| abandon |
to give up (one's home, fort, ship, or the like) by leaving it. [2/3 definitions] |
| abdicate |
to officially give up a position of power or a right. |
| abnegate |
to give up; relinquish. [1/2 definitions] |
| accent |
to give more stress to (a word or part of a word), when speaking. [1/5 definitions] |
| accentuate |
to give more emphasis to; draw attention to. |
| accept |
to say yes when someone wants to give you something. [1/2 definitions] |
| accord |
to give or grant. [1/4 definitions] |
| account |
to give a count or record of money spent or received. [1/6 definitions] |
| accredit |
to give credit to or for; attribute to. [1/4 definitions] |
| acerbate |
to give a sour or bitter taste to. [1/3 definitions] |
| acetylene |
a highly flammable colorless gas used esp. to cut and weld metal and to give light. |
| achromatic |
able to give an image in which colors are reproduced with little or no distortion. [1/3 definitions] |
| actualize |
to make real; to give substance to. |
| addict |
to cause to depend on something that is hard to give up. [1/3 definitions] |
| address |
to give attention to; deal with. [1/6 definitions] |
| administer |
to give or dispense. [1/3 definitions] |
| adumbrate |
to give an indistinct or sketchy outline of. [2 definitions] |
| advance |
to give or lend (money or items of value) in order to support a project or provide assistance, usually with expectation of repayment or profit. [1/14 definitions] |
| advise |
to give advice to. |
| advisory |
having the authority to give advice. [1/3 definitions] |
| affirmative action |
a policy or program, supported by U. S. government regulations, to give equal opportunity in employment, college admissions, and the like to those considered previously disadvantaged, such as women and certain racial minority groups. |