| means | (verb) perform an action, or work out or perform (an action); "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"
move, act |
| means | (verb) act so as to bring into existence; "effect a change"
effect |
| means | (verb) render capable or able for some task; "This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street"; "The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain"
enable |
| means | (verb) cause to happen, occur or exist; "This procedure produces a curious effect"; "The new law gave rise to many complaints"; "These chemicals produce a noxious vapor"; "the new President must bring about a change in the health care system"
bring about, produce, give rise |
| means | (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
pull, commit, perpetrate |
| means | (verb) perform a function; "Who will perform the wedding?"
perform |
| means | (verb) be employed; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college"
work, do work |
| means | (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"
make, do, cause |
| means | (verb) make famous forever; "This melody immortalized its composer"
eternalise, eternize, immortalize, immortalise, eternise, eternalize |
| means | (verb) carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance"
do, execute, perform |
| means | (verb) make insensitive; "His military training desensitized him"
desensitise, desensitize |
| means | (verb) make formless; "the heat deformed the plastic sculpture"
deform |
| means | (verb) cause not to be sensitive; "The war desensitized many soldiers"; "The photographic plate was desensitized"
desensitise, desensitize |
| means | (verb) make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer"
disable, disenable, incapacitate |
| means | (verb) change from one form into another; "make water into wine"; "make lead into gold"; "make clay into bricks"
make |
| means | (verb) give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"
perform |
| means | (verb) give certain properties to something; "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear"
get, make |
| means | (verb) form or shape by cutting or incising; "cut paper dolls"
cut |
| means | (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"
go along, go on, proceed, keep, continue |
| means | (verb) pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity; "Don't disturb him--he is creating"
create |
| means | (verb) compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
condense, contract, concentrate |
| means | (verb) exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor"
work |
| means | (verb) cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable; "make my day"
make |
| means | (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
substitute, replace, exchange, interchange |
| means | (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one
commute, exchange, convert |
| means | (verb) behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
behave, conduct, carry, comport, deport, bear, acquit |
| means | (verb) transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
cook |
| means | (verb) destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set"
break, break up |
| means | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people"
do, behave, act |
| means | (verb) behave in a certain way; "make merry"
make |
| means | (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"
have, induce, make, get, cause, stimulate |
| means | (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries"
produce, create, make |
| means | (verb) make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
form, shape, forge, work, mold, mould |
| means | (verb) make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"
create, make |
| means | (verb) make by combining materials and parts; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"
make, construct, build |
| means | (verb) perform or carry out; "make a decision"; "make a move"; "make advances"; "make a phone call"
make |
| means | (verb) compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; "People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law!"; "Heat makes you sweat"
make |
| means | (verb) repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
recapitulate |
| means | (verb) give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"
resume, summarize, summarise, sum up |
| means | (verb) undergo fabrication or creation; "This wool makes into a nice sweater"
make |
| means | (verb) create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"
create, make |
| means | (verb) institute, enact, or establish; "make laws"
make, lay down, establish |
| means | (verb) assume a different shape or form
change shape, deform, change form |
| means | (verb) make by shaping or bringing together constituents; "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones"
make |
| means | (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of; "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully"
interpret, render |
| means | (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
strain, deform, distort |
| means | (verb) cause to become; "The shot rendered her immobile"
render |
| means | (verb) create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain"
shell, blast |
| means | (verb) force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
divide, part, separate, disunite |
| means | (verb) treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
bedevil, dun, rag, crucify, frustrate, torment |
| means | (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition; "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"
conduct, lead, direct |
| means | (verb) remove the triggering device from
defuse |
| means | (verb) cause to work; "he is working his servants hard"
put to work, work |
| means | (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off"
let, permit, allow |
| means | (verb) announce one's arrival, e.g. at hotels or airports
sign in, check in |
| means | (verb) bring forth or yield; "The tree would not produce fruit"
produce, bring forth |
| means | (verb) be suitable for; "Wood makes good furniture"
make |
| means | (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area"
bring, wreak, work, play, make for |
| means | (verb) put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"
fulfill, action, accomplish, carry through, carry out, fulfil, execute |
| means | (verb) make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed"
narrow, contract |
| means | (verb) act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies"
make |
| means | (verb) play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master"
represent, act, play |
| means | (verb) add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000"
come, total, add up, number, amount |
| means | (verb) place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
graft, transplant |
| means | (verb) make something by hand; "We handcraft all our paper"
handcraft |
| means | (verb) be suitable for theatrical performance; "This scene acts well"
act |
| means | (verb) work a second job, usually after hours; "The law student is moonlighting as a taxi driver"
moonlight |
| means | (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
guy, make fun, blackguard, ridicule, rib, jest at, roast, laugh at, poke fun |
| means | (verb) prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"
cook |
| means | (verb) prepare by brewing; "people have been brewing beer for thousands of years"
brew |
| means | (verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind; "He acted the idiot"; "She plays deaf when the news are bad"
play, act, act as |
| means | (verb) perform on a stage or theater; "She acts in this play"; "He acted in `Julius Caesar'"; "I played in `A Christmas Carol'"
play, roleplay, playact, act |