| means | (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"
fix, deposit, posit, situate |
| means | (verb) institute, enact, or establish; "make laws"
make, lay down, establish |
| means | (verb) cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"
hold, halt, arrest |
| means | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form; "let's finalize the proposal"
nail down, finalize, finalise, settle |
| means | (verb) to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
restrain, hold, confine |
| means | (verb) secure and keep for possible future use or application; "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree"
retain, hold, hold back, keep back |
| means | (verb) move upwards; "lift one's eyes"
lift, raise |
| means | (verb) settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground; "dust settled on the roofs"
settle down, settle |
| means | (verb) advance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute proceedings"
institute, bring |
| means | (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
adjudicate, settle, decide, resolve |
| means | (verb) slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"
delay, check, retard |
| means | (verb) fix firmly; "He ensconced himself in the chair"
settle, ensconce |
| means | (verb) remain in a certain state, position, or condition; "The weather held"; "They held on the road and kept marching"
hold |
| means | (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
stop, arrest, turn back, hold back, check, contain |
| means | (verb) construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"
raise, set up, rear, put up, erect |
| means | (verb) put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"
lay, put down, repose |
| means | (verb) be engaged in building; "These architects build in interesting and new styles"
build |
| means | (verb) arrange or fix in the desired order; "She settled the teacart"
settle |
| means | (verb) set or place definitely; "Let's fix the date for the party!"
fix |
| means | (verb) make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"
confirm |
| means | (verb) bolster or strengthen; "We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports"
build up, ramp up, build, work up |
| means | (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department"
constitute, found, institute, plant, establish |
| means | (verb) wait before acting; "the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment"
wait, hold off, hold back |
| means | (verb) put into a position that will restore a normal state; "set a broken bone"
set |
| means | (verb) take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"
locate, settle |
| means | (verb) interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused"
pause, hesitate |
| means | (verb) stop dealing with; "hold all calls to the President's office while he is in a meeting"
hold |
| means | (verb) put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"
lift, raise |
| means | (verb) kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
fix |
| means | (verb) create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise; "raise hell"; "raise the roof"; "raise Cain"
raise |
| means | (verb) place into check; "He checked my kings"
check |
| means | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly
linger, dawdle |
| means | (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly
tarry, linger |
| means | (verb) prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
break, stop, break off, discontinue |
| means | (verb) build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation"
build, establish |
| 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) cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"
raise, prove, leaven |
| 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) assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"
place, site, locate |
| means | (verb) bring about; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth"
establish, give |
| means | (verb) stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution; "She checked for an instant and missed a step"
check |
| means | (verb) keep from exhaling or expelling; "hold your breath"
hold |
| means | (verb) support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
subsist, exist, survive, live |
| means | (verb) arrest the motion (of something) abruptly; "He checked the flow of water by shutting off the main valve"
check |
| means | (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
cook, ready, prepare, fix, make |
| means | (verb) stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
kibosh, halt, block, stop |
| means | (verb) to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"
save, preserve |
| means | (verb) cause to rise up
rear, erect |
| means | (verb) retain possession of; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married"
keep, hold on |
| means | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
demonstrate, establish, show, prove, shew |
| means | (verb) establish as the highest level or best performance; "set a record"
set, mark |
| means | (verb) make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"
create, make |
| means | (verb) lay eggs; "This hen doesn't lay"
lay |
| means | (verb) go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
sink, settle, go under, go down |
| means | (verb) come to rest
settle |
| means | (verb) establish or develop as a residence; "He settled the farm 200 years ago"; "This land was settled by Germans"
settle |
| means | (verb) get ready for a particular purpose or event; "set up an experiment"; "set the table"; "lay out the tools for the surgery"
set, set up, lay out |
| means | (verb) have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices; "She bears the title of Duchess"; "He held the governorship for almost a decade"
bear, hold |
| means | (verb) strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"
reassert, confirm |
| means | (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"
determine, find out, ascertain, learn, check, watch, see |
| means | (verb) come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
halt, stop |
| means | (verb) dispose of; make a financial settlement
settle |
| means | (verb) found or ground; "build a defense on nothing but the accused person's reputation"
build |
| means | (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
bring up, elevate, lift, raise, get up |
| means | (verb) change from one form into another; "make water into wine"; "make lead into gold"; "make clay into bricks"
make |
| means | (verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's"
book, reserve, hold |
| means | (verb) decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
define, limit, determine, fix, specify, set |
| means | (verb) put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground; "Let's plant flowers in the garden"
plant, set |
| means | (verb) reach a decision; "he resolved never to drink again"
purpose, resolve |
| means | (verb) end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement; "The two parties finally settled"
settle |
| means | (verb) support materially or financially; "he does not support his natural children"; "The scholarship supported me when I was in college"
support |
| means | (verb) carry out or commit; "make a mistake"; "commit a faux-pas"
make |
| means | (verb) gain strength; "His body strengthened"
strengthen |
| means | (verb) develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?"
discipline, train, check, condition |
| means | (verb) determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property"
locate, situate |
| means | (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to; "Please check each name on the list"; "tick off the items"; "mark off the units"
check off, mark off, mark, tick off, check, tick |
| means | (verb) give form to, according to a plan; "build a modern nation"; "build a million-dollar business"
build |