| means | (verb) bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
end, terminate |
| means | (verb) cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him"
humble |
| means | (verb) cause to become sober; "A sobering thought"
sober |
| means | (verb) make motionless
still |
| means | (verb) cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"
lower, depress |
| means | (verb) change radically; "E-mail revolutionized communication in academe"
revolutionise, revolutionize, overturn |
| means | (verb) make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
crush, break down |
| means | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating; "liquefy the silver"
liquify, liquefy, liquidize, liquidise |
| means | (verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes)
drop, flatten |
| means | (verb) stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
fail, give out, break, go bad, conk out, die, go, give way, break down |
| means | (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
mow down, massacre, slaughter |
| means | (verb) lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body"
weaken |
| means | (verb) end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!"
kill, stamp out |
| means | (verb) kill by firing a missile
shoot, pip |
| means | (verb) cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
kill |
| means | (verb) become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation; "After the fight both men need to cool off."; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again."
chill out, cool off, settle down, calm down, cool it, simmer down, calm |
| means | (verb) destroy completely; "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand"
pulverise, pulverize, demolish |
| means | (verb) kill or destroy; "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"; "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"
sacrifice |
| means | (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
butcher, slaughter |
| means | (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
dispatch, polish off, slay, bump off, hit, off, murder, remove |
| means | (verb) put (an animal) to death; "The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid"; "the sick cat had to be put down"
destroy, put down |
| means | (verb) depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"
chill |
| means | (verb) remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
wipe out, erase |
| means | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
fall, decrease, diminish, lessen |
| means | (verb) cut with a blade or mower; "mow the grass"
mow, cut down |
| means | (verb) give moral or emotional strength to
soothe, console, comfort, solace |
| means | (verb) humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
crush, demolish, smash |
| means | (verb) cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
cut down, slash |
| means | (verb) become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours"
slack off, slack, let up, abate, die away |
| means | (verb) pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work"
fall |
| means | (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
trim, cut down, cut, cut back, reduce, trim back, trim down, bring down |
| means | (verb) go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
sink, settle, go under, go down |
| means | (verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
go down, descend, fall, come down |
| means | (verb) win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"
overcome, get the better of, defeat |
| means | (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
terminate, finish, cease, end, stop |
| means | (verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"
turn over, upset, knock over, tip over, tump over, overturn, bowl over |
| means | (verb) deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged
discourage |
| means | (verb) defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors"
destroy, demolish |
| means | (verb) make less active or intense
slake, slack, abate |
| means | (verb) be cast down; "his eyes fell"
fall |
| means | (verb) assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell"
fall |
| means | (verb) cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"
knock down, cut down, push down, pull down, down |
| means | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
lenify, gentle, gruntle, conciliate, mollify, pacify, placate, appease, assuage |
| means | (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"
dismantle, raze, rase, pull down, level, tear down, take down |
| means | (verb) become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days"
weaken |
| means | (verb) go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind"
pass, go through, go across |
| means | (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
give, break, founder, fall in, collapse, cave in, give way |
| means | (verb) make a passage or journey from one place to another; "The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs;" "Some travelers pass through the desert"
pass through, transit, move through, pass over, pass across |
| means | (verb) cover a certain distance; "She came a long way"
come |
| means | (verb) finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
finish up, end up, land up, finish, wind up, fetch up |
| means | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
deject, dispirit, dismay, get down, cast down, depress, demoralise, demoralize |
| means | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
humble, humiliate, chagrin, abase, mortify |
| means | (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
neutralise, liquidate, do in, waste, neutralize, knock off |
| means | (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"
cut down, strike down, drop, fell |
| means | (verb) descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair"
subside, sink |
| means | (verb) bring down or defeat (an opponent)
down |
| means | e/fr/Abattre (voile) |