SEE: encourage :: accredit {v} (To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction) accredit {v} (To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.) accrue {v} (increase) acculture {v} (familiarize oneself with a new culture) accumulate {v} (to grow in number) accumulate {v} (to pile up) accuse {v} (attribute blame to someone) accustom {v} (cohabit) SEE: cohabit :: accustom {v} (to be wont) accustom {v} (to make familiar by use) ache {v} (be in pain) achieve {v} (to carry out successfully; to accomplish) achieve {v} (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion) acidify {v} (to make something acidic) acknowledge {v} anerkennen acknowledge {v} (to admit the claims or authority of) acknowledge {v} (to admit the knowledge of) acknowledge {v} (to notify receipt) acquire {v} (to gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own) acquire {v} (to get) acquit {v} freisprechen acquit {v} (to discharge a claim or debt) acquit {v} (to discharge from an obligation) acquit {v} (to pay or atone for) acquit {v} (to release, rescue) act {v} (to behave in a certain way) act {v} (to do something) act {v} (to have an effect on) act {v} (to perform a theatrical role) act {v} (to respond to information) activate {v} aktivieren act one's age {v} (to be mature and not childish) act out {v} (to express one's feelings through disruptive actions) actualize {v} (become real) actualize {v} (make real) adapt {v} (to fit by alteration) adapt {v} (to make suitable) add {v} (to append, as a statement) add {v} (to make an addition) add {v} (to perform the arithmetical operation of addition, to add up) add fuel to the fire {v} (worsen a conflict) address {v} (reflexively: to prepare oneself) address {v} (to direct in writing) address {v} (to refer a location in computer memory) address with the informal T-form {v} (to address with the informal T-form - translation entry) address with the polite V-form {v} (to address with the polite V-form - translation entry) add up {v} (be reasonable or consistent) SEE: make sense :: adhere {v} (To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree) adhere {v} (To stick fast or cleave) adjust {v} (to improve or rectify) adjust {v} (to modify) ad lib {v} (to perform extemporaneously) ad lib {v} (to perform without preparation) ad lib {v} (to perform without script) administer {v} (to cause to take by openly offering or through deceit) administer {v} (to work in an administrative capacity; to supervise) administrate {v} (to administer) admire {v} (regard with wonder and delight) admit {v} (to allow to enter; to grant entrance) admit {v} (to concede as true) admonish {v} (warn against danger or an offense) admonish {v} (warn or notify of a fault; exhort) adopt {v} (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen) adopt {v} (to take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally) adore {v} (love with entire heart and soul) adore {v} (worship) adorn {v} (to make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate) adsorb {v} (to accumulate on a surface) adulter {v} (adulterate) SEE: adulterate :: adulterate {v} (to corrupt) advance {v} (to move forwards, to approach) advance {v} (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) advertise {v} ((intransitive) to provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others) advertise {v} ((transitive) to give public notice of; to announce publicly) advertise {v} ((transitive) to provide public information about (a product, services etc.)) advise {v} (to give advice to; to offer an opinion; to counsel; to warn) advocate {v} (argue for) advocate {v} (encourage support for) aerate {v} (to supply oxygen or air) affect {v} (to influence or alter) affect {v} (to make a false display of) affect {v} (to move to emotion) affiliate {v} (to adopt) SEE: adopt :: affiliate {v} (to attach (to) or unite (with)) affiliate {v} (to connect in the way of descent) affiliate {v} (to fix the paternity of) affirm {v} (to agree with or verify) affirm {v} (to support or encourage) affix {v} (to attach) afflict {v} (To cause pain to) afford {v} (to incur, stand, or bear) afford {v} (to offer, provide, or supply) age {v} (intransitive: become old) age {v} (transitive: cause to grow old) aggravate {v} (To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate) aggravate {v} (To make worse, or more severe) aggrieve {v} (to give pain or sorrow to, to afflict, to oppress) agitate {v} aufwĂ¼hlen agree {v} (grammar: to correspond in gender, number, case, or person) agree {v} (harmonize in opinion; be in unison or concord; be united; concur) agree {v} (to come to terms or to a common resolve) agree {v} (to yield assent, to accede) agree {v} Ă¼bereinstimmen, zustimmen aid {v} (to support) ail {v} (to be ill) aim {v} (to point or direct a missile weapon) air {v} (to bring into contact with the air) air {v} (to broadcast) air-condition {v} (to mechanically cool a space or an entire structure) airfreight {v} (airfreight) SEE: air cargo :: airmail {v} (to send mail by air) alarm {v} Alarm schlagen (intransitive), alarmieren alarm {v} (to give notice (by sound or otherwise) of approaching danger) alarm {v} (to keep in excitement; to disturb) alarm {v} (to surprise with apprehension of danger) alert {v} (to give warning to) alienate {v} : entfremden alienate {v} (To estrange) aline {v} (adhere oneself with a group or a way of thinking) SEE: align :: aline {v} (adjust or form to a line) SEE: align :: aline {v} (form in line, fall into line) SEE: align :: allege {v} (assert without proof) allegorise {v} (allegorise) alleviate {v} (make less severe) allocate {v} (to distribute according to a plan) allow {v} (to acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion) allow {v} (to grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have) allow {v} (to let something happen, to admit, to concede) allow {v} (to make allowance) allow {v} (to permit) allowed {v} (to be let one have) alloy {v} (mix or combine) allure {v} (to attempt to draw) alter {v} (to change the form or structure of) alternate {v} (to happen, succeed, or act by turns) alternate {v} (to perform by turns) alternate {v} (to vary by turns) amalgamate {v} (to combine or blend) amalgamate {v} (to make an alloy of mercury and another metal) amass {v} (to collect into a mass or heap) amaze {v} (to fill with surprise, astonish) amble {v} (to stroll or walk slowly and leisurely) ambuscade {v} (to lie in wait for, or to attack) ambush {v} (To attack by ambush; to waylay) ambush {v} (To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy) ameliorate {v} (to make better) amend {v} (to become better) amend {v} (to make a formal alteration) amend {v} (to make better) amerce {v} (to impose a fine on) SEE: fine :: amerce {v} (to make an exaction) SEE: punish :: Americanize {v} (to make American) amortize {v} (decrease (debt) in installments) amount {v} (to total or evaluate) amplify {v} (to increase amplitude) amplify {v} (to render larger etc.) amputate {v} (To surgically remove a body part) amuse {v} (to cause laughter) amuse {v} (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner) analyze {v} (to subject to analysis) anchor {v} (to hold an object to a fixed point) anesthetize {v} (administer anesthesia) anger {v} (to cause such a feeling of antagonism) angle {v} (to fish with hook and line) anglicise {v} (make English) animalize {v} (brutalize) SEE: brutalize :: animate {v} (to impart motion or its appearance) anneal {v} (to subject to great heat, and then cool slowly) annex {v} (to add something to another, to incorporate into) annihilate {v} (to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate) annotate {v} (to add annotation) announce {v} (to give public notice, or first notice of) announce {v} (to pronounce; declare by judicial sentence) annoy {v} (to disturb or irritate) annoying {v} (causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious) annul {v} (dissolve (a marital union)) annul {v} (formally revoke the validity of) annunciate {v} (announce) anoint {v} (to apply oil to or to pour oil upon) anoint {v} (to smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance) anonymise {v} (to render anonymous) anonymize {v} (to render anonymous) answer {v} (to make a reply or response to) answer to {v} (to be responsible to) anticipate {v} (to know of something before it manifests) ape {v} (imitate) apologise {v} (apologize) SEE: apologize :: apologize {v} (to make an apology or excuse) appall {v} (To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear) appeal {v} (to accuse) SEE: accuse :: appeal {v} (to apply for the removal of a cause to a superior judge or court) appeal {v} (to be attractive) appeal {v} (to invoke) SEE: invoke :: appear {v} (To become visible to the apprehension of the mind) appear {v} (To come before the public) appear {v} (To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible) appear {v} (To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look) appear {v} (To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like) appease {v} (To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify) append {v} ( To add, as an accessory) append {v} (To hang or attach to, as by a string) applaud {v} (to express approval by clapping) applaud {v} (to praise, or express approval by words) apply {v} (to put to use for a purpose) apply {v} (to submit oneself as a candidate) appoint {v} (To assign, designate, or set apart by authority) appoint {v} ( to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of) appoint {v} (To fix with power or firmness) appoint {v} ( to provide with everything necessary) appraise {v} (to set a value; to estimate the worth of) appreciate {v} (to be aware of) appreciate {v} (to be grateful for something) appreciate {v} (to increase in value) appreciate {v} (to value highly) apprehend {v} ( to arrest; to apprehend a criminal) apprehend {v} (To take or seize; to take hold of) apprehend {v} ( to understand; to recognize) apprise {v} (to notify) approach {v} (To come near to in place, time, or character) approach {v} (to come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer) approach {v} (To draw near, in a figurative sense) approach {v} (To take approaches to) appropriate {v} (Law: To annex) appropriate {v} (To make suitable) appropriate {v} (To set apart for) appropriate {v} (To take to one's self in exclusion of others) approve {v} (To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance) approve {v} (To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial) approximate {v} (to carry or advance near; to cause to approach) approximate {v} (to come near to; to approach) Arabize {v} (to make Arab) archive {v} (to archive) are {v} (be) SEE: be :: are {v} (first-person plural simple present indicative form of be) are {v} (second-person plural simple present indicative form of be) are {v} (second-person singular (informal) simple present indicative form of be) are {v} (third-person plural simple present indicative form of be) argue {v} (intransitive: to debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints) argue {v} (to have an argument, a quarrel) argue {v} (transitive: present a viewpoint) arise {v} (start to exist, originate) arm {v} (to supply with weapons) armoured {v} (Equipped with armoured vehicles) arm to the teeth {v} (to equip with weapons) aromatize {v} (to make aromatic) arouse {v} (to awaken) arouse {v} (to sexually stimulate) arouse {v} (to stimulate feelings) arraign {v} (charge someone in a court of law) arrange {v} (music: to adapt an existing composition for presentation) arrange {v} (to set up, organise) array {v} (to clothe, ornament) arrest {v} (to stop (a process etc.)) arrest {v} (to take into legal custody) arrive {v} (to get to a certain place) arrive {v} (to obtain a level of success or fame) arrive {v} (to reach) articulate {v} (music: to attack a note) articulate {v} (to clarify) articulate {v} (to explain) articulate {v} (to speak clearly) ascend {v} (to fly, to soar) ascertain {v} (find out; discover or establish) ascribe {v} (attribute a book, etc) ask {v} (make a request) ask {v} (request an answer) asperse {v} (scatter) SEE: scatter :: asperse {v} (sprinkle) SEE: sprinkle :: aspire {v} (to hope or dream) assail {v} (to attack violently) assassin {v} (assassinate) SEE: assassinate :: assassinate {v} (to murder by sudden or obscure attack) assault {v} (to attack, threaten or harass) assemble {v} (to gather as a group) assemble {v} (to put together) assert {v} (To affirm) assert {v} (To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures) assert {v} (To maintain; to defend) asseverate {v} (declare earnestly) assign {v} (to designate or set apart something for some purpose) assimilate {v} (to absorb a group of people into a community) assist {v} (help) assuage {v} (pacify) assume {v} (adopt an idea) assume {v} (take on a position) assume {v} (to suppose to be true) assure {v} (to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something) assure {v} (to make sure and secure) astonish {v} (surprise) astound {v} (to astonish, bewilder or dazzle) atone {v} (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime) atrophy {v} (wither) attack {v} (to aggressively challenge with words) attack {v} (to apply violent force) attain {v} (to accomplish; to achieve) attempt {v} (to try) attend {v} (to be present at) attend {v} (to turn one's consideration to, deal with) attire {v} (to dress or garb) attract {v} anziehen attract {v} (pull without touching) attribute {v} (to associate ownership or authorship with) auction {v} (to sell at an auction) audition {v} (evaluate one or more performers in through an audition) audition {v} (take part in such a performance) augment {v} (to become greater) augment {v} (to increase, make larger or supplement) augur {v} (to foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events) auscultate {v} (to practice auscultation) authenticate {v} (To prove authentic) authenticate {v} (To render authentic) authorize {v} (to grant someone the power or authority to do something specific) automate {v} (to replace or enhance human labor with machines) automatize {v} (automate) SEE: automate :: autopsy {v} (perform an autopsy) avail {v} (to be of service to) avail {v} (to turn to the advantage of) avenge {v} (to take vengeance for) avert {v} (to ward off) avoid {v} (to keep away from) avoid like the plague {v} meiden wie die Pest avow {v} (declare openly) await {v} (transitive: to wait for) await {v} warten auf, bedienen awake {v} (to cause someone to stop sleeping) awake {v} (to excite something latent) awake {v} (to gain consciousness) awaken {v} (intransitive: to stop sleeping) awaken {v} (transitive: to cause to become awake) awaken {v} (transitive: to cause to become conscious) awe {v} (to control by inspiring dread) baa {v} (to make the cry of sheep) babble {v} (to make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.) babble {v} (to talk much) babble {v} (to utter words indistinctly) babysit {v} (To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money) back {v} (of wind: to shift in an anticlockwise direction) back {v} (to go in the reverse direction) backbite {v} (to make defamatory statements about another) backchat {v} (backtalk) SEE: backtalk :: backcomb {v} (to hold the hair away from the head and comb it towards the head) backfire {v} (fail) badger {v} (fart) SEE: fart :: badger {v} (pester) badmouth {v} (to criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully) baffle {v} (to totally bewilder; confuse or perplex) bait {v} (to attract with bait) bake {v} (to cook in an oven) bake {v} (to dry by heat) balance {v} (hold (objects) precariously) balance {v} (make (concepts) agree) balance {v} (make (items) weigh up) balance {v} (make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond) bale {v} (to remove water from a boat) SEE: bail :: bale {v} (to wrap into a bale) Balkanize {v} (to break up) ballast {v} (to lay ballast on the bed of a railway track) ballast {v} (to stabilize a ship with ballast) ballpark {v} (make an estimate) ballyhoo {v} (to sensationalise or make grand claims) bamboozle {v} (to con, defraud, trick) ban {v} (forbid) banalize {v} (to make something banal) band {v} ((intransitive) to group together for a common purpose) band {v} (ornithology: to fasten an identifying band around the leg of) band {v} (to fasten with a band) bandage {v} (to apply a bandage to something) bane {v} (to (kill by) poison) SEE: poison :: bang {v} (slang: to engage in sexual intercourse) bang {v} (to hammer) bang {v} (to make sudden loud noises) banish {v} (to expel, especially from the mind) banish {v} (to send someone away and forbid that person from returning) banjax {v} (To ruin or destroy) bankrupt {v} (force into bankruptcy) banter {v} (to engage in banter) banter {v} (to play or do something amusing) banter {v} (to tease mildly) baptise {v} (baptize) SEE: baptize :: baptize {v} (To dedicate or christen) baptize {v} (To sprinkle or pour water over, or to immerse in water) bar {v} (to lock or bolt with a bar) bar {v} (to obstruct the passage of) bar {v} (to prohibit) barbecue {v} (to grill) barber {v} (to cut the hair) barge in {v} (to intrude) bark {v} (to girdle) SEE: girdle :: bark {v} (to make a loud noise (dogs)) bark {v} (to speak sharply) bark {v} (to strip the bark from, to peel) barricade {v} (to close or block a road etc., using a barricade) barter {v} (exchange goods or services without involving money) base {v} (have as its foundation or starting point) bash {v} (collide) SEE: collide :: bash up {v} (assault someone with the intention of causing physical injury) bask {v} (to take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warm or happiness) bate {v} (masturbate) SEE: masturbate :: bate {v} (simple past of beat) SEE: beat :: bath {v} (To wash a person or animal in a bath) bathe {v} (to apply water to) bathe {v} (to clean a person by immersion in water) bathe {v} (to clean oneself) bathe {v} (to cover or surround) bathe {v} (to immerse oneself in water) bathe {v} (to sunbathe) SEE: sunbathe :: batter {v} (to coat with batter) batter {v} (to hit or strike violently and repeatedly) battle {v} ((intransitive) to join in battle; to contend in fight) battle {v} ((transitive) to assail in battle; to fight) bawl {v} ((intransitive) To wail; to give out a blaring cry) be {v} ((archaic) used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs) be {v} (elliptical form of "be here", or similar) be {v} (exist) be {v} (occupy a place) be {v} (occur, take place) be {v} (used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it) be {v} (used to form future tenses, especially the future subjunctive) be {v} (used to form the continuous forms of various tenses) be {v} (used to form the passive voice) be {v} (used to indicate that the subject and object are the same) be {v} (used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase) be {v} (used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominative) be {v} (used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same) be {v} (used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like) be able to {v} (have ability to) beach {v} (run something aground on a beach) be all about {v} (be interested in) be all about {v} (deal with) be all ears {v} (to listen carefully or eagerly; to anticipate) beam {v} (scifi: to transmit over high-tech wireless mechanism) beam {v} (to emit light) beam {v} (to smile broadly) beam {v} (weaving: to put on a beam) bear {v} (be equipped with) bear {v} (be in a specific direction) bear {v} (carry) bear {v} (declare) bear {v} (give birth to) bear {v} (produce) bear {v} (put up with) bear in mind {v} (remember, consider) bear oneself {v} (behave and conduct oneself) SEE: carry oneself :: be as silent as the grave {v} (say absolutely nothing) beat {v} (to hit, to knock, to pound, to strike) beat {v} (to strike or pound repeatedly) beat {v} (to whip) beat {v} (to win against) beat a dead horse {v} (continue far beyond reason) SEE: flog a dead horse :: beat around the bush {v} (to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant) beat around the bush {v} (to treat a topic but omit its main points) beatify {v} (take step in declaring a person a saint) beat it {v} (to go away) beautify {v} (to make beautiful or more beautiful) be born {v} (to come into existence through birth) be born yesterday {v} (to be inexperienced) be called {v} (to have a specific name) beckon {v} (to wave and/or to nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer) become {v} (to begin to be) become {v} (to look attractive on, be suitable for) bed {v} (to go to a sleeping bed) bed {v} (to put oneself to sleep) beef up {v} (to strengthen or reinforce) SEE: strengthen :: befriend {v} (make friends) SEE: make friends :: befuddle {v} (perplex or confuse) befuddle {v} (stupefy) beg {v} (to request the help of someone, ask for money) beg {v} (to supplicate, to plead with someone for help) beget {v} (to cause, to produce) beget {v} (to procreate) begin {v} (To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.) be good for {v} (be fit) beguile {v} (charm, delight) beguile {v} (to deceive or delude (using guile)) behave {v} (to act in a polite or proper way) behave {v} (to act in a specific manner) behave oneself {v} (to act in a polite or proper way) SEE: behave :: behead {v} (to remove the head) behold {v} (to see, to look at) behoove {v} (to suit; to befit) belay {v} (general command to stop) belay {v} (to secure (a climber or rope) to) belch {v} (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) beleaguer {v} (to besiege; to surround with troops) beleaguer {v} (to vex, harass, or beset) belie {v} (to contradict or show to be false) believe {v} (to accept as true) believe {v} (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person)) believe {v} (to consider likely) believe {v} (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth) belittle {v} (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is) bellow {v} (to make a noise like the deep roar of a large animal) bellow {v} (to shout or scream in a deep voice) bell the cat {v} (to undertake a dangerous action in the service of a group) belong {v} (be accepted in a group) belong {v} (be part of a group) belong {v} (be the property of) belong {v} (have its proper place) belong {v} (set theory: be an element of) bemock {v} (mock) SEE: mock :: bemuse {v} (to confuse or bewilder) be my guest {v} (do as you wish) bend {v} (to become curved) bend {v} (to cause to shape into a curve) bend down {v} (to bend one's legs while upright to get to a lower position) bend over {v} (to bend one's upper body forward) bend over backwards {v} (To make a great effort) bend the truth {v} (change or leave out certain facts of a story) benefit {v} (be or provide a benefit to) benefit {v} (to receive a benefit) benumb {v} (deaden) SEE: deaden :: benumb {v} (make numb) SEE: numb :: be one {v} (be fit) beplaster {v} (to cover) bequeath {v} (to give or leave by will) bequeath {v} (to hand down; to transmit) berate {v} (chide vehemently) bereave {v} (To take away someone or something important or close) berth {v} (to bring a ship into berth) beseech {v} (to beg) beseem {v} ( to appear, seem, look) beseem {v} ( to be appropriate or credible) besiege {v} (to assail or ply) besiege {v} (to lay siege to) besiege {v} (to surround with armed forces) besmirch {v} (To make dirty; to soil) besmirch {v} (To tarnish; to debase) bespeak {v} ((intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak) bespeak {v} ((transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address) bespeak {v} ((transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell) bespeak {v} ((transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest) bespeak {v} ((transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss) bespeak {v} ((transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance) bespeak {v} ((transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour) best {v} (to beat) bestow {v} (present a thing as a gift or honour) bestride {v} (dominate) SEE: dominate :: bet {v} (To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event) betake {v} (to commit to a specified action.) betake {v} (to go or move) be taken ill {v} (to become ill) SEE: take sick :: betray {v} (to deliver into the hands of an enemy) betroth {v} (to promise to give in marriage) betroth {v} (to promise to take as a future spouse) bewail {v} (to wail over) bewilder {v} (confuse) bewilder {v} (disorientate) bewitch {v} (to cast a spell) bicycle {v} (to bicycle) bid {v} (intransitive: to announce goal) bid {v} (intransitive: to make an offer) bid {v} (transitive: to announce goal) bid {v} (transitive: to offer as a price) bike {v} (to bike) billet {v} (to lodge soldiers in a private house) billow {v} (to surge in billows) billow {v} (to swell or bulge) bind {v} (transitive connect) bind {v} (transitive couple) bind {v} (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) bioaccumulate {v} (to accumulate in a biological system) bisect {v} (to cut or divide into two parts) bite {v} (to attack with the teeth) bite {v} (to bite a baited hook or other lure) bite {v} (to cut off a piece by clamping the teeth) bite {v} (to sting) bite the bullet {v} (endure punishment with dignity or accept a negative aspect of a situation) bite the dust {v} (to die) bite the dust {v} (to quit or fail) bite the hand that feeds one {v} (cause harm to a benefactor) bivouac {v} (to set up camp) black {v} (to blacken) SEE: blacken :: blacklist {v} (to place on a blacklist) blackmail {v} (to extort money) blame {v} (place blame upon) blanch {v} (to grow or become white) blandish {v} (to persuade someone by using flattery; to cajole) blanket {v} (to cover) blaspheme {v} (to speak against God or religious doctrine) blazon {v} (to describe of a coat of arms) bleach {v} (to treat with bleach) bleat {v} (informal: to complain) bleat {v} (to make the cry of a sheep or goat) bleed {v} (lose blood) bleed {v} (take money from) bleed dry {v} (of a slaughtered animal, to wait until all its blood has drained off) bleed dry {v} (to bleed white) SEE: bleed white :: bleed to death {v} (die from loss of blood) bleed white {v} (cause hardship by cutting supplies off) bleep {v} (to emit high-pitched sound) blend {v} (to mix) bless {v} (confer blessing on) blight {v} (to spoil or ruin (something)) blind {v} (make temporarily or permanently blind) blindfold {v} (To cover the eyes, in order to make someone unable to see) blindfold {v} (To obscure understanding or comprehension) blindside {v} (catch off guard) blink {v} (to close and reopen both eyes quickly) blink {v} (to flash on and off at regular intervals) blister {v} (break out in blisters) blister {v} (criticise severely) bloat {v} (to cause to become distended) bloat {v} (to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc) block {v} (impeding action) block {v} (to fill) block {v} (to prevent an action) block {v} (to prevent passing) blog {v} (to contribute to a blog) blood {v} (to cause to be covered with blood) bloom {v} (flourish) bloom {v} (open its blooms) blossom {v} (begin to thrive or flourish) blossom {v} (have or open into blossoms) blot {v} (to cause a blot) blot {v} (to hide, obscure or obliterate) blow {v} (blossom) SEE: blossom :: blow {v} (to be propelled by an air current ) blow {v} (to explode ) blow {v} (to fellate ) blow {v} (to produce an air current ) blow {v} (to propel by an air current ) blow off {v} (pass gas) blow one's nose {v} (to expel mucus from nose) blow one's top {v} (lose one's temper) SEE: lose one's temper :: blow up {v} (to enlarge) blow up {v} (to explode (intransitive)) blow up {v} (to explode (transitive)) blow up {v} (to inflate) bludgeon {v} (to club, hit with a bludgeon) bludgeon {v} (to force upon) blue {v} (to make blue) blue {v} (to turn blue) blunder {v} (To make a stupid mistake) blunt {v} (To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker) blurt {v} (to speak suddenly and unadvisedly) blurt out {v} (blurt) SEE: blurt :: blush {v} (to redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment) board {v} (nautical: to capture an enemy ship) board {v} (to provide someone with meals and lodging) board {v} (to step or climb) boast {v} (to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself) bode {v} (to be the omen of; to portend to presage) bode {v} (to foreshow something; to augur) bog {v} (to become mired or stuck) bog {v} (to make a mess of something) boil {v} (begin to turn into a gas) boil {v} (cook in boiling water) boil {v} (heat (a liquid) until it begins to turn into a gas) boil over {v} (boil so as to overflow) bomb {v} (attack with bombs) bombard {v} (to attack something or someone by directing objects at them) bombard {v} (to attack something with bombs, artillery shells, or other missiles) bombard {v} (to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms) bone {v} (slang: have sexual intercourse with) bone {v} (to remove bones) boo {v} (to shout boos at (transitive)) boo {v} (to shout boos derisively (intransitive)) book {v} (slang: to travel very fast) book {v} (to record the details of an offender) book {v} (to reserve) book {v} (to write down, register, record) boom {v} (to be prosperous) boom {v} (to speak with low pitch) boot {v} (to start a system) bootstrap {v} (to load the operating system) booze {v} (slang:to drink alcohol) border {v} ((transitive) to lie on, or adjacent to a border) border {v} ((transitive) to put a border on something) border on {v} (To be almost like some other thing) bore {v} (to inspire boredom) bore {v} (to make a hole) born {v} (be born) SEE: be born :: boro {v} (borrow) SEE: borrow :: borrow {v} (receive temporarily) botanize {v} (do the work of a botanist) botch {v} (to perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner) botch up {v} (ruin, mess up) bother {v} (to annoy, disturb) bottle {v} (feed (an infant) baby formula) bottle {v} (seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption) bounce {v} (of a cheque/check: to be refused) bounce {v} (to change direction of motion after hitting an obstacle) bounce {v} (to move quickly up and down) bound {v} (to surround a territory) bow {v} (to become bent) bow {v} (to bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference) bow {v} (to play music on using a bow) bowdlerize {v} (to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive) box {v} (fight against (a person) in a boxing match) box {v} (place inside a box) box {v} (strike with the fists) box {v} (to hem in) SEE: hem in :: boycott {v} (to abstain from dealing with a person or organisation as a protest) brace {v} (to draw tight; to tighten) brace {v} (to furnish with braces; to support; to prop) brace {v} (to place in a position for resisting pressure) brace {v} (to prepare oneself for an impact) brace {v} (to swing round the yards) bracket {v} (to photograph at multiple exposure levels) brag {v} (to boast) braid {v} (intertwine) brainstorming {v} (method of problem solving) brainwash {v} (to affect one's mind) braise {v} (To cook in a small amount of liquid) brake {v} (to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking) brake {v} (to operate brakes) braking {v} (operating the brakes) branch {v} (to arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree) branch {v} (to jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement) branch {v} (to produce branches) brandish {v} (to move a weapon) brawl {v} (fight or quarrel) bray {v} (to make the cry of a donkey) bread {v} (to bread) break {v} (intransitive, of a bone: to crack) break {v} (intransitive: to separate into (to end up in) two or more pieces) break {v} (intransitive: to stop functioning properly or altogether) break {v} (of morning: to arrive) break {v} (to cause to no longer bar) break {v} (to interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily) break {v} (transitive: to cause (a bone) to crack) break {v} (transitive: to cause to stop functioning) break {v} (transitive: to do that which is forbidden by (something)) break {v} (transitive: to separate into (to cause to end up in) two or more pieces) break a law {v} (to violate a law) break a leg {v} (to perform well) break a sweat {v} (to put effort into something) break a sweat {v} (to start sweating) break bread {v} (Christianity) break bread {v} (to eat a meal, especially shared) breakfast {v} (to eat the morning meal) break in {v} (to enter by force or illicitly) break one's fast {v} (archaic: to eat breakfast) break out {v} (to escape, especially forcefully or defiantly) break someone's heart {v} (to cause a person to feel grief or sadness) break the bank {v} (win more money than is available to be paid) break the ice {v} (to start to get to know people, by avoiding awkwardness) break the Sabbath {v} (to break the Sabbath) break up {v} (to end a relationship) break wind {v} (to fart) breastfeed {v} (feed a baby milk via the breasts) breathe {v} (to draw air in and out) breathe {v} (to draw (something) into lungs) breathe {v} (to whisper) breed {v} (of animals, to mate) breed {v} (to keep animals and have them reproduce) breed {v} (to propagate or grow plants) breed {v} (to sexually produce offspring) breed {v} (to take care of in infancy and through childhood) breed {v} (to yield or result in) breeze {v} (blow gently) breeze {v} (to move casually, in a carefree manner, but not slowly) brew {v} (to be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering) brew {v} (to prepare liquor) bribe {v} (to give a bribe) bridge {v} (music: to transition from one piece or section to another) bridge {v} (to make a bridge) bridge {v} (to span as if with a bridge) brighten {v} (add luster or splendor) brighten {v} (become brighter in color) brighten {v} (become brighter in mood) brighten {v} (make brighter in color) brighten {v} (make more cheerful) bring {v} (to transport toward somebody/somewhere) bring about {v} (To accomplish) bring about {v} (To cause to take place) bring forth {v} (to give birth) SEE: give birth :: bring forth {v} vortbringen bring home the bacon {v} (informal: to make a living) bring owls to Athens {v} (to undertake a pointless venture) bring up {v} (to raise children) broach {v} (begin discussion about) broach {v} (make a hole in) broadcast {v} (to transmit a message or signal via radio waves or electronic means) broaden {v} (to become broad) bronze {v} (to tan) SEE: tan :: brood {v} (to dwell upon moodily and at length) brood {v} (to keep an egg warm) browbeat {v} (to bully in an intimidating way) brown {v} (to tan) SEE: tan :: brownnose {v} (fawn) SEE: fawn :: brownnose {v} (to flatter in obsequious manner) browse {v} (move about while eating parts of plants) browse {v} (navigate through hyperlinked documents) browse {v} (scan, casually look through) brush {v} (to apply) brush {v} (to clean (with a brush)) brush {v} (to remove) brush {v} (to touch) brush {v} (to untangle/arrange) brush off {v} (to disregard) brutalise {v} (to make brutal) brutalize {v} (brutalise) SEE: brutalise :: bubble {v} (to cheat, delude) SEE: cheat :: bubble {v} (to cry, weep) SEE: weep :: bubble {v} (to rise up in bubbles) buck {v} (to resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly) buckle up {v} (to fasten one's seat belt or safety belt) bud {v} (to form buds) budge {v} (intransitive: to move) buff {v} (To polish and make shiny) bug {v} (to annoy) bug {v} (to install an electronic listening device in) build {v} ((transitive) to form by combining materials or parts) build castles in the air {v} (to have an idea unlikely to be realized) bulge {v} (to stick out from) bull {v} (lie) SEE: lie :: bully {v} (act aggressively towards) bully {v} (to intimidate) bum {v} (to beg for something) bum around {v} (loiter) bumfuck {v} (sodomize) SEE: assfuck :: bunch {v} (to gather into a bunch) buoy {v} (To keep afloat or aloft.) buoy {v} (To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence) buoy {v} (To mark with a buoy.) buoy {v} (To support or maintain at a high level.) buoy up {v} (To uplift) burden {v} (encumber) burn {v} (be consumed by fire) burn {v} (cause to be consumed by fire) burn {v} (injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals) burn {v} (sunburn) SEE: sunburn :: burn {v} (write data) burn down {v} (To cause (a structure) to burn to nothing) burn one's bridges {v} (burn one's bridges) burn the midnight oil {v} (work through the night) burp {v} (to emit a burp) burrow {v} (to dig a hole) burst {v} (to break from internal pressure) bury {v} (hide or conceal as if by covering with earth) bury {v} (inter a corpse in a grave or tomb) bury {v} (place in the ground) bury {v} (to put an end to; to abandon) bury one's head in the sand {v} (to deliberately ignore the reality of a situation) bury the hatchet {v} (to stop fighting or arguing) bust {v} ((slang) to arrest for a crime) bustle {v} (To move busily and energetically) bust one's ass {v} (to work very hard) bust one's butt {v} (to work exceptionally hard) butcher {v} (to kill brutally) butcher {v} (To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market) butter {v} (to spread butter on, see also: spread, see also: butter) butter up {v} (to flatter) buttfuck {v} (sodomize) SEE: assfuck :: buttress {v} (support something or someone by supplying evidence) buttress {v} (support something physically with, or as if with, a buttress) buy {v} (to accept as true) buy {v} (to obtain something with money) buzz {v} (to make a low, humming or sibilant sound) calculate {v} ((intransitive) determine values or solutions) calculate {v} ((intransitive) plan) calculate {v} ((transitive) to determine value) calender {v} (to press between rollers) calibrate {v} (to check or adjust by comparison with a standard) call {v} (to be called) call {v} (to contact by telephone) call {v} (to cry or shout) call {v} (to name or refer to) call {v} (to pay a social visit) call {v} (to request, summon, or beckon) call a spade a spade {v} (to speak the truth) call back {v} (request someone's return) call back {v} (return to a shop or residence previously visited) call back {v} (telephone someone again) call it a day {v} (to cease activity for the day) call it a day {v} (to retire) call it even {v} (declare debts resolved) call off {v} (to cancel) calm {v} (to make calm) calm down {v} (To become less excited) calm down {v} (To cause to become less excited) calque {v} (to adopt a word by translation of its parts) calumniate {v} (to make hurtful untrue statements) calve {v} kalben camouflage {v} (hide, disguise) camp {v} (to live in a tent) campaign {v} (to take part in a campaign) can {v} (may) can {v} (to be able) can {v} (to discard) can {v} (to fire or dismiss an employee) can {v} (to preserve) can {v} (to shut up) canalise {v} (to channel the flow) canalise {v} (to convert into a canal) cancel {v} (cross out) cancel {v} (invalidate, annul) cancel {v} (mark as used) cancel {v} (offset, equalize) cancel {v} (remove a common factor) candy {v} (to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup) canna {v} (cannot) SEE: cannot :: cannot {v} (cannot, see also: can, see also: not) canoe {v} (to ride or paddle a canoe) canonize {v} (to define someone as a saint) cant {v} (set something at an angle) cant {v} (to bevel an edge or corner) can't help {v} (not able to avoid something) can't wait {v} (look forward) SEE: look forward :: capitalize {v} (to convert into capital) caponize {v} (remove the testes) capsize {v} ((intransitive) to overturn) capsize {v} ((transitive) to cause to overturn) captivate {v} (to attract and hold interest and attention of) capture {v} (take control of) carbonize {v} (turn something to carbon, especially by heating) carburize {v} (carbonize) SEE: carbonize :: care {v} (to be concerned about) care {v} (to be mindful of) care {v} (to look after) care {v} (to want, politely) caress {v} (touch or kiss lovingly) caricature {v} (represent in exaggerated manner) carpet {v} (to cover like a carpet) carpet {v} (to lay carpet) carry {v} (to adopt; take over or stand in) carry {v} (to stock or supply) carry {v} (to transport by lifting) carry coals to Newcastle {v} (do something unneeded or redundant) carry out {v} (To fulfill) carry out {v} (To hold while moving something out.) cart {v} (To carry goods) carve {v} (cut meat) carve {v} (cut) carve {v} (shape wood) cascade {v} (To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall) cascade {v} (To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls) case {v} (to place into a box) case {v} (to survey surreptitiously) cash in {v} (to die) SEE: die :: cast {v} (to make by pouring into a mould) cast {v} (to throw down or aside) cast {v} (to throw forcefully) castle {v} (to perform the move of castling) cast out nines {v} (verification of an arithmetic operation) cast pearls before swine {v} (cast pearls before swine) castrate {v} (remove the testicles of) cast the first stone {v} (act self-righteously) catalogue {v} (to add to an existing catalogue) catalogue {v} (to make a catalogue of) catalogue {v} (to put into a catalogue) catapult {v} (to fire a missile from a catapult) catapult {v} (to increase the status rapidly) catcall {v} (to make such an exclamation) catch {v} (to capture or snare) catch {v} (to intercept an object in the air etc. ) catch {v} (to perceive and understand ) catch {v} (to reach in time to leave ) catch a buzz {v} (starting to get drunk) catch a cold {v} (to suffer from cold) catch fire {v} (become engulfed with flames) catch one's breath {v} (to take a break, or rest while doing a strenuous activity) catch up {v} (find out after the event) catch up {v} (reach a point) categorize {v} (to assign a category) caterwaul {v} (to cry as cats) caulk {v} (to seal joints with caulk) cause {v} (to set off an event or action) cauterize {v} (burn tissue) caution {v} (to warn) cavil {v} (to criticise for petty or frivolous reasons) cavort {v} (move/play boisterously) cease {v} (intransitive) cease {v} (transitive) cease and desist {v} (stop and not resume an action) cede {v} (give up) celebrate {v} (extol or honour in a solemn manner) celebrate {v} (honour by rites, ceremonies, etc.) celebrate {v} (perform or participate in) celebrate {v} (to engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event) cement {v} (to affix with cement) cement {v} (to make permanent) censor {v} zensieren census {v} (collect a census) center {v} (cause something to have a value midway between extremes) center {v} (cause to occupy the center) center {v} (concentrate on) centralise {v} (centralize) SEE: centralize :: certify {v} (to attest as to) chafe {v} (to be worn by rubbing) chafe {v} (to rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction) chagrin {v} (bother or vex; to mortify) chain {v} (to link together) chair {v} (to act as chairperson) challenge {v} (to dare someone) challenge {v} (to invite someone to take part in a competition) change {v} (to become something different) change {v} (to make something into something different) change {v} (to replace one's own clothing) change {v} (to replace) change {v} (to transfer to another vehicle) change one's mind {v} (to decide differently than one had decided before) channel {v} (direct the flow) channel surf {v} (quickly change channel) chaperon {v} (to accompany, to escort) chaperon {v} (to mother) char {v} (to burn slightly) char {v} (to burn something to charcoal) characterize {v} (to depict someone or something a particular way) characterize {v} (to determine the characteristics of) chart {v} (draw a chart or map) chart {v} (draw or figure out a route or plan) chase {v} (to hunt) SEE: hunt :: chase {v} (to pursue, to follow at speed) chasten {v} (discipline) SEE: discipline :: chasten {v} (purify) SEE: purify :: chat {v} (be engaged in informal conversation) chat {v} (exchange messages in real time) chat {v} (talk more than a few words) chatter {v} (talk idly) chauffeur {v} (intransitive: to be, or act as a chauffeur) chauffeur {v} (transitive: to transport someone in a motor car) chaulk {v} (chalk) SEE: chalk :: cheat {v} (being unfaithful) cheat {v} (manage to avoid something) cheat {v} (violate rules to gain advantage) check {v} ((poker) to remain in the hand without betting) check {v} (to inspect, examine) check {v} (to mark with a checkmark) check {v} (to verify or compare with a source of information) check in {v} (to record one's arrival) check out {v} (to examine, inspect, look at closely) check out {v} (to leave in a hurry) check out {v} (to pay when leaving) check out {v} (to withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded) check up {v} Ă¼berprĂ¼fen cheer {v} (To shout a cheer or cheers) cheer up {v} (to make someone happy) cherish {v} (to nurture with care) chew {v} (to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing) chew the fat {v} (chat idly or generally waste time talking) SEE: shoot the breeze :: chicken out {v} (shy away from a daring task) chide {v} (loudly admonish) chill {v} (to become cold) chill {v} (to become hard by rapid cooling) chill {v} (to harden a metal surface by sudden cooling) chill {v} (to lower the temperature of something; to cool) chill {v} (to relax, lie back) chill out {v} (relax or take time out) chime {v} (to agree, correspond) chime {v} (to make the sound of a chime) chirp {v} (birds) chisel {v} (to cheat) SEE: cheat :: chisel {v} (to use a chisel) choke {v} (be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe) choke {v} (prevent someone from breathing by strangling them) choose {v} (to decide to act in a certain way) choose {v} (to elect) choose {v} (to pick) chop {v} (to cut into pieces) christen {v} (to name) christen {v} (to perform the religious act) Christianize {v} (to convert to Christianity) chrome {v} (to plate with chrome) chromium-plate {v} (chrome) SEE: chrome :: chuck {v} (to discard) chuckle {v} (to laugh quietly or inwardly) chuff {v} (To make noisy puffing sounds) churn {v} (agitate rapidly) churn {v} (figuratively: produce excessive motion) churn {v} (tumble) circle {v} (place or mark a circle around) circle {v} (surround) circle {v} (travel around along a curved path) circle {v} (travel in circles) circumcise {v} (to remove the foreskin from the penis) circumnavigate {v} (to circumvent or bypass) circumnavigate {v} (to sail around the world) circumnavigate {v} (to sail completely around something) cite {v} (quote) SEE: quote :: civilize {v} (civilise) SEE: civilise :: claim {v} (to demand ownership of something) claim {v} (to demand ownership or right to use for land) claim {v} (to state a new fact) clamber {v} (to climb with difficulty or haphazardly) clap {v} (To applaud by clapping the hands) clap {v} (To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound) clap {v} (To create or assemble (something) hastily) clap {v} (To strike the palms of the hands together) clasp {v} (take hold of; grab tightly) classify {v} (to identify or divide into classes) clatter {v} (To cause to make a rattling sound) claw {v} (scratch or tear at) claw {v} (to use claws to seize, to grip) clean {v} ((intransitive) to make things clean) clean {v} ((transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object) clean {v} ((transitive) to tidy up) clear {v} (sport: to defend by moving the ball away from the defending goal) clear {v} (to become clear) clear {v} (to eliminate ambiguity or doubt; to clarify) clear {v} (to fell all trees of a forest) clear {v} (to go through as payment) clear {v} (to remove from suspicion) clear {v} (to remove obstructions or impediments) clear one's throat {v} (forcibly expulsing air from one's lungs) cleave {v} (transitive to split or sever) clench {v} (to squeeze) click {v} (intransitive: click the left button of a mouse) click {v} (intransitive: emit a click) click {v} (transitive: operate so as to make click) click {v} (transitive: press and release (button on a mouse)) climb {v} (of plants: to grow upwards by clinging to something) climb {v} (to ascend, to go up) climb {v} (to mount, to move upwards on) climb {v} (to move by using the hands and feet) climb {v} (to practice the sport of climbing) climb {v} (to scale) cling {v} ((figuratively) feel strongly about) cling {v} (hold tightly) cloak {v} (to cover as with a cloak) clone {v} (create a clone) close {v} (move (a door)) close {v} (obstruct (an opening)) close {v} (put an end to) clot {v} (to form into a clot) clothe {v} (adorn with clothing) cloud {v} (to make obscure (e.g. to cloud the issue)) club {v} (to hit with a club) club {v} (to join together to form a group) cluck {v} (to produce cluck sound) clutch {v} (to grip or grasp tightly) clutter {v} (to fill something with clutter) coach {v} (instruct) coach {v} (sports: train) coagulate {v} (become congealed) coagulate {v} (cause to congeal) coalesce {v} (to form from different elements) coalesce {v} (to join into a single mass) coat {v} (to cover with a coat of some material) coax {v} (persuade gradually) coddle {v} (to cook slowly in hot water) coddle {v} (To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect) coddle {v} (to treat gently or with great care) code {v} (write software programs) codify {v} (to reduce to a code) coerce {v} (to use force, threat, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will) coexist {v} (Exist contemporaneously) coffin {v} (to place in a coffin) cohabit {v} (to reside with another as if married or as a married couple) cohere {v} (to be consistent as part of a group) cohere {v} (to stick together) coin {v} (to create coins) coin {v} (to make up or invent, and establish) coincide {v} (to correspond) coincide {v} (to occupy exactly the same space) coincide {v} (to occur at the same time) collaborate {v} (to cooperate treasonably) collaborate {v} (to work together on a piece of work) collapse {v} (to cause to collapse) collapse {v} (to cease to function due to a sudden breakdown) collapse {v} (to fall down suddenly; to cave in) collapse {v} (to fold compactly) collapse {v} (to pass out and fall to the floor or ground) collar {v} (to arrest) SEE: arrest :: collate {v} (assemble something in a logical sequence) collate {v} (examine diverse documents etc.) collate {v} (sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order) collateralize {v} (to secure a loan by using collateral) collect {v} (to accumulate items for a hobby) collect {v} (to gather together) collide {v} (to come into conflict, or be incompatible) collide {v} (to impact directly, especially if violent) colonise {v} (to begin a new colony) color {v} (become red through increased blood flow) color {v} (draw using crayons) color {v} (give something color) colorize {v} (to convert a black and white media to color) colour {v} (colour) SEE: color :: comb {v} (to groom the hair with a toothed implement) comb {v} (to search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb) combine {v} (bring two or more things or activities together) combine {v} (have two or more things or properties that function together) come {v} (to arrive, to appear) come {v} (to move from further away to nearer to) come {v} (to orgasm) come again {v} (Could you repeat that) come again {v} (polite farewell, inviting return visit) come back {v} ((intransitive) To return to a place) come by {v} (to get (trans.)) come full circle {v} (complete a cycle of transition, returning to where one started) come in {v} (enter) SEE: enter :: come in handy {v} (to be useful or heplful) come into being {v} (start to exist) come into force {v} (become valid or active) come of age {v} (To mature, or become fully developed) come of age {v} (To reach a specific age where one is legally considered to be an adult) come on {v} (to show sexual or relational interest) come on to {v} (make a romantic or sexual advance to) come out {v} (to come out of the closet) SEE: come out of the closet :: come out of the closet {v} (to tell others about a secret belief or preference) come to {v} (to total, to amount to) come to mind {v} (spring to mind) SEE: spring to mind :: come to nought {v} (come to nothing) SEE: come to nothing :: come to pass {v} (to happen, to occur) come to somebody's aid {v} (to assist and rescue someone) come true {v} (to become real) comfort {v} (console) SEE: console :: comfort {v} (to make comfortable) comfort {v} (to provide comfort) coming out {v} (self-disclosure of sexual orientation) SEE: coming out of the closet :: coming out of the closet {v} (self-disclosure of sexual orientation) command {v} (to hold, to control) command {v} (to order) commemorate {v} (to honor the memory of someone or something) commemorate {v} (to serve as memorial to someone or something) commence {v} (To begin, start) commend {v} (to praise) comment {v} (programming: to insert comments) comment {v} (to remark) comment out {v} (disable a section of source code) commission {v} (order a work of art) commission {v} (put into active service) commission {v} (send to do something) commit {v} (to do; to perpetrate) commit suicide {v} (to kill oneself) commodify {v} (to make something a commodity) communicate {v} (to express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means) communicate {v} (to impart information or knowledge of; to make known, to tell) commute {v} (math: to be commutative) commute {v} (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.) compare {v} (to assess the similarities between two things or between one thing and another) compare {v} (to be similar) compare {v} (to form the three degrees of comparison of) compel {v} (exact by force) compel {v} (force, constrain or coerce) compel {v} (overpower) compensate {v} (to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill) compensate {v} (to pay someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration) compete {v} (to contend) compilate {v} (assemble from a collection) compilate {v} (produce executable) compile {v} (assemble from a collection) compile {v} (produce executable) complain {v} (to express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment) complain {v} (to make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge) compleat {v} (complete) SEE: complete :: complement {v} (to complete) complete {v} (to finish) complete {v} (to make whole or entire) complicate {v} (to combine intricately) compliment {v} (to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion) comply {v} (to yield assent) comport {v} (to behave (usually reflexive) ) compose {v} bestehen compose {v} (to arrange the elements of a picture) compose {v} (to calm oneself down) compose {v} (to comprise) compose {v} (to construct by mental labor; to think up) compose {v} (to make something by merging parts) compost {v} (to produce compost) comprehend {v} (to cover) comprehend {v} (to understand) compress {v} (to abridge) SEE: abridge :: compress {v} (to condense) compress {v} (to press together into a smaller space) comprise {v} (be made up of) comprise {v} (include) compromise {v} (to bind by mutual agreement) compromise {v} (to breach a security system) compromise {v} (to cause impairment of) compromise {v} (to find a way between extremes) compute {v} berechnen compute {v} (reckon or calculate) compute {v} (to make sense) SEE: make sense :: con {v} (to trick or defraud, usually for personal gain) concatenate {v} (link together) conceal {v} (to hide something) concede {v} (to admit to be true) concede {v} (to yield or suffer; to surrender) conceive {v} (to become pregnant) conceive {v} (to develop an idea) conceive {v} (to understand someone) concentrate {v} (approach or meet in a common center) concentrate {v} (bring to, or direct toward, a common center) concentrate {v} (focus one's thought or attention) concentrate {v} (increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore) conciliate {v} (make calm and content) conclude {v} (develop a causal relation) conclude {v} (to come to a final decision) conclude {v} (to end) concrete {v} (cover with concrete) concrete {v} (solidify) concur {v} (To meet in the same point) concur {v} (To run together; to meet) concur {v} (To unite or agree) condemn {v} (to confer eternal divine punishment upon) condemn {v} (to pronounce guilty) condense {v} (to be transformed into a liquid) condense {v} (to decrease size or volume) condense {v} (to transform something into a liquid) condescend {v} (treat a person as though inferior) condition {v} (to shape the behaviour of someone to do something) condition {v} (to subject to different conditions) condition {v} (to undergo the process of acclimation) conduct {v} (act as a conductor (of heat, electricity, etc.)) conduct {v} (lead or guide) conduct {v} (music: to direct) confess {v} (to admit to the truth) configure {v} (to set up or arrange something) confine {v} (arrest) SEE: arrest :: confine {v} (detain) SEE: detain :: confine {v} (imprison) SEE: imprison :: confine {v} (incarcerate) SEE: incarcerate :: confine {v} (lock up) SEE: lock up :: confine {v} (to restrict; to keep within bounds) confirm {v} (to assure) confirm {v} (to confer the confirmation) confiscate {v} (take possession of by force) conflate {v} (fuse into a single entity) confound {v} (to confuse) confound {v} (to make something worse) confront {v} (to come up against; to encounter) confront {v} (to deal with) confront {v} (to engage in confrontation) confront {v} (to put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to) confront {v} (to set a thing side by side with; to compare) confront {v} (to something bring face to face with) confront {v} (to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance) confuse {v} (to embarrass) confuse {v} (to mistake one thing for another) confuse {v} (to mix thoroughly) confuse {v} (to mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder) confuse {v} (to rout) SEE: rout :: congeal {v} (to change from a liquid to solid state) congeal {v} (to coagulate, make curdled or semi-solid as gel or jelly) congratulate {v} (to express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for) conjecture {v} (to guess) conjugate {v} (to inflect (a verb) for each person) conjure {v} (To evoke) conjure {v} (To imagine or picture in the mind) conjure {v} (To make an urgent request to; to appeal) conjure {v} (To perform magic tricks) conjure {v} (To summon up using supernatural power) connect {v} (to join an electrical or telephone line) connect {v} (to join two or more pieces) connive {v} (to plot or scheme) connive {v} (to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame) connote {v} (to imply, to suggest) connote {v} (to signify beyond principal meaning) conquer {v} (defeat in combat) consecrate {v} (to declare, or otherwise make something holy) consent {v} (to express willingness) consider {v} (assign some quality to) consider {v} (look at attentively) consider {v} (think about seriously) consider {v} (think of doing) consist {v} (to be composed (of)) console {v} (to comfort) consolidate {v} (To combine into a single unit; to group together or join) consolidate {v} (To make stronger or more solid) conspire {v} (to secretly plot) constitute {v} (to appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower) constitute {v} (to cause to stand; to establish; to enact) constitute {v} (to make up; to compose; to form) constrain {v} (to force; to compel; to oblige) constrict {v} (to narrow) construct {v} (build or form by assembling parts) construe {v} (to translate) SEE: translate :: consult {v} (ask advice) consult {v} (intransitive, to advise or offer expertise) consult {v} (transitive, to ask advice of; to seek the opinion of) consume {v} (to use) consummate {v} (to bring something to completion) contact {v} (establish communication with) contact {v} (touch physically) contain {v} (To hold inside) contaminate {v} (To introduce impurities or foreign matter) contemn {v} (to treat or regard with contempt) contemplate {v} (think about something in a concentrated manner) continue {v} (intransitive: resume) continue {v} (transitive: proceed) contract {v} (intransitive: draw together; shorten; lessen) contradict {v} (deny the truth of statements made by (a person)) contrast {v} (set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between) contribute {v} (to give something, that is or becomes part of a larger whole) contrive {v} (To form by an exercise of ingenuity; 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to matter) count {v} (to enumerate or determine number) countenance {v} (tolerate, support, sanction) counter {v} (to contradict, oppose) counteract {v} (to act in opposition to) counterfeit {v} (To produce something that appears to be official or valid) counterpoint {v} ((transitive) to compose or arrange such music) countersink {v} (to create a conical recess) count on {v} (rely upon, trust, or expect) course {v} (Flow) course {v} (Pursue) court {v} (to attempt to win over) court martial {v} (bring court martial proceedings against someone) coventrate {v} (devastate by heavy bombing) cover {v} (copulate) cover {v} (mention) cover {v} ((music) make a cover version) cover {v} (protect by shooting) cover {v} (provide enough money for) cover {v} (to conceal or protect) covering {v} (present participle of) covet {v} begehren, ersehnen covet {v} (to have or indulge inordinate desire) covet {v} (to wish for with eagerness) cower {v} (to crouch in fear) crack {v} (to break apart under pressure) crack {v} (to form cracks) crack {v} (to make a cracking sound) crack down {v} (to repress or suppress) crackle {v} (make a fizzing sound) cradle {v} (to rock (a baby to sleep)) craft {v} (make by hand) cram {v} (to press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another) cram {v} (to swot) cramp {v} (to contract painfully and uncontrollably) crane {v} (to extend) crank up {v} (To start something mechanical) crash {v} (computing: to terminate unexpectedly) crash {v} (to collide, fall or come down violently) crave {v} (to want strongly) crawl {v} (to feel swarming sensation) crawl {v} (to move along the ground) crawl {v} (to move slowly) crawl {v} (to swim using crawl stroke) crawl {v} (to teem or swarm) craze {v} (to break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder) SEE: crase :: creak {v} (to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound) cream {v} (to cream vegetables) cream {v} (to obliterate, to win over someone else quite decisively) create {v} erschaffen, entwerfen create {v} (to design, invest with a new form, shape etc.) create {v} (to put into existence) creed {v} (believe) creep {v} (to change or deviate gradually) creep {v} (to grow across a surface rather than upwards) creep {v} (to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction) creep {v} (to move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground) SEE: crawl :: cremate {v} (burn to ashes) cremate {v} (incinerate a body) criminalize {v} (to make something be a crime) crimson {v} (blush) SEE: blush :: cringe {v} (To shrink or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment) crinkle {v} (To fold, crease, crumple or wad) crinkle {v} (To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved) cripple {v} (to damage seriously; to destroy) cripple {v} (to give someone a physical disability) criticise {v} (to evaluate) criticise {v} (to find fault) criticize {v} (to evaluate) SEE: criticise :: criticize {v} (to find fault) SEE: criticise :: croak {v} [1] krächzen, [2] quaken, [slang] abkratzen croak {v} (of a frog, to make its cry) croak {v} (slang: to die) crochet {v} (to make needlework using a hooked needle) crook {v} (to bend) croon {v} (To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner) crop {v} (remove outer parts of (a photograph or image)) cross {v} (biology: to cross-fertilize or crossbreed) cross {v} (contradict or frustrate the plans of) cross {v} (go from one side of something to the other) cross {v} (make the sign of the cross over oneself) cross {v} (mark with an X) cross {v} (travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that another) crossbreed {v} (hybridize) cross examine {v} (to subject a person to a cross examination) crosshatch {v} (to mark or fill with a crosshatch pattern) cross-link {v} (to form a link between adjacent chains of a polymer) cross one's fingers {v} (wish for luck) cross-reference {v} (provide with cross-reference) cross swords {v} (idiomatic: to have a dispute with someone) cross swords {v} (to fight with someone) SEE: duel :: cross the Rubicon {v} (to make an irreversible decision) crouch {v} (to bend down) croup {v} (to croak) SEE: croak :: crow {v} (To make the sound of a rooster) crow {v} (To utter a sound of joy) crown {v} (to place a crown on the head of) crucify {v} (to execute a person by nailing to a crucifix) crumb {v} (to cover with crumbs) crumble {v} (to fall apart) crumble {v} (to render into crumbs) crumple {v} (to rumple) crunch {v} (to be crushed with a noisy crackling sound) cry {v} (intransitive: to shout, scream, yell) cry {v} (intransitive: to weep) cry {v} (transitive: to shout, to scream (words)) cry foul {v} (resent) SEE: resent :: cry one's eyes out {v} (to moan) SEE: moan :: cry over spilt milk {v} (to worry about unfortunate events which have already happened) crystalize {v} (crystallize) SEE: crystallize :: cube {v} (to cut into cubes) cuddle {v} (embrace, lie together snugly) cuff {v} (to handcuff) SEE: handcuff :: cull {v} (to pick or take someone or something) cull {v} (to select animals from a group and then kill them) culminate {v} kulminieren culminate {v} (to reach the summit, highest point, peak (level) etc.) cultivate {v} (grow plants, notably crops) cultivate {v} (nurture) cultivate {v} (turn or stir soil in preparation for planting) cum {v} (slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate) cumulate {v} (accumulate) cumulate {v} (be accumulated) curb {v} (restrain, rein in) curd {v} (curdle) SEE: curdle :: cure {v} (to prepare for keeping or use) cure {v} (to restore to health) cure {v} (to solidify or gel) curry {v} (curry favor) SEE: curry favor :: curry {v} (to beat or thrash) curry {v} (to dress leather) curry {v} (to groom a horse) curse {v} (to place a curse upon) curse {v} (to swear, to utter a vulgar curse) curtail {v} (to limit or restrict) curtail {v} (to shorten or abridge) curtsey {v} (to make a curtsey) curve {v} (bend, crook) cushion {v} (absorb impact) cushion {v} (provide cushion) cuss {v} (to use cursing) customize {v} (to alter) cut {v} (colloquial, not to attend a class) cut {v} (to cease recording) cut {v} (to divide a pack of playing cards) cut {v} (to divide with a sharp instrument) cut {v} (to intersect dividing into half) cut {v} (to perform an incision) cut {v} (to reduce) cut {v} (to separate from prior association) cut and paste {v} (to cut and paste) cut down {v} (bring down a tree) cut off {v} (To cause to come off, from cutting) cut off {v} (To end abruptly) cut off {v} (To interrupt someone talking) cut off {v} (To isolate or remove from contact) cut off {v} (To swerve in from of another car while driving) cut off one's nose to spite one's face {v} (harm oneself as a result of trying to harm an adversary) cut to the chase {v} (to get to the point) cycle {v} (to ride a cycle) cyclize {v} (to undergo a reaction) dabble {v} (partially wet) dabble {v} (participate) dam {v} (block) damage {v} (to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction) damn {v} (theology: to condemn to hell) damp {v} (To put out, as fire) damp {v} (To render damp) damp {v} (To suppress vibrations or oscillations) dance {v} (move rhythmically to music) Danicize {v} (to make more Danish) Danify {v} (Danicize) SEE: Danicize :: dare {v} (to brave or face up to) dare {v} (to defy or challenge) dare {v} (to have courage) darken {v} (to become dark(er) in colour) darken {v} (to become darker (less bright)) darn {v} (damn) SEE: damn :: darn {v} (stitch with thread) date {v} (to determine the age of something) date {v} (to take (someone) on a series of dates) daub {v} (to apply something in hasty or crude strokes) daunt {v} einschĂ¼chtern, entmutigen daw {v} (dawn) SEE: dawn :: dawdle {v} (to move or walk lackadaisically) dawdle {v} (to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time) daydream {v} (to have such a series of thoughts) daze {v} (to stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb) dazzle {v} (confuse the sight) dazzle {v} (figuratively) deactivate {v} (to make something inactive or no longer effective) deactivate {v} (to prevent the action of a biochemical agent) deafen {v} (to make deaf) deal {v} (administer in portions) deal {v} (be concerned with) deal {v} (distribute (cards)) deal {v} (give out as one’s portion or share) deal {v} (handle, manage) deal {v} (sell (illicit drugs)) deal {v} (to take action; to act) deal {v} (trade) deal with {v} (handle verbally or in some form of artistic expression) deal with {v} (take action with respect to (someone or something)) deamidate {v} (remove amide group) debar {v} (To exclude or shut out; to bar) debark {v} (to disembark) SEE: disembark :: debase {v} (lower in character, etc) debate {v} (participate in a debate) debeak {v} (remove part of a beak) debilitate {v} (to make feeble; to weaken) debit {v} abbuchen debug {v} ((computer science) to search for, and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something) debug {v} ((electronics) to remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from somewhere) debug {v} ((US) to remove insects from somewhere) debunk {v} (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something) decant {v} (to pour from one vessel into another) decapitate {v} (remove the head of) decay {v} faulen, verderben, verfallen, zerfallen, verwesen, abklingen, vermodern decay {v} (to deteriorate) decay {v} (to rot) deceive {v} (trick or mislead) decide {v} (to resolve a dispute, give judgement) decide {v} (to resolve or settle) decimate {v} (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men) decipher {v} (to decode or decrypt a code or cipher) decipher {v} (to find a solution) decipher {v} (to read illegible or obscure text) deck {v} (decorate) SEE: decorate :: deck {v} (dress up) SEE: dress up :: deck out {v} (decorate) SEE: decorate :: deck out {v} (dress up) SEE: dress up :: declare {v} (to affirm or state something emphatically) declare {v} (to announce one's support, choice, opinion, etc) declare {v} (to announce something formally or officially) declare {v} (to make a declaration) declare {v} (To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.) declare war {v} (initiate a state of war) decline {v} (inflect) decline {v} (move downwards) decline {v} (refuse) decline {v} (weaken) decocainize {v} (remove cocaine from) decode {v} (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) decompile {v} (to recreate the original source code) decompose {v} (to decay) decompose {v} (to separate) decorate {v} (to furnish with decorations) decorate {v} (to improve the appearance of a house, room, office and so forth) decoy {v} (to act or use a decoy) decrease {v} (become smaller) decrease {v} (make smaller) decree {v} (to command by a decree) decriminalize {v} (to change the laws so something is no longer a crime) decry {v} (to denounce as harmful) decrypt {v} (to convert to plain text) dedicate {v} (to set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate) deduce {v} (to reach conclusion by logic) deduct {v} (to take one thing from another) deem {v} (to evaluate according to one's beliefs) deem {v} (to hold as a personal opinion) deepen {v} (to become deeper) deepen {v} (to make darker or more intense) deepen {v} (to make deep or deeper) deepen {v} (to make lower in tone) deepen {v} (to make more poignant) deep-freeze {v} (to freeze at very low temperatures) deep-fry {v} (to cook by immersing the food in hot fat) deepthroat {v} (To perform fellatio on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth) defame {v} (to harm, to diminish the reputation of) defame {v} (to publish a libel about) defeat {v} (to overcome in battle or contest) defecate {v} (to empty the bowels of feces) defect {v} (to abandon; to change one's loyalty) defend {v} (ward off attacks from) defenestrate {v} (eject from a window) defer {v} (to submit to the opinion or desire of another) defer {v} ((transitive) to delay) defile {v} (to make impure or dirty) define {v} (to determine) deflagrate {v} (to burn with intense light and heat) deflower {v} (to take the virginity of a woman or girl) defoliate {v} (to remove foliage from plants) deforest {v} (to destroy or fell all trees in a forest) defragment {v} ((computing) to run a process to make file fragments on a hard disk contiguous) defraud {v} (to obtain money or property by fraud) defrost {v} (to remove frost from) defuse {v} (to make something less dangerous) defuse {v} (to remove the fuse from a bomb) defy {v} (to provoke to combat or strife) degrade {v} (to lower in value or social position) degrade {v} (to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down) degrade {v} (to reduce in quality or purity) deice {v} (remove ice) deify {v} (to make a god of) deign {v} ((intransitive) to condescend) delay {v} (put off until a later time) delete {v} (to remove) deliberate {v} (consider carefully) delineate {v} (depict, represent with pictures) delineate {v} (describe or depict with words or gestures) delineate {v} (outline or mark out) delineate {v} (sketch out, draw or trace an outline) deliver {v} (bring or transport something to its destination) deliver {v} (give birth) deliver {v} (set free) demand {v} (to request forcefully) demarcate {v} (mark the limits or boundaries of something) demean {v} (To conduct; to behave; to comport.) demean {v} (To debase; to lower; to degrade.) demean {v} (To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.) demean {v} (To manage; to conduct; to treat.) demean {v} (To mortify.) demilitarize {v} (remove troops from an area) demineralize {v} (remove minerals) demobilize {v} (to disband troops) demobilize {v} (to release someone from military duty) democratize {v} (to make democratic) demodulate {v} (undo the effects of modulation) demolish {v} (to destroy) demonize {v} (turn into a demon) demonstrate {v} (to display the method of using an object) demonstrate {v} (to participate in a demonstration) demonstrate {v} (to show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation) demoralize {v} (to destroy morale; to dishearten) demote {v} (To lower the rank or status of something) demotivate {v} (to decrease the motivation) demystify {v} (to explain) denaturize {v} (denature) SEE: denature :: denigrate {v} (blacken) denigrate {v} (to criticise so as to besmirch) denigrate {v} (to treat as worthless) denitrify {v} (to remove nitrogen) denote {v} (to indicate; to mark) denote {v} (to make overt) denote {v} (to refer to literally; to convey meaning) denounce {v} (to announce the termination of; especially a treaty) denounce {v} (to criticize or speak out against) dent {v} (produce a dent) deny {v} (to assert that something is not true) deny {v} (to not allow) depart {v} (to deviate) depart {v} (to die) depart {v} (to leave) depend {v} (rely on support) depict {v} (to render a representation of something, see also: describe) deplete {v} (exhaust) SEE: exhaust :: deplete {v} (to empty or unload) deplore {v} (to bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for) deploy {v} (to prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use) deploy {v} (to unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use) depopulate {v} (to reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.) deport {v} (to evict, especially from a country) depose {v} (to give evidence or testimony) depose {v} (to interrogate and elicit testimony) depose {v} (to put - or lay something down) depose {v} (to remove (a leader) from office) deposit {v} (to put money or funds into an account) deprecate {v} (express disapproval of) deprecate {v} (to discontinue) deprecate {v} (to pray against) depress {v} (to make depressed, sad or bored) deprive {v} (take something away; deny someone of something) deputize {v} (to make/name as a substitute) deputize {v} (to make (someone) a deputy) deracinate {v} [1, 2] entwurzeln deracinate {v} (force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location) deracinate {v} (pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate) derail {v} (to cause to deviate from a set course or direction) derail {v} (to come off the tracks) derail {v} (to deviate from the previous course or direction) deregulate {v} (to remove the regulations from) deride {v} (to harshly mock; ridicule) derive {v} (create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction) derive {v} (deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning) derive {v} (find the derivation of (a word or phrase)) derive {v} (obtain (something) from something else) derive {v} (originate (from)) derogate {v} (to debase oneself) SEE: debase :: desalt {v} (to remove salt from) descend {v} (to pass from a higher to a lower place) describe {v} (to give rise to a geometrical structure) describe {v} (to represent in words) descry {v} (see) SEE: see :: desecrate {v} (to profane or violate sacredness) desensitize {v} (cause to become insensitive) desert {v} (to abandon) desert {v} (to leave military service) deserve {v} ( to merit) desiccate {v} trocknen, dehydratieren design {v} (to plan an artwork etc.) designate {v} (to call by a distinctive title; to name) designate {v} (to indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty) designate {v} (to mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate) desire {v} (connoting emotion) desire {v} (formal or strong) desist {v} (to cease to proceed or act) despair {v} (to be hopeless) despair {v} (to cause to despair) despair {v} (to despair of) despise {v} (to regard with contempt or scorn) despond {v} (To give up the will, courage, or spirit) destabilise {v} (destabilize) SEE: destabilize :: destabilize {v} (to become unstable) destabilize {v} (to make something unstable) destigmatize {v} (remove the disgraceful or ignominious characterization from) destine {v} (intransitive: to assign for a use) destroy {v} ((colloquial) to defeat soundly) destroy {v} ((computing) to remove data (e.g., from memory)) destroy {v} (to damage beyond use or repair) destroy {v} (to put down or euthanize (e.g. an animal)) destroy {v} zermalen, zerstören, kaputt machen destruct {v} (to cause the destruction of) detach {v} (to take apart or take off) detail {v} (to explain in detail) detain {v} (put under custody) detect {v} (to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing) detected {v} (Simple past tense and past participle of detect) deter {v} (to prevent something from happening) deteriorate {v} (grow worse) deteriorate {v} (make worse) determine {v} (to ascertain definitely) determine {v} (to set the limits of) detest {v} (to dislike intensely) dethrone {v} (forcibly remove a monarch) dethrone {v} (remove governing authority from power) detonate {v} (to cause an explosion) detour {v} (intransitive: to make a detour) detour {v} (transitive: to direct or send on a detour) detoxify {v} (remove harmful toxins) devastate {v} (to ruin many or all things over a large area) develop {v} ((chess) to place one's pieces actively) develop {v} (to bring out photographic images) develop {v} (to create) develop {v} (to progress) develop {v} (to progress through stages) deviate {v} (To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray) deviate {v} (To go off course from; to change course; to change plans) devise {v} (leave in a will) devise {v} (use the intellect to plan or design) devote {v} (to commit oneself for a certain matter) devour {v} (to eat greedily) diagnose {v} (determine the root cause of) dial {v} (To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone) diaper {v} (To put diapers on someone) dice {v} (to cut into small cubes) dictate {v} (to order, command, control) dictate {v} (to speak in order for someone to write down the words) diddle {v} [1] beschummeln die {v} (to perish, to cease to exist) die {v} (to stop living) die out {v} (to become extinct) differ {v} (not to have the same characteristics) difference {v} (to distinguish or differentiate) differentiate {v} (to perceive the difference) diffuse {v} (To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means) diffuse {v} (To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means) dig {v} (to move hard-packed earth out of the way) digest {v} (in chemistry: to soften by heat and moisture) digest {v} (to separate food in the alimentary canal) digest {v} (to think over and arrange methodically in the mind) digest {v} (to undergo digestion) digitalize {v} (make digital) dig out {v} (to find or retrieve something by removing overlying material) digress {v} (to deviate) dilute {v} (to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water) dilute {v} (to weaken) dimension {v} (to mark, cut or shape something to specified dimensions) diminish {v} (To become smaller) diminish {v} (To make smaller) diminish {v} (To taper) dimple {v} (create a dimple in) dine {v} (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) ding-dong ditch {v} (ringing someone's door bell and running away) dip {v} (to lower into a liquid) dip {v} (to lower the beam) dip {v} (to use dipstick to check oil) dirty {v} (to make dirty) dis {v} (diss) SEE: diss :: disable {v} (to deactivate a function of an electronical or mechanical device) disable {v} (to impair the physical or mental abilities of) disable {v} (to render unable; to take away the ability) disallow {v} (to refuse to allow) disallow {v} (to reject as invalid, untrue, or improper) disambiguate {v} (remove ambiguities) disappear {v} (to make vanish) disappear {v} (to vanish) disappoint {v} (to displease) disapprove {v} (to refuse to approve) SEE: reject :: disarm {v} (to deprive of arms) disarm {v} (to deprive of the means or the disposition to harm) disassemble {v} (to take to pieces) disband {v} (to break up or cause to cease to exist) discard {v} (to throw away, reject) discern {v} (to detect with the senses, especially with the eyes) discharge {v} ((electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge) discharge {v} ((medicine) to release (an inpatient) from hospital) discharge {v} ((military) to release (a member of the armed forces) from service) discharge {v} (unload) discipline {v} (to impose order on someone) discipline {v} (to punish someone in order to (re)gain control) discipline {v} (to teach someone to obey authority) disclose {v} (make known) disclose {v} (open up) SEE: open up :: disclose {v} (physically expose to view) discolor {v} ((intransitive) to change or lose color) discolor {v} ((transitive) to change or lose color) disconcert {v} beunruhigen, verwirren disconcert {v} (bring into confusion) disconcert {v} (frustrate) discount {v} (to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like) discount {v} (to leave out of account) discount {v} (to take into consideration beforehand) discourage {v} (to dishearten) discourage {v} (to persuade somebody not to do something) discourse {v} (engage in discussion or conversation) discourse {v} (write or speak formally and at length) discover {v} (find something for the first time) discredit {v} (harm reputation) discretize {v} (convert continuous space into discrete space) discuss {v} (to converse or debate concerning a particular topic) disdain {v} (to regard with strong contempt) disembark {v} (remove from on board a vessel) disembody {v} (To cause one's soul, spirit, or consciousness to become separated from the physical body) disembogue {v} ((of a river or waters) to pour out, to debouch) disembowel {v} (to take or let out the bowels) disfigure {v} (change appearance to the negative) disgorge {v} auszuspeien disgorge {v} (To vomit or spew) disgruntle {v} (to make discontent) disguise {v} (to prevent revealing something secret) disgust {v} (to cause an intense dislike for something) dishearten {v} (discourage someone by removing their enthusiasm or courage) dishonor {v} (dishonour) SEE: dishonour :: dishonour {v} (to bring disgrace upon someone or something) disillusion {v} (to free or deprive of illusion; to disenchant) disinfect {v} (sterilize by the use of cleaning agent) disintegrate {v} (break up into one's parts) disintegrate {v} (cause to break into parts) disinvite {v} (to cancel an invitation) SEE: uninvite :: disjoin {v} (To separate) disjoint {v} (To render disjoint) dislike {v} (not to like something) dislocate {v} (to dislodge a bone) dismantle {v} (remove fittings or furnishings) dismantle {v} (take apart) dismember {v} (cut into pieces) dismember {v} (remove limbs) dismiss {v} (to discharge) dismiss {v} (to reject, refuse to accept) dismount {v} (to get off) disown {v} (to refuse to own) disparage {v} (to dishonor by a comparison) dispatch {v} (To defeat) dispatch {v} (To deprive) dispatch {v} (To hurry) dispatch {v} (To send with promptness) dispel {v} (to drive away by scattering) dispense {v} (To eliminate or do without) dispense {v} (To issue, distribute, or put out) dispense {v} (To supply or make up a medicine or prescription) disperse {v} (to scatter) display {v} (to show conspicuously) dispose {v} (to get rid of something) disprove {v} (to refute) disregard {v} (to ignore) disrobe {v} (undress someone or something) disrupt {v} (to throw into confusion or disorder) diss {v} (to put someone down or show verbal disrespect) dissect {v} (to study a dead animal's anatomy by cutting it apart) dissemble {v} (to disguise or conceal something) dissemble {v} (to falsely hide one's opinions or feelings) disseminate {v} (transitive: to sow and scatter principles, etc. for propagation, like seed) dissent {v} (to disagree) dissimulate {v} (to deceive by concealment or omission) dissipate {v} (to drive away) dissociate {v} (to part, stop associating) dissolve {v} (fade out) SEE: fade out :: dissolve {v} (intransitive: to be disintegrated into a solution by immersion) dissolve {v} (to disperse a group) dissolve {v} (to resolve itself as by dissolution) dissolve {v} (to terminate a union of multiple members actively) dissolve {v} (transitive: to disintegrate into a solution by immersion) dissuade {v} (convince not to try or do) distance {v} (move away) distil {v} (to make by means of distillation) distil {v} (to subject a substance to distillation) distill {v} (exude in small drops) SEE: distil :: distill {v} (make by distillation) SEE: distil :: distill {v} (subject to distillation) SEE: distil :: distill {v} (trickle down in small drops) SEE: distil :: distill {v} (undergo distillation) SEE: distil :: distinguish {v} (to make one's self noticeably different) distinguish {v} (to see someone or something as different from others) distinguish {v} (to see someone or something clearly or distinctly) distort {v} (to bring something out of shape) distort {v} (to give false account of) distract {v} (To divert the attention of) distrain {v} (To seize somebody's property in place of payment of a debt) distress {v} (cause strain or anxiety) distribute {v} (to apportion) distribute {v} (to classify or separate into categories) distribute {v} (to deliver or pass out) distribute {v} (to divide into portions and dispense) distribute {v} (to scatter or spread) distribute {v} (to supply to retail outlets) disturb {v} (confuse or irritate) ditch {v} (to abandon) ditch {v} (to crash-land on the sea) ditch {v} (to play hookey) dive {v} (imitate a foul) dive {v} (to descend) dive {v} (to jump into water) dive {v} (to swim under water) diverge {v} (to have no limit) diverge {v} (to run apart) diversify {v} (To make diverse) divert {v} (distract) divert {v} (turn aside) divest {v} (to strip, deprive, or dispossess of something) divest {v} (undress) SEE: undress :: divide {v} (calculate quotient) divide {v} (share by dividing) divide {v} (split into two or more parts) divide and conquer {v} (Divide and conquer) divide and rule {v} (Divide and conquer) divorce {v} (to end one's own marriage) divorce {v} (to legally dissolve a marriage) divorce {v} (to obtain a legal divorce) divulge {v} (to indicate publicly; to proclaim) divulge {v} (to make public) do {v} (in negations) do {v} (in questions) do {v} (perform, execute) do {v} (to avoid repetition) do {v} (work, suffice) dock {v} (To cut off a section of an animal's tail) doctor {v} (award the title of doctor to) document {v} (to record in documents) dodge {v} (to avoid by moving out of the way) dodge {v} (to avoid; to sidestep) domesticate {v} ((intransitive) to adapt to live with humans) domesticate {v} ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans) don {v} (put on clothes) donate {v} (to give away something of value) doodle {v} (to draw or scribble aimlessly) doom {v} (to condemn) do one {v} (depart from a place) dope {v} (electronics: add a dopant to) dope {v} (slang: affect with drugs) dote {v} (to be excessively fond of) do the dishes {v} (to wash up dishes) do the laundry {v} (to wash the laundry) do time {v} (colloquial: to spend time in prison) dot the i's and cross the t's {v} (Take care of every detail) double {v} (bridge: to make a call that will double certain scoring points) double {v} (to act as substitute) double {v} (to clench) double {v} (to fold over so as to make two folds) double {v} (to go at twice the normal speed) double {v} (to multiply by two) double {v} (to serve two roles) double-click {v} (to push a mouse-button twice) double-park {v} (to park a car next to a car already parked on the side of a street) doubt {v} (to lack confidence in something) douche {v} (to use a douche) dovetail {v} (fit together well) down {v} (to drink or swallow) down {v} (to drop) down {v} (to pot a ball) download {v} (to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one) downplay {v} (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential) doze off {v} (fall asleep unintentionally) draft {v} (to conscript a person) draft {v} (to force or convince a person to do a job) draft {v} (to write a first version) drag {v} (to move slowly) drag {v} (to pull along a surface) dramatize {v} (to adapt a literary work) dramatize {v} (to present something in a dramatic or manner) drape {v} (to cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery) drape {v} (to design drapery, arrange its folds, etc.) draw {v} (to cause) SEE: cause :: draw {v} (to determine the result of a lottery) draw {v} (to disembowel) SEE: disembowel :: draw {v} (to extract a liquid, or cause a liquid to come out) draw {v} (to inhale) SEE: inhale :: draw {v} (to produce a picture) draw {v} (to pull out) draw {v} (to rely on) draw attention {v} (to rouse someone to notice something, to cause someone to focus on something) dread {v} (to anticipate with fear) dread {v} (to fear greatly) dream {v} (daydream) SEE: daydream :: dream {v} (see imaginary events while sleeping) dream {v} (to create an imaginary experience) dream {v} (to hope, to wish) drench {v} (to soak, to make very wet) dress {v} (to clothe oneself) dress {v} (to clothe (something or somebody)) dress up {v} (to wear fancy dress) dribble {v} (to fall in drops or an unsteady stream) dribble {v} (to let saliva drip from the mouth) dribble {v} (to run with the ball, controlling its path with the feet) drift {v} (to accumulate in heaps by the force of wind) drift {v} (to deviate gently from the intended direction of travel) drift {v} (to drive into heaps) drift {v} (to drive or carry, as currents do a floating body) drift {v} (to move haphazardly without any destination) drift {v} (to move slowly, pushed by currents of water, air, etc) drift {v} (to oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction) drill {v} (to make a hole) drill {v} (to practice) drill {v} (to repeat in order to make remember) drink {v} (consume alcoholic beverages) drink {v} (consume liquid through the mouth) drink someone under the table {v} (drink more alcohol than) drip {v} (to fall one drop at a time) drip {v} (to leak slowly) drip {v} (to put a small amount of a liquid on something, drop by drop) drive {v} (cause a mechanism to operate) drive {v} (cause to become) drive {v} (convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle) drive {v} (herd (animals) in a particular direction) drive {v} (move something by hitting it with great force) drive {v} (operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle)) drive {v} (to motivate) drive {v} (to travel by operating a motorized vehicle) drive away {v} (to depart by driving) drive away {v} (to force someone to leave) drivel {v} faseln, geifern, speicheln drivel {v} (to have saliva drip from the mouth) drive someone up the wall {v} jemanden auf die Palme bringen drizzle {v} (to pour slowly and evenly) drizzle {v} (to rain lightly) drool {v} (to secrete saliva in anticipation of food) droop {v} herunterhängen , erschlaffen drop {v} (to allow to fall from one's grasp) drop {v} (to fall) drop by {v} (to visit informally and spontaneously) drown {v} (to be suffocated in fluid) drown {v} (to deprive of life by immerson in liquid) drown {v} (to overpower) drum {v} (to beat a drum) drum {v} (to beat with a rapid succession of strokes) drum {v} (to review to establish memorization) dry {v} (to become dry) dry {v} (to make dry) drygulch {v} (slang: to murder, attack, assault, ambush) dub {v} (to replace soundtrack with translation) duel {v} (engage in a duel) dull {v} (to become dull) dull {v} (to render dull) dull {v} (to soften, moderate or blunt) dumpster dive {v} (practice dumper diving) dung {v} (to fertilize with dung) dupe {v} (to swindle, deceive, or trick) duplicate {v} (to make a copy of) dure {v} (to last, continue, endure) dust {v} ((intransitive) to clean by removing dust) dust {v} (of a bird, to cover itself in sand) dust {v} (to spray something with fine powder or liquid) dust {v} ((transitive) to remove dust from) dwarf {v} (to become (much) smaller) dwell {v} (live, reside) dwindle {v} ((intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish) dye {v} (to colour with dye) ear {v} (archaic: to plough) ear {v} (plough) SEE: plough :: earn {v} (deserve) earn {v} (transitive: receive (money) for working) earth {v} (connect electrically to the earth) earth {v} (to bury) ease {v} (To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc) ease nature {v} (to urinate and/or defecate (euphemism)) SEE: relieve oneself :: eat {v} (consume) eat {v} (eat a meal) eat one's hat {v} (to express disbelief about a proposition) eat pussy {v} (to perform cunnilingus) eavesdrop {v} (to hear a conversation one is not intended to hear) echo {v} (to repeat back what another has just said) edit {v} (to change a text, or a document) educate {v} (to instruct or train) effect {v} (to make or bring about; to implement) egg on {v} (provoke) ejaculate {v} (eject abruptly) ejaculate {v} (eject semen or vaginal fluid) eject {v} (to cause to come out of a machine) eject {v} (to compel to leave) eke out {v} (obtain with difficulty) eke out {v} (supplement) elapse {v} ((of time) to pass or move by) elbow {v} (to push with the elbow) elect {v} (to choose in election) elect {v} (to choose or make decision) electrify {v} (to excite suddenly and violently) electrocute {v} (to cause death from immediate complications resulting from electric shock) elevate {v} (ennoble) SEE: ennoble :: elevate {v} (promote) SEE: promote :: elicit {v} (to evoke, educe) elicit {v} (To use logic to arrive at truth. ) eliminate {v} (completely destroy) eliminate {v} (kill) elope {v} (run away with a lover to get married) elope {v} (run away with a paramour) elucidate {v} (make clear) emaciate {v} abmagern, abmergeln, ausmergeln email {v} (e-mail) SEE: e-mail :: e-mail {v} (intransitive: to send an e-mail or e-mails) e-mail {v} (to send an e-mail or e-mails to) emanate {v} (To come from a source) embalm {v} (to treat a corpse in order to prevent decomposition) embarge {v} (to board a barge) embarge {v} (to put in a barge) embark {v} (to get on a boat) embarrass {v} (to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely) embed {v} (lay as in a bed; lay in surrounding matter) embellish {v} (To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate) embellish {v} (To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality, to distort) embezzle {v} (to steal money that one has been trusted with) embiggen {v} (Make bigger) embody {v} (To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole) embody {v} (To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify) emboss {v} (to mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol) embrace {v} ((metaphorical) to enfold or include (ideas, principles, etc)) embrace {v} (to hug (a person)) embroider {v} (to add imaginary detail to a narrative) embroider {v} (to stitch a decorative design on fabric with needle and thread) embroil {v} (to draw into a situation) emend {v} (to correct and revise) emerge {v} (to come into view) emerge {v} (to come out of) emigrate {v} (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere) emit {v} (to send out or give off) empathize {v} (to feel empathy for another person) emphasize {v} (stress) employ {v} (to give someone work) employ {v} (to put into use) empower {v} (to give permission to) empty {v} (to make empty) emulate {v} (in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device) emulate {v} (to copy or imitate, especially a person) enable {v} (to allow a way out or excuse for an action) enable {v} (to give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong) enable {v} (to make able) enamel {v} (to coat with enamel) enamor {v} (to inflame with love) encapsulate {v} (object-oriented programming: To enclose objects in a common interface) encapsulate {v} (to enclose as if in a capsule) encapsulate {v} (to epitomize) encase {v} (to enclose in a case) enchant {v} (to attract and delight) encompass {v} (encircle) encompass {v} (include) encompass {v} (surround) encounter {v} (meet (someone) or find (something) unexpectedly) encourage {v} (mentally support or motivate) encourage {v} (spur on, recommend) encroach {v} (to advance gradually beyond due limits) encroach {v} (to intrude unrightfully on someone else's rights or territory) encrust {v} (To cover with a hard crust) encrypt {v} (to conceal information by means of a code or cipher) end {v} (ergative, intransive: be finished, be terminated) end {v} (transitive: finish, terminate (something)) endanger {v} (to put someone or something in danger) endeavor {v} (attempt through application of effort) endorse {v} (support) endure {v} (to continue despite obstacles) endure {v} (to last) endure {v} (to tolerate something) enervate {v} (to reduce strength or energy; debilitate) enforce {v} durchsetzen , bekräftigen enforce {v} (to exert) engender {v} (to bring into existence, cause) engrave {v} (carve text or symbols into (something)) engulf {v} (surround; cover) enhance {v} (augment or make something greater) enhance {v} (improve something by adding features) enjail {v} (put in jail) SEE: imprison :: enjoy {v} (to receive pleasure or satisfaction from something) enjoy oneself {v} (take pleasure) enlarge {v} (make larger) enlargen {v} (enlarge) SEE: enlarge :: enlighten {v} (to make clear to the intellect) ennoble {v} (To bestow with nobility, honour or grace) enqueue {v} (to add an item to a queue) enrage {v} (to fill with rage) enrapture {v} (to fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate) enravish {v} (to enrapture) SEE: enrapture :: enrich {v} (to increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes) enrich {v} (to make rich(er)) enroll {v} (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) enroll {v} (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) enslave {v} (to make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall) ensue {v} (to occur as consequence) ensure {v} (assure) SEE: assure :: ensure {v} (make sure or certain) entail {v} (to imply or require) entail {v} (to settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing) enter {v} (to go into (a room, etc.)) enter {v} (to type into a computer) entertain {v} (to amuse) entertain {v} unterhalten enthral {v} (hold spellbound) SEE: enthrall :: enthral {v} (make subservient) SEE: enthrall :: enthronise {v} (enthrone) SEE: enthrone :: enthronize {v} (enthrone) SEE: enthrone :: enthuse {v} (to cause (someone) to feel enthusiasm) enthuse {v} (to feel enthusiasm) entice {v} (To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.) entitle {v} (to bestow the right to do something) entitle {v} (to give a title to a book etc.) entitle {v} (to give a title to; to dignify by an honorary designation) entrench {v} (dig) entrench {v} (establish financial position) entrench {v} (surround with a trench) entrust {v} (To trust to the care of) entwist {v} flechten, umwinden, verflechten envelop {v} (to surround or enclose) envisage {v} (to conceive or see something within in one's mind) envy {v} (to feel displeasure towards (someone) because of their good fortune, possessions) enwrap {v} (To wrap around, surround) epilate {v} (to remove hair) equal {v} (be equal to) equal {v} (informal: have as its consequence) equalize {v} (to make the score equal) equip {v} ausrĂ¼sten eradicate {v} (to completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically) eradicate {v} (to pull up by the roots) erase {v} (to remove markings or information) erode {v} (To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction) err {v} (make a mistake) err {v} (sin) SEE: sin :: error {v} ((nonstandard) To make a mistake; to result in an error) SEE: err :: erupt {v} (to violently eject) escalate {v} (to intensify) escape {v} (to avoid capture) escape {v} (to elude) escape {v} (to get free) eschew {v} (avoid, shun) escort {v} (To attend to in order to guard and protect) espouse {v} (accept, support, take as one’s own) espouse {v} (become married to) establish {v} (To appoint, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain) establish {v} (To form; to set up in business) establish {v} (To found; to institute) establish {v} (To make stable or firm; to confirm) establish {v} (To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate) esteem {v} (to regard with respect) estimate {v} (to calculate roughly) estrange {v} (cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate) estrange {v} (remove from an accustomed place or set of associations) etch {v} (to engrave) etch {v} (to make a lasting impression) etiolate {v} (to make pale through lack of light) etymologize {v} (to find or provide etymology for a word) euthanize {v} (submit (a person or an animal) to euthanasia) evacuate {v} (to move out of an unsafe location into safety) evaluate {v} (to draw conclusions from by examining) evaporate {v} (to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state) evict {v} (to expel) eviscerate {v} (to disembowel) eviscerate {v} (to make ineffectual or meaningless) eviscerate {v} (to remove an organ or its contents) evoke {v} (to cause the manifestation of) exacerbate {v} (to make worse) exaggerate {v} (to overstate, to describe more than is fact) exalt {v} erhöhen exalt {v} (to elevate) exalt {v} (to honor) examine {v} (to check the health or condition of something or someone) examine {v} (to determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination) examine {v} (to interrogate) examine {v} (to observe or inspect carefully or critically) exceed {v} (to be better than something else or than expected or desirable) exceed {v} (to be larger, greater than something else or than expected or desirable) exceed {v} (to go beyond the limits of something) excel {v} (intransitive: to be much better than others) excel {v} (transitive: to surpass someone or something) except {v} (to exclude) excerpt {v} (to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work) exchange {v} (To replace with a similar item) exchange {v} (To trade or barter) excite {v} (to arouse or bring out (eg feelings); to stimulate) excite {v} (to stir the emotions of) exclaim {v} (to cry out) exclude {v} (to eliminate from diagnostic consideration) excommunicate {v} (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community) excrete {v} (to discharge from the system) excuse {v} (allow to leave) excuse {v} (explain with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement) excuse {v} (forgive, pardon) execute {v} (to kill as punishment) exempt {v} (to grant freedom or immunity from) exercise {v} (to perform activities to develop skills) exert {v} (to make use of) exert {v} (to put in vigorous action) exhale {v} (breathe out (intransitive)) exhaust {v} (to empty by drawing or letting out the contents) exhibit {v} (demonstrate) exhibit {v} (display or show (something) for others to see) exhibit {v} (display publicly) exhibit {v} (submit to a court) exhort {v} (urge) exhume {v} (To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter) exile {v} (to send into exile) exist {v} (to be) exit {v} (die) exit {v} (go out) exit {v} (leave) exonerate {v} (Of a body of water, to discharge (oneself), empty oneself) exonerate {v} (To free from accusation or blame) exonerate {v} (To free from an obligation, responsibility or task) exonerate {v} (To relieve (someone or something) of a load; 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to prefer) favour {v} (favor) SEE: favor :: fawn {v} (seek favour by flattery) fax {v} (send document) fear {v} (feel fear about (something)) feather {v} (To cover with feathers) featherbed {v} (to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle ) feature {v} (ascribe the greatest importance) feature {v} (star, contain) feceate {v} (to discharge feces from the digestive tract) feed {v} (to eat, see also: eat) feed {v} (to give food to eat) feed {v} (to give to a machine for processing) feel {v} (copulative: to seem) feel {v} fĂ¼hlen; fĂ¼hlen feel {v} (intransitive: to experience an emotion or other mental state) feel {v} (transitive: to experience an emotion or other mental state about) feel {v} (transitive: to sense by touch) feel {v} (transitive: to think or believe) feel like {v} (to have a desire for something, or to do something) feign {v} (to dissemble) feign {v} (to give a mental existence to something) feign {v} (to make a false copy) felicitate {v} (congratulate) SEE: congratulate :: fell {v} (to make something fall) fellate {v} (to suck off) felt {v} (make into felt) fence {v} (to build a fence) fend off {v} (to ward off, drive (something) away, defend against) ferment {v} (to cause unrest) ferment {v} (to react using fermentation) fertilize {v} (to inseminate) fertilize {v} (to make creative or productive) fertilize {v} (to make fertile by adding nutrients) fess up {v} (confess) SEE: confess :: fester {v} (become septic or rotten) fetch {v} (To bring to accomplishment; to achieve) fetch {v} (To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for) fetch {v} (To reduce; to throw) fetch {v} (To retrieve; to bear towards; to get) feud {v} (to carry on a feud) fib {v} (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie) fiberise {v} (fiberize) SEE: fiberize :: fibreise {v} (fiberize) SEE: fiberize :: fibreize {v} (fiberize) SEE: fiberize :: fibrise {v} (fiberize) SEE: fiberize :: fibrize {v} (fiberize) SEE: fiberize :: fiddle {v} (to play aimlessly) fidget {v} (to move around nervously) fight {v} (to contend in physical conflict) fight {v} (to counteract) fight {v} (to engage in combat) fight {v} (to strive for) figure out {v} (come to understand) figure out {v} (to calculate) SEE: calculate :: file {v} (to archive) file {v} (to commit papers) file {v} (to make a formal request) file {v} (to smooth with a file) file {v} (to store computer data) filibuster {v} (to use obstructionist tactics in a legislative body) fill {v} (add contents to, so it is full) fill {v} (become full of contents) fill {v} (become pervaded with something) fill {v} fĂ¼llen fill {v} (occupy fully, take up all of) fill in {v} (fill out) SEE: fill out :: fill in {v} (fill) SEE: fill :: fill out {v} (to complete a form) fill out {v} (to have one's physique expand) fill up {v} (make full) film {v} (to record a motion picture) filter {v} (to come or go a few at a time) filter {v} (to diffuse) filter {v} (to pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter) filter {v} (to sort, sift, or isolate) filtrate {v} (to filter) finance {v} (to obtain or provide funding for a transaction or undertaking) find {v} (discover) SEE: discover :: find {v} (encounter, locate, discover) find fault {v} (to criticize excessively) find out {v} (to discover) fine {v} (clarify by filtration) fine {v} (to issue a fine as punishment) finger-wag {v} (to move the index finger from left to right to left, as to say no or reject something) finger-wag {v} (to move the index finger up and down and up, as to threaten or reprimand someone) finish {v} (to apply a final treatment to) finish {v} (to come to an end) finish {v} (to complete) finish off {v} (to kill) SEE: kill :: fire {v} (computer sciences / software engineering: to initiate an event) fire {v} (intransitive: to shoot) fire {v} (physiology: to cause action potential in a cell) fire {v} (sport: to shoot, to attempt to score a goal) fire {v} (to heat pottery, etc.) fire {v} (to set on fire) SEE: set on fire :: fire {v} (to terminate the employment of) fire {v} (transitive: to shoot) firm {v} (Australian, betting: to shorten) SEE: shorten :: fish {v} (intransitive: to try to catch fish) fission {v} (to cause to undergo fission) fist-fuck {v} (to insert a fist) fit {v} (adjust) SEE: adjust :: fit {v} (make ready) SEE: prepare :: fit {v} (to be suitable for) fit {v} (to conform to in size and shape) fit {v} (to have right size and cut, as of clothing) fit {v} (to tailor) fit out {v} (to provide a thing, a group, a person or oneself with requisites) fix {v} (to attach; to affix; to hold in place) fix {v} (to make a contest, vote, or gamble unfair) fix {v} (to mend or repair) fix {v} (to prepare) fix {v} (to render an animal infertile) fix {v} (to render (a photographic impression) permanent) fixate {v} (to make something fixed) fixate {v} (to stare fixedly) flabbergast {v} (To overwhelm with wonder; to stun or amaze) flag {v} (computing: to set a programming variable to true) flag {v} (computing: to signal) flag {v} (lay down flagstones) flag {v} (to mark with a flag) flag {v} (to signal to) flag {v} (weaken) flail {v} (to thresh) flail {v} (to wave or swing vigorously) flambĂ© {v} (to add and ignite alcohol to food) flame {v} (post a critical or abusive message on the Internet) flame out {v} (flare up) SEE: flare up :: flank {v} (to attack the flank(s)) flank {v} (to place to the side(s) of something) flap {v} (to move loosely back and forth) flap {v} (to move (something broad and loose) back and forth) flare {v} (to cause to burn) flare up {v} (to burst out suddenly, as in anger) flash {v} (to blink) flatten {v} (to knock down or lay low) flatten {v} (to make something flat) flatter {v} (to compliment someone) flatter {v} (to enhance someone's vanity) flatter {v} (to portray something to advantage) flaunt {v} (to display with ostentation) flavour {v} (to add flavouring to something) flay {v} (to strip skin off) flee {v} (to escape from) flee {v} (to run away; to escape) flense {v} (To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc) flesh {v} (To add details) flesh {v} (to put flesh on) flesh {v} (to remove the flesh) flex {v} (to bend something) flex {v} (to move part of the body using one's muscles) flex {v} (to repeatedly bend one's joints) flex {v} (to tighten one's muscles) flex one's muscles {v} (to make a show of strength) flicker {v} (to burn or shine unsteadily) flick off {v} (to insult someone) fling {v} (to fling) flip {v} (to go berserk or crazy) flip {v} (to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger) flip {v} (to throw (as in to turn over)) flip off {v} (to make a rude or obscene gesture) flip the bird {v} (to make a rude or obscene gesture, particularly with the middle finger) flirt {v} [5] flirten flirt {v} (to play at courtship) flit {v} (to move quickly from one location to another) float {v} (to be capable of floating) float {v} (to be supported by a liquid) float {v} (to drift gently through the air) float {v} (to extend a short-term loan to) float {v} (to move in a fluid manner) float {v} (to move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating) float {v} (to propose for consideration) flog {v} (to defeat) SEE: defeat :: flog {v} (to sell) SEE: sell :: flog {v} (to steal) SEE: steal :: flog {v} (to whip or scourge someone or something as punishment) flog a dead horse {v} (to attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more) flood {v} (to cover as if by a flood) flood {v} (to overflow) floor {v} (cover with a floor) floor {v} (silence with a conclusive answer) floor {v} (strike down) flop {v} (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) flop {v} (to fall heavily, because lacking energy) flounce {v} (to make spastic motions) SEE: flounder :: flour {v} (to apply flour to something) flourish {v} (to be in a period of greatest influence) flourish {v} (to prosper or fare well) flourish {v} (to thrive or grow well) flout {v} (to express contempt for the rules by word or action) flout {v} (to scorn) flow {v} (to move as a fluid) flower {v} (to put forth blooms) fluctuate {v} (to vary irregularly; to swing) fluff {v} (to become fluffy) fluff {v} (to make a mistake in one’s lines) fluff {v} (to make fluffy) flunk {v} (to fail) flutter {v} (to flap or wave quickly) flutter {v} (to flap the wings without flying) fly {v} (to cause to travel through the air) fly {v} (to flee) fly {v} (to travel through air) foam {v} (form or emit foam) focus {v} (cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point) focus {v} (intransitive: to concentrate one's attention) focus {v} (to adjust (a lens, an optical instrument)) focus {v} (transitive: to concentrate one's attention) foil {v} (prevent from being accomplished) fold {v} (bend (thin material) over) fold {v} (fall over) fold {v} (give way on a point or in an argument) fold {v} (make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending) fold {v} (poker: withdraw from betting) fold {v} (stir gently with a folding action) follow {v} (to be a logical consequence of) follow {v} (to carry out in accordance to) follow {v} (to go or come after in a sequence) follow {v} (to go or come after in physical space) follow {v} (to live one’s life according to) follow {v} (to understand) follow suit {v} (to play a card of the same suit) fondle {v} (to fondle) fool {v} (to trick; to make a fool of someone) fool around {v} (to engage in frivolous behaviour; to monkey around (idiomatic)) foot {v} (pay) forage {v} (to rummage) forbid {v} (to disallow) force {v} (cause to occur, overcoming resistance) force {v} (compel (someone to do something)) force-feed {v} (to force a person to ingest food) forecast {v} (estimate future conditions) forego {v} (to precede) foresee {v} (to anticipate) forest {v} (to cover an area with trees) foretell {v} (to predict the future) forewarn {v} (to warn in advance) forfeit {v} (to give up in defeat) forfeit {v} (to suffer the loss) forge {v} (to create a forgery of) forge {v} (to shape a metal) forget {v} abhaken forget {v} (to cease remembering) forget {v} (to lose remembrance of) forget {v} (to unintentionally not do) forget it {v} (It doesn't matter) forget it {v} (reply to an expression of gratitude) forgive {v} (transitive, to pardon) forgo {v} (to do without) fork {v} (computer science: to spawn a new child process) fork {v} (computer science: to split a software project) fork {v} (to divide into two or more branches) fork {v} (to move with fork) form {v} (to give shape) format {v} (computing: prepare a mass storage medium for initial use) formulate {v} (to reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression) forsake {v} (to abandon) fortified {v} (used as adjective) fortify {v} (increase the defenses of) forward {v} (send (something received) to a third party) foster {v} (to cultivate and grow something) foster {v} (to nurse or cherish something) foster {v} (to nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child) foul {v} (to become clogged) foul {v} (to become entangled) foul {v} (to besmirch) foul {v} (to clog or obstruct) foul {v} (to commit a foul) foul {v} (to entangle) foul {v} (To hit a ball outside of the baselines) foul {v} (to hit outside of the baselines) foul {v} (to make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage) foul {v} (to make dirty) found {v} (melt) SEE: melt :: found {v} (to begin building) found {v} (to start organization) founder {v} (to fail) founder {v} (to sink) fragment {v} (to break apart) fragment {v} (to cause to be broken into pieces) frame {v} (add a decorative border to a picture) frame {v} (cause a person to appear guilty) frame {v} (establish a context in words) frame {v} (position visually within a fixed boundary) frame {v} (put together the structural elements) fraternize {v} (to associate as friends with an enemy) fraternize {v} (to associate with others in a brotherly manner) fraud {v} (defraud) SEE: defraud :: fray {v} (unravel) freak out {v} (react with anger or fear) free {v} (make free) freeze {v} (become motionless) freeze {v} (become solid due to low temperature) freeze {v} (be very cold) freeze {v} (drop below zero) freeze {v} (lower something's temperature to freezing point) fret {v} (to devour, consume) fricassee {v} (to cook meat or poultry in this manner) friend {v} (befriend) SEE: befriend :: friend {v} (to act as the friend of) frighten {v} (to disturb with fear) frisk {v} (search somebody by feeling their clothes) fritter {v} (sinter) SEE: sinter :: frolic {v} (behave playfully and uninhibitedly) front {v} (assume false or disingenuous appearances) frost {v} (to coat with white icing to resemble frost) froth {v} (To bubble) froth {v} (To create froth) frounce {v} (to crease, wrinkle) SEE: frown :: frounce {v} (to curl) SEE: curl :: frown {v} finster dreinblicken , missbilligen frown {v} (to have a frown on one's face) frown at {v} (to disapprove of) SEE: frown upon :: frown upon {v} (facial expression) fruit {v} fruchten frustrate {v} (to disappoint or defeat) fry {v} (cook in hot fat) fry {v} (informal: be executed by the electric chair) fry {v} (suffer because of too much heat) fry {v} (to cook (something) in hot fat) fuck {v} (to have sexual intercourse-obscene or vulgar) fuck {v} (to insert an object into a specified body part) fuck around {v} (to have sex with many partners) fuck off {v} (go to hell, disappear, screw oneself) fudge {v} (To try to avoid giving a direct answer) fuel {v} (to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater) fuel {v} (to provide fuel) fulfil {v} (carry out) SEE: fulfill :: fulfill {v} (to carry out) fulfill {v} (to comply with) full {v} (to baptise) SEE: baptise :: fumble {v} (To idly touch or nervously handle) fume {v} (Emit fumes) fume {v} (To feel or express great anger) function {v} (to carry on a function) function {v} (to have a function) fund {v} (to pay for) furnish {v} (to provide with furniture) furnish {v} (to supply) furrow {v} (wrinkle) SEE: to wrinkle :: further {v} fördern fuse {v} (transitive: to furnish with a fuse) gag {v} (To experience the vomiting reflex) gag {v} (To restrain someone's speech) gage {v} (gauge) SEE: gauge :: gage {v} (to measure) SEE: gauge :: gaggle {v} (cackle) SEE: cackle :: gain {v} ( acquire ) gainsay {v} (to deny; to contradict) gallop {v} (to ride at a galloping pace) galvanise {v} (galvanise) SEE: galvanize :: galvanize {v} (To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means) galvanize {v} (To coat with rust-resistant zinc) galvanize {v} (To shock or stimulate into sudden activity) galvanized {v} (galvanized) SEE: galvanised :: gamble {v} (to play casino games) gamble {v} (to take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome) gamble {v} ((transitive) to risk something for potential gain) game {v} (to gamble) SEE: gamble :: game {v} (To play games and be a gamer) gaol {v} (imprison, jail) SEE: imprison, jail :: garden {v} (grow plants) gargle {v} (to clean one's mouth) gargle {v} (to make such a sound) garnish {v} (fetter) SEE: fetter :: garnish {v} (to decorate with ornamental appendages) garnish {v} (to ornament) gas {v} (fill a vehicle's fuel tank) gas {v} (give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate) gas {v} (kill with poisonous gas) gasify {v} (to convert into gas) gasp {v} (to breathe laboriously or convulsively) gasp {v} (to draw in the breath suddenly) gather {v} (to bring together; to collect) gauge {v} (measure) gawp {v} (gawk) SEE: gawk :: gaze {v} (To stare intently or earnestly) geld {v} (castrate) SEE: castrate :: gender {v} (engender) SEE: engender :: generalize {v} (to infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles) generate {v} erzeugen genuflect {v} (to bend the knee, as in servitude or worship) Germanize {v} (make more German) gesticulate {v} (to express through gestures) gesticulate {v} (to make gestures) gesture {v} ((intransitive) to make a gesture) gesture {v} ((transitive) to express something by a gesture) get {v} (arrive at) get {v} (become) get {v} (colloquial: be) get {v} (colloquial: understand) get {v} (fetch) get {v} (obtain) get {v} (receive) get along {v} (interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble) get a move on {v} (hurry up) SEE: hurry up :: get a word in edgeways {v} (get a word in edgewise) SEE: get a word in edgewise :: get by {v} (subsist) get cold feet {v} (to become nervous or anxious and reconsider a decision about an upcoming event) get down {v} (bring down (transitive)) SEE: let down :: get down {v} (come down (intransitive)) SEE: come down :: get down {v} (go down (intransitive)) SEE: go down :: get dressed {v} (to beclothe oneself, to put on clothes) get drunk {v} (to intoxicate oneself with alcohol) get drunk {v} (transitive; to make drunk) get in {v} (to enter) get in the way {v} (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) get it over with {v} hinter sich bringen get it up {v} (achieve a penile erection) get laid {v} (to have sex) get lost {v} (become lost) get married {v} (become married) get off {v} ((transitive) To disembark from) get on {v} (to board or mount) get one's hands dirty {v} sich die Hände schmutzig machen, sich die Finger schmutzig machen get one's wires crossed {v} (to get confused) get on someone's nerves {v} (annoy or irritate) get on with {v} (get along with) SEE: get along with :: get on with {v} (proceed with) get out {v} (2. To help someone leave) get out of bed on the wrong side {v} (to start the day in a bad mood) SEE: get up on the wrong side of the bed :: get over {v} (recover) SEE: recover :: get over {v} (to forget, and move on) get over {v} (to overcome) get rid of {v} (to remove) get the hang of {v} (to learn to handle with some skill) get to {v} (to upset or annoy) get to know {v} (to become acquainted with someone) get up {v} (to rise from one's bed) get up on the wrong side of the bed {v} (to feel irritable without a particular reason) get used {v} (to get accustomed (to)) get wind of {v} (To hear about; to learn of, especially especially with respect to facts intended to have been confidential) giggle {v} (laugh) gild {v} (to adorn) gild {v} (to cover with a thin layer of gold) give {v} (bend slightly when a force is applied) give {v} (transfer the possession of something to someone else) give a shit {v} (to (not) care) give back {v} (return) give birth {v} (produce new life) give head {v} (slang: to perform oral sex on another person) give in {v} (to collapse or fall) give in {v} (to relent or yield) give me {v} (give me) give rise to {v} (to be the origin of; to produce) give someone the cold shoulder {v} (to snub) give the finger {v} (make an obscene gesture) give up {v} (abandon) give up {v} (admit defeat) give up {v} (lose hope) give up {v} (stop, quit, desist ) give up {v} (surrender) give up the ghost {v} (to die) give way {v} (to collapse or break under physical stress) give way {v} (to yield to persistent persuasion) give what for {v} (scold) SEE: scold :: gladden {v} (to cause to become more glad) glance {v} (to look briefly at something) glean {v} (gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit) glean {v} (harvest grain left behind after the crop has been reaped) glide {v} (To cause to glide) glide {v} (To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft) glide {v} (To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly) glimmer {v} (shine with faint unsteady light) glisten {v} (to reflect light with a glittering luster) glitter {v} (to sparkle with light) gloat {v} (to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction) globalize {v} (To make something global in scope) glorify {v} (to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone) glorify {v} (to make something appear to be more glorious than it is) glorify {v} (to worship or extol) gloss {v} (give a gloss or sheen to) glottalize {v} (to apply glottalization) glow {v} (to give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated ) glow {v} (to radiate thermal heat ) glow {v} (to shine brightly and steadily ) glue {v} (join with glue) gnaw {v} (to bite something persistently) go {v} (attack) SEE: attack :: go {v} (change) SEE: change :: go {v} (die) SEE: die :: go {v} (extend) SEE: extend :: go {v} (lead (tend or reach in a certain direction)) SEE: lead :: go {v} (leave) SEE: leave :: go {v} (of time: elapse, pass) SEE: elapse, pass :: go {v} (survive) SEE: survive :: go {v} (to be destroyed ) go {v} (to disappear ) go {v} (to make (a specified sound) ) go {v} (to move through space (especially from one place to another) ) go {v} (to take a turn ) go {v} (turn out) SEE: turn out :: go {v} (urinate, defecate) SEE: pee, poo :: go {v} (walk) SEE: walk :: goad {v} (to prod with a goad; to encourage, stimulate, incite or provoke) go ahead {v} (proceed) go away {v} (to become invisible, vanish or disappear) go away {v} (to depart or leave a place) go away {v} (to travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation) go back {v} (to return to a place) go back on {v} (fail to keep, renege on) go bad {v} (of foods: to spoil or rot) go ballistic {v} (become very angry) go bankrupt {v} (to become bankrupt) gobble {v} (to eat hastily or greedily) gobble {v} (to make the sound of a turkey) go crazy {v} (go nuts) SEE: go nuts :: go down {v} (decrease) go down {v} (descend) go Dutch {v} (split the cost) goggle {v} (stare with wide eyes) go halfsies {v} (to share by splitting in half) SEE: go halves :: go in {v} (enter) SEE: enter :: go in one ear and out the other {v} (to not be heeded) gold {v} (having the colour of gold) gold {v} (made of gold) golf {v} (play golf) go mad {v} (to become insane) SEE: go nuts :: go nuts {v} (in the imperative) go nuts {v} (to become mad) google {v} (to search for on the Internet) go on {v} (continue) goose-step {v} (to march with a goose-step) go out {v} (to leave, especially a building) go out {v} (to leave one's abode to go to public places) go postal {v} (behave in a hysterical, angry or irrational manner) go round in circles {v} (To repeatedly do the same thing) go south {v} (become unfavorable) gossip {v} (to talk about someone else's private or personal business) gossip {v} (to talk idly) got it {v} (Do you understand?) got it {v} (I understand) go to bed {v} (to lie down to sleep) go too far {v} (exceed an unstated limit) go to sleep {v} (fall asleep) SEE: fall asleep :: go to someone's head {v} zu Kopf steigen [+ Dat] go to the bathroom {v} (go to the toilet) SEE: go to the toilet :: go to the dogs {v} (informal: to decline or deteriorate) go to work {v} (commute) SEE: commute :: go to work {v} (work) SEE: work :: gouge {v} (charge an unfairly high price) gouge {v} (make a mark by scooping) go under {v} (descend into a body of water) go up {v} (to move upwards) go up {v} (to rise or increase) gourmandise {v} (eat food in a gluttonous manner) govern {v} ((intr.) to exercise political authority) govern {v} ((intr.) to have a determining influence) govern {v} (to control the actions of) govern {v} (to control the speed or magnitude of) govern {v} (to exercise a determining influence on) govern {v} (to exercise sovereign authority in) go wild {v} (knock yourself out) SEE: knock yourself out :: go without saying {v} (to be obvious, apparent or clear) grab {v} (to make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something)) grace {v} (to adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify) graduate {v} (to be recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree) graduate {v} (to mark a scale on (something) so it can be used for measuring) graft {v} (to insert scions) grant {v} (To assent; to consent) grant {v} (To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request) grant {v} (To give over) granulate {v} (to segment) grapple {v} (to ponder and intensely evaluate a problem) grapple {v} (to seize and hold firmly) grapple {v} (to wrestle or struggle) grasp {v} (to grip) grasp {v} (to understand) grate {v} (rub against) grate {v} (shred) gratulate {v} (congratulate) SEE: congratulate :: gravel {v} (To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc) gray {v} (to become gray) gray out {v} ausgrauen graze {v} (to rub or touch lightly the surface of in passing) greet {v} (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes) grep {v} (use the program grep) grey {v} (gray) SEE: gray :: grill {v} (cook food) grimace {v} (to make grimaces) grin {v} (To smile showing the teeth) grind {v} (to make smaller by breaking with a device) grind {v} (to remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface) grind {v} (to slide a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle) grin like a Cheshire cat {v} (to smile broadly) grip {v} (to take hold) grit {v} (to clench) grit one's teeth {v} (face up to a difficult or disagreeable situation, and deal with it) groan {v} (to make a groan) groom {v} (to attend to one's appearance) groom {v} (to care for animals) groom {v} (to prepare a ski slope) grope {v} (obsolete: to feel with or use the hands) grope {v} (to search by feeling) grope {v} (to touch closely and sexually) ground {v} (to connect an electrical conductor) ground {v} (to forbid an aircraft or pilot to fly) ground {v} (to require a child to remain at home) ground {v} (to run aground) SEE: run aground :: group {v} (put together to form a group) grovel {v} (to abase oneself) grovel {v} (to be nice in the hope of securing something) grovel {v} (to crawl) grow {v} ((intransitive) to appear or sprout) grow {v} ((intransitive) to become bigger) grow {v} ((transitive) to cause something to become bigger) growl {v} (to utter a deep guttural sound) grow up {v} (to mature and become an adult) grudge {v} (to be unwilling to give) grue {v} (shudder) SEE: shudder :: grumble {v} brummen grumble {v} (to murmur or mutter with discontent) grunt {v} (of a person: to make a grunt or grunts) grunt {v} (of a pig: to make a grunt or grunts) gruntle {v} (grunt) SEE: grunt :: guarantee {v} (to assure that something will get done right) guarantee {v} (to make something certain) guard {v} (to protect from some offence) guess {v} (to reach an unqualified conclusion) guess {v} (to solve by a correct conjecture) guest {v} (to appear as a guest) guffaw {v} (To laugh boisterously) guide {v} (to serve as a guide person) guillotine {v} (execute by use of a guillotine) gurgle {v} (to flow with a bubbling sound) gurgle {v} (to make such a sound) gush {v} (to flow forth suddenly) gush {v} (to make an excessive display of enthusiasm) gut {v} (To eviscerate) gut {v} (To remove or destroy the most important parts of) gutter {v} (to cut or form into small longitudinal hollows) SEE: channel :: gutter {v} (to flow or stream; to form gutters) guzzle {v} (To drink (or sometimes eat) voraciously) had best {v} (had better) SEE: had better :: haggle {v} (to argue for a better deal) hail {v} (said when hail is falling) hail {v} (to greet) half {v} (halve) SEE: halve :: hallow {v} (to sanctify) halt {v} (to cause something to stop) halt {v} (to stop either temporarily or permanently) halt {v} (to waver or be hesitant) halve {v} (to divide in two equal parts) halve {v} (to reduce to half of original) ham it up {v} (performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements) hand {v} (to give, pass or transmit with the hand) hand {v} (to lead, guide, or assist with the hand) hand down {v} (transmit in succession) handle with kid gloves {v} (to treat something very delicately) hand out {v} (to distribute) hand over {v} (to relinquish control or possession) handpicked {v} (selected with great care) hang {v} (chess: to be vulnerable to capture) hang {v} (chess: to cause to become vulnerable to capture) hang {v} (computing: to cause (a program or computer) to stop responding) hang {v} (informal: to loiter) hang {v} (to apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall)) hang {v} (to be executed using gallows) hang {v} (to be or remain suspended) hang {v} (to cause to be suspended) hang {v} (to decorate (something) with hanging objects) hang {v} (to execute by suspension from the neck) hang {v} (to exhibit by hanging) hang {v} (to float as if suspended) hang {v} (to hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position) hang {v} (to place on a hook) hang around {v} (to spend time or be friends) hang by a thread {v} (to be in a precarious situation) hang on {v} (persevere) hang on {v} (to keep; to store something for someone) hang on every word {v} (To be completely attentive to what another person is saying) hang out {v} (to do nothing in particular) hang out to dry {v} (to abandon someone in need) hang up {v} (put up to hang) hang up {v} (terminate a phone call) happen {v} (to occur) happen on {v} (happen on) SEE: chance upon :: harass {v} (to annoy; to molest) harass {v} (to put excessive burdens upon) harbinger {v} (to announce) harm {v} (cause damage) harmonize {v} (to be in harmonious agreement) harmonize {v} (to bring things into harmony, or to make things compatible) harmonize {v} (to play or sing in harmony) harmonize {v} (to provide the harmony for a melody) harness {v} (to place a harness on something) harp {v} (to repeatedly mention a subject) harrow {v} (drag a harrow over) harrow {v} (traumatise, frighten) harvest {v} (to bring in a harvest; reap) hash {v} (to chop into small pieces) hash {v} (to make a quick, rough version) hassle {v} (To pick a fight or start an argument) hassle {v} (To trouble, to bother, to annoy) hasten {v} (to cause a scheduled event to happen earlier) hasten {v} (to make someone/something speed up) hasten {v} (to move in a quick fashion) hatch {v} (of an egg, to break open) hatch {v} (to devise) hatch {v} (to emerge from an egg) hatch {v} (to incubate eggs) hatch {v} (to shade an area) SEE: crosshatch :: hate {v} (to dislike intensely) haul {v} (to pull something heavy) haul {v} (to transport something heavy) have {v} (auxiliary used in forming the perfect and the past perfect tenses) have {v} (cause to be) have {v} (engage in sexual intercourse with) have {v} (give birth to) have {v} (must) have {v} (to be related to) have {v} (to possess) have a frog in one's throat {v} (to have something in one's throat) have a look {v} (examine, observe) SEE: take a look :: have a mind like a sieve {v} Ein Hirn wie ein Sieb haben. have an affair {v} (to be having extramarital sex while married) have a screw loose {v} (to be insane or irrational) have a seat {v} (polite directive) have a seat {v} (to sit down) have butterflies in one's stomach {v} (be nervous) have eyes bigger than one's belly {v} (have eyes bigger than one's stomach) SEE: have eyes bigger than one's stomach :: have eyes bigger than one's stomach {v} (take more food than one can eat) have fun {v} (enjoy oneself) have in mind {v} (consider, intend) have one's cake and eat it too {v} (to seek to have two things which are mutually incompatible) have one's hands full {v} (be busy or thoroughly preoccupied) have seen better days {v} (to be in poor condition) have sex {v} (take part in a sexual act) haze {v} (to perform an initiation ritual) head {v} ((intransitive) move in a specified direction) head {v} ((transitive) be in command of) head {v} ((transitive) to strike with the head) heal {v} (become better) heal {v} heilen heal {v} (make better) healing {v} (present participle of heal) heap {v} Haufen hear {v} (to perceive with the ear) hear on the grapevine {v} (to hear rumors) SEE: hear through the grapevine :: hear out {v} (to listen to someone until that person has finished) hear the grass grow {v} (which sense?) heat {v} (to arouse, to excite (sexually)) heat {v} (to cause an increase in temperature of an object or space) heat up {v} (cause to become hotter) heel {v} (incline) heel {v} (To follow at somebody's heels) heist {v} (to steal, rob or hold up something) help {v} (contribute in some way to) help {v} (transitive: provide assistance to (someone or something)) help oneself {v} (to take something freely) help out {v} (provide additional assistance) hem {v} (to make a hem) hem {v} (to put hem on an article of clothing) hem {v} (to surround something or someone in a confining way) herald {v} (announce) heroize {v} (to make someone into a hero) heroize {v} (to treat someone as if they were a hero) hesitate {v} (to stammer; to falter in speaking) hesitate {v} (to stop or pause respecting decision or action) hew {v} (to chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down) hibernate {v} (winter sleep) hiccup {v} (to hiccup) hick {v} (hiccup) SEE: hiccup :: hide {v} ((intransitive)) hide {v} ((transitive)) hide one's light under a bushel {v} (conceal one's talents or positive qualities) hie {v} (to go in haste) highlight {v} (to make prominent) highlight {v} (to mark with a fluorescent marker) hijack {v} (to seize control of a vehicle) hike {v} (to take a long walk for pleasure or exercise) hinder {v} (to delay or impede movement) hinder {v} (to make a task difficult) hire {v} (to employ) hire {v} (to obtain the services of in return for fixed payment) hiss {v} (to make a hissing sound) hit {v} (to begin) hit {v} (to come into contact with forcefully and suddenly) hit {v} (to give a blow) hit {v} (to go (somewhere)) hit {v} (to kill a person on the instructions of a third party) hit {v} (to manage to touch in the right place) hitchhike {v} (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) hit on {v} (to approach somebody seeking love, sex, etc.) hit the gas {v} (go faster) hit the jackpot {v} (to receive a favorable outcome, by luck) hit the nail on the head {v} (identify something exactly) hit the road {v} (to leave a place; to go away) hoard {v} (to amass) hoax {v} (to deceive with a hoax) hoe {v} (to use the gardening tool) hog {v} (to greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others) hog-tie {v} (figurative use) hoist {v} (transitive: to raise; to lift; to elevate) hold {v} (to grasp) hold {v} (to organise an event or meeting) hold down {v} (to continue to hold) hold down {v} (to restrain) hold on {v} (wait a minute) hold one's breath {v} (to hold one's breath) hold out {v} (to hold) holiday {v} (to spend a period of time for travel) hollow out {v} (make hollow) home {v} (to home ("in on")) hone {v} (to refine or master a skill) hone {v} (to sharpen with a hone) honk {v} (to honk like a goose) honk {v} (to use a car horn) honor {v} (confer honor on) SEE: honour :: honor {v} (to conform to, abide by, act in accordance with) SEE: honour :: honor {v} (to show respect for) SEE: honour :: honour {v} (confer honour on) honour {v} (think of, respect highly) hood {v} (cover with a hood) hook {v} (to attach a hook) hook {v} (to catch with a hook) hook {v} (to connect) hook up {v} (to assemble the parts of a mechanism, especially by connecting wires) hook up {v} (to connect to something) hook up {v} (to form an association (with) someone) hooray {v} (to shout an expression of excitement) hoover {v} (vacuum) SEE: vacuum :: hop {v} (jump a short distance) hope {v} (to want something to happen, with expectation that it might) hop to it {v} (hurry up) SEE: hurry up :: horseplay {v} (to engage in horseplay) hose {v} (to attack and kill somebody) hospitalise {v} (hospitalize) SEE: hospitalize :: hospitalize {v} (to send to a hospital) host {v} (computing: run software for a remote user or process) host {v} (perform the role of a host) hot dog {v} (to perform a dangerous act as display) SEE: show off :: hound {v} (to hound) house {v} (admit to residence) hover {v} (to float in the air) hover {v} (to linger in one place) hover {v} (to place the cursor over a hyperlink) hover {v} (to waver, or be uncertain) howl {v} (To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do) hug {v} (cling closely together) hug {v} (embrace) hum {v} (to make sound with lips closed) humiliate {v} (to humiliate) humour {v} (to pacify by indulging) hump {v} (intransitive, slang: to have sex) hump {v} (transitive, slang: to have sex with) hunger {v} (need food) hunker {v} (To crouch or squat close to the ground) hunt {v} (to chase down prey) hunt {v} (to search for something) hurl {v} (throw with force) hurry {v} (to do things quickly) hurry {v} (to speed up the rate) hurry up {v} (go faster) hurt {v} (to be painful) hurt {v} (to cause emotional pain) hurt {v} (to cause physical pain and/or injury) hurtle {v} (To make a threatening sound) hurtle {v} (To meet with violence or shock) hurtle {v} (To move rapidly, violently, or without control) hurtle {v} (To throw hard or violently) hush {v} (to become quiet) hush {v} (to make quiet) hush up {v} (to keep secret) hustle {v} (to con or deceive) hustle {v} (to rush or hurry) hydrogenate {v} (treat or react with hydrogen) hyperventilate {v} (to breathe quickly and deeply) hyphenate {v} (to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules) hypnotise {v} (hypnotise) SEE: hypnotize :: hypothecate {v} (pledge as surety) hypothesise {v} (to believe or assert) ice {v} (to freeze) ice over {v} (to become covered in ice) ice-skate {v} (skate on ice) idealize {v} (intransitive: to conceive or form an ideal) idealize {v} (transitive: to regard something as ideal) identify {v} (to associate oneself with some group) identify {v} (to equate two or more things) identify {v} (to establish the identity of someone or something) ignite {v} (to set fire to, to light) ignore {v} (to deliberately pay no attention to) illuminate {v} (to decorate something with lights) illuminate {v} (to shine light on something) illustrate {v} (to add explanatory or decoratory features) illustrate {v} (to clarify) imagine {v} ((transitive) to form a mental image of something) immerse {v} (to involve deeply) immerse {v} (to put under the surface of a liquid) immigrate {v} (to move in from another country or area) immiserate {v} (impoverish) immolate {v} (destroy) immolate {v} (kill as sacrifice) immunize {v} (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease) immunize {v} (to make someone or something immune to something) impact {v} (to collide or strike) impact {v} (to compress) impact {v} (to influence) impair {v} (have a diminishing effect on) impart {v} (communicate the knowledge of) impart {v} (to give a part or share) impeach {v} (to bring legal proceeding against public official) impeach {v} (to hinder) impede {v} (to get in the way of; to hinder) impend {v} (be about to happen) impersonate {v} (assume identity of) implant {v} (insert (something) surgically into the body) implement {v} (bring about) implicate {v} (to intertwine) SEE: intertwine :: implicate {v} verwickeln imply {v} (to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement) imply {v} (to have as a consequence) imply {v} (to suggest by a logical inference) import {v} (to bring in from a foreign country) importune {v} (to harass with persistent requests) impose {v} (to be an inconvenience) impound {v} (to hold in the custody of a court or its delegate) impoverish {v} (intransitive: become poor) impoverish {v} (transitive: make poor) impregnate {v} (to cause to become pregnant) impregnate {v} (to fill pores or spaces with a substance) impress {v} (mark or stamp (something) using pressure) impress {v} ((transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably) imprint {v} (to leave a print, impression, image, etc.) imprison {v} (to put in or as if in prison; confine) improve {v} (to become better) improve {v} (to make something better) improvise {v} (to make something up as one goes on) impugn {v} (question the validity of) inaugurate {v} (to dedicate ceremoniously) inaugurate {v} (to induct into office) incarcerate {v} (to lock away in prison) incarnate {v} (incarn) SEE: incarn :: inch {v} (to move very slowly) incite {v} (to rouse, stir up or excite) incline {v} (bend (something) out of a given plane or direction) incline {v} (slope) incline {v} (to tend to do or believe something) include {v} (to bring into as a part or member) include {v} (to contain, as part of a whole) inconvenience {v} (to bother or discomfort) incorporate {v} (form into a legal company) incorporate {v} (include as a part or ingredient) incorporate {v} (mix, blend) increase {v} (become larger) incriminate {v} (to accuse or bring criminal charges against) incriminate {v} (to indicate the guilt of) inculcate {v} (teach by repeated instruction) indemnify {v} (To make restitution or compensation for) indemnify {v} (To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure) independentize {v} (to make independent) index {v} (to arrange an index) index {v} (to take stock) SEE: inventory :: indicate {v} (to point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known) indicate {v} (to show or manifest by symptoms) indicate {v} (to signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left) indict {v} ( to accuse of wrongdoing) indict {v} ( to make a formal accusation or indictment) indoctrinate {v} (brainwash) SEE: brainwash :: indoctrinate {v} (to teach with a biased or one-sided ideology) indulge {v} (to satisfy the wishes or whims of) indulge {v} (to yield to a temptation) industrialize {v} (to develop industry) infatuate {v} (To inspire with unreasoning love or attachment) infect {v} (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness) infect {v} (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion) infer {v} ((intransitive) To draw a conclusion (by reasoning)) infer {v} ((transitive) To conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence) inflame {v} (to exaggerate) inflame {v} (to grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful) inflame {v} (to kindle or intensify) inflame {v} (to provoke to anger or rage) inflame {v} (to put in a state of inflammation) inflame {v} (to set on fire) inflate {v} (to enlarge the volume occupied by an object) inflect {v} (grammar) inflict {v} (thrust upon, impose) influence {v} (intransitive: to exert influence) influence {v} (transitive: to exert an influence upon) inform {v} (instruct) SEE: instruct :: inform {v} (to act as an informer, denounce) inform {v} (to communicate knowledge to (an)other(s)) inform {v} (to impart information or knowledge (intransitive)) infuse {v} (to steep in a liquid) ingest {v} (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) ingratiate {v} (get someone's favor, especially through flattery) inhabit {v} (to live or reside in some place) inhale {v} (to draw air into the lungs) inhale {v} (to draw something into the nose or lungs) inherit {v} (to receive a characteristic by genetic transmission) inherit {v} (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.) inhibit {v} (to hinder; to restrain) initialize {v} (to assign an initial value to a variable) initialize {v} (to assign initial values to something) initialize {v} (to format a storage medium prior to use) initialize {v} (to prepare any hardware for use) initiate {v} beginnen, anstoĂŸen, einfĂ¼hren, initiieren inject {v} (to administer an injection to) inject {v} (to introduce something sudddenly or violently) inject {v} (to push or pump something in) inject {v} (to take or be administered something by means of injection) injure {v} (to cause damage or impair) injure {v} (to wound or cause physical harm) input {v} (to enter data) inquire {v} (to inquire) inseminate {v} (to cause to become pregnant) SEE: impregnate :: inseminate {v} (to disperse or plant seds) SEE: sow :: insert {v} (put in between or into) insinuate {v} (ingratiate oneself) insinuate {v} (make way for by subtle means) insist {v} (to hold up a claim emphatically) inspect {v} (examine critically, scrutinize) inspect {v} (view and examine officially) inspire {v} einhauchen, einflĂ¶ĂŸen, begeistern inspire {v} (to inhale) SEE: inhale :: install {v} (set something up for use) instantiate {v} (to represent by a concrete instance) instigate {v} (to goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite) institute {v} (to begin or initiate something) institutionalize {v} (to establish as a normal practice) instruct {v} (order, direct) instruct {v} (teach, give instruction) insulate {v} (to separate or detach) insulate {v} (to separate so as to prevent a transfer) insult {v} (to offend) insure {v} (to provide for compensation if some risk occurs) insure {v} versichern integrate {v} (to form into one whole) integrate {v} (to indicate the whole of) integrate {v} (to subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of) intend {v} (to fix the mind upon a goal) inter {v} (bury in a grave) interact {v} (act upon each other) intercede {v} (to plea on someone else's behalf) intercept {v} (to gain possession of) intercept {v} (to stop, deflect or divert) interest {v} (to attract attention or concern) interfere {v} erschweren interfere {v} (to get involved, causing disturbance) intern {v} (to imprison (transitive)) internalize {v} (make something internal) internationalise {v} (to make international) SEE: internationalize :: internationalize {v} (to make something international) interpellate {v} (address in a way that presupposes a particular identification) interpellate {v} (question formally about government business) interpolate {v} (to estimate the value of a function) interpret {v} (to act as an interpreter) interpret {v} (to apprehend and represent by means of art) interpret {v} (to explain or tell the meaning of) interrogate {v} (to question or quiz) interrupt {v} (to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action) intersect {v} (in mathematics) intersect {v} (to cross each other; to cut each other) intertwine {v} (To become twined together) intertwine {v} (To twine something together) intervene {v} (to come between, or to be between, persons or things) interview {v} (to obtain an interview) intimidate {v} (to impress, amaze, excite) intimidate {v} (to make timid or fearful) intoxicate {v} (To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol) intrigue {v} (plan) introduce {v} (to and make something or someone known by formal announcement or recommendation) introduce {v} (to bring into practice) introduce {v} (to cause someone to be acquainted) intrude {v} (to enter without welcome; to encroach) intubate {v} intubieren inure {v} gewöhnen invade {v} (to enter by force in order to conquer) invade {v} (to move into) invalidate {v} (to make invalid) invent {v} (create something fictional) invent {v} (design a new process or mechanism) invest {v} (to clothe or wrap with garments) SEE: clothe :: invest {v} (to commit resources in the hope of financial gain) invest {v} (to make investments) invest {v} (to spend money, time, effort into sthg) investigate {v} (to examine) investigate {v} (to inquire into, study) invigorate {v} (To impart vigor, strength, or vitality to) invite {v} (ask for the presence or participation of someone) invite {v} (encourage) SEE: encourage :: invoke {v} aufrufen iridesce {v} (iridesce) irk {v} (to irritate; annoy; bother) iron {v} (to pass an iron over clothing) iron out {v} (to remove with an iron) irrigate {v} (to supply farmland with water) irritate {v} (to cause or induce displeasure or irritation) is {v} ist Islamicize {v} (Islamize) SEE: Islamize :: isolate {v} (transitive: to set apart or cut off from others) itch {v} (to feel the need to scratch) jack off {v} (term for masturbation (usually of a male)) jail {v} (imprison) SEE: imprison :: jam {v} (music: to improvise as a group) jam {v} (to cause congestion or blockage) jam {v} (to get something stuck in a confined space) japanize {v} (to Nipponize) jaunt {v} (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion) jaywalk {v} (violate pedestrian traffic regulations) jeer {v} (to scoff or mock) jemmy {v} (cram) SEE: cram :: jeopardise {v} (jeopardize) SEE: jeopardize :: jeopardize {v} (put in jeopardy) jerk {v} (intransitive: to make a sudden uncontrolled movement) jerk {v} (to cure by cutting into strips and drying) jerk {v} (transitive: to give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake) jerk off {v} (To masturbate) jest {v} SpaĂŸ machen jet {v} (to travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion) jettison {v} (to eject from a boat) jewel {v} (decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems) SEE: bejewel :: jibe {v} (to perform a jibe) jilt {v} (to jilt) jinx {v} (To bring bad luck to) jive {v} (be deceptive) jive {v} (dance) jizz {v} (slang: sperm) job {v} arbeiten, jobben job {v} (to do odd jobs) job {v} (to work as a jobber) jog {v} (move in an energetic trot) join {v} (to become a member of) join {v} (to combine more than one item into one; to put together) join {v} (to come into the company of) join {v} (to come together; to meet) join {v} verbinden , sich treffen , sich anschlieĂŸen , beitreten joint {v} (to separate the joints) SEE: disjoint :: joke {v} (do for amusement) jolt {v} (to push or a shake) jolt {v} (to shake, move with a series of jerks) jolt {v} (to shock emotionally) jolt {v} (to shock into taking action) jostle {v} (bump into or brush against while in motion) jostle {v} (move through by pushing and shoving) journey {v} (to travel, to make a trip or voyage) judge {v} (to arbitrate, to pass opinion on something) judge {v} (to criticize or label another person or thing) judge {v} (to form an opinion, infer) judge {v} (to form an opinion on) judge {v} (to have as an opinion, consider, suppose) judge {v} (to sit in judgment on, act as judge) judge {v} (to sit in judgment on, pass sentence on) juggle {v} (manipulate objects artistically) juggle {v} (to handle or manage many tasks at once) juice {v} (to remove the juice from something) jumble {v} (To mix or confuse) jump {v} (cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward) jump {v} (employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location) jump {v} (propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne) jump down someone's throat {v} (criticise with excessive and unexpected harshness) jump on the bandwagon {v} (to profit from a craze) jump rope {v} (to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise) just {v} (to fight a tournament) SEE: joust :: justify {v} (arrange lines on a page or computer screen) justify {v} (give a good, acceptable reason for something) justify {v} (provide an acceptable explanation) juxtapose {v} (to place side by side) keel over {v} (of a vessel: to roll so far on its side that it cannot recover, see also: capsize) keep {v} (of livestock: to raise; to care for) keep {v} (supply with necessities and financially support a person) keep {v} (to continue) keep {v} (to maintain possession of) keep {v} (to maintain the condition of; to preserve) keep {v} (to restrain) keep a cool head {v} (keep one's cool) SEE: keep one's cool :: keep an eye on {v} (to watch and pay attention to) keep away {v} (to refrain or prevent from coming (near)) keep in mind {v} (to remember; to be mindful of or pay attention) SEE: bear in mind :: keep it up {v} (To maintain or continue a positive streak.) keep off {v} (to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)) keep one's fingers crossed {v} (hope for the best) keep quiet {v} (remain silent) keep someone company {v} (remain with someone) keep someone in the dark {v} (to keep someone uninformed) keep track {v} (monitor) keep up {v} (To stay even or ahead) keep up with {v} (manage to remain beside or just behind) ken {v} (to know, perceive or understand) kick {v} (direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg) kick {v} (strike with or raise the foot or leg) kick butt {v} (kick ass) SEE: kick ass :: kick oneself {v} (reproach oneself) kick out {v} (eject, throw out, or forcefully remove) kick the bucket {v} (to die) kid {v} (make a fool of) kid {v} (make a joke with) kidnap {v} (to seize and detain a person unlawfully) kill {v} (put to death) kill {v} (render void) kill {v} (waste) kill time {v} (make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important) kill two birds with one stone {v} (solve two problems at once) kindle {v} (to arouse) kindle {v} (to start (a fire)) kiss {v} (to touch each other’s lips) kiss {v} (to touch lightly) kiss {v} (to touch with the lips) kiss ass {v} (to flatter excessively) kiss someone's ass {v} (to flatter someone) SEE: brownnose :: kite {v} (to fly a kite) knead {v} (to work and press into a mass) kneel {v} (to stoop down and rest on the knee) kneel down {v} (to kneel) knight {v} (to confer a knighthood upon) knit {v} stricken knit {v} (to make fabric from thread or yarn) knit one's brows {v} (to scowl, indicating anger, worry, or puzzlement) knock {v} (to bump or impact) knock {v} (to rap one's knuckles against something) knock down {v} (demolish) SEE: demolish :: knock down {v} (hit or knock (something) so that it falls) knock on wood {v} (take a customary action to ward off misfortune) knot {v} (form into a knot; tie with knot(s)) know {v} (be acquainted or familiar with) know {v} (be certain or sure about (something)) know {v} (be informed about) know {v} (have knowledge of) know {v} (have sexual relations with) know {v} (understand (a subject)) know inside and out {v} (know (something) very thoroughly) kohl {v} (makeup) kosher {v} koscher machen kowtow {v} (act submissively) kowtow {v} (kneel such that forehead touches ground) kvetch {v} (whine or complain, often needlessly) label {v} (give a label to in order to categorise) label {v} (put a ticket or sign on) labour {v} (to work) lace {v} (fasten with laces) lack {v} (be without, need, require) lacquer {v} (to apply a lacquer to something) lade {v} (To fill or load) lag {v} (to fall behind) lain {v} (situated horizontally) lambaste {v} (to give a thrashing to) lambaste {v} (to scold or verbally reprimand) lament {v} (bewail) lament {v} (express grief) laminate {v} (To assemble from thin sheets) lampoon {v} (satirize) SEE: satirize :: land {v} (to bring to land) land {v} (to deliver) SEE: deliver :: land {v} (to descend to a surface, especially from the air) landfill {v} (to dispose of waste) languish {v} (to live in miserable conditions) languish {v} (to lose strength and become weak) languish {v} (to pine away with longing) lap {v} (to overtake a straggler) lap {v} (to take liquid into the mouth with the tongue) last {v} (endure, continue over time) last {v} (to hold out) lathe {v} (to shape with a lathe) lather {v} (to cover with lather) Latinize {v} (to translate to Latin language) Latinize {v} (to transliterate to Latin script) SEE: romanize :: laud {v} (to praise, to glorify) laugh {v} (be or appear cheerful) laugh {v} (make an object of laughter or ridicule) laugh {v} (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds) laugh in one's sleeve {v} (laugh secretly or to oneself) laugh one's head off {v} (laugh uproariously) laugh up one's sleeve {v} (laugh secretly or to oneself) launch {v} (throw, hurl, let fly, propel with force) launder {v} (to disguise the source of) launder {v} (to wash and iron) lay {v} (to deposit an egg) lay {v} (to have sex with) lay {v} (to install certain building materials) lay {v} (to place something down in a position of rest) layer {v} (to arrange in layers) lay open {v} (East Asian patent publication) lay waste {v} (to completely destroy) laze {v} (be lazy, waste time) leach {v} (to purge a soluble matter out of something) lead {v} (conduct or direct with authority) lead {v} (guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection) lead {v} (intransitive: be ahead of others) lead {v} (intransitive: to go first) lead {v} (to cover, fill, or affect with lead) lead astray {v} (to cause to believe untruth) leaf through {v} (to turn the pages of (a book) rapidly reading short sections at random) leak {v} (to allow fluid to escape or enter) leak {v} (to reveal secret information) lean {v} (to hang outwards) lean {v} (to press against) leaned {v} (past participle of lean) leaned {v} (simple past of lean) leap {v} (to jump) leap to mind {v} (spring to mind) SEE: spring to mind :: learn {v} (to acquire knowledge or ability) learn {v} (to attend educational activity) learn {v} (to come to know; to become informed of; to find out) lease {v} (to operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract) leave {v} belassen leave {v} (To cause to remain as available, not take away, refrain from depleting) leave {v} (To depart from, end one's connection or affiliation with) leave {v} (To depart (intransitive)) leave {v} (To transfer possession after death) leave out {v} (to leave out or to not include) SEE: omit :: leave someone in the lurch {v} (to abandon somebody and leave him or her in a difficult situation) leech {v} (to drain resources without giving back) left {v} (remaining) legalise {v} (make legal) legalize {v} (legalise) SEE: legalise :: legislate {v} (to pass laws) legitimize {v} (to make legitimate) lend {v} ((proscribed) to borrow) SEE: borrow :: lend {v} (to allow to be used temporarily) lengthen {v} (to make longer) let {v} (to allow) let {v} (to put up for rent) let alone {v} (leave alone) SEE: leave alone :: let be {v} (not disturb) let bygones be bygones {v} (to disregard a past offense) let down {v} (to allow to descend, see also: this a literal sense) let down {v} (to disappoint) let go {v} (dismiss from employment) let go {v} (to no longer hold on) let know {v} bekannt geben let loose {v} (release from restraint) let sleeping dogs lie {v} (leave things as they are) let the sleeping dogs lie {v} (to avoid igniting a conflict) SEE: let sleeping dogs lie :: level {v} (to adjust so as to make level) level {v} (to destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze) level {v} (to progress to the next level) levitate {v} schweben lexicalize {v} (to convert to a single lexical unit) liaison {v} (an illicit sexual relationship or affair) liaison {v} (a tryst, romantic meeting) liaison {v} (linguistics: a sandhi) libel {v} (to defame someone) liberate {v} (to free) liberated {v} (past of liberate) licence {v} (license) SEE: license :: license {v} (act of giving a formal authorization) license {v} (authorize officially) lick {v} (colloquial: to defeat decisively) lick {v} (to stroke with a tongue) lick {v} (vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus) lick clean {v} (empty by eating contents) lick someone's ass {v} (to flatter someone) SEE: brownnose :: lie {v} (be in horizontal position) lie {v} (be situated) lie {v} (tell an intentional untruth) lie down {v} (assume a reclining position) lift {v} (to raise) lift {v} (to steal) lift a finger {v} (to make minimal effort) light {v} (to illuminate) light {v} (to start (a fire)) lighten {v} (to alleviate) like {v} (enjoy) like {v} (find attractive) liken {v} (compare) limb {v} (to remove limbs) limber {v} (prepare an artillery piece for transportation) limber up {v} (to stretch one's muscles to make them more limber) lime {v} (to treat with lime) limit {v} (restrict) limp {v} (To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg) line {v} [1] auslegen, [2] aufreihen line {v} (to form or enter into a line) linger {v} (to stay or remain in a place or situation) link {v} (connect things) link {v} (to contain a hyperlink to another page) lip-sync {v} (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) liquefy {v} (make into a liquid) liquidate {v} (to convert assets into cash) liquidate {v} (to kill someone) liquidate {v} (to settle a debt) liquidate {v} (to settle the affairs) liquify {v} (to make liquid) lisp {v} (to pronounce the sibilant letter ‘s’ imperfectly) list {v} (to create or recite a list) listen {v} (to accept advice or obey instruction) listen {v} (to expect or wait for a sound) listen {v} (to hear (something)) listen {v} (to pay attention to a sound) listen in {v} (to listen secretly) litigate {v} (to go to law) litter {v} (drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it) live {v} (be alive) live {v} (have permanent residence) live {v} (survive, persevere) live and let live {v} (be tolerant) live up {v} (to fulfil the expectations placed upon) load {v} (to fill with munition) load {v} (to put a load on) load {v} (to read into memory) loaf {v} (do nothing) loan {v} (to lend) loathe {v} (hate, detest, revile) lock {v} (to become fastened in place) lock {v} (to fasten with a lock) lock out {v} (to prevent from entering a place, particularly oneself, inadvertently) lock up {v} (to imprison or incarcerate someone) lodge {v} [1] feststecken, [3] beherbergen, [3] unterbringen, [4] hinterlegen, [4] deponieren, [5] einlegen, [5] einreichen logarithmize {v} (derive the logarithm of a number) log in {v} (gain access to a computer system) log off {v} (log out) SEE: log out :: log on {v} (log in) SEE: log in :: log out {v} (to exit an account in a computing system) loiter {v} (to stand about idly) loll {v} (To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease) lollygag {v} (dawdle; to avoid work) long {v} (to wait, to aspire) longboard {v} (spine board) SEE: spine board :: long for {v} (to have desire for; to yearn) long for {v} (to miss) long live {v} (prosper) look {v} (to appear, to seem) look {v} (to expect) look {v} (to face) look {v} (to search) look {v} (to try to see) look after {v} (to watch, to protect) look at {v} betrachten look down on {v} (to regard or treat as inferior) look for {v} (search; seek) look forward {v} (to anticipate or expect) SEE: look forward to :: look forward to {v} (anticipate, expect, or wait for) look like {v} (be similar in appearance, resemble) look like {v} (seem, appear) look on {v} (to watch; to observe) look up {v} (to obtain information about something from a text source) look up {v} (used other than as an idiom) loose {v} (to let go) loose {v} (to let loose) loose {v} (to make less tight) loose {v} (to unfasten) loosen {v} (to make less tight) loot {v} plĂ¼ndern lord {v} (to lord over) lose {v} (cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability) lose {v} (fail to be the winner) lose {v} (have (somebody of one's kin) die) lose {v} (shed (weight)) lose {v} ((transitive) fail to win) lose face {v} (lose respect of others) lose heart {v} (to despair) lose one's cool {v} (to lose one's temper) lose one's head {v} (behave irrationally or lose self-control) lose one's life {v} (to die) lose one's temper {v} (to be explosively angry) lose one's virginity {v} (to stop being a virgin after the first sexual intercourse) lose one's way {v} (get lost) SEE: get lost :: lose track {v} (forget one's train of thought) lose weight {v} (to become less heavy) love {v} (be strongly inclined towards doing) love {v} (care about; will good for) love {v} ((euphemistic): to have sex with) love {v} (have a strong affection for) low {v} (moo) SEE: moo :: lower {v} (let (something) descend by its own weight, such as a bucket or sail) lube {v} (lubricate) SEE: lubricate :: lubricate {v} (to make slippery or smooth) lunch {v} (to eat lunch) lure {v} (to entice) lurk {v} (to hang out or wait around a location) lust {v} (crave sexual contact) lust {v} (strongly desire) lustre {v} (luster) SEE: luster :: lynch {v} (execute without a proper legal trial) macerate {v} (to soften or separate by immersion in a liquid) MacGyver {v} (to jury-rig) SEE: jury-rig :: machine {v} (make by machine) madden {v} (make angry) madden {v} (make insane) magnify {v} (to make larger) maim {v} (to cause permanent loss of a part of the body) maintain {v} (to keep up) make {v} (to bring into success) make {v} (to cause to be) make {v} (to cause to do) make {v} (to construct) make {v} (to create) make {v} (to force to do) make {v} (to indicate or suggest to be) make {v} (to interpret) make {v} (to produce) make a killing {v} (to win or earn a large amount of money) make a living {v} (earn enough income) make amends {v} (to repair a relationship; to make up; to resolve an argument or fight; to make reparations or redress) make a mistake {v} (to err) make a mountain out of a molehill {v} (to treat a problem as greater than it is) make an effort {v} (to try; to work towards a goal) make an exhibition of oneself {v} (to embarrass oneself in public) make a spectacle of oneself {v} (To embarrass oneself or others in public) make do {v} (to get by (with)) make ends meet {v} (get by financially) make friends {v} (to befriend, to become closer) make friends {v} (to create friendships) make fun of {v} (tease, ridicule) make head or tail of {v} (understand even minimally) make it {v} (to become famous and successful) make it {v} (to reach a place (successfully or on time)) make it {v} (to survive, to live through something) make known {v} (to announce generally) make known {v} (to disclose a secret) make love {v} (to engage in sexual intercourse) make out {v} (To kiss or to make love) make sense {v} (be coherent) make sense {v} (decipher, understand) make shift {v} (contrive, find a way through difficulty) make the bed {v} (arrange sheets, etc smoothly and neatly) make up one's mind {v} (to decide, to reach a conclusion) maledict {v} (berate) SEE: berate :: maledict {v} (curse) SEE: curse :: malfunction {v} (to fail to function) malfunction {v} (to function improperly) malleate {v} (to beat into shape with a hammer) malt {v} (to convert grain into malt) maltreat {v} (treat badly) man {v} (to supply with staff or crew) man {v} (to take up position in order to operate something) manage {v} (to achieve without fuss, or without outside help) manage {v} (to direct or be in charge) manage {v} (to succeed at an attempt) maneuver {v} (to move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position) mangle {v} (to change, mutilate or disfigure) mangle {v} (to wring laundry) manifest {v} (to show plainly; to make to appear distinctly) manipulate {v} (influence or manage) mansplain {v} herrklären, mansplainen manufacture {v} erzeugen , fertigen , produzieren , fabrizieren , basteln manufacture {v} (to create false evidences) manufacture {v} (to make things) manufacture {v} (to produce goods) manure {v} (to apply manure) map {v} (to act as a function on) map {v} (to create a visual representation of a territory) mar {v} (to spoil, to damage) maraud {v} (intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder) maraud {v} (transitive: to raid and pillage) marble {v} (to cause to have the streaked appearance of marble) march {v} (go to war; make military advances) march {v} (walk with long, regular strides) march to the beat of a different drum {v} (to do things unconventionally) marinade {v} (marinate) SEE: marinate :: marinate {v} (soak in marinade) mark {v} (blemish) mark {v} (correct) mark {v} (indicate) mark {v} (sports: to follow a player) mark {v} (take note of) market {v} (to make available and promote) market {v} (to sell) SEE: sell :: marry {v} (to be joined in marriage) marry {v} (to take a husband or wife) marry {v} (to unite in wedlock) martyr {v} (persecute) SEE: persecute :: martyr {v} (torture) SEE: torture :: mash {v} mischen, zerstampfen mask {v} (to cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury) mask {v} (to disguise; to cover; to hide) mask {v} (to wear a mask; to be disguised in any way) masquerade {v} (disguise) SEE: disguise :: massacre {v} (to kill in considerable numbers) massage {v} (to manipulate data or a document) massage {v} (to perform a massage on somebody) master {v} (to learn to a high degree) masticate {v} (to chew) masturbate {v} (to masturbate) match {v} (to agree; to equal) mate {v} (copulate) materialize {v} (to cause to take physical form or to appear) materialize {v} (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) matter {v} (to be important) mature {v} (to become mature; to ripen) maul {v} (handle in a rough way) maul {v} (savage) maunch {v} (munch) SEE: munch :: maximize {v} (to make as large as possible) may {v} (have permission to) mean {v} (to convey, indicate) mean {v} (to have conviction in what one says) mean {v} (to intend; plan on doing) mean {v} (to result in; bring about) mean {v} (to signify) meander {v} (to wander idly) measure {v} (ascertain the quantity of a unit) measure {v} (obtain or set apart) mechanize {v} (equip with machinery) meddle {v} (to have sex) SEE: have sex :: meddle {v} (to interfere in affairs) mediate {v} (intervene between conflicting parties) mediate {v} (resolve differences) medicate {v} (administer medication) meditate {v} meditieren Mediterraneanize {v} (to make (someone or something) Mediterranean in behaviour or style) meet {v} (comply with) meet {v} (converge and touch) meet {v} (encounter by accident) meet {v} (see through arrangement) melt {v} (intransitive: to change from a solid to a liquid) melt {v} (transitive: to change or be changed from a solid to a liquid) memorize {v} (to commit to memory, to learn by heart) mend {v} (to repair) menstruate {v} (to undergo menstruation) mention {v} (make a short reference to something) meow {v} (of a cat, to make its cry) merge {v} (to be combined into a whole) merge {v} (to combine into a whole) merge {v} zusammenkommen, (sich) zusammenschlieĂŸen, fusionieren mess with {v} (to joke with) meter {v} (to measure) SEE: measure :: mew {v} (meow) SEE: meow :: micturate {v} (urinate) SEE: urinate :: might {v} (indicator of conditional or possible actions) migrate {v} migrieren mildew {v} (to become tainted with mildew) mildew {v} (to taint with mildew) militarize {v} (to train or equip for war) milk {v} (to express any liquid) milk {v} (to express milk from mammal) milk {v} (to take advantage of situation) milk {v} (to talk or write at length) mill {v} (grind or process using a mill or other machine) mince {v} (chop fine) mince words {v} (to use euphemisms) mind {v} (to dislike, object to, have a contrary opinion toward) mind {v} (to look after) mind {v} (to pay attention to) mine {v} (remove from the ground) mine {v} (sow mines in) mineralize {v} (to convert to a mineral, petrify) mineralize {v} (to impregnate with minerals) mingle {v} (To mix; to intermix; to combine or join) minify {v} (to make smaller) minimize {v} ((computing) To cause a window to disappear) minimize {v} (To make small as possible) minister {v} (to attend to; to tend) mint {v} (to reproduce coins) minute {v} (to write the minutes of) misapprehend {v} (to interpret something incorrectly; to misunderstand) misappropriate {v} (to embezzle) SEE: embezzle :: miscarry {v} (to abort a foetus) miscast {v} (To cast an actor in an inappropriate role) miscomprehend {v} (misunderstand) SEE: misunderstand :: misconduct {v} (misbehave) SEE: misbehave :: misconduct {v} (mismanage) SEE: mismanage :: misfire {v} (To fail to ignite in the proper sequence) mishear {v} (to hear wrongly) mishear {v} (to understand wrongly) misinform {v} (give or deliver false information) mislay {v} (to leave something in the wrong place and then forget where one put it) SEE: misplace :: mislead {v} (lead in a false direction) mislead {v} (to deceive by lies or other false impression) mislead {v} (to deceptively trick into something wrong) misplace {v} (to put something somewhere and then forget its location) miss {v} (to be late for something) miss {v} (to fail to attend) miss {v} (to fail to hit) miss {v} (to feel the absence of someone or something) miss out {v} (to miss something that should not be missed) misspell {v} (to spell incorrectly) misstep {v} (to make an error or mistake) misstep {v} (to step badly or incorrectly) mistake {v} (To take one thing for another) mistreat {v} (treat someone or something roughly or badly) misunderstand {v} (to understand incorrectly, while thinking one has understood correctly) misuse {v} (to use something incorrectly) mitch {v} schwänzen mitigate {v} (to reduce, lessen, or decrease) mix {v} (music: combine several tracks) mix {v} (stir two or more substances together) moan {v} (to make a moan or similar sound) mobilise {v} (to assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war) mobilise {v} (to become made ready for war) mobilise {v} (to make something mobile) mobilize {v} (mobilise) SEE: mobilise :: mock {v} (to mimic) mock {v} (to taunt) model {v} (create from a substance) model {v} (make a miniature model) model {v} (use as a model) moderate {v} (to act as a moderator) modernize {v} (bring something up to date) modify {v} (to make partial changes to) moisten {v} (to become moist) moisten {v} (to make moist) molest {v} (to annoy intentionally) mollify {v} (to appease) mollify {v} (to ease a burden) molt {v} (To shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal) monetize {v} (to convert something into currency) monetize {v} (to mint money) monitor {v} (watch over, guard) monogram {v} ((transitive) to mark something with a monogram) monophthongize {v} (to change to a monophthong) monopolize {v} (dominate) monopolize {v} (have a monopoly) moo {v} (to make a lowing sound) mooch {v} (beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.) moon {v} (to display one's buttocks to) moonlight {v} (to work at a secondary job) moor {v} (to cast anchor or become fastened) moor {v} (to secure or fix firmly) moot {v} (debate) SEE: debate :: moot {v} (discuss) SEE: discuss :: moot {v} (to bring up as a subject for debate, to propose) mop {v} (to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop) mortgage {v} (to borrow against a property) mothball {v} (to store something no longer used) mother {v} (to treat as a mother would be expected to) motivate {v} (to encourage) mould {v} (mould) SEE: mold :: moult {v} (To shed or lose a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.) mount {v} (attach an object) mount {v} (climb up/on; to ride) mount {v} (get on top of an animal to mate) mount {v} (to have sexual intercourse with someone, something) mourn {v} (express sadness for, grieve over) mouse {v} (to catch mice) mouse {v} (to mouse around) move {v} (to arouse the feelings or passions of) move {v} (to cause to change place or posture; to set in motion) move {v} (to change place or posture; to go) move {v} (to change residence) move {v} (to change the place of a piece) move house {v} (change place of residence) move out {v} (to vacate one's place of residence) mow {v} (to cut something down) muddle {v} (mix together, to mix up; to confuse) muddle through {v} sich durchwursteln mug {v} (to assault for the purpose of robbery) mulch {v} (to apply mulch) mull {v} (to work over mentally) multiplex {v} (to combine signals) multiply {v} (transitive: perform multiplication on (a number)) mumble {v} (to speak unintelligibly) mummify {v} (intransitive: to become a mummy) mummify {v} (transitive: to mummify) munch {v} (to chew) municipalize {v} (to convert into a municipality) murder {v} (deliberately kill) murder {v} (express one’s anger at) murmur {v} (to speak or make low, indistinguishable noise; to mumble) muse {v} (to become lost in thought) muse {v} (to say with due consideration) muse {v} (to think on; to meditate on) mushroom {v} (to gather mushrooms) mushroom {v} (to grow quickly) muss {v} (rumple) must {v} (must) mutate {v} mutieren mutilate {v} (To physically harm as to impair use) mutter {v} (speak under one's breath) mystify {v} (to thoroughly confuse, befuddle or bewilder) nab {v} (to grab or snatch) nab {v} (to seize a criminal) nag {v} (complain about insignificant matters) nail {v} (catch) nail {v} (employ a nail as a fastener) nail {v} (engage in sexual intercourse) nail one's colours to the mast {v} (To clearly show one's support) name {v} (to designate for a role) name {v} (to give a name to) name {v} (to identify, define, specify) name {v} (to mention, specify) name {v} (to publicly implicate) nark {v} (annoy) narrate {v} (to relate a story) narrow {v} (to reduce in width or extent) nasalize {v} (allow air to flow through the nose during the articulation of a speech sound) nationalize {v} (to make a private asset public) naturalize {v} (to acclimatize an animal or plant) SEE: acclimatize :: naturalize {v} (to grant citizenship) near {v} (come closer to) need {v} (to have an absolute requirement for) need {v} (to want strongly) needle {v} (to tease in order to provoke) neglect {v} (disregard) neglect {v} vernachlässigen negotiate {v} (arrange a mutual agreement (transitive)) negotiate {v} (confer to reach an agreement (intransitive)) negotiate {v} (coping with, getting over) neigh {v} ((of a horse) to make its cry) neighbour {v} (to be adjacent to) neoterise {v} (to modernise) neoterize {v} (to modernise) nerve {v} (encourage) SEE: encourage :: nerve {v} (strengthen) SEE: strengthen :: nest {v} (to build or settle into a nest) nested {v} (embedded) SEE: embedded :: nested {v} (successively fit inside another) nestle {v} (To press oneself against another affectionately) nestle {v} (To settle oneself comfortably and snugly) net {v} (catch by means of a net) net {v} (receive as profit) network {v} (interact socially) network {v} (to connect two or more computers or other computerized devices) network {v} (to interconnect a group or system) neuter {v} (to remove sex organs from an animal) neutralise {v} (to make inactive or ineffective) never mind {v} (do not be concerned (about someone or something, or about doing something)) never mind {v} (it is not important) never mind {v} (I was wrong; I withdraw my previous statement) nibble {v} (eat with small bites) nick {v} (slang: to steal) nip in the bud {v} ((idiom) to prevent at an early stage) nitpick {v} (to correct minutiae or find fault) nix {v} (to destroy) nod {v} (gradually fall asleep) nod {v} (incline the head up and down) nominate {v} (to name someone for a particular role or position) nonplus {v} (To perplex) normalize {v} normalisieren nose {v} (to nuzzle) SEE: nuzzle :: nose {v} (to snoop) nosh {v} (snack) SEE: snack :: nosh {v} (to perform fellatio (on)) SEE: blow :: nostrificate {v} (nostrify) SEE: nostrify :: nostrify {v} (to adopt, accept, or include as part of one's own culture) nostrify {v} (to grant recognition to a foreign degree) notch {v} (to cut a notch) notch {v} (to record by notches) notice {v} (to detect) notice {v} (to observe) notify {v} ((transitive) To give (someone) notice of (something)) nourish {v} (To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture) nourish {v} (to feed and cause to grow) nullify {v} (to make legally invalid) numb {v} (to cause to become numb) number {v} (label with numbers; assign numbers to) number {v} (to total; to amount to) nurse {v} (to breast feed) nurse {v} (to care for the sick) nurse {v} (to drink slowly) nurse {v} (to foster, to nourish) nurse {v} (to treat kindly and with extra care) nurture {v} (figuratively, to encourage) nurture {v} (to nourish or nurse) nutmeg {v} (soccer/football sense of the verb) nuzzle {v} (touch with the nose) oar {v} (to row) SEE: row :: obey {v} (to do as ordered by) obfuscate {v} (alter code) obfuscate {v} (make confusing) obfuscate {v} (make dark) object {v} (disagree with something or someone) oblige {v} (to constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means) oblige {v} (to do someone a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation)) obliterate {v} (to remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy) obscure {v} (to darken, make faint) obscure {v} (to hide, put out of sight) observe {v} (to comment) observe {v} (to follow) observe {v} (to notice, to watch) obstruct {v} (To block or fill (a passage)) obtain {v} (to be the case, hold true) obtain {v} (to get hold of, acquire) obtund {v} (to dull) obviate {v} (to bypass a requirement) occupy {v} (have (taken) control of) occupy {v} (hold a position) occupy {v} (reside in) occupy {v} (time or space) occur {v} (be present or found) occur {v} (meet or come to the mind) occur {v} (present itself) occur {v} (take place) offend {v} beleidigen, verletzen, ergern offend {v} (sin) SEE: sin :: offend {v} (to hurt the feelings) offer {v} (place at disposal) offer {v} (propose) oil {v} (lubricate with oil) oil {v} (to grease with oil for cooking) oink {v} (to oink) omit {v} (to leave out or exclude) one up {v} (do something slightly better than a competitor) one-up {v} (do something slightly better than a competitor) ooze {v} (to secrete or slowly leak) open {v} (to become open) open {v} (to begin conducting business) open {v} (to make accessible to customers) open {v} (to make something accessible) open {v} (to start (a campaign)) operate {v} (medicine) operate {v} operieren operate {v} (to operate a machine) oppose {v} (to attempt to stop the progression of) oppose {v} (to object to) oppress {v} (keep down by force) opt {v} (to choose) optimize {v} optimieren optimize {v} (to make (something) more efficient) optimize {v} (to make (something) optimal) opt out {v} (To choose not to participate in something) oracle {v} (utter oracles or prophecies) orbit {v} (circle another object) orbit {v} (place an object into an orbit) orchestrate {v} (to arrange or direct diverse elements to achieve a desired effect) orchestrate {v} (to compose or arrange orchestral music for a dramatic performance) order {v} (to issue a command) order {v} (to request some product or service) order {v} (to set in (a good) order) order {v} (to set in (any) order) organise {v} (organize) SEE: organize :: organize {v} (to arrange in working order) organize {v} (to constitute in parts, each having a special function; to systematize) orient {v} (to familiarize with a situation or circumstance) originate {v} (to give origin to, cause) originate {v} (to take first existence, have origin) oscillate {v} (to swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm) ossify {v} (to calcify) SEE: calcify :: ostracize {v} (exclude someone) ought {v} (indicating advisability or prudence) ought {v} (indicating desirability) ought {v} (indicating duty or obligation) ought {v} (indicating likelihood or probability) oust {v} (to expel; to remove) out {v} (to reveal to be a secret homosexual) outbid {v} (To bid more than somebody else) outdo {v} (to go beyond) outfox {v} (outsmart) SEE: outsmart :: outgas {v} (to release gas) outgrow {v} aus (etwas) herauswachsen outguess {v} (outsmart) SEE: outsmart :: outlaw {v} (to declare illegal) outlive {v} (to live longer than) outmaneuver {v} (to perform movements more adroitly or successfully) output {v} (produce or create) outrun {v} (run faster) outsmart {v} (to beat in a competition of wits) outweigh {v} Ă¼berwiegen, Ă¼bertreffen, Ă¼bersteigen outwit {v} (outsmart) SEE: outsmart :: overcome {v} (surmount, get the better of) overdo {v} (to do too much of something) overeat {v} (eat too much) overestimate {v} (to judge too highly) overestimated {v} (overrated) SEE: overrated :: overflow {v} (to fill beyond the limits of) overflow {v} Ă¼berflieĂŸen, Ă¼berfluten, Ă¼berströmen, Ă¼berlaufen overhaul {v} (to pass, overtake, or travel past) overhear {v} (To hear something that wasn't meant for one's ears) overheat {v} (to become excessively hot) overheat {v} (to heat excessively) overlay {v} (overwhelm) SEE: overwhelm :: overload {v} (to create different functions for the same name) overload {v} (to fail due to excessive load) overload {v} (to load excessively) overload {v} (to provide too much power to a circuit) overlook {v} (hence: to supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly) overlook {v} (to fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it) overlook {v} (to look down upon from a place that is over or above) overlook {v} (to pretend not to have noticed; to pass over without censure or punishment) overnight {v} (stay overnight) overpay {v} (to pay too much) overrate {v} (to esteem too highly) overreact {v} (to react too much or too intensely) override {v} ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) overruff {v} (ruff with a higher trump) overrun {v} Ă¼berrennen oversee {v} (to inspect, examine) oversee {v} (to supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group) oversee {v} (to survey, look at something in a wide angle) oversee {v} Ă¼berblicken, beaufsichtigen overshadow {v} (to cast a shadow over something) overshadow {v} (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant) overshare {v} (To offer inappropriate disclosure.) oversleep {v} (to sleep for longer than planned) overstate {v} (to exaggerate; to state or claim too much) oversteer {v} Ă¼bersteuern overtake {v} (To pass a more slowly moving object) overthrow {v} (bring about downfall) overtrump {v} (To play a higher trump card) SEE: overruff :: overturn {v} (to turn over, capsize) overwhelm {v} Ă¼berwältigen overwinter {v} (to keep or preserve for the winter) overwinter {v} (to spend the winter (in a particular place)) overwork {v} (to work too hard) overwrite {v} (destroy old data) owe {v} (to be in debt) own {v} (acknowledge responsibility for) own {v} (defeat) SEE: defeat :: own {v} (have rightful possession of) oxygenate {v} (infuse with oxygen) pack {v} (to make a pack) package {v} (to pack) packetize {v} (form data into packets) pad {v} (to stuff) SEE: stuff :: paddle {v} (toddle) SEE: toddle :: paddle {v} (to propel something through water with a paddle, hands or similar instrument) padlock {v} (to lock using a padlock) paginate {v} (to number the pages of a book or other document) pain {v} (to hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish) paint {v} (apply in the manner of paint) paint {v} (apply paint to) paint {v} (practise the art of painting pictures) pale {v} (to become pale) palliate {v} (to cover or disguise the seriousness of something by excuses and apologies) palliate {v} (to relieve the symptoms of) palm {v} palmieren pamper {v} (to treat with excessive care, to indulge) pander {v} (to appeal or cater to) pander {v} (to offer illicit sex with a third party) panic {v} (to feel overwhelming fear) pant {v} (to breathe quickly or in a labored manner) pantomime {v} pantomimisieren paper {v} (to document) SEE: document :: parachute {v} (to jump with a parachute) paralyse {v} (paralyse) SEE: paralyze :: paralyze {v} (to afflict with paralysis) parametrize {v} (To describe in terms of parameters) paraphrase {v} (to compose a paraphrase) parasitise {v} (parasitize) SEE: parasitize :: parasitize {v} (live off a host) pardon {v} (to forgive) pardon {v} (to grant an official pardon) parenthesise {v} (parenthesise) SEE: parenthesize :: parenthesize {v} (place in parentheses) park {v} (bring to a halt) parody {v} (to make a parody of something) parquet {v} (to lay or fit such a floor) parrot {v} (to repeat exactly without showing understanding) parse {v} (resolve into its elements (grammar)) part {v} (to cut hair with a parting) part {v} (to divide in two) part {v} sich trennen. scheiden, verlassen partake {v} (to take part in an activity) participate {v} (to join in, to take part, to involve oneself) partook {v} (simple past of partake) pass {v} (elapse) pass {v} (go by, over, etc) pass {v} (happen) pass {v} reichen pass away {v} (to die (euphemistic)) pass gas {v} (break wind) SEE: break wind :: pass on {v} (to convey or communicate) pass on {v} (To die) SEE: die :: pass out {v} (to faint) pass through {v} (to surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access) SEE: infiltrate :: paste {v} (to insert a piece of text) pasteurise {v} (pasteurize) SEE: pasteurize :: pasteurize {v} (to heat food in order to kill harmful organisms) pasture {v} (graze) SEE: graze :: pasture {v} (to herd animals into a pasture) pat {v} tätscheln pat {v} (to tap gently) patent {v} (successfully register an invention with a government agency; to secure a letter patent) patine {v} (coat an object with a patina) patronize {v} (To assume a tone of unjustified superiority) pattern {v} (apply a pattern) pause {v} (to interrupt something) pave {v} ((British) to cover with paving stones) pave {v} ((North American) to cover with stones, asphalt, etc) paw {v} (to clumsily dig through something) paw {v} (to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way) pawn {v} (give as security for loan) pay {v} (to be profitable) pay {v} (to give money in exchange for goods or services) pay {v} (to give) pay attention {v} (to be attentive) pay back {v} (to exact revenge) pay back {v} (to repay) pay for {v} (exchange for) pay for {v} (held accountable for) pay off {v} (to become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit) pay off {v} (to bribe, especially to deter oversight) pay off {v} (to pay back (repay, pay off) the entirety of a loan, thereby effecting the release of a lien on) pay off {v} (to pay back; to repay) pay one's last respects {v} die letzte Ehre erweisen pay the bills {v} (provide enough income) peck {v} (to strike or pierce with the beak or similar) pee {v} (to urinate) peek {v} (computing: To retrieve the value from a memory address) peek {v} (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep) peel {v} (to remove skin) peel off {v} (to separate) peer {v} (to look with difficulty or as if searching) peeve {v} (annoy; vex) peg {v} ((cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored) peg {v} (To affix or pin) peg {v} (To fasten using a peg) peg {v} (To indicate or ascribe an attribute to) peg {v} (To throw) pelletize {v} (to form into pellets) pelt {v} (to bombard) pelt {v} (to move rapidly) pelt {v} (to rain heavily) pen {v} (to enclose) pen {v} (to write) penetrate {v} (enter into) penetrate {v} (insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina) pension {v} (to force to retire) people {v} (to fill with people) people {v} (to inhabit, to occupy) perceive {v} (to understand) percolate {v} aufbrĂ¼hen percolate {v} ((intransitive) drain through a porous substance) percolate {v} ((intransitive) spread slowly or gradually) percolate {v} ((transitive) pass a liquid through a porous substance) perfect {v} (make perfect) perforate {v} (to pierce or penetrate) perform {v} leisten perform {v} (to do something) perform {v} (to do something in front of an audience) perfume {v} (to apply perfume to) perfuse {v} (to permeate or suffuse) perish {v} (die) perish {v} (pass away) permeate {v} (to enter and spread through; to pervade) permeate {v} (to pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement) permit {v} (allow (something) to happen) permutate {v} (carry out a permutation) perplex {v} (To cause to feel baffled) persecute {v} (to pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict) persevere {v} (To persist steadfastly) persist {v} (continue to exist) personify {v} (to be an example of) personify {v} (to create a representation in the form of a literary character) persuade {v} (convince) pertain {v} (to belong) pertain {v} (to relate, to refer) peruse {v} (look over casually) peruse {v} (to examine or consider with care) peruse {v} (to read completely) pervade {v} (to be in every part of) pet {v} (fondle (an animal)) pet {v} (fondle (another person) amorously) petard {v} (to attack) petrify {v} (to harden organic matter by depositing dissolved minerals) petrify {v} (to immobilize with fright) petrify {v} (to produce rigidity akin to stone) phagocytise {v} (phagocytize) SEE: phagocytize :: pharyngealize {v} (to constrict the pharynx while articulating another sound) philosophize {v} (to philosophically ponder or reason) phone {v} (to call (someone) on the telephone) photocopy {v} (to make a copy using a photocopier) photograph {v} (to take a photograph) photoshop {v} (to digitally edit a picture) phrase {v} (to express by means of words) pick {v} (to remove a fruit or plant for consumption) pickle {v} (to preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution) pick one's nose {v} (to engage in nose-picking) pick up {v} (to answer (a telephone), see pick up the phone) pick up {v} (to collect an object, especially in passing) pick up {v} (to collect a passenger) pick up {v} (to improve, increase, or speed up) pick up {v} (to learn, to grasp; to begin to understand) pick up {v} (to lift; to grasp and raise) pick up {v} (to meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes) pick up {v} (to notice, detect or discern) pick up {v} (to pay for) pick up {v} (to receive (a signal)) pick up {v} (to reduce the despondency of) pick up {v} (to restart or resume) pick up the phone {v} (to pick up the receiver of a telephone to answer a call) picture {v} (to imagine or envision) picture {v} (to make a picture of) piece together {v} (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) pierce {v} (create a hole for jewelry) pierce {v} (puncture) piffle {v} (to act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner) pigeonhole {v} (to categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc) pig out {v} (eat voraciously or ravenously) pile {v} (to lay or throw into a pile) pilfer {v} (to steal in small quantities) pilgrimage {v} (to go on a pilgrimage) pillage {v} (loot or plunder by force) pillory {v} (criticize harshly) pillory {v} (put someone in a pillory) pillory {v} (subject someone to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse) pilot {v} (to control an aircraft or watercraft) pilot {v} (to guide through coastal waters) pinch {v} (to squeeze a small amount of skin) pine {v} (to long for sufferingly) pipette {v} (to transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipet) pique {v} (to wound the pride of) piss {v} ((vulgar) to urinate) pitch {v} (baseball: to throw the ball toward home plate) pitch {v} (to assemble or erect (a tent)) pitch {v} (to move so that the front of the craft goes alternatively up and down) pitch {v} (to play baseball in the position of pitcher) pitch {v} (to promote, advertise, or attempt to sell) pitch {v} (to throw away; discard) pitch {v} (to throw) pity {v} (to feel pity for someone or something) pivot {v} (to turn on an exact spot) placate {v} (to calm) place {v} (to put in a specific location) plagiarize {v} (use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech) plait {v} (to double in narrow folds) SEE: pleat :: plait {v} (to interweave) plan {v} (to create a plan for) plan {v} (to design) plan {v} (to intend) plane {v} (to glide) plane {v} (to smooth with a plane) plant {v} (place in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow) plant {v} (to place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit) plash {v} (to splash) plate {v} (to cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material) play {v} (act in a manner such that one has fun) play {v} (act in a performance) play {v} (participate in (a sport or game)) play {v} (produce music using a musical instrument (intransitive sense, not affecting a noun)) play {v} (produce music using a musical instrument (transitive sense), affecting a noun) play {v} (use a device to hear (a recording)) play dead {v} (to act as though defeated) play down {v} (make something seem less important) play hookey {v} (To be absent without permission) play hooky {v} (to stay away from school, work, etc. without suitable permission or excuse) play it safe {v} (take a cautious, risk-free approach) play possum {v} (to pretend to be dead) play the fool {v} (behave in a foolish manner) play truant {v} (to be absent from school without permission) play with fire {v} (put oneself in a precarious situation) plead {v} (to beg) plead {v} (to present an argument) please {v} (to make happy or satisfy) pleat {v} (To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment) pledge {v} (to deposit something as a security; to pawn) pledge {v} (to make a solemn promise) plot {v} (to trace out a graph or diagram) plot {v} (transitive: to conceive) plough {v} (to use a plough on to prepare for planting) plough {v} (to use a plough) plough {v} (vulgar: to have sex with) plow {v} (plough) SEE: plough :: pluck {v} (music: to gently play a single string) pluck {v} (to pull something sharply; to pull something out) pluck {v} (to remove feathers from a bird) plug in {v} (connect an electrical device) plummet {v} (to drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly) plunder {v} (to commit robbery or looting (intransitive)) plunder {v} (to take all the goods of, by force (as in war) (transitive)) plunder {v} (to take by force or wrongfully) plunder {v} (to use or use up wrongfully) plunge {v} (to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse) poach {v} (to cause an employee or customer to switch) poach {v} (to cook in simmering water) poach {v} (to take game or fish illegally) pod {v} (To remove peas from their case) point {v} (to extend finger) poison {v} (to use poison to kill or paralyse) poke {v} (rummage) SEE: rummage :: poke {v} (to jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick) poke {v} (to poke a fire to remove ash or promote burning) polarize {v} (to cause a group to be divided into extremes) polarize {v} (to cause to have a polarization) polish {v} (make a surface smooth or shiny) polish {v} (to apply shoe polish) polish {v} (to refine; improve imperfections from) ponder {v} (to consider carefully) ponder {v} (to think deeply) poo {v} (childish: to defecate) poop {v} (to break wind) SEE: break wind :: pop {v} (to ejaculate) SEE: ejaculate :: pop {v} (to hit) SEE: hit :: pop someone's cherry {v} (deflower) SEE: deflower :: popularise {v} (to make popular) pop up {v} (to appear without warning) portend {v} (to serve as a warning or omen) portend {v} (to signify) portray {v} (figuratively: to describe in words) portray {v} (to paint or draw the likeness of) pose {v} (ask, set (a test or quiz)) pose {v} (assume or maintain a pose) pose {v} (set in place, arrange) posit {v} (Postulate) posit {v} (Suggest) position {v} (to put into place) possess {v} (to have; to have ownership of) possess {v} (to take control of someone's body or mind) possessing {v} (present participle of possess) post {v} (to send mail) postpone {v} (to delay or put off an event) postulate {v} (To assume as a premise) pot {v} etwas in einem Topf aufbewahren pot {v} (to cause a ball to fall into a pocket) pot {v} (to put (something) into a pot) potter around {v} (to be gently active aimlessly) SEE: putter around :: pour {v} (to cause to flow in a stream) pour {v} (to flow, pass or issue in or as a stream) pour {v} (to send forth as in a stream or a flood) pour cold water on {v} (dismiss an idea) SEE: throw cold water on :: pour gasoline on the fire {v} (add fuel to the fire) SEE: add fuel to the fire :: pour out {v} (distribute or spread (something), as if it were a liquid) pout {v} (push out one’s lips) pout {v} (sulk, (pretend to) be ill-tempered) practice {v} (to perform or execute a craft or skill) practice {v} (to repeat an activity as a way of improving one's skill) practise {v} (practice) SEE: practice :: praise {v} (to give praise to) prate {v} (to talk much, to chatter) pray {v} (to beg humbly for aid) pray {v} (to petition a higher being) pray {v} (to talk to God) preach {v} (Advise or recommend earnestly) preach {v} (Give a sermon) preach to the choir {v} (speaking to those that already believe) preach to the converted {v} (preach to the choir) SEE: preach to the choir :: precipitate {v} (make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten) precipitate {v} (To come out of a liquid solution into solid form) precipitate {v} (To separate out of a liquid solution into solid form) precipitate {v} (To throw an object or person from a great height) predefine {v} (To define in advance) predict {v} (to foretell or prophesy) predict {v} (to state, or make something known in advance) predominate {v} vorherrschen preen {v} (To groom) preen {v} (To show off) prefer {v} (to favor) prefix {v} (put or fix before, or at the beginning of) premeditate {v} (to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand) premiere {v} ((intransitive) of a film or play, to play for the first time) prepare {v} (to make ready for a specific future purpose) prepare {v} (to make ready for eating or drinking) prescribe {v} (to order a drug or medical device) prescribe {v} (to specify as a required procedure or ritual) present {v} (bring into the presence of) preserve {v} (to keep; to maintain the condition of.) preserve {v} (to protect) preside {v} (to act as a president or chairperson) press {v} drĂ¼cken, drängen press {v} (to apply pressure) presume {v} (to assume to be true, suppose) presuppose {v} (to assume some truth without proof) pretend {v} (to allege falsely) pretext {v} (employ a pretext) prevail {v} (To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence) prevail {v} (To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand) prevent {v} (to keep from happening) price {v} (determine or put a price on something) prickle {v} (to cause someone to feel a prickle) pride {v} (take or experience pride in something) prime {v} (to apply a coat of primer paint to) print {v} (to produce a copy of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine) prioritize {v} (to arrange or list in order of priority or importance) prison {v} (imprison) SEE: imprison :: privatize {v} (to release government control to private industry) privilege {v} (to bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger) privilege {v} (to grant some particular right or exemption to) proceed {v} vorgehen process {v} (to use or manipulate data with a software program) proclaim {v} (to announce or declare) procrastinate {v} (put off; delay something) procrastinate {v} (put off; to delay taking action) procreate {v} (to beget) procure {v} beschaffen, besorgen procure {v} (To acquire or obtain an item or service) prod {v} (encourage) prod {v} (poke) produce {v} (to make available to) produce {v} (to make or manufacture) produce {v} (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) profit {v} profitieren prognosticate {v} (predict, foretell) program {v} (to enter a program or other instructions into a computer) program {v} (to put together the schedule of an event) prohibit {v} (to proscribe officially) project {v} (cast (image/shadow)) project {v} (extend beyond a surface) project {v} (extend outward) project {v} (make plans for; forecast) project {v} (present, convey an image) projectile vomit {v} (vomit with great expulsive force) proliferate {v} (to increase in number or spread) prolong {v} (to extend in space or length) prolong {v} (to lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue) prolong {v} (to lengthen temporally; to put off to a distant time; to postpone) promenade {v} (to walk) promise {v} (to commit to something or action) promote {v} (raise someone to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank) pronounce {v} (to officially declare) pronounce {v} (to sound out a word) proofread {v} (to check for errors in spelling and grammar) propagate {v} (cause to spread to extend) propagate {v} (to have young or issue) propel {v} (to cause to move in a certain direction) prophesy {v} (to preach) prophesy {v} (to predict) prophesy {v} (to speak as a prophet) propitiate {v} (To conciliate, appease or make peace with someone) propose {v} (to ask for one's hand in marriage) propose {v} (to suggest a plan or course of action) prorogue {v} (to defer) prorogue {v} (to prolong or extend) prorogue {v} (to suspend a parliamentary session) proscribe {v} (denounce) proscribe {v} (forbid or prohibit) prosecute {v} strafrechtlich verfolgen [law], belangen, bestrafen proselytize {v} (to convert to one’s own faith) proselytize {v} (to induce people to join a cause) prosper {v} (to be successful) prostitute {v} (to make another person, or organisation, prostitute themselves) prostitute {v} (to perform sexual activity for money) protect {v} (to keep safe) protest {v} (mostly US: to object to) protest {v} (to make a strong objection) protocol {v} (to make a protocol of) protrude {v} (to extend from) prove {v} (to demonstrate that something is true; to give proof for) prove {v} (to turn out; to manifest) provide {v} (to furnish with) provoke {v} (to cause to become angry) prune {v} ((figuratively) cut down or shorten) prune {v} (trim a tree or shrub) pry {v} (to look where one is not welcome; to be nosey) pry {v} (use leverage to open or widen) publish {v} (to announce to the public) publish {v} (to issue a medium (e.g. publication)) publish {v} (to issue something (usually printed work) for sale and distribution) puff {v} (pant) SEE: pant :: puff {v} (to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs) puke {v} (to vomit) pull {v} (intransitive: apply force such that an object comes toward the person or thing applying the force) pull {v} (transitive: apply force to (something) so it comes towards one) pull a fast one {v} ((idiomatic) to deceive or trick) pull an all-nighter {v} (work throughout the night) pull apart {v} (disassemble) SEE: disassemble :: pull oneself together {v} (to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused) pull out all the stops {v} (reserve nothing) pull out of one's ass {v} (fabricate a claim with no factual basis or evidence) pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire {v} (do someone's difficult work) pull someone's leg {v} (to tease someone) pull the plug {v} (cease to support, halt) pull the plug {v} (unplug, cut power) pull the wool over someone's eyes {v} (to deceive someone) pulsate {v} (to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat) pulsate {v} (to produce a recurring increase and decrease) pulsate {v} (to quiver, vibrate, thrill) pulverize {v} (pulverise) SEE: pulverise :: pump {v} (to fill with air) pump {v} (use a pump to move liquid or gas) pump {v} (use a pump to move liquid or gas) pump up {v} (to inflate by means of a pump) pump up {v} (to inflate with a pumping action) punch {v} (to employ a punch to create a hole) punch {v} (to herd cattle) SEE: herd :: punch {v} (to mark a ticket) punch {v} (to strike something or someone with one's fist) punctuate {v} (emphasize, stress) SEE: emphasize :: puncture {v} (to pierce) punish {v} (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct) punt {v} (propel a punt with a pole) pupate {v} (to become a pupa) purchase {v} (to obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price) puree {v} (to crush or grind food into a puree) purge {v} reinigen purge {v} (to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities) purge {v} (to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation) purge {v} (to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds) purify {v} (cleanse something of impurities) purloin {v} (To convert the property of another) purport {v} (to intend) purpose {v} (have set as one's purpose; intend) purr {v} (cat to make a vibrating sound in its throat) purse {v} (press (the lips) together) pursue {v} (to follow urgently) pursue {v} (to participate in, practise (an activity, profession)) pursue {v} (to travel down a particular way or course of action) push {v} (continually attempt to persuade (a person)) push {v} (intransitive: apply force to an object so that it moves away) push {v} (intransitive: tense the muscles of the abdomen) push {v} (transitive: apply a force to (an object) so that it moves away) push {v} (try to skip positions in a queue) pussyfoot {v} (to act timidly) pussyfoot {v} (to move silently) pussyfoot {v} (to use euphemistic language) put {v} (to place something somewhere) put all one's eggs in one basket {v} (to rely on a single source) put an end to {v} (terminate) put away {v} (to place out of the way) put away {v} (to store for later use) put down {v} (administer euthanasia to an animal) put down roots {v} (to do things or acts which show that one want to stay there) put down roots {v} (to feel that one belong in a place) put forward {v} (to propose for consideration) put in {v} (to place inside) put in motion {v} (set in motion) SEE: set in motion :: put off {v} (to delay) put on {v} (to don clothing) put on {v} (to place upon) put on airs {v} (become haughty, assume a haughty manner) put on the block {v} (to sell) put on weight {v} (to become heavier) put out {v} (consent to sex) put out {v} (extinguish) put out {v} (place outside or eject) put out {v} (produce) put out of one's misery {v} (informal: to euthanize) put pen to paper {v} (to write) put the cart before the horse {v} (to put things in the wrong order) put through {v} (to connect (telephoning)) put to bed {v} (help someone go to bed) put to death {v} (to kill as punishment) SEE: execute :: put to sleep {v} (to cause someone to sleep) put to sleep {v} (to help someone to bed) SEE: put to bed :: put to sleep {v} (to kill an animal) put up {v} (to put up with) SEE: put up with :: put words in someone's mouth {v} (imply that someone has said a thing) puzzle {v} (to perplex) quack {v} (to make a noise like a duck) quadruple {v} (to multiply by four) qualify {v} (to certify or license someone for something) qualify {v} (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage) qualify {v} (to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task) quantify {v} (to assign a quantity to) quantize {v} (to limit the number of possible values) quarantine {v} (to retain in obligatory isolation or separation as a sanitary prevention) quarrel {v} (disagree) SEE: disagree :: quarry {v} (extract by long, tedious searching) quarter {v} (divide into quarters) quarter {v} (provide housing) quash {v} vernichten, unterdrĂ¼cken, ablehnen, verwerfen, aufheben quell {v} (transitive: to subdue, put down) quell {v} (transitive: to take the life of; to kill) SEE: kill :: quench {v} (cool rapidly by immersion) quench {v} (extinguish a flame) quench {v} (satisfy thirst) query {v} (computing: search database) query {v} (question) question {v} (ask questions of) question {v} (raise doubts about) queue {v} (arrange into a queue) queue {v} (put oneself at the end of a queue) quibble {v} (to complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner) quiet {v} (to cause someone to become quiet) quip {v} (to make a quip) quit {v} (to give up, stop doing something) quit {v} (to leave) quit {v} (to resign) quiver {v} (shake or move with slight and tremulous motion) quiz {v} (interrogate) quote {v} (to observe, to take account of) quote {v} (to prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price) quote {v} (to refer to a statement that has been made by someone else) race {v} (to move or drive at high speed) rack one's brain {v} (struggle to think of something) radicalize {v} ((transitive) to make radical) rag {v} (To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter) rage {v} (act in an angry manner) rail {v} (to complain) rain {v} (of rain: to fall from the sky) rain {v} (to fall in large quantities) rain buckets {v} (to rain heavily) SEE: rain cats and dogs :: rain cats and dogs {v} (to rain very heavily) rain pitchforks {v} (rain cats and dogs) SEE: rain cats and dogs :: raise {v} heben , sammeln raise {v} (to cause to rise) raise the stakes {v} (up the ante) SEE: up the ante :: rake together {v} (collect small amounts) SEE: scrape together :: ram {v} (intentionally collide with (a ship)) ram {v} (strike (something) hard) ramble {v} (wander) SEE: wander :: ramify {v} (to divide into branches) rampage {v} (to move about wildly or violently) range {v} (classify) SEE: classify :: range {v} (roam) SEE: wander :: range {v} (sift) SEE: sift :: rank {v} (to have a ranking) ransack {v} (to loot or pillage) ransack {v} (to make a thorough search or examination for plunder) ransom {v} (to pay a price to set someone free) rant {v} (to speak or shout at length in an uncontrollable anger) rape {v} (force sexual intercourse) rasp {v} raspeln ratify {v} (give formal consent to) ration {v} (to portion out, especially during a shortage of supply) rationalise {v} (rationalize) SEE: rationalize :: rationalize {v} (to make something rational) ravish {v} (rape) SEE: rape :: rax {v} (to stretch after sleep) reach {v} erreichen reach {v} (to arrive at) reach {v} (to deliver by stretching out, to hand over) reach {v} (to extend an action, effort, or influence to) reach {v} (to extend, to thrust out) reach {v} (to hit with an arrow, a bullet etc.) reach {v} (to obtain by stretching forth, to extend so as to touch) reach {v} (to stretch out the hand) reach {v} (to touch by virtue of extent) reach {v} (to understand; to comprehend) react {v} (to act upon each other) read {v} (be able to hear (in a radio communication)) read {v} (have the ability to read text or other information) read {v} (look at and interpret letters or other information) read {v} (make a study of) read {v} (of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way) read {v} (speak aloud words or other information that is written) read between the lines {v} (to infer a meaning that is not stated explicitly) realize {v} (to become aware of) realize {v} (to convert any kind of property into money) realize {v} (to make real) reanimate {v} (to animate anew) reap {v} (to cut with a sickle) rear {v} (to bring up to maturity) rear {v} (to lift, raise etc. physically) reason {v} (to arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine, debate, discuss) SEE: debate :: reassure {v} (to assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror) rebaptize {v} (to baptize again) rebaptize {v} (to name again) rebel {v} (to resist or become defiant towards) reblog {v} (to blog something previously posted on another blog) reboot {v} (to restart a system) rebound {v} abprallen, sich erholen rebroadcast {v} (broadcast again) rebuild {v} (to build again) rebuke {v} (to criticise harshly; to reprove) recalculate {v} (calculate again) recall {v} (to call (someone) back to a specific place, station) recall {v} (to remember, recollect) recapitulate {v} rekapitulieren receive {v} (get) receive {v} (take possession of) reciprocate {v} (to counter, retort or retaliate) reciprocate {v} (to mutually give and take something; to interchange) recite {v} (to repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, often before an audience) reckon {v} (to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose) reckon {v} (to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation) reckon {v} (to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate) reclaim {v} (to recycle) SEE: recycle :: reclaim {v} (to tame or domesticate a wild animal) SEE: tame :: recognise {v} anerkennen recognise {v} (to match in memory; to know from a previous encounter) recognize {v} anerkennen recognize {v} (to match in memory; to know from a previous encounter) recoil {v} (to pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment) recollect {v} (to recall past events) recommend {v} (to commend to the favorable notice of another) recompense {v} (to give compensation) recompete {v} wieder bewerben, an einer Neuausschreibung teilnehmen reconcile {v} (to restore a friendly relationship) reconnoiter {v} (perform a reconnaissance) reconsider {v} (To consider a matter thought already to have been decided) record {v} ((intransitive) make audio or video recording) record {v} (make an audio or video recording of) record {v} (make a record of) recount {v} (to tell over) recover {v} (intransitive: to get better, regain health) recriminate {v} (To accuse sb/sth in return) recruit {v} (to enroll or enlist new members or potential employees) recruit {v} (to supply with new men, as an army) rectify {v} (to correct or amend something) rectify {v} (to purify or refine, especially by distillation) recuperate {v} (recover, especially from an illness) SEE: recover :: recur {v} (to recurse) SEE: recurse :: recuse {v} (To refuse to act as a judge; to declare oneself disqualified to act) recycle {v} (to break down and reuse component materials) recycle {v} (to reuse as a whole) redact {v} (to censor (a document)) redden {v} (to become red) redden {v} (to make red) redeem {v} erlösen, ablösen, tilgen, zurĂ¼ckkaufen, freikaufen redeem {v} (to change for the better, reform) redeem {v} (to convert into cash) redeem {v} (to liberate by payment of ransom) redeem {v} (to reclaim) SEE: reclaim :: redeem {v} (to recover ownership of something by paying a sum) redeem {v} (to repair, restore) redeem {v} (to restore the reputation, honour of ...) redeem {v} (to save, rescue, recover) redeem {v} (to set free by force) redo {v} (to do again) redoubt {v} (to dread) redound {v} (to come back, accrue upon) redound {v} (to result in, contribute to) reduce {v} (to bring down) reduce {v} (to lose weight) reduce {v} vermindern, reduzieren reef {v} (sailing) reek {v} (to have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell) reel {v} (to walk shakily or unsteadily) reelect {v} (to elect for a subsequent time) re-evaluate {v} (evaluate again) refactor {v} ((computing) to rewrite existing source code in order to improve its readability, reusability or structure without affecting its meaning or behaviour) refer {v} (to allude to (grammar term)) refer {v} (to direct to a source for help or information) referee {v} leiten; pfeifen; richten; schiedsrichten; schlichten; betreuen (broad term); empfehlen, befĂ¼rworten (if deemed supportive); ? (if neutral or otherwise); beurteilen, rezensieren, lektorieren referee {v} (to act as a referee) reference {v} (to refer to) refine {v} (to improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence) reflect {v} (to be bent back from a surface) reflect {v} (to bend back from a surface) reflect {v} (to mirror, or show the image of something) reflect {v} (to think seriously; to ponder or consider) refold {v} (fold again) reforest {v} (afforest) SEE: afforest :: reform {v} (to put into a new and improved form or condition) refract {v} (to cause to change direction) refrain {v} (to keep one’s self from action) refresh {v} (To reload a webpage on the internet) refresh {v} (To renew or revitalize) refrigerate {v} (cool down) SEE: cool down :: refrigerate {v} (freeze) SEE: freeze :: refrigerate {v} (keep cool in refrigerator) refuel {v} (to refill with fuel) refund {v} (to return (money) to (someone)) refurbish {v} (rebuild or replenish) refuse {v} ((intransitive) decline a request or demand) refuse {v} ((transitive) decline (request, demand)) refute {v} (to deny the truth or correctness of (something)) refute {v} (to prove (something) to be false or incorrect) regain {v} (to get back, to recover possession of) regale {v} (To please someone with entertainment) regale {v} (To provide a meal and entertainment) regenerate {v} (to construct or create anew, especially in an improved manner) regenerate {v} (to replace lost or damaged tissue) regenerate {v} (to revitalize) register {v} (to enter in a register) regret {v} (feel sorry about some past thing) regulate {v} (adjust) regulate {v} (control) SEE: control :: rehabilitate {v} (to restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc.) rehearse {v} (narrate or tell) rehearse {v} (practice by repetition or recitation) rehearse {v} (repeat what has already been said) reheat {v} (heat something after it has cooled off) reify {v} (To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing) reign {v} (exercise sovereign power) reimburse {v} (to compensate with pay or money; especially, to repay money spent on one's behalf) rein {v} (to restrain, control, check) SEE: to restrain, control, check :: rein {v} zĂ¼geln reinforce {v} (to strengthen by addition) reinvent the wheel {v} (to redo work unnecessarily) reiterate {v} (to say or do for a second time) reject {v} (refuse to accept) rejoice {v} (be happy) rejoice {v} (make happy) rejuvenate {v} (render young again) rekindle {v} (To kindle once again) rekindle {v} (To revive) relapse {v} ((medicine) To recur; to worsen) relapse {v} (To fall back again) relate {v} (to interact) SEE: interact :: relate {v} (to narrate) SEE: narrate :: relax {v} (to become less severe or tense) relax {v} (to become loose) relax {v} (to become more lenient) relax {v} (to make something less severe or tense) relax {v} (to make something loose) relax {v} (to make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient) relax {v} (to relieve (something) from stress) release {v} (to discharge) release {v} (to free or liberate) release {v} (to let go (of)) release {v} (to make available to the public) relieve oneself {v} (to urinate and/or defecate (euphemism)) relinquish {v} (to accept to give up, withdraw etc.) relinquish {v} (to give up, abandon) relinquish {v} (to let go, physicially release) relinquish {v} (to surrender, yield control or possession) reload {v} (to make one's own cartridges) relocate {v} (to move (something) from one place to another) rely {v} (rest with confidence) remain {v} (to continue in a state of being) remain {v} (to continue unchanged) remain {v} (to stay behind while others withdraw) remain to be seen {v} (to be as yet unknown) remember {v} (to memorize) remember {v} (to recall from one's memory) remind {v} (Cause one to experience a memory; bring to a person's notice) remit {v} (to postpone) SEE: postpone :: remodel {v} (to change appearance of) remove {v} (to change one's residence) remove {v} (to discard, set aside) remove {v} (to murder someone) remove {v} (to take away) rename {v} (to give a new name to) render {v} (To transform digital information in the form received from a repository into a display on a computer screen, or for other presentation to the user) rendezvous {v} (meet at an agreed time and place) renege {v} (break a promise or commitment) renege {v} (deny, renounce) renew {v} (to make new again) renew {v} (to substitute for a new one of the same nature) renovate {v} (to renew; to revamp) rent {v} (to grant occupation in return for rent) rent {v} (to occupy premises in exchange for rent) repaid {v} (past participle of repay) repaid {v} (past tense of repay) repair {v} (to restore to good working order) repay {v} (to pay back) repeal {v} (to cancel) repeat {v} (do or say again) repel {v} (physics: to force away) repent {v} bereuen, bedauern repent {v} (to feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow) repent {v} (to feel sorrow or regret for what one has done or omitted to do) replace {v} (to substitute) replevin {v} (replevy) SEE: replevy :: reply {v} (to give a written or spoken response) report {v} (military: to appear or present oneself) report {v} (to notify formally) report {v} (to relate details of) represent {v} (to stand in the place of) reprimand {v} (to reprove in a formal or official way) reprint {v} (to print something that has been published in print before) reproach {v} (to criticize or rebuke someone) reprobate {v} (abandon) reprobate {v} (condemn) reprobate {v} (refuse) reproduce {v} (to generate offspring) reprove {v} (to convey one's disapproval of (something)) repudiate {v} (to reject the truth of, deny) repurpose {v} (alter) request {v} (to ask somebody to do something) request {v} (to express the need or desire for) require {v} (ask) SEE: ask :: require {v} (to demand, call for authoritatively) require {v} (to need) requite {v} (to repay, recompense, reward) requite {v} (to retaliate) reroute {v} (to change the route taken by something) reschedule {v} (to schedule again) rescind {v} (repeal, annul, or declare void) rescue {v} (to save from any danger or violence) research {v} (to examine with continued care) research {v} (to make an investigation into) resect {v} (remove part of an organ surgically) resell {v} (To sell again) resemble {v} (compare) SEE: compare :: resemble {v} (to be like or similar to something else) resent {v} (to express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at (words or acts)) reserve {v} (to book in advance) reserve {v} (to keep back; to retain) reserve {v} (to keep in store for future or special use) reset {v} (to set back to the initial state) resettle {v} (to force someone to settle in a different place) resettle {v} (to settle in a different place) reside {v} (to dwell permanently or for a considerable time) resign {v} (quit a job or position) resist {v} (to withstand effects of something) resole {v} (to replace or reattach the sole of an article of footwear) resolve {v} (find a solution to) resonate {v} (to vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration) resort {v} (to fall back) resort {v} (to have recourse out of necessity or frustration) resort {v} (to make one's way) resound {v} ((intransitive) to reverberate with sound or noise) respect {v} (to abide by an agreement) respect {v} (to have regard for the rights of others) respect {v} (to have respect for) respite {v} ((transitive) To delay or postpone) respond {v} (to act in return) respond {v} (to say something in return) rest {v} (intransitive: take repose) rest {v} (to remain) SEE: remain :: restart {v} (In computing, to reboot) restart {v} (To start again) restate {v} (rephrase) SEE: rephrase :: rest in peace {v} (blessing or expression of hope) rest on one's laurels {v} (to rely on a past success instead of trying to improve oneself further) restore {v} (To reestablish, or bring back into existence) restrain {v} (to control or keep in check) restrain {v} (to deprive of liberty) restrain {v} (to restrict or limit) restrict {v} (to restrain within bounds) restructure {v} (to change the organization of) resume {v} (start something again that has been stopped or paused) resuscitate {v} (To restore consciousness) retain {v} (to hold secure) retain {v} (to keep in possession or use) retaliate {v} (do something harmful to get revenge) retch {v} (To make an effort to vomit) retell {v} (retell) rethink {v} (think again about a problem) retire {v} (to withdraw from a public station, from working, or from business) retouch {v} (to improve something, especially a photograph) retreat {v} (to withdraw military forces) retrieve {v} (to regain or get back something) returf {v} (to lay turf again) return {v} (to come or go back) return {v} (to give something back to its original holder or owner) reuse {v} (to use again) revamp {v} (to renovate, revise, improve or renew; to patch) reveal {v} (to uncover) revel {v} (make merry) revenge {v} (to take revenge for an action) revise {v} (to look over again) revise {v} (to review, alter and amend, especially of written material) revitalise {v} (to give new life, energy, activity or success) revive {v} (to bring again to life) revoke {v} (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) revolt {v} (to rebel) revolutionize {v} (to radically or significantly change, as in a revolution) revolve {v} (to orbit a central point) revolve {v} (to turn on an axis) reward {v} (give a reward to) reward {v} (recompense) SEE: recompense :: rewatch {v} (to watch again) rewind {v} (to wind again) rewind {v} (wind back) SEE: wind back :: reword {v} (rephrase) SEE: rephrase :: rhyme {v} (reciprocal) rhyme {v} (transitive, to rhyme with) ribbit {v} (make the sound of a frog or toad) riddle {v} (to fill with holes like a riddle) riddle {v} (to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question) ride {v} (to be transported in a vehicle as a passenger) ride {v} (to transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, bicycle etc.) ridicule {v} (to make fun of someone) rig {v} (to equip and fit a ship) rig {v} (to manipulate something dishonestly) right {v} (to correct) ring {v} (of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound) ring {v} (to make, produce sound) ring {v} (to produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound) ring {v} (to telephone someone) ring a bell {v} (to seem vaguely familiar) rinse {v} (to remove soap from something using water) rinse {v} (to wash something quickly using water and no soap) rip {v} (to copy data from optical disks) rip {v} (to fart) SEE: fart :: rip {v} (to mock) SEE: mock :: ripen {v} (to grow ripe) rip off {v} ((idiom) to charge an exorbitant or unfair rate) rip off {v} ((idiom) to steal, cheat or swindle) rise {v} (of a celestial body: to appear to move from behind the horizon) rise {v} (of a quantity, etc: to increase) rise {v} (to assume an upright position after lying down) rise {v} (to be resurrected) rise {v} (To move upwards) risk {v} riskieren, wagen rive {v} ((reflexive) to be split or rent) rive {v} (to rend asunder by force) rivet {v} (to attach or fasten parts by using rivets) rivet {v} (to command the attention of spectators) rivet {v} (to install rivets) roam {v} (wander freely) roar {v} (of animals) roar {v} (to make loud, deep cry of emotion) roast {v} (to cook food by heating in an oven or fire) roast {v} (to process by drying through heat-exposure) rob {v} rauben rob {v} (to steal from, using violence) rock {v} (disturb the mental or emotional equilibrium) rock {v} (move gently back and forth) rock {v} (slang: to be very favourable or skilful) rock {v} (sway or tilt violently back and forth) rock {v} (to play, perform, or enjoy rock music) rock {v} (to thrill or excite) roil {v} (render turbid) roil {v} (to annoy) roll {v} (to beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum) roll {v} (to cause to revolve) roll {v} (to drive or impel forward with an easy motion) roll {v} (to move, or cause to be moved, upon rollers or small wheels) roll {v} (to press or level with a roller) roll {v} (to wrap round on itself) roll {v} (US slang: a manner of behaving or a way of doing certain things) roll one's eyes {v} (turn one's eyes upwards) roll out {v} (software: to deploy) roll up one's sleeves {v} (to roll one's sleeves up) romanise {v} (romanize) SEE: romanize :: romanize {v} (to transliterate to the Latin alphabet) romanticize {v} (to view something in a romantic manner) romp {v} (to play roughly or energetically) roof {v} (to cover or furnish with a roof) rook {v} (cheat, swindle) roost {v} (of birds: to sleep) rot {v} (to decay) rotate {v} (to spin, turn, or revolve) round down {v} (to round downwards to the desired accuracy) round off {v} (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) round off {v} (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) round off {v} (to complete or finish something) round up {v} ( to collect or gather (something) together) round up {v} (to round up a number) rove {v} (to wander about at random) row {v} (intransitive: to argue noisily) row {v} (transitive:to propel over water using oars) rub {v} (to be rubbed against something) rub {v} (to move one object while maintaining contact with another object over some area) rub {v} (to rub something against (a second thing)) rub {v} (to scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse) rub {v} (to spread a substance thinly over; to smear) rubberneck {v} (To watch by craning the neck) rub out {v} ausradieren rub out {v} (delete or erase by rubbing) rub salt in the wound {v} (to make an injury feel worse) rue {v} (to repent or regret a past action or event) ruff {v} (play a trump card) SEE: trump :: ruin {v} (to cause the ruin of) ruin {v} (to destroy) ruin {v} (to spoil) rule {v} (to regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over) rule out {v} (to make something impossible) rumba {v} (to dance rumba) ruminate {v} (to chew cud) ruminate {v} (to meditate) rummage {v} (to hastily search for) rummage {v} (to search something thoroughly and with disregard) rummage {v} (to search something which contains many items) rumple {v} (to make wrinkled) run {v} (to be a candidate in an election) run {v} (to extend in space or through a range) run {v} (to flow) run {v} (to move quickly on two feet) run {v} (to smuggle illegal goods) SEE: smuggle :: run aground {v} (to be immobilized by shallow water) run amok {v} (run amok) run away {v} (to flee by running) run away {v} (to leave home) run down {v} (to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them) run over {v} (to drive over, causing injury or death) run with scissors {v} (rage) SEE: rage :: run with scissors {v} (rampage) SEE: rampage :: rush {v} (attack swiftly and without warning to) rush {v} (cause someone to act with unusual haste) rush {v} (cause something or someone to move with unusual haste) rush {v} (flow rapidly and often noisily) rush {v} (hurry) rush {v} (perform something with great haste) rust {v} (to oxidise) rusticate {v} (suspend or expel from a college or university) rusticate {v} (to go to reside in the country) rustle {v} (to move (something) with a soft crackling sound) rut {v} (make a furrow) rut {v} (To be in the annual rut) sabbatize {v} (to sanctify, keep or observe the Sabbath, as the Sabbath) sabotage {v} (deliberate destruction to prevent success) saccharify {v} (convert soluble polysaccharides) sack {v} (to plunder) sacredize {v} (to make sacred) SEE: sacralize :: sacrifice {v} (to give away something valuable in order to gain something else of value) sacrifice {v} (to offer as a gift to a deity) sadden {v} (become sad or unhappy) sadden {v} (make sad or unhappy) saddle {v} (to burden) saddle {v} (to get into a saddle) saddle {v} (to put a saddle on) sail {v} (to move briskly and gracefully through the air) sail {v} (to move briskly) sail {v} (to ride in a boat, especially sailboat) salivate {v} (to produce saliva) salivate {v} (to show eager anticipation) sally {v} (to make a sudden attack from defended position) salt {v} (to add salt to) salute {v} salutieren salvage {v} (To rescue) sample {v} (to take or to test a sample or samples of) sanctify {v} (to make holy) sanction {v} Sanktion sand {v} (to abrade with sand or sandpaper) sand {v} (to cover with sand) sand down {v} (treat or polish with sandpaper) sandpaper {v} (to polish or grind a surface) sandwich {v} (to place one item between two other, usually flat, items) sap {v} (strike with a sap) satiate {v} (satisfy) satiate {v} (satisfy to excess) satirize {v} (make a satire) satisfy {v} (to meet needs, to fulfill) saturate {v} (to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) sauna {v} (to use a sauna) saunter {v} (stroll or walk at a leisurely pace) savage {v} (To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint) savage {v} (To attack with the teeth) savage {v} (To criticise vehemently) save {v} (accumulate money) save {v} aufbewahren , speichern save {v} (economize) save {v} (store for future use) save {v} (to help someone to survive) save {v} (to write a file to a disk) savor {v} (to appreciate, enjoy or relish something) savour {v} (savour) SEE: savor :: savvy {v} ((informal) to understand) saw {v} (cut with a saw) say {v} (imperative: let's say) say {v} sagen say {v} (to communicate verbally or in writing) say {v} (to have a common expression) say {v} (to pronounce) say {v} (to recite) say goodbye {v} (wish someone farewell upon their leaving) say grace {v} (say a prayer of thanks) scald {v} (to burn with hot fluid) scald {v} (to heat almost to boiling) scale {v} (become scaly) scale {v} (remove the scales of) scale {v} (to change size of) scale {v} (to climb) scam {v} (to defraud or embezzle) scan {v} (create a digital copy of an image using a scanner) scan {v} (form a poetic metre) scapegoat {v} (to punish someone for the error of someone else) scare {v} (to frighten) scaremongering {v} Panikmache scare up {v} (to find or get something difficult) scare up {v} (to frighten an animal) scatter {v} (to cause to separate) scatter {v} (to distribute loosely) scent {v} (to detect the scent of) scent {v} (to impart an odour to) schedule {v} (to create a schedule) schedule {v} (To plan an activity at a specific date or time) schlep {v} ( To carry or drag) school {v} (educate, teach, or train) scoff {v} (to eat food quickly) scoff {v} (to jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision) scold {v} beschimpfen, schelten, tadeln, ausschimpfen scold {v} (rebuke) SEE: rebuke :: scoop {v} (to lift, move, or collect with or as though with a scoop) scoop up {v} (pick up by scooping) score {v} (intransitive: to earn points in a game) score {v} (to scratch paper to make it easier to fold) score {v} (transitive: to earn points in a game) scorn {v} (to feel contempt or disdain for something or somebody) scorn {v} (to reject) scorn {v} (to scoff or express contempt) scotch {v} (To prevent (something) from being successful) scour {v} (to clean, polish, or wash something by scrubbing it vigorously) scour {v} (to search an area thoroughly) scout {v} (to explore a wide terrain) scowl {v} (to wrinkle the brows) scrabble {v} (to scribble) SEE: scribble :: scram {v} (go away) scramble {v} (to ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity) scramble {v} (to mix food ingredients in a mix to be cooked into a loose mass) scramble {v} (to move hurriedly to a location using all limbs against a surface) scramble {v} (to proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner) scramble {v} (to process telecommunication signals to make them unintelligable to an unauthorized listener) scrambling {v} scrambling, kletternd scrap {v} (to discard) scrap {v} (to dispose at the scrapyard) scrape {v} (draw an object along while exerting pressure) scratch {v} (To mark a surface with a sharp object) scratch {v} (To rub a surface with a sharp object) scratch {v} (To rub the skin with rough material) scratch together {v} (collect small amounts) SEE: scrape together :: scrawl {v} (to write hastily or illegibly) scrawl {v} (to write in an irregular or illegible manner) scream {v} (to make the sound of a scream) screw {v} (to cheat or treat unfairly) screw {v} (to connect or assemble pieces using a screw) screw {v} (to have sexual intercourse with) scribble {v} kritzeln scribble {v} (to write or draw carelessly and in a hurry) scrounge {v} (To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean) scrounge {v} (To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another) scrub {v} (to rub hard) scrutinise {v} (scrutinize) SEE: scrutinize :: scrutinize {v} (to examine with great care) scuffle {v} (to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters) scuffle {v} (to walk with a shuffling gait) sculpt {v} (be a sculptor) scurry {v} (to run away with quick light steps) scurry away {v} (to run away with quick light steps) scuttle {v} (To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)) scuttle {v} (To move hastily, to scurry) scythe {v} (to cut with a scythe) sear {v} (To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument) search {v} ((followed by "for") to look thoroughly) search {v} (to look throughout (a place) for something) season {v} (to become dry and hard) season {v} (to become mature) season {v} (to flavour food) season {v} (to make fit for any use by time or habit) season {v} (to prepare by drying or hardening) secede {v} (To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation) secrete {v} ((transitive) produce by secretion) secure {v} (To make secure) sedate {v} (to tranquilize) seduce {v} (to beguile or lure someone away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray) seduce {v} (to entice or induce someone to engage in a sexual relationship) see {v} (perceive with the eyes) seek {v} (to try to find) seel {v} (To blind) SEE: blind :: seem {v} (to appear) see off {v} (to accompany someone to a point of departure) see off {v} (to defeat) SEE: defeat :: seep {v} (to ooze through pores) seesaw {v} schaukeln seesaw {v} (to use a seesaw) see stars {v} (experience flashing lights) seethe {v} (to boil vigorously) seethe {v} (to foam in an agitated manner, as if boiling) see the forest for the trees {v} (to be overwhelmed by detail to the point where it obscures the overall situation) see through {v} (avoid being deceived) see through {v} (find something to be transparent) see through {v} (recognize someone's true motives) segment {v} (to divide into segments or sections) segue {v} (to move smoothly from one topic to another) seize {v} (grab) seize the day {v} (enjoy the present) select {v} (to choose one or more elements from a set) selfboot {v} (to boot by itself) sell {v} (to agree to transfer goods or provide services) send {v} (make something go somewhere) send shivers down someone's spine {v} (terrify) sense {v} (use biological senses) sensitize {v} (make increasingly aware of) sent {v} (past participle of "to send") sentence {v} (declare a sentence on a convicted person) sentinel {v} (To watch over something as a guard) separate {v} (cause (things or people) to be separate) separate {v} (disunite something from one thing) separate {v} (divide itself into separate pieces or substances) separate the wheat from the chaff {v} (to select only that which is of value) sequester {v} (to separate from all external influence) serialize {v} (convert an object into a byte sequence that can be converted back) serve {v} (to bring food to) serve {v} (to work for) serve someone right {v} (happen to someone who deserves it) serve someone right {v} (serves you right!) serve time {v} (to be in prison) SEE: do time :: service {v} (to perform maintenance) service {v} (to serve) set {v} (of a heavenly body: to disappear below the horizon) set {v} (to adjust) set {v} (to arrange type) set {v} (to arrange with dishes and cutlery) set {v} (to determine) set {v} (to devise and assign work) set {v} (to introduce) set {v} (to put something down) set {v} (to sit) SEE: sit :: set {v} (to solidify) set down {v} (to place on a surface) set forth {v} (to begin a journey) set forth {v} (to present for consideration) set in motion {v} (to trigger movement, to get going) set off {v} (To offset) SEE: offset :: set on fire {v} (arouse passionate feelings in) set on fire {v} (cause to begin to burn) set out {v} (to leave) set the Thames on fire {v} (to achieve something amazing) set to music {v} (to adapt a literary work) sever {v} (to cut free) sew {v} ((intransitive) use a needle) sew {v} ((transitive) use a needle) sex {v} (informal: to have sex with) sex {v} (to determine the sex of) shade {v} schattieren shadow {v} (to block light or radio transmission) shadow {v} (to secretly track or follow another) shadow-box {v} (shadowbox) SEE: shadowbox :: shag {v} (to have sexual intercourse with) shake {v} (intransitive: to move from side to side) shake {v} (intransitive: to shake hands) shake {v} (to move one's head from side to side) shake {v} (transitive: to cause to move) shake {v} (transitive: to disturb emotionally) shake down {v} (cause something to fall down) shake down {v} (to extort money using threats) shake down {v} (to search exhaustively) shake hands {v} (grasp another person's hands) shake off {v} (to remove by shaking) shake one's head {v} (move one's head from side to side) shall {v} (indicating the simple future tense) sham {v} (to cheat or deceive) shamble {v} (to walk while shuffling or dragging the feet) shame {v} (to cause to feel shame) shampoo {v} (to wash hair with shampoo) shampoo {v} (to wash (the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo) shanghai {v} (to force or trick into joining a ship) shape {v} (to give something a shape) shapeshift {v} (change shape) shape up {v} (to improve; correct one's bad habits) share {v} (to divide and distribute) share {v} (to give) share {v} (to have in common) sharpen {v} (to make sharp) shave {v} (to remove hair from one's face) shave {v} (to remove hair from) shear {v} (to cut) shear {v} (to remove the fleece from a sheep) sheath {v} umhĂ¼llen sheathe {v} (to put something, such as a knife, into a sheath) sheathe {v} umhĂ¼llen shed {v} (to allow to flow or fall) shed {v} (to pour; to make flow) shield {v} (to protect, to defend) shift {v} (to change gears) shift {v} (to move from one place to another) shill {v} (to promote or endorse in return for payment) shimmer {v} (to shine with a veiled light; to gleam faintly; to glisten; to glimmer) shine {v} (to emit light) shine {v} (to polish) shine {v} (to reflect light) shingle {v} (to cover with shingles (building material)) ship {v} (to send a parcel or container) ship {v} (to send by water-borne transport) shirk {v} (avoid a duty) shit {v} (to defecate) shit {v} (vulgar slang: to be stricken with fear) shit {v} (vulgar slang: to excrete (something) through the anus) shiver {v} (to tremble or shake) shock {v} (to cause to be emotionally shocked) shock {v} (to give an electric shock) shoe {v} beschuhen shoe {v} (to put horseshoes on a horse) shoehorn {v} (to use a shoehorn) shoo {v} (to induce someone to leave) shoo {v} (usher) SEE: usher :: shoot {v} (to fire a shot) shoot {v} (to fire multiple shots) shoot {v} (to hit with a shot) shoot down {v} (to cause to fall by shooting) shoot oneself in the foot {v} (to act against one's own interest) shoot one's mouth off {v} (make reckless or exaggerated statements) shoot the shit {v} (chat casually) SEE: shoot the breeze :: shop {v} (to visit shops) shoplift {v} (intransitive: to steal) shoplift {v} (transitive: to steal something) shore {v} (support) SEE: shore up :: shore up {v} (to reinforce (something at risk of failure)) short {v} (shortchange) SEE: shortchange :: short {v} (transitive: to cause a short circuit) shorten {v} (to become shorter) shorten {v} (to make shorter) should {v} (expressing likelihood) should {v} (expressing obligation) should {v} sollte shoulder {v} (carry (something) on one's shoulders) shout {v} (to buy food or drinks for others) shout {v} (to treat with shouts or clamor) shout {v} (to utter a sudden and loud outcry) shout {v} (to utter with a shout) shove {v} (push roughly) shovel {v} (to move materials with a shovel) show {v} (to display) show {v} (to indicate (a fact) to be true) showcase {v} (etwas) darbieten, (etwas) demonstrieren, (etwas) präsentieren, (etwas) vorfĂ¼hren shower {v} (to bathe using a shower) shower {v} (to bestow liberally) shower {v} (to spray with) show off {v} (to exhibit, to demonstrate something for the purpose of bragging) show one's true colors {v} (to reveal how one really is) show up {v} (to appear) show up {v} (to expose) show up {v} (to outperform) shred {v} (to cut or tear into narrow pieces or strips) shriek {v} (to utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry) shriek {v} (to utter sharply and shrilly) shrine {v} (enshrine) SEE: enshrine :: shrink {v} (intransitive: to attempt to avoid an unwanted or intimidating duty) shrink {v} (intransitive: to contract, to become smaller) shrink {v} (transitive: to cause something to shrink) shrive {v} (confess) SEE: confess :: shrivel {v} (become wrinkled) shrug {v} (to raise the shoulders to express uncertainty, lack of concern, etc.) shrunk {v} (past participle of shrink) shudder {v} (to shake nervously, as if from fear) shudder {v} (to vibrate jerkily) shuffle {v} (to put in a random order) shuffle {v} (to walk without picking up one's feet) shun {v} (to avoid) shun {v} (to escape) shunt {v} (to move a train or carriages) shunt {v} (to turn away or aside) shut {v} (to close) shut up {v} (imperative: "Shut up!") shut up {v} (intransitive: to stop talking or making noise) shy {v} (to avoid due to timidness or caution) SEE: shy away :: sic {v} (incite an attack by) sidle {v} (To advance in a furtive, coy or unobtrusive manner) siege {v} (to assault with the intent of conquering by force or attrition) sieve {v} (to strain, sift or sort using a sieve) sift {v} (to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving) sift {v} (to sieve or strain (something)) sigh {v} (to inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it) sight {v} (get sight of) sight {v} (take aim at) sight {v} (visually register) sign {v} (intransitive: to communicate using sign language) sign {v} (to make (a document) official by writing one's signature) sign {v} (to write one's signature on a document) sign {v} (to write one's signature somewhere) sign {v} (transitive: to communicate using sign language) signal {v} (To indicate) signify {v} (to give something a meaning) sign in {v} (log in) SEE: log in :: signpost {v} (install signposts) silence {v} (To suppress criticism) simmer {v} ((intransitive) to cook or undergo heating slowly) simmer {v} ((transitive) to cause to cook or undergo heating slowly) simper {v} (To smile in a frivolous manner) simplify {v} (to become simpler) simplify {v} (to make simpler) simulate {v} (to model, replicate, duplicate the behavior) sin {v} (to commit a sin) sing {v} (to produce harmonious sounds with one’s voice) singe {v} (to burn slightly) single {v} (farming: to thin out) SEE: thin out :: sink {v} (descend into liquid, etc) sink {v} (push (something) into) sinter {v} (to compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass) sip {v} (To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time) sit {v} (move oneself into such a position) sit {v} (of an object: occupy a given position permanently) sit {v} (of a person, be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs are supported) sit {v} (to be a member of a deliberative body) sit down {v} (to assume a sitting position from a standing position) sit on it {v} (sit on) SEE: sit on :: sizzle {v} (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface) skate {v} (to move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates) skedaddle {v} (move or run away quickly) sketch {v} (to create a sketch) skewer {v} (to impale on a skewer) ski {v} (to move on skis) skid {v} (to slide in an uncontrolled manner) skim {v} (read quickly, skipping some detail) skim {v} (ricochet) skim {v} (scrape off; remove (something) from a surface) skim {v} (throw an object so it bounces on water) skimp {v} (to make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp) skimp {v} (to save; to be parsimonious or stingy) skimp {v} (to slight; to do carelessly; to scamp) skin {v} (to injure the skin of) skin {v} (to remove the skin of) skinny-dip {v} (swim in the nude) skip {v} (not to attend) skip {v} (to move by hopping on alternate feet) skip {v} (to omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) skip rope {v} (to jump over a rope) SEE: jump rope :: skirt {v} säumen skirt {v} (to be on or from the border of) skit {v} (poke fun) skive {v} (To slack off) skydive {v} (be in freefall) skype {v} (make a Skype telephone call) skyrocket {v} (to increase suddenly and extremely) slack {v} (to procrastinate) slack {v} (to refuse to exert effort) slag {v} (to make slag) slag {v} (to talk badly about someone; to denigrate someone) slake {v} (To satisfy thirst) slam {v} (to shut with sudden force and noise) slam {v} (to speak badly of) slander {v} (utter a slanderous statement) slant {v} (to bias or skew) slant {v} (to lean, slope or incline) slap {v} (to give a slap) slap someone five {v} (give someone five) SEE: give someone five :: slash {v} (to cut across something with a knife, sword, etc) slate {v} (criticise/criticize harshly) slate {v} (destine) slate {v} (schedule) slaughter {v} (To butcher animals, generally for food (also kosher and halal rituals)) slaughter {v} (To kill in a particularly brutal manner) slaughter {v} (To massacre people in large numbers) slaver {v} (to drool saliva) slay {v} (to kill, murder) sleep {v} (to accommodate) sleep {v} (to rest in state of reduced consciousness) sleep in {v} (to sleep late) sleep like a log {v} (to sleep well, without disturbance) sleepwalk {v} (somnambulate) SEE: somnambulate :: sleep with {v} (have sex with) slice {v} (to cut into slices) slide {v} (to cause to move in contact with a surface) slide {v} (to lose balance) slide {v} (to move in continuous contact with a surface) slide {v} (to move with low friction) sling {v} (to throw) slip {v} (to err) slip {v} (to lose one's traction) slip {v} (to pass) slobber {v} (To allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth) slog {v} (to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat) slosh {v} (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) slow down {v} (to reduce speed) sluff {v} (slough) SEE: slough :: slur {v} (To run together; to articulate poorly) slurp {v} (drink noisily) smart {v} (to hurt or sting) smash {v} (hit extremely hard) smash {v} (to break violently) smatter {v} (intransitive: talk superficially) smear {v} (to spread (a substance)) smell {v} (sense with nose) smell {v} (to have a particular smell, whether good or bad; if descriptive, followed by "like" or "of") smelt {v} (to fuse two things into one) smile {v} (to have a smile on one's face) smirch {v} (to dirty) smite {v} (to hit) smoke {v} (to give off smoke) smoke {v} (to inhale and exhale smoke from a burning cigarette) smoke {v} (to inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually) smoke {v} (to preserve or prepare by treating with smoke) smoke like a chimney {v} (to smoke tobacco frequently) smolder {v} glosen smolder {v} (To burn with no flame and little smoke) smooch {v} ((informal) to kiss) smooth {v} (make smooth) smoothen {v} (make smooth) smother {v} (to extinguish or deaden) smother {v} (to reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity) smother {v} (to suffocate) smudge {v} (to soil or smear with dirt) smuggle {v} (To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties) snack {v} (to eat a light meal) snake {v} (to move in a winding path) snap {v} (to pass the ball from the center to a back, to hike the ball) snap {v} (to suffer a mental breakdown) snatch {v} (to steal) sneak {v} (to creep) sneak up on {v} (to approach) sneer {v} (raise a corner of the upper lip slightly in scorn) sneeze {v} (expel air as a reflex) snicker {v} (to emit a snicker) sniff {v} (to make a short audible inhalation) snitch {v} (inform on) snitch {v} (steal) snoop {v} (to be devious and cunning so as not to be seen) snoop {v} (to secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others) snoop around {v} (to snoop at a location) snooze {v} (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap) snore {v} (breathe during sleep with harsh noises) snorkel {v} (use a snorkel) snort {v} (to exhale roughly through the nose) snort {v} (to inhale (usually a drug) through the nose) snow {v} (have snow fall from the sky) snub {v} (slight, ignore, behave coldly toward) snub {v} (turn down, dismiss) snuggle {v} (to lie close to another person or thing, hugging or being cosy) soak {v} durchziehen soak {v} (to be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it) soak {v} (to immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation) soap {v} (apply soap in washing) soar {v} (to fly aloft with little effort) soar {v} (to rise rapidly or high) sob {v} (say (something) while sobbing) sob {v} schluchzen sob {v} (weep with convulsive gasps) sober {v} (make or become sober) sober {v} (overcome intoxication) sober up {v} (to become sober) socialize {v} (to interact with others) sod off {v} (go away) sodomise {v} (to perform anal sex) soil {v} (to defecate into one's clothing) SEE: soil oneself :: soil {v} (to make dirty) solace {v} (to give solace to) solder {v} (to join with solder) sole {v} (put a sole on (a shoe or boot)) solicit {v} (To disturb or trouble; to harass) solicit {v} (to persistently endeavor) solicit {v} (to persuade or incite) solicit {v} (To woo; to court) solidify {v} (transitive: to make solid; convert into a solid body) solo {v} (to perform a solo) solo {v} (to perform something in the absence of anyone else) solve {v} (to find an answer or solution) somnambulate {v} (to walk while sleeping) soothe {v} (To calm or placate someone or some situation) soothe {v} (To ease or relieve pain or suffering) sort {v} (arrange in order) sort {v} (separate according to certain criteria) sound {v} (to probe) sound {v} (to produce a sound) soup up {v} (modify higher performance than the specifications) sour {v} (to become sour) source {v} (to obtain or procure; used especially of a business resource) sow {v} (disperse seeds) sow one's wild oats {v} (to spend a period of one's youth behaving irresponsibly) spam {v} (intransitive) spank {v} (to smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object.) spare {v} (to save (money) for reserve) sparkle {v} (to emit sparks) spatter {v} (to splash with small droplets) spawn {v} (to bring forth in general) spawn {v} (to deposit (numerous) eggs in water) spawn {v} (to generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers) spawn {v} (to produce or deposit (eggs) in water) spawn {v} (to reproduce, especially in large numbers) spay {v} (remove the ovaries) speak {v} (to be able to communicate in a language) speak {v} (to communicate with one's voice using words) speak for oneself {v} (expressing disagreement) speak in tongues {v} (To speak in a language unknown to the speaker) specify {v} spezifizieren speculate {v} (to make an inference based on inconclusive evidence) speculate {v} (to make a risky trade) speculate {v} (to meditate) speed {v} (to go fast) spell {v} (figuratively, to clarify) spell {v} (to compose a word) spell {v} (to indicate that some future event will occur) spell {v} (to work in place of someone) spell {v} (to write or say the letters that form a word) spend {v} ausgeben, [time] verbringen spend {v} (to consume, to use up (time)) spend {v} (to pay out) spew {v} (to vomit) spice {v} (to add spice or spices to) spice up {v} (To make something more exotic, fun or extravagant) spill {v} (intransitive: to spread out or fall out) spill {v} (transitive: to drop something so that it spreads out) spill one's guts {v} (vomit) SEE: vomit :: spill the beans {v} (to reveal a secret; to disclose) spin {v} drehen, spinnen spin {v} (to make yarn) spin {v} (to present a bias) spin {v} (to turn around quickly) spit {v} (to evacuate saliva from the mouth) splash {v} (to hit or agitate liquid) splice {v} (to unite in marriage) SEE: marry :: splice {v} (to unite ropes by interweaving the strands) splinter {v} (to cause to break apart into splinters) splinter {v} (to come apart into splinters) split {v} (divide along a more or less straight line) split {v} (leave) split {v} (separate) split {v} (share out) splurge {v} (to flow or move in rush) splurge {v} (to spend lavishly or extravagantly) spoil {v} (become sour or rancid, to decay) spoil {v} (ruin) spoil {v} (to coddle or pamper) sponge {v} (to take advantage of others) sponsor {v} (to be a sponsor for) sport {v} (amuse oneself) sport {v} (display, have as feature) sport {v} (mock or tease) spouse {v} (to get married to) SEE: espouse :: spout {v} (to gush forth in a stream) sprain {v} (to weaken a joint, ligament, or muscle) sprawl {v} (to sit with limbs spread out) spray {v} (to project a liquid in a disperse manner) spread {v} ((intransitive) to take up a larger area, expand) spread {v} (to disperse, scatter) spread {v} (to extend, stretch out (limbs etc)) spread {v} (to smear, distribute in a thin layer) spread {v} (to stretch out, expand) spread {v} ((transitive) to disseminate, make known or present) spread like wildfire {v} (spread like wildfire) spring {v} (to jump or leap) spring to life {v} (start to exist) spring to mind {v} (appear in one's thoughts) sprinkle {v} (to cause to fall in fine drops) sprinkle {v} (to cover an object) sprint {v} (To run etc at top speed for a short period) spritz {v} (to spray, sprinkle, or squirt lightly) sprout {v} keimen sprout {v} (to grow, to germinate) spur {v} (to prod) spur {v} (to put spurs on) spur {v} (to urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive) spurn {v} (to reject by pushing away with the foot) spurn {v} (to reject disdainfully) spurn {v} (to waste; fail to make the most of) spur on {v} (spur) SEE: spur :: spurt {v} (to gush) spurt {v} (to make strong effort) spy {v} (to act as a spy) squander {v} (to waste) square {v} (math: to multiply by itself) square {v} (to take opposing sides) SEE: quarrel :: squat {v} (to bend at the knees) squat {v} (to occupy without permission) squeak {v} (emit sound) squeal {v} (to rat on someone) squeal {v} (to scream a high-pitched squeal) squeeze {v} (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once) squeeze {v} (to fit into a tight place) squeeze out {v} (used other than as an idiom, to squeeze out) squelch {v} (to make a sucking, splashing noise) squiggle {v} (to write (something) illegibly) squint {v} (to look or glance sideways) squint {v} (to look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions) squint {v} (to look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight) squirm {v} (twist one’s body with snakelike motion) squirt {v} (to be ejected, in a rapid stream) squish {v} (To squeeze, compress, or crush) stab {v} (To pierce or wound with pointed object) stabilize {v} (to become stable) stabilize {v} (to make stable) stable {v} (put or keep in a stable) stage {v} (to demonstrate in a deceptive manner) stage {v} (to produce on a stage) stagger {v} (to begin to doubt and waver in purposes) stagger {v} (to move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking) stagger {v} (to walk in an awkward, drunken fashion) stagnate {v} (to cease activity) stain {v} (to coat a surface with a stain) stain {v} (to taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation) stake {v} anpflocken, anbinden, hochbinden, pfählen stake a claim {v} (to take an action that asserts a property right in something) stake out {v} (to mark off the limits by stakes) stalk {v} (to approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer) stalk {v} (to (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment) stalk {v} (to walk haughtily) stall {v} (To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in total loss of lift) stammer {v} (to stutter) stamp {v} (to apply postage stamps to) stamp {v} (to give an official marking to) stand {v} (to place in an upright or standing position) stand {v} (to remain motionless) stand {v} (to rise to one’s feet) stand {v} (to seek election) stand {v} (to support oneself on the feet in an erect position) stand {v} (to tolerate) stand {v} (to undergo; withstand; hold up) standardise {v} (to establish a standard) standardise {v} (to make to conform to a standard) standardize {v} (standardise) SEE: standardise :: stand back {v} (maintain a safe distance) stand by {v} stehen Sie bereit, bereitstehen stand in {v} (to substitute for) stand in for {v} (replace) stand on one's own two feet {v} (idiomatic: to be independent) stand out {v} (be obvious in contrast to one's surroundings) stand up {v} (rise from a sitting position) starch {v} (apply laundry starch) stare {v} (To look fixedly) starring {v} (present participle of "to star") SEE: star :: start {v} (of an activity, to begin) start {v} starten (at a race), anfangen, zusammenzucken start {v} (to begin) startle {v} (to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension) startle {v} (to move or be excited on feeling alarm) start up {v} (to appear suddenly) starve {v} (to deprive of nourishment) starve {v} (to die because of lack of food) stash {v} (store away for later use) state {v} (declare to be a fact) state {v} (make known) stave-rhyme {v} (to exhibit this kind of rhyme) stay {v} (To continue to have a particular quality) stay {v} (To postpone) stay {v} (To remain in a particular place) stay behind {v} (to remain in a classroom or school at the end of teaching, especially to receive punishment) stay behind {v} (to remain where one is, whilst others leave) steady {v} (to stabilize) steal {v} (to draw attention) steal {v} (to get or effect surreptitiously or artfully) steal {v} (to illegally take possession of) steam {v} (cooking: to cook with steam) steep {v} (to make tea/coffee) steep {v} (to soak an item in liquid) steer {v} (intransitive: to guide the course of) steer {v} (transitive: to guide the course of) stem {v} (to be caused) stem {v} (to descend) stem {v} (to stop, hinder) step {v} (intransitive, figuratively: to move mentally) step {v} (intransitive: to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance) step {v} (intransitive: to move the foot in walking) sterilize {v} ((biology) To destroy all spores or germs) sterilize {v} (disable ability to procreate) stew {v} (to cook (food)) stick {v} (to become attached, to adhere (intransitive)) stick {v} (to glue; to adhere (transitive)) stick {v} (to jam) stick {v} (to press into with a sharp point) stick {v} (to remain loyal or firm) stick {v} (to tolerate, endure, stick with) SEE: stick with :: stick out {v} (to be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive) stick out {v} (to persist) SEE: stick it out :: stick out {v} (to protrude; to extend beyond) stick out like a sore thumb {v} (be very noticeably different) stick with {v} (remain close to) stiff {v} (to fail to pay money one owes) stiffen {v} (to become stiff) stifle {v} (to die of suffocation) stifle {v} (to interrupt or cut off) stifle {v} (to repress, keep in or hold back) stifle {v} (to smother or suffocate) stigmatize {v} (to characterize as disgraceful or ignominious) stimulate {v} (to arouse an organism to functional activity) stimulate {v} (to encourage into action) sting {v} (of an insect: to bite) sting {v} (to hurt) stink {v} (give an impression of dishonesty or untruth) stink {v} (have a strong bad smell) stink {v} (informal: be greatly inferior) stint {v} (to be sparing or mean) stipulate {v} (to acknowledge the truth of) stipulate {v} (to require as a condition of a contract or agreement) stipulate {v} (to specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement) stir {v} (to become the object of notice; to be on foot) stir {v} (to be in motion) stir {v} (to bring into debate; to agitate; to moot) stir {v} (to change the place of in any manner; to move) stir {v} (to disturb the relative position of the particles of) stir {v} (to incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite) stir {v} (to move; to change one’s position) stir-fry {v} (to fry something quickly in hot oil) stir up {v} (to cause (trouble etc)) stitch {v} (agriculture: to form land into ridges) SEE: plough/plow :: stitch {v} (form stitches in) SEE: sew :: stitch {v} (unite by stitches) SEE: sew together :: stoke {v} (to feed, stir up) stoke {v} (to poke, pierce) stole {v} (simple past of to steal) stomp {v} (trample heavily on something or someone) stone {v} (intoxicate, especially with narcotics) stone {v} (kill by pelting with stones) stoop {v} (to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward) stop {v} (cause (something) to cease moving) stop {v} (cause (something) to come to an end) stop {v} (cease moving) stop {v} (close an aperture) stop {v} (come to an end) store {v} (computing: write (something) into memory or registers) store {v} (keep (something) while not in use) store {v} (remain in good condition while stored) storm {v} (to assault) stow {v} (to put something away in a compact and tidy manner) stow {v} (to put something away to store it in a space saving manner and over long time) straddle {v} (to sit or stand with a leg on each side of something) strangle {v} (to kill someone by strangulation) stray {v} (figuratively: to err) stray {v} (to wander from a direct course) stray {v} (to wander from company or from proper limits) streak {v} (to have or obtain streaks) streak {v} (to run naked in public) strengthen {v} (to animate) strengthen {v} (to augment) strengthen {v} (to grow strong or stronger) strengthen {v} (to make strong or stronger) stress {v} (to apply emotional pressure to) stress {v} (to apply force to, causing strain) stress {v} (to emphasise (a point)) stress {v} (to emphasise (a syllable)) stress {v} (to emphasise (words in speaking)) stretch {v} (get more than expected from a limited resource) stretch {v} (lengthen by pulling) stretch {v} (lengthen when pulled) strew {v} (to distribute objects or pieces of something) stride {v} (to walk with long steps) strike {v} (nautical: to surrender) strike {v} (to delete) strike {v} (to hit) strike {v} (to impress, seem, appear) strike {v} (to manufacture by stamping) strike {v} (to stop working to achieve better working conditions) strike up {v} (to start something, e. g. relationship) strike while the iron is hot {v} (act on an opportunity promptly) string {v} (put on a string) strive {v} (to try to achieve) stroke {v} (to move one's hand or an object over the surface of) stroll {v} (wander on foot) structure {v} ((transitive) to give structure to; to arrange) struggle {v} (to strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight) strum {v} (play a stringed instrument) strut {v} (to stand or walk stiffly) strut {v} (to swell; protuberate) strut {v} (to walk proudly or haughtily) stub {v} (to jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe) stub {v} (to remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots) stub {v} (to remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground) study {v} (look at minutely) study {v} (to acquire knowledge) study {v} (to take a course) stuff {v} (preserve a dead animal) stuff {v} (to fill (something) up in a compressed manner) stumble {v} (to trip or fall) stumble {v} ( to walk clumsily) stump {v} (to baffle or confuse) stun {v} (to incapacitate) stun {v} (to shock or surprise) stupefy {v} (dull the senses or capacity to think) stutter {v} (to speak with spasmodic repetition) sty {v} (to rise up) SEE: ascend :: stymie {v} (to thwart or stump) subdue {v} (to bring (a country) under control by force) subdue {v} (to overcome, quieten, bring under control) subject {v} (to cause to undergo) subjectivize {v} (to make subjective) subjugate {v} (to forcibly impose obedience or servitude) sublicense {v} (to grant a sublicense) sublimate {v} (psychoanalysis) sublimate {v} (to change from solid to gas) sublime {v} (to sublimate) submerge {v} (to immerse (intransitive)) submerge {v} (to immerse (transitive)) submit {v} (enter or put forward something for approval, consideration, marking etc.) submit {v} (yield or give way to another) subpoena {v} (to summon with a subpoena) subscribe {v} (to sign up to receive a publication) subsidize {v} (To assist someone or something by granting a subsidy) substantiate {v} (to authenticate or corroborate) substantiate {v} (to record in documents) substantivise {v} (convert into a substantive) substitute {v} (to use in place of something else, with the same function) subsume {v} (to place under another as belonging to it) subtend {v} (to stretch underneath something) subtract {v} (to remove or reduce) subvert {v} (to overthrow) subvert {v} (to pervert the mind) subvert {v} (to upturn convention by undermining it) succeed {v} (To fall heir to; to inherit) succeed {v} (To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of) succeed {v} (To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful) succor {v} (to give such assistance) succumb {v} (to die) succumb {v} (to give up, or give in) succumb {v} (to yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire) suck {v} (colloquial: term of general disparagement) suck {v} (to use the mouth to pull in (liquid etc)) suck {v} (to work the lips and tongue on) suckle {v} (to give suck to) suckle {v} (to nurse; to suck) suck off {v} (to give a blowjob) suck up {v} (to absorb fluid) suction {v} (process) sue {v} (to file a legal action) suffer {v} (To endure, undergo) suffer {v} (to feel pain) suffer {v} (to have a disease or condition) suffer {v} (to undergo hardship) suffice {v} (be enough, sufficient, adequate) suffice {v} (furnish) suffice {v} (satisfy) suffix {v} (append (something) to the end of something else) suffocate {v} ((intransitive) to die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body) suffocate {v} ((transitive) to cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body) suffocate {v} ((transitive) to kill someone by depriving him of a sufficient oxygen intake) sugar {v} (to add sugar to, to sweeten) sugar {v} (to make something seem less unpleasant) suggest {v} (to ask for without demanding) suggest {v} (to recommend) suit {v} (to be appropriate or apt for) suit {v} (to be fitted to) sulfurate {v} (to treat or combine with sulfur) sulk {v} (to express ill humor or offense by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn) sully {v} (to damage, corrupt) sully {v} (to soil, stain, dirty) sum {v} (give a summary of) SEE: summarize :: sum {v} (to add together) summarise {v} (summarise) SEE: summarize :: summarize {v} (To prepare a summary) summon {v} (law: to order someone to appear in court) summon {v} (to ask someone to come) summon {v} (to call people together) sum up {v} (summarize) SEE: summarize :: sunbathe {v} (to expose one's body to the sun) sunburn {v} (to receive a sunburn) Sundays {v} (every Sunday) supercharge {v} Ă¼berladen superimpose {v} (to place an object over another object) superintend {v} aufsehen supersede {v} (Displace in favour of another) supersede {v} (Set aside) supersede {v} (Take the place of) supervise {v} (to be in charge of) supper {v} (to eat dinner) supplant {v} (to take the place of, to replace) supplant {v} verdrängen, ausstechen supply {v} (to act as a substitute) supply {v} (to compensate for, make up for a deficiency of) supply {v} (to furnish or equip with) supply {v} (to provide, make available for use) support {v} (to back a cause, party etc. mentally or with concrete aid) support {v} (to help, particularly financially) support {v} (to keep from falling) support {v} (to provide help regarding something sold) suppose {v} (conclude; believe) suppose {v} (theorize; hypothesize) suppress {v} (to hold in place, to keep low) suppurate {v} (form or discharge pus) surcharge {v} (to apply a surcharge) surf {v} (to browse the Internet) surf {v} (to ride a wave) surmise {v} (to conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises) surmount {v} (to get over; to overcome) surpass {v} (to exceed) surprise {v} (cause (someone) to feel surprise) surrender {v} (intransitive or reflexive: to give oneself up into the power of another) surrender {v} sich ergeben, Ă¼bergeben, ausliefern, abtreten, verzichten auf etwas , [1,2] aufgeben, [1,2] kapitulieren surround {v} (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) surround {v} (to enclose to prevent escape) surveil {v} (To keep someone or something under surveillance) survive {v} (live longer than) survive {v} (object, concept: continue to exist) survive {v} (person: continue to live) suspect {v} (believe to be guilty) suspect {v} (distrust, have doubts about) suspect {v} (have suspicion) suspect {v} (imagine or suppose to be true, without proof) suspend {v} (To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event) suspend {v} (To halt temporarily) suspend {v} (To hang freely) suture {v} (to sew up or join by means of a suture) swaddle {v} (to bind a baby) swallow {v} (to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach) swallow up {v} (completely enclose or envelop) swamp {v} (overwhelm) swap {v} (exchange or give (something) in exchange for) swap in {v} einlagern swathe {v} (bandage) sway {v} (To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp) sway {v} (To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide) sway {v} (To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock) sway {v} (To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter) swear {v} (to curse, to use offensive language) swear {v} (to take an oath) sweat {v} (informal: to worry) sweat {v} (to emit in the manner of sweat) sweat {v} (to emit sweat) sweat like a pig {v} (sweat profusely) sweep {v} (to clean using a broom or brush) sweep something under the rug {v} (to conceal a problem expediently) sweeten {v} (to make sweet to the taste) swell {v} (intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged) swerve {v} abschweifen swim {v} (move through water) swindle {v} (to defraud someone) swindle {v} (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods) swing {v} schwingen swing {v} (to hang on gallows) swing {v} (to ride on a swing) swing {v} (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point) swing by {v} vorbeischauen swipe {v} (to slide through a reader) swipe {v} (to snatch) switch {v} (To change places / tasks) switch {v} (To change (something) to the specified state using a switch) switch {v} (To exchange) switch off {v} (turn switch to off position) switch on {v} (to turn a switch to the "on" position) swoon {v} (to faint) swot {v} (study hard) syllabize {v} (syllabify) SEE: syllabify :: symbol {v} (symbolize) SEE: symbolize :: symbolise {v} (To be symbolic of; to represent) symbolize {v} (To be symbolic of; to represent) sympathize {v} (to show sympathy) sync {v} (synchronize) SEE: synchronize :: synchronize {v} (cause two events to have coordinated timing) synthesize {v} (To be produced a by chemical synthesis) synthesize {v} (To produce a substance by chemical synthesis) systematize {v} (to arrange into a systematic order) taboo {v} (avoid) taboo {v} (ban) taboo {v} (mark as taboo) tack {v} (nautical: to turn the bow through the wind) tack {v} (to stitch) tackle {v} (to face or deal with attempting to overcome or fight down) tail {v} (to tail) tailgate {v} (drive dangerously close behind another vehicle) tailor {v} (make, repair, or alter clothing) tailor {v} (restrict something to particular need) taint {v} (To contaminate or corrupt something with an external agent, either physically or morally) taint {v} (To spoil food by contamination) take {v} (military: to gain a position by force) take {v} (to accept) take {v} (to carry) take {v} (to choose) take {v} (to endure) take {v} (to get into one's possession) take {v} (to grab and move to oneself) take {v} (to grab with the hands) take {v} (to have sex with) take {v} (to ingest medicine) take {v} (to last or expend [an amount of time]) take {v} (to support or carry without failing or breaking) take aback {v} (to surprise or shock) take a bow {v} (to accept applause at the end of a performance) take after {v} (to resemble in appearance or habit) take a look {v} (to examine or observe) take apart {v} (criticise) SEE: criticise :: take apart {v} (defeat) SEE: defeat :: take apart {v} (disassemble) SEE: disassemble :: take a stand {v} (assert a position) take by storm {v} (To capture by means of a sudden, overwhelming attack) take by storm {v} (To rapidly gain popularity in a place) take care {v} (be cautious, careful) take care {v} (to be in charge of something) take care of {v} (deal with) take care of {v} (look after) take effect {v} (to become active; to become effective) take for granted {v} (assume something to be true without verification or proof) take for granted {v} (give little attention to or to underestimate the value of) take ill {v} (to become ill) SEE: take sick :: take into account {v} (to consider or regard; to include) take it easy {v} (calm yourself down (imperative)) take it easy {v} (farewell) take it easy {v} (to relax or rest) take it out on {v} (unleash one's anger) take off {v} (to begin flight) take off {v} (to depart) SEE: depart :: take off {v} (to imitate) SEE: imitate :: take off {v} (to quantify) SEE: quantify :: take off {v} (to remove) take offense {v} (feel and possibly show resentment) take on {v} (To acquire, bring in, or introduce) take on {v} (To assume responsibility for) take on {v} (To attempt to fight or compete) take on {v} (To begin to have or exhibit) take one's leave {v} (depart) SEE: depart :: take one's leave {v} (say goodbye) take one's own life {v} (commit suicide) SEE: commit suicide :: take out {v} (to remove) take over {v} (to assume control) take part {v} (participate or join) take part {v} (share or partake) take place {v} (to happen) take revenge {v} (to avenge; to get back at) take root {v} (to become established, to take hold) take shape {v} (take a definite form) take sides {v} (to join in a confrontation) take somebody's word for it {v} (to believe what somebody tells one) take the bull by the horns {v} (to deal directly with a matter; to confront a difficulty) take the liberty {v} ((idiomatic) to act on one's own authority) take to heart {v} (to take something seriously) talk {v} (to communicate by speech) talk {v} ((transitive) to discuss) SEE: discuss :: talk around {v} (persuade) SEE: persuade :: talk out of turn {v} (speak when not allowed to) talk over {v} (discuss) SEE: discuss :: talk over {v} (persuade) SEE: persuade :: talk shop {v} (discuss one's work) tally {v} (to correspond or agree) tally {v} (to count something) tally {v} (to keep score) tally {v} (to make things correspond) tally {v} (to record something) tame {v} (to become tame) tame {v} (to make something tame) tamper {v} (alter by making unauthorized changes) tan {v} (to become tan due to exposure to sun) tan {v} (to turn animal hide into leather) tangle {v} (to be forced into some kind of situation) tangle {v} (to mix together or intertwine) tap {v} (Ressourcen) erschlieĂŸen; (Vorräte) anbrechen; klopfen tap {v} (to draw off liquid from a vessel) tap {v} (to furnish with taps) tap {v} (to intercept communication) tap {v} (to place a listening device) taper {v} (make thinner or narrower) taper {v} (To make thinner or narrower at one end.) taper off {v} (diminish or lessen gradually; to become smaller, slower, quieter, etc. ) tar {v} (to coat with tar) tare {v} (to set a zero value on an instrument) tare {v} (to take into account the weight of a container) tarry {v} (delay or be tardy) tarry {v} (linger in expectation of) tarry {v} (stay or wait somewhere) tarry {v} (stay somewhere temporarily) taste {v} (to have a taste) taste {v} (to sample the flavor of something) tattle {v} (to chatter) tattle {v} (to report others' wrongdoings or violations) tattoo {v} (to apply a tattoo) taunt {v} (to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding) tax {v} (to impose and collect a tax) taxi {v} (move an aircraft) tea bag {v} (small porous bag holding tea) SEE: teabag :: teach {v} (to pass on knowledge) teach {v} (to pass on one's knowledge as one's profession) tear {v} (become torn) tear {v} (remove by tearing) tear {v} (rend) tear {v} (to produce tears) tear off {v} (to rip away from) tease {v} (to comb) tease {v} (to entice) tease {v} (to poke fun at) tease {v} (to provoke or disturb) teem {v} (overflowing with) te-hee {v} (titter, snicker) SEE: titter :: telephone {v} (to call someone) teleport {v} (move an object by teleportation) televise {v} (broadcast, or be broadcast, by television) tell {v} (narrate) SEE: narrate :: tell {v} (to instruct) tell {v} (to pass information) tell off {v} (to rebuke, often in a harsh way) tell on {v} (to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong) tell tales out of school {v} (reveal confidential or sensitive information) temper {v} (to moderate or control) tempt {v} (to attract, allure) tempt {v} (to provoke someone to do wrong) tenant {v} (to hold as, or be, a tenant) tend {v} (to be probable or likely) tend {v} (to look after) terminate {v} (to end incompletely) terrorise {v} (fill with terror) terrorize {v} (terrorise) SEE: terrorise :: test {v} testen testify {v} (to make a declaration, or give evidence, under oath) text {v} (send a text message to) thank {v} danken, bedanken thank {v} (express gratitude or appreciation to someone) thaw {v} (to cause frozen things to melt, soften, or dissolve) thaw {v} (to melt, dissolve, or become fluid) thieve {v} (commit theft) think {v} (be of the opinion that) think {v} (communicate to oneself in one’s mind) think {v} (consider, judge, regard something as) think {v} (guess, reckon) think {v} (to ponder, to go over in one's head) think about {v} (ponder) thin out {v} (to make sparse) third {v} (divide into three parts) thirst {v} (to be thirsty) thirst {v} (to desire) thou {v} (to address someone using the pronoun thou) thrash {v} (to thresh) SEE: thresh :: thread {v} (put thread through) thread {v} (to pass) threaten {v} (to make a threat against someone; to use threats) threaten {v} (to menace, or be dangerous) threaten {v} (to portend, or give a warning) thresh {v} (to separate the grain from the straw or husks) thrill {v} (cause something to tremble or quiver) thrill {v} (feel a sudden excitement) thrill {v} (suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to electrify) thrill {v} (tremble or quiver) thrive {v} (to increase in bulk or stature) thrive {v} (to prosper by industry) throb {v} (to pound or beat rapidly or violently) throb {v} (to vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm) throne {v} (enthrone) SEE: enthrone :: throttle {v} (to cut back speed) throttle {v} (to strangle someone) throw {v} (to cause an object to move rapidly through the air) throw {v} werfen throw away {v} (discard or dispose of) throw in the towel {v} ((idiomatic) to quit; to give up) throw out {v} (dismiss or expel someone from duty or attending) throw the baby out with the bathwater {v} ((idiomatic) to discard something valuable) throw up {v} (to vomit) SEE: vomit :: thrust {v} (make an advance with force) thud {v} (to make the sound of a dull impact) thumb {v} (turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily) thumb one's nose {v} (to place a thumb upon the tip of the nose in a gesture of disrespect) thunder {v} donnern thunder {v} (to make a noise like thunder) thwart {v} (to prevent; to halt; to cause failure) tick {v} (make a clicking noise) tick {v} (make a tick mark) tickle {v} (to touch in a manner that causes tingling sensation) tick off {v} (to annoy, aggravate) tick off {v} (to list) tick off {v} (to sign with a tick) tick off {v} ((UK) to reprimand) tidy up {v} (to make clean (a small room or small space)) tie {v} (to attach or fasten with string) tile {v} (computing: to arrange in regular pattern) tile {v} (to cover with tiles) till {v} (to work or cultivate) tilt {v} (to slope or incline (something); to slant) time {v} (to choose the time for) time {v} (to measure time) timestamp {v} (record date and time of) tin {v} (to coat with solder) tin {v} (to cover with tin) tin {v} (to place into a tin in order to preserve) tinker {v} (to fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it) tin-plate {v} (to coat with tin) tint {v} (to shade, color) tip {v} (give a small amount of money to someone for a service provided) tip one's hand {v} ((idiomatic) to inadvertently reveal any secret) tip one's hat {v} (briefly remove one's hat) tip one's hat {v} (briefly tap one's hat) tip one's hat {v} (honour) tipple {v} (to drink alcohol regularly, but not to excess) tiptoe {v} (to walk quietly) tire {v} (to become sleepy) titillate {v} (to excite pleasantly) titivate {v} (to make small improvements to) titrate {v} (to ascertain the concentration of a solution) toast {v} (to engage in a salutation) toast {v} (to lightly cook in a kitchen appliance) toddle {v} (walk unsteadily) toggle {v} (to alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever) toggle {v} umschalten, hin- und herschalten toil {v} (to labour, to work) told {v} (past participle) told {v} (simple past tense) tolerate {v} (to allow without interference) toll {v} (entice) SEE: entice :: toll {v} (to make the noise of a bell) tool {v} (to work on or shape with tools) top off {v} (to complete, to put the finishing touch to (something)) topple {v} (to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something) topple {v} (to totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so) torch {v} (set fire to) torment {v} (to cause severe suffering) torpedo {v} (to send a torpedo) torture {v} (to intentionally inflict unnecessary pain or suffering on helpless victims) total {v} (to add up) total {v} (to demolish) totter {v} (move or stand unsteadily) touch {v} (make physical contact with) tough {v} (endure) SEE: endure :: tough {v} (toughen) SEE: toughen :: tough out {v} (endure) SEE: endure :: tout {v} (To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote) tow {v} (pull something using a line) toy {v} (to play with, to mock) trade in {v} (to give a piece of merchandise as part of the payment) traduce {v} (to malign by making malicious and false or defamatory statements) trail {v} (drag behind) trail {v} (follow behind) trail {v} (leave (a trail of)) train {v} (to improve one's fitness) train {v} (to move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction) train {v} (to practice an ability) train {v} (to teach a task) trammel {v} (To entangle, as in a net) trammel {v} (To hamper) tramp {v} (to hitchhike) SEE: hitchhike :: trample {v} ((intransitive) to cause emotional injury as if by trampling) trample {v} ((intransitive) to walk heavily and destructively) trample {v} (to treat someone harshly) trample {v} ((transitive) to crush something by walking on it) transceive {v} (transmit and receive) transcribe {v} (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) transfer {v} bringen transfer {v} (to move or pass from one place, person or thing to another) transform {v} (change greatly the appearance or form of) transform {v} (change the nature, condition or function of) transform {v} (in electricity: subject to the action of a transformer) transform {v} (in genetics: subject (a cell) to transformation) transform {v} (in mathematics: subject to a transformation) transfuse {v} (administer a transfusion) translate {v} (to change from one medium to another) translate {v} (to change text from one language to another) transliterate {v} (to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script) transmit {v} senden , Ă¼bertragen , weiterleiten transmit {v} (to communicate news or information) transmogrify {v} (completely alter the form of) transpire {v} (obsolete: to perspire) SEE: perspire :: transpire {v} (to happen, take place) SEE: happen :: transplant {v} (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) transplant {v} (resettle or relocate (something)) transplant {v} (uproot and replant (a plant)) transport {v} (carry or bear from one place to another) transvest {v} (cross-dress) SEE: cross-dress :: trap {v} (to catch in a trap or traps) trap {v} (to set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game) trash {v} (to beat soundly) trash {v} (to discard) trash {v} (to make into a mess) traumatise {v} (to cause a trauma) travel {v} (to be on a journey) travel {v} (to pass from here to there; to transmit) travel {v} (to travel throughout) tread {v} (to step on) tread water {v} (to make no progress) tread water {v} (to remain afloat in water without use of any buoyancy aid) treat {v} (to entertain with food or drink) treat {v} (to handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way) treble {v} (to multiply by three) tremble {v} (to shake) tremor {v} (to shake or quiver; to tremble) trespass {v} (legal: to enter someone else's property illegally) trespass {v} Ă¼bertreten trick {v} (to fool; to cause to believe something untrue) trickle {v} (to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously) trickle {v} (to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously) trigger {v} (to initiate something) trim {v} (to decorate) trim {v} (to reduce slightly) trip {v} (fall over or stumble over an object) triple {v} (to become three times as large) triple {v} (to multiply by three) triumph {v} (to prevail over rivals) triumph {v} (to succeed) trivialise {v} (trivialize) SEE: trivialize :: troak {v} (exchange goods or services without involving money) troll {v} (to attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment and/or gratuitous disruption) tropicalize {v} (modify something for use in the tropics) trot {v} ((of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter) trouble {v} (to bother; to annoy) trounce {v} (To beat severely; thrash) trounce {v} (To punish) trounce {v} (To win by a wide margin) trouser {v} (to pocket) SEE: pocket :: truck {v} (trade) SEE: trade :: trudge {v} (to walk wearily with heavy, slow steps) trust {v} (To give credit to) trust {v} (To place confidence in) try {v} (to attempt) try {v} (to make an experiment) try {v} (to put on trial) try {v} (to taste, sample, etc) try on {v} (to test the look of) try out {v} (to test something) tuck {v} 1. stecken tug {v} (to pull repeatedly) tug {v} (to pull with great effort) tug {v} (to tow by tugboat) tumble {v} (to fall end over end) tune {v} (to modify a musical instrument) tune out {v} (zone out) SEE: zone out :: tup {v} (fuck) SEE: fuck :: turn {v} (become) turn {v} (change one's direction of travel) turn {v} (change the direction or orientation of (something)) turn {v} (metamorphose) turn {v} (move around an axis through itself) turn {v} (of leaves, to change color in autumn) turn {v} (rebel) turn {v} (shape (something) on a lathe) turn a blind eye {v} (to ignore or deliberately overlook) turn a deaf ear {v} (to refuse to listen or hear something) turn around {v} (to change to the opposite direction from a previous position) turn around {v} (to physically rotate horizontally 360 degrees) turn away {v} (to rotate the body or head so as not to face someone or something) turn down {v} (refuse, decline, deny) turn in {v} (submit something) turn in {v} (to relinquish; to tell on someone to the authorities) turn into {v} (intransitive: become) turn off {v} (leave a road) turn off {v} (repulse) turn off {v} (switch off appliance or light) turn on {v} ((transitive) to power up) turn over {v} (to flip over) turn over {v} (to transfer) SEE: transfer :: turn the other cheek {v} (accept injury without revenge) turn the tables {v} (To reverse a situation such that the advantage has shifted) tweet {v} (internet to post an update) tweet {v} (to make a short high-pitched sound) tweeze {v} (use tweezers) twiddle one's thumbs {v} (to circle one's thumbs around one another) twiddle one's thumbs {v} (to wait or dawdle) twig {v} (to realise something) twist {v} (to distort or change the truth or meaning) twist {v} (to turn the ends in opposite directions) twitter {v} (to use Twitter) twitter {v} (to utter chirps) Twitter {v} (twitter) SEE: twitter :: two-time {v} (to be unfaithful to one's partner) type {v} (to enter characters into a computer using keyboard) type {v} (to use a typewriter) tyrannize {v} (to oppress someone) ulcerate {v} (to become ulcerous) ulcerate {v} (to cause an ulcer) umpire {v} (A person who arbitrates between contending parties) umpire {v} (to act as an umpire in a game) unbind {v} (take bindings off) unbuckle {v} (to unfasten (the buckle of)) unbutton {v} ((transitive)) uncork {v} (to open by removing the cork or stopper from) undemocratize {v} (to reduce democracy) underestimate {v} (to perceive as having lower value) underestimated {v} (underrated) SEE: underrated :: undergo {v} (to experience) underlie {v} (to serve as a basis of) underline {v} (to draw an underline) underline {v} (to emphasise or stress something) undermine {v} (hinder, sabotage) underpay {v} (to pay someone less than the value of their work) underpin {v} (To give support to) underpin {v} (To support from below with props or masonry) underrate {v} (to underestimate) underscore {v} (to emphasize) underscore {v} (to underline) understand {v} (to be aware of the meaning of) understand {v} (to believe, based on information) understand {v} (to impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated) understate {v} (to state something with less completeness than needed) understeer {v} untersteuern understood {v} verstanden, begriffen undertake {v} (to commit oneself to an obligation) undertake {v} (to start an enterprise) underwrite {v} (to assume financial responsibility for something) undo {v} (to reverse) undo {v} (to unfasten) undress {v} ((intransitive) remove one's clothing) undress {v} ((transitive) remove somebody’s clothing) undulate {v} (intransitive: move in wavelike motions) undulate {v} (intransitive: resemble a wave) undulate {v} (transitive: cause to move in a wave) undulate {v} (transitive: cause to resemble a wave) unfasten {v} (to loose) unfold {v} (To reveal) unfold {v} (To turn out to happen; to develop) unfold {v} (To undo a folding) unfollow {v} (to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)) unfreeze {v} (defrost) SEE: defrost :: unfreeze {v} (thaw) SEE: thaw :: unharness {v} (to liberate) SEE: liberate :: unify {v} (become one) unify {v} (cause to become one) uninvite {v} (to cancel an invitation) unite {v} (to come or bring together as one) unleash {v} (to free from a leash) unlimber {v} (deploy an artillery piece for firing) unload {v} (take off or remove the load from something) unlock {v} (give access to something) unlock {v} (to undo or open a lock) unmark {v} (remove marks) unmount {v} (reverse operation of mount) unpack {v} (to remove from a package) unpark {v} (to remove (a car) from a parked position) unplug {v} (disconnect from a supply) unravel {v} (to become undone; to collapse) unravel {v} (to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve) unravel {v} (to separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse) unravel {v} (to separate the threads (of)) unrobe {v} (disrobe) SEE: disrobe :: unsubscribe {v} (to cancel a subscription) untie {v} (to become untied or loosed) untie {v} (to free from fastening or from restraint) untie {v} (to loosen, as something interlaced or knotted) untie {v} (to resolve) unveil {v} offenbaren unveil {v} (to uncover) unwind {v} (To be or become unwound) unwind {v} (To relax) unwind {v} (To wind off) unwrap {v} (undo what is wrapped) up {v} (increase) upblow {v} (blow up) SEE: blow up :: update {v} (to make something up to date) upgrade {v} (to improve) upgrade {v} (to replace an existing object with something better) upgrade {v} (to replace a program with a later version of itself) upgrow {v} (grow up) upload {v} (to transfer data) uproot {v} (eradicate) SEE: eradicate :: uproot {v} (extirpate) SEE: extirpate :: upset {v} (disturb, disrupt, unfavorably alter) upset {v} (make (a person) angry, distressed or unhappy) upset {v} (tip, overturn) urbanize {v} urbanisieren urge {v} [1,2,4] drängen, [1] antreiben urge {v} (to press, push, drive) urge {v} (to press the mind or will of) urge {v} (to provoke) urinate {v} (to pass urine from the body) use {v} (employ, apply) use {v} (rare: to habitually do) use {v} (to exhaust the supply of, to consume) use {v} (used to) SEE: used to :: use up {v} (exhaust) SEE: exhaust :: usher in {v} (announce the arrival of) usurp {v} (to seize power) utilize {v} (utilise) SEE: utilise :: utter {v} (make a noise) utter {v} (say) utter {v} (use the voice) vacation {v} (to spend or take a vacation) vaccinate {v} (treat with a vaccine) vacuate {v} (to empty) vacuum {v} (intransitive: to use a vacuum cleaner) vacuum {v} (transitive: to clean with a vacuum cleaner) validate {v} (check the validity of) value {v} (to estimate the value of) value {v} (to regard highly) vandalise {v} (to needlessly destroy) vandalize {v} (vandalise) SEE: vandalise :: vanish {v} (become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed) vanish {v} (mathematics: to become equal to zero) vanquish {v} (to defeat, to overcome) vapor {v} (intransitive: to become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor) vapor {v} (intransitive: to use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster) vapor {v} (transitive: to turn into vapor) vaporize {v} (turn into vapour) varnish {v} (to apply varnish) vary {v} sich ändern, variieren vary {v} (to institute a change in) SEE: modify :: vaunt {v} (speak boastfully) SEE: boast :: veer {v} (of wind: to shift in a clockwise direction) velarize {v} (to raise the back of the tongue toward the velum while articulating another consonant) vellicate {v} (touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements) vend {v} (sell) veneer {v} (to apply veneer) vent {v} (to allow gases to escape) vent {v} (to allow to escape through a vent) vent {v} (to express a strong emotion) ventilate {v} ((medicine) To provide manual or mechanical breathing to a patient) ventilate {v} (To circulate air through a building, etc.) ventilate {v} (To expose something to the circulation of fresh air) ventilate {v} (To replace stale or noxious air with fresh) verge {v} (to come very close) verge on {v} (To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something) verify {v} (to substantiate or prove the truth of something) versify {v} (intransitive: to turn prose into poetry; rewrite in verse form) vet {v} (check or investigate particularly) vex {v} beleidigen vex {v} (to annoy) vex {v} (to distress; to cause mental suffering) vibrate {v} (move with small movements rapidly) victimize {v} (defraud) SEE: defraud :: vie {v} (To rival; to struggle for superiority; to compete) view {v} (to look at) vilify {v} (denounce, belittle through speech) vilify {v} (say defamatory things about) vindicate {v} (to claim) vindicate {v} (to clear from an accusation, suspicion or criticism) vindicate {v} (to justify by providing evidence) vindicate {v} (to maintain or defend a cause against opposition) vindicate {v} (to provide justification) violate {v} (to break or fail to act by rules) virtualize {v} (run a program in virtual storage) visit {v} (to avenge) SEE: avenge :: visit {v} (to go and meet (someone)) visit {v} (to inflict) SEE: inflict :: vitiate {v} (to spoil) vituperate {v} schelten, tadeln void {v} ((medicine) to empty) void {v} (to make invalid or worthless) volunteer {v} (to do or offer to do something voluntarily) volunteer {v} (to enlist oneself as a volunteer) vomit {v} (to regurgitate the contents of a stomach) vote {v} (assert a formalised choice) vouch {v} (to bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation) vouch {v} (to take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest) vouch {v} (to warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch) vouchsafe {v} (Condescendingly grant a right) vow {v} (To make a vow) vulcanize {v} (to harden rubber with heat) waddle {v} (To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side) wade {v} (to walk through water or something that impedes progress) waffle {v} (to speak or write at length without any clear point or aim) waffle {v} (vacillate) SEE: vacillate :: wag {v} (to not go to school) wag {v} (to swing from side to side) wage {v} (to conduct or carry out) waggle {v} (move with short, quick motions; wobble) wail {v} [1,2] klagen wail {v} (to cry out) wail {v} (to make a sound like crying) wail {v} (to weep, lament) wait {v} (delay until some event) wait {v} (to serve customers) wait {v} (transitive: delay until) SEE: await :: waive {v} (to put aside, avoid) waive {v} (to relinquish; to give up claim to) wake {v} (to make somebody stop sleeping) wake {v} (to stop sleeping) wake up {v} (to awaken (someone else)) wake up {v} (to (become) awake) wake up {v} (to become more aware of a real-life situation.) wake up on the wrong side of bed {v} (to be irritable) SEE: get up on the wrong side of the bed :: walk {v} (colloquial: to be stolen) walk {v} (law: colloquial: to go free) walk {v} (move on the feet) walk {v} (to take for a walk) walk {v} (to travel a distance by walking) walk on eggshells {v} (to act carefully to avoid upsetting someone) walk on eggshells {v} (to handle sensitive matters delicately) walk the plank {v} (to be forced to resign from a position in an organization) walk the talk {v} (to act in accordance with one's words) walk through {v} durchgehen wall {v} (to enclose by surrounding with walls) wallow {v} sich wälzen , suhlen , schwelgen (to wallow in vice) dem Laster frönen; (to wallow in money) im Geld schwimmen; (to wallow in pleasure) im VergnĂ¼gen schwelgen wallpaper {v} (to cover with wallpaper) wander {v} (of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention) wander {v} (to commit adultery) wander {v} (to go somewhere indirectly) wander {v} (to move without purpose or destination) wangle {v} (falsify) SEE: falsify :: wank {v} (intransitive: to masturbate) wank {v} (transitive: to masturbate) want {v} (desire) want {v} (lack) SEE: lack :: war {v} (to engage in conflict) ward off {v} (to parry, or turn aside) warehouse {v} (To store, as in a warehouse) warm {v} (to make or keep warm) warm the cockles of someone's heart {v} (to provide happiness to someone) warm up {v} (to become warmer) warm up {v} (to make an audience enthusiastic) warm up {v} (to reheat food) warn {v} (to make someone aware of impending danger) warn {v} (to notify someone of something untoward) warp {v} (to move a vessel) warrant {v} (to authorize) SEE: authorize :: warrant {v} (to guarantee) warrant {v} (to justify) SEE: justify :: wash {v} (to clean oneself) wash {v} (to clean with water) wash {v} (to move by the force of water in motion) wash up {v} (be carried on to land by water) wash up {v} (clean utensils, dishes, etc.) SEE: do the dishes :: wash up {v} (wash one's hands and/or face (US)) waste {v} (slang: to kill) waste {v} (to decay) waste {v} (to destroy) waste {v} (to squander) waste time {v} (to allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner) watch {v} (to attend or guard) watch {v} (to look at for a period of time) watch {v} (to observe) watch out {v} (to use caution) water {v} (colloquial: to urinate) water {v} (to fill with or secrete water) water {v} (to pour water into the soil surrounding (plants)) water {v} (to provide (animals) with water) water down {v} (to dilute) water down {v} (to make weaker) watermark {v} (to mark paper with a watermark) waulk {v} (full) SEE: full :: wave {v} (to cause to move back and forth repeatedly) wave {v} (to have an undulating or wavy form) wave {v} (to move back and forth repeatedly) wave {v} (to produce waves to the hair) wave {v} (to signal with a waving movement) wave {v} (to wave one’s hand) wax {v} (apply wax to) wax {v} (literary: grow) wax {v} (of the moon: appear larger each night) wax {v} (to assume specified characteristic) waylay {v} (to accost or intercept unexpectedly) waylay {v} (to lie in wait for and attack from ambush) weaken {v} (to make weaker) wean {v} entwöhnen wean {v} (to cease giving milk) wear {v} (to diminish due to use) wear {v} (to have on (clothes)) wear down {v} (to cause physical or mental fatigue) wear one's heart on one's sleeve {v} (to be transparent or forthright about one's emotions) wear out {v} (to deteriorate or become unusable or ineffective due to continued use, exposure, or strain) wear rose-colored glasses {v} (to be excessively optimistic) wear the pants {v} (wear the trousers) SEE: wear the trousers :: wear the trousers {v} (to be the dominant partner) weather {v} (to endure an event) weatherize {v} (to protect against weather) SEE: weatherproof :: weave {v} (to form something by passing strands of material over and under one another) weave {v} (to spin a cocoon or a web) wed {v} (intransitive: to take a spouse) wed {v} (to join in matrimony) wed {v} (transitive: to take as one's spouse) wedge {v} (to force into a narrow gap) wee {v} (to urinate) weed {v} (remove weeds from) weep {v} (to cry, shed tears) wee-wee {v} (to urinate) weigh {v} (nautical: to raise an anchor) weigh {v} (to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object) weigh {v} (to determine the weight of an object) weigh {v} (to have a certain weight) weigh {v} (to weigh out) weight {v} (add weight) weight {v} (in mathematics) welcome {v} (affirm or greet the arrival of someone) welcome {v} (to accept willingly) weld {v} (to join materials (especially metals) by applying heat) well {v} (to issue forth) wench {v} (To frequent prostitutes) westernize {v} (make something western) wet {v} (become wet) wet {v} (cover or impregnate with liquid) wet {v} (urinate accidentally in or on) whack {v} (To hit, slap or strike) wheel {v} (To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air) whelp {v} ((animals) to give birth) whet {v} (hone or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening) whiff {v} (baseball sense) SEE: strike out :: while away {v} (spend time idly) whimper {v} (to cry or sob softly and intermittently) whine {v} (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine) whine {v} (to utter a whine) whinny {v} (of a horse; to make a gentle neigh) whip {v} (by extension, to hit with any flexible object) whip {v} (to defeat) whip {v} (to hit with a whip) whip {v} (to mix food in a rapid aerating fashion) whip {v} (to urge into action) whirr {v} (To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound) whisper {v} (to talk in a quiet voice) whistle {v} (to produce a whistling sound) whistle in the dark {v} (make a show of bravery) whiten {v} (to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch) whiten {v} (to make white or whiter; to bleach or blanch) whitewash {v} (cover errors) whitewash {v} (paint) whittle {v} (cut or shape wood with a knife) whittle {v} (reduce or gradually eliminate something) whore {v} (to pimp) SEE: pimp :: whore {v} (to prostitute oneself) whore around {v} (to regularly copulate with people that one is not in a relationship with) widdle {v} ( to urinate) widen {v} (to become wider) widen {v} (to broaden or extend) widen {v} (to make wider) wiggle {v} (to move with irregular motions) wikify {v} (to adapt (text) to a wiki, see also: wiki, see also: -ify) will {v} (indicating future action) will {v} (to wish strongly) wilt {v} (to droop) win {v} (intransitive: achieve by winning) win {v} (obtain (someone) by wooing) win {v} (transitive: achieve victory in) winch {v} (use a winch) wind {v} (blow air through (a wind instrument)) wind {v} (tighten a clockwork mechanism) wind {v} (to travel in a way that is not straight) wind {v} (turn coils of something around) wind back {v} (to wind towards the beginning) windsurf {v} (ride a surfboard with a sail) wind up {v} (to conclude, complete, or finish) wind up {v} (to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets) wind up {v} (to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock) wind up {v} (to tighten by winding or twisting) wine {v} (drink wine) wine {v} (entertain with wine) wing {v} (to be extemporaneous) wing {v} (to fly) SEE: fly :: wing {v} (to throw) SEE: throw :: wink {v} (To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion) winnow {v} (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air) win over {v} (to persuade) SEE: persuade :: wipe {v} (erase a computer disk) wipe {v} (remove surface substance) wipe out {v} (to destroy or obliterate) wipe out {v} (to erase) wipe the slate clean {v} (to make a fresh start, forgetting differences) wire {v} (informal: to send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system) wiretap {v} (to install or to use such a device) wish {v} (to hope for an outcome) withdraw {v} (extract (money from an account)) withdraw {v} (pull back) withdraw {v} (remove, stop providing) withdraw {v} (retreat) withdraw {v} (take back) wither {v} ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up) withhold {v} (to keep an object) withhold {v} (to keep information) withhold {v} (to retain) withstand {v} (to resist) withstand {v} widerstehen witness {v} ((transitive) to furnish proof of) witness {v} ((transitive) to see or gain knowledge of through experience) wolf {v} (to devour) wolf down {v} (consume quickly) wonder {v} (to ponder about something) wone {v} (to live, reside, stay) woo {v} (to endeavor to gain someone's affection) wood {v} (to cover or plant with trees) work {v} (function correctly) work {v} (to do a specific task) work one's butt off {v} (to work excessively) work out {v} (to conclude with the correct solution) work out {v} (to habitually exercise rigorously) work someone's arse off {v} (to work excessively) SEE: work someone's ass off :: work the crowd {v} (work the room) SEE: work the room :: worm {v} (to get information that someone is reluctant to give) worn {v} (past participle of wear) worry {v} (be troubled) worry {v} (disturb the peace of mind of) worry {v} (strangle) SEE: strangle :: worsen {v} (intransitive: get worse) worsen {v} (transitive: make worse) worsen {v} verschlechtern, verschlimmern worship {v} (to honor and adore, especially as a deity) would {v} (indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly) would {v} (indicating an action in the past that was planned or intended) would {v} (indicating a possible (but not definite) future action or state) would {v} (indicating in action or state that is conditional on another) would {v} (used to express a polite request) would like {v} (intransitive) would like {v} (transitive) wouldn't hurt a fly {v} (is of very gentle nature (idiom)) wound {v} (hurt or injure) wound {v} (hurt (someone's feelings)) wrack {v} (rack) SEE: rack :: wrangle {v} (to bicker) wrangle {v} (to herd livestock) wrap {v} (to enclose completely in fabric, paper, etc) wrap up {v} (To finish off a task completely) wrap up {v} (To fold and secure something to be the cover or protection) wreak {v} (to cause or inflict causing injury) wreak {v} (to take vengeance) wreak havoc {v} (To cause damage, disruption, or destruction) wrench {v} (to pull or twist) wrench {v} (to sprain a joint) wrestle {v} (to contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw) wriggle {v} (to twist one's body and move the limbs) wring {v} (to squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out) wrinkle {v} (to develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age) wrinkle {v} (to make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles) wrinkle {v} (to pucker or become uneven or irregular) write {v} (record (data)) write {v} (to be an author) write {v} (to be the author of) write {v} (to form letters, etc.) write {v} (to send a letter to) write down {v} (to make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset) write down {v} (to set something down in writing) write out {v} (To write in full length.) writhe {v} (to twist or contort the body) wuss out {v} (chicken out) SEE: chicken out :: X-ray {v} (to take a radiograph of) yak {v} (talk informally, persistently) yak {v} (vomit) yank {v} (to remove from circulation) yap {v} (of a small dog, to bark in a non-growly manner) yaw {v} 1. schwanken yawn {v} (open the mouth and take a deep breath) yearn {v} (to have a strong desire; to long) yell {v} (shout (verb)) yield {v} (to give as required) yield {v} (to give way) yield {v} (to produce as a result) yield the ghost {v} (give up the ghost) SEE: give up the ghost :: yield up the ghost {v} (give up the ghost) SEE: give up the ghost :: yiff {v} (to have sex) yodel {v} (to sing in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto) yowl {v} (utter a yowl) yuck it up {v} (yuk it up) SEE: yuk it up :: zap {v} (change channels repeatedly) zero {v} (to set to zero) zip {v} (to convert a computer file into a smaller package) zone {v} (to divide or assign areas) zone {v} (to temporarily enter a daydream state) zoom {v} (to change the focal length of a zoom lens) zoom {v} (to fly an airplane straight up) zoom {v} (to go up sharply) zoom {v} (to move rapidly) zoom {v} (to move very fast with a humming noise)

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