Tag: pos-verb

52 entries.

• Abhorverb— Regard with disgust and hatred.
• Assuageverb— Make less intense.
• Attritverb— To weaken or reduce by attrition.
• Bandyverb— To casually exchange or toss around ideas, remarks, or suggestions.
• Belaborverb— 1. Argue or elaborate a subject in excessive detail. 2. Attack or assault someone physically or verbally.
• Bifurcateverb— Divide into two branches or forks.
• Blatherverb— Talk longwindedly without making much sense.
• Cajoleverb— Persuade someone to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery.
• Carouseverb— To celebrate noisily, often while drinking heavily.
• Castigateverb— To criticize or reprimand someone severely.
• Chideverb— To scold or mildly reprimand someone.
• Codifyverb— Arrange laws or rules into a systematic code.
• Confectionverb— The action of mixing or compounding something.
• Conflatedverb— Combine two or more texts, ideas, etc. into one.
• Congealverb— Solidify or coagulate, especially by cooling.
• Contraveneverb— Violate the prohibition or order of a law, treaty, or code of conduct.
• Deridedverb— Express contempt for; ridicule.
• Diffuseverb— spread or cause to spread over a wide area or among a large number of people.
• Egressverb— The action of going out or exiting; an exit or way out.
• Elucidateverb— Make something clear; explain.
• Excoriateverb— Criticize someone or something very harshly.
• Factionalizeverb— (Especially of a political party) to split into factions or groups, often causing conflict or dissension.
• Gavotteverb— To move in a showy, pretentious, and attention-seeking manner.
• Gesticulateverb— To make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
• Guiseverb— A display of emotion or behavior that is insincere or intended to deceive.
• Immiserateverb— Cause to become poor or impoverished.
• Immolationverb— the act of killing someone or something by burning, or by exposing something to extreme heat.
• Interdictionverb— The action of prohibiting or forbidding something, especially by law or authority.
• Inureverb— Accustom someone to something, especially something unpleasant. Also: inured (adj).
• Malignverb— (v.) Speak about someone in a spitefully critical manner; (adj.) evil in nature or effect.
• Obviateverb— to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary.
• Ossifyverb— To become rigid or inflexible in habits, attitudes, opinions, etc.
• Panderingverb— The act of expressing views, practicing a lifestyle, or providing gratification that appeals to the specific desires, prejudices, or interests of a particular group, often with the intent of gaining a personal or political advantage.
• Pathologizeverb— Regard or treat someone or something as psychologically abnormal or unhealthy.
• Placateverb— Make someone less angry or hostile.
• Prattlingverb— Talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way.
• Propagateverb— Spread and promote an idea, theory, etc. widely.
• Proselytizingverb— The action of attempting to convert someone from one religion, belief, or opinion to another.
• Quibbleverb— (n.) A slight objection or criticism about a trivial matter; (v.) argue or raise objections about a trivial matter.
• Recapitulateverb— Summarize and state again the main points of.
• Repudiateverb— Refuse to accept or be associated with.
• Self-immolateverb— Set fire to oneself, especially as a form of protest or sacrifice.
• Self-mythologizeverb— Create or promote an exaggerated or idealized image of oneself.
• Shuntverb— Push or pull a train or part of a train from the main line to a siding or from one track to another.
• Squabbleverb— To engage in a petty quarrel.
• Stultifyverb— Cause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine.
• Sublimateverb— Divert or modify an instinctual impulse into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity. Also: sublimating.
• Supplicateverb— Ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly.
• Tessellateverb— To form into or adorn with mosaic.
• Treatiseverb— A written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.
• Vanquishverb— Defeat thoroughly.
• Waylayverb— Stop or interrupt someone and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way.