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Verb
▲
Gradually destroy or be gradually destroyed
corrode
crumble
destroy
eat
gnaw
abrade
consume
disintegrate
spoil
undermine
weaken
deteriorate
dissolve
weather
decay
devour
fret
nibble
rot
wear away
diminish
impair
lessen
sap
scrape away
bite
bite at
eat away at
grind down
scour
waste
wear down
chip away at
gnaw away at
waste away
break up
eat away
eat into
more ❯
“All of this leaves gnawing questions, questions that erode consumer confidence.”
Verb
▲
To wear away or cause damage through applied friction
abrade
chafe
rasp
gall
rub
fray
wear
fret
corrade
frazzle
wear away
wear down
scrape
wear out
scratch
eat away
graze
corrode
grate
eat away at
skin
scour
excoriate
irritate
scuff
bite into
gnaw away at
waste
overuse
grind
upset
needle
displease
miff
disturb
infuriate
get to
rub up the wrong way
rankle
wind up
madden
gravel
ride
tick off
hassle
trouble
pester
enrage
drive up the wall
agitate
give someone the hump
goad
get across
perturb
plague
rark
exacerbate
roil
tease
nag
get on your nerves
make someone see red
torment
outrage
antagonizeUS
bum out
drive mad
harry
pain
hack you off
rub the wrong way
hump
affront
frustrate
antagoniseUK
tee off
make angry
drive crazy
rankle with
badger
get on one's nerves
disgust
molest
bedevil
hound
sting
drive to distraction
disquiet
disgruntle
grate on
get at
drive round the bend
give someone the pip
make cross
rattle
gnaw
discompose
give someone a hard time
get one's goat
bite
drive round the twist
mither
get your goat
get in your hair
make waves
niggle
ire
enflame
mad
bait
afflict
discomfit
ache
dog
chagrin
steam up
T-off
give someone grief
try
get your back up
dissatisfy
put your back up
get under one's skin
give a hard time
get on your wick
be on your back
disconcert
drive bananas
insult
discountenance
prick
wound
grieve
embarrass
embitter
depress
beset
incommode
aggrieve
mortify
discommode
devil
excite
turn off
be at
pick on
pursue
cheese off
get under your skin
egg on
make someone's blood boil
get in someone's hair
get someone's back up
get on someone's nerves
rub you up the wrong way
get under skin
get on nerves
be on the back of
throb
fluster
smart
prickle
tingle
affect
jar
inconvenience
injure
wear on
be a pain in the neck
intimidate
agonizeUS
faze
bully
nudge
heavy
perplex
discombobulate
get across someone
taunt
excruciate
bore
sicken
nauseate
stick in one's craw
browbeat
beleaguer
cross
send into a rage
bum
hack
grill
jar on
set one's teeth on edge
acerbate
hector
fire up
get someone
try the patience of
agoniseUK
get your dander up
work up
make someone's hackles rise
ruffle someone's feathers
rattle someone's cage
get someone's goat
get under someone's skin
try someone's patience
get someone's dander up
get up someone's nose
stir up
put someone's back up
hit where one lives
try your patience
try one's patience
get on somebody's nerves
put someone's nose out of joint
get a rise out of
distract
press
tick someone off
squeeze
compress
cramp
fester
rouse
chide
confound
chivvy
steam
wig
cause annoyance to
cause resentment to
get on someone
brown off
impose upon
jar upon
grate upon
sour
impose on
intrude upon
chivy
ruffle one's feathers
concern
mess
bristle
tire
distemper
gnaw at
obsess
resent
push someon's buttons
mess with
break
henpeck
wind somebody up
drive you up the wall
raise your hackles
get your hackles up
empurple
snit
pet
tiff
huff
stew
panic
alarm
wear upon
harm
torture
put your nose out of joint
craze
boil
arouse
feel painful
scare
impede
tantalizeUS
hinder
tantaliseUK
interrupt
pother
thwart
foil
anguish
besiege
curse
rack
harrow
get on someone's wick
make sore
raise hell
lose one's temper
blow up
set your teeth on edge
eat up
drive nuts
confuse
unsettle
put on the spot
awake
quicken
goose
motivate
absorb
grab
ignite
attract
interest
get up your nose
make your blood boil
rile up
rub one the wrong way
haunt
keep after
be irritated
cause anxiety
make anxious
unnerve
dishearten
weary
flurry
begrudge
crab
grudge
infest
be a nuisance to
push button
heat up
work on
bend someone's ear
breathe down someone's neck
carp at
give the business
cause to panic
sadden
have had enough
make fed up
become bored
make discontented
grate at
lose patience
ask for it
stir
get someone's hackles up
get on someone's tits
get someone's wick
be a thorn in someone's flesh
shock
ail
upset the apple cart
hang up
get even
cramp style
louse up
throw
put off
incite
victimizeUS
shake up
make nervous
start
horrify
devastate
terrorizeUS
throw off balance
stump
furbelow
cow
bluster
floor
frill
disrupt
flummox
fuddle
set on
work into lather
set one off
take a rise out of
put someone out
make blood boil
repulse
repel
disoblige
slight
put someone off their stroke
crucify
dragoon
expel
victimiseUK
wrong
beat
hunt
exile
terroriseUK
rattle one's cage
put into a flap
cause someone to lose their composure
throw into a tizz
throw into tizzy
cause anguish
cause suffering
be hurtful to
cause offense
bleed
mourn
lambaste
nag at
cause sorrow
give offence to
make unhappy
be disagreeable to
push the buttons of
hurt someone's feelings
thumb nose at
cut to the quick
get the knife into
single out
be on one's case
make things hot for someone
make it hot for someone
stick the knife into
twinge
suffer
fuss
mix up
get in one's hair
give a bad time
more ❯
Verb
▲
To diminish in intensity or severity, especially gradually
lessen
decrease
diminish
abate
dwindle
decline
moderate
shrink
contract
subside
fall
ebb
fade
grow less
let up
lighten
wane
drop
drop off
ease
recede
relent
remit
slacken
taper off
attenuate
ease off
get less
grow smaller
tail off
de-escalate
desist
die down
die off
drop away
flag
lower
pall
quieten
sink
taper
weaken
come down
go down
nosedive
peter out
plummet
slump
waste away
abridge
amputate
blur
clip
close
crop
cut
drain
drain away
fall away
impair
minify
phase down
ratchet down
soft-pedal
thin
become smaller
cut back
roll back
slack up
slow down
wind down
die away
die out
take the bite out
take the sting out
axeUK
axUS
disappear
plunge
evaporate
come to an end
vanish
degenerate
fade away
descend
shrivel
dip
slack off
ease up
crumble
regress
fizzle out
slacken off
wear off
crash
dissolve
dive
stop
go away
collapse
end
trail off
waste
tumble
become less
slide
trail
retrograde
terminate
cease
disperse
take a nosedive
grow faint
grow dim
dim
get smaller
nose-dive
withdraw
dissipate
lapse
cool off
melt
run low
slip
atrophy
disintegrate
condense
settle
run out
quiet
shorten
hit the floor
calm
pass
go into a tailspin
settle down
calm down
retire
clear
finish
slow
bate
narrow down
halt
return
slack
retrogress
relapse
become weaker
crater
skid
evanesce
give out
rot
come to nothing
devolve
go through the floor
break down
get lower
retreat
rebate
compress
fade out
take a dive
come to a halt
rachet down
release
lull
pass away
quieten down
falter
lose edge
abbreviate
grow weaker
squeeze
trail away
thin out
still
give way
cool
totter
lose
slope
downturn
become weak
retrocede
tire
fall steeply
fall back
fall short
back
retract
depart
go back
fall sharply
vitiate
come to a stop
backslide
take a header
break up
flow back
draw back
draw to a close
cave in
drop rapidly
be no more
become lower
disimprove
be reduced
go down the toilet
hit the skids
die on vine
go to rack and ruin
go to the pack
go to pot
go to the dogs
go down the tubes
modify
tail away
loose
minimalize
be forgotten
ebb away
slake
grow
lose strength
lose intensity
clear up
disengage
slim
wrinkle
pull out
back away
drop back
rescind
shape
elongate
decimate
peter
loosen
minish
sink into oblivion
disappear slowly
blow over
flow away
move away
fall through
concentrate
telescope
incline downwards
slant down
slope down
tilt downwards
give in
move back
drop down
phase out
thin down
run dry
wizen
mummify
back off
move further off
be on the way out
go downwards
impoverish
cripple
debase
tremble
limp
make less active
subdue
unlax
coast
draw away
close out
lose courage
straiten
become less intense
lose its effect
lose its effectiveness
infrigidate
freeze
freshen
ally
frost
compact
be gone
dispel
turn down
slim down
chill out
cool it
fall down
lose spirit
elapse
discontinue
constringe
capsule
capsulize
cease to be
exit
become obsolete
die away or out
die away or down
grow worse
get worse
determine
expire
quit
conclude
level off
scrimp
make narrower
become extinct
perish
take a turn for the worse
deprave
revert
corrupt
corrode
go to pieces
come apart at seams
molderUS
dilapidate
moulderUK
take in
lose ground
dematerialize
fly
flee
gutter
get narrower
become narrower
etiolate
cease to exist
disappear from the face of the earth
break off
wind up
dead-end
leave off
wink out
go dead
pack in
grow weak
hush
fold
deliquesce
grow feeble
pass off
rarefy
evanish
poop out
vanish into thin air
fag out
tucker out
become less loud
become unimportant
spoil
be giving up the ghost
be about to die
become moribund
have one foot in the grave
be approaching death
be slipping away
be in extremis
fall to pieces
become dilapidated
run to seed
go to seed
fall into disrepair
come apart at the seams
drag
buckle
scatter
flop
bow out
lose value
fold up
decrease in value
decline in price
lose significance
pale
hit the dirt
tip over
be precipitated
become less dense
become less in number
become less numerous
clear out
decrease in importance
pale into insignificance
grow dull
lose lustre
more ❯
Verb
▲
Reduce something in size, amount, or extent by a gradual series of steps
whittle
consume
diminish
reduce
compromise
destroy
impair
mar
sabotage
spoil
subvert
threaten
undermine
weaken
cripple
damage
disable
eat away
emasculate
enfeeble
hinder
hurt
impede
injure
ruin
use up
wear away
break
crush
sap
shake
harm
devastate
infect
corrupt
annihilate
ravage
contaminate
defile
taint
blight
pollute
do damage to
play havoc with
wreak havoc on
deface
mutilate
disfigure
blemish
mangle
smash
desecrate
gut
shatter
trash
vandalizeUS
undo
tarnish
flaw
endamage
stain
total
wound
bloody
crab
disfeature
blot
raze
smirch
sully
affect
crack
bleach
discolourUK
lacerate
scathe
batter
scratch
play merry hell with
scorch
maltreat
abuse
fade
tear
dirty
bang up
smash up
gnaw
dismantle
wrong
stab
maim
split
vandaliseUK
drive a nail into the coffin of
cause injury
rust
rot
discolorUS
burn
corrode
disintegrate
cross up
tamper with
afflict
trouble
impact
overcome
touch
strike
influence
perturb
upset
prevail
occur
poison
overwhelm
impinge
debase
impact on
prevail over
impinge upon
strike down
shake up
strike at
spread to
exert influence on
take hold of
attack
have an impact on
have an effect on
more ❯
Verb
▲
To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization
ablate
evaporate
melt
vaporiseUK
vaporizeUS
Verb
▲
Take small bites out of
nibble
gnaw
eat
pick
bite
corrode
fret
peck
sample
taste
graze
munch
nip
pick at
bite at
crop
eat listlessly
gnaw at
peck at
pick over
snack
take small bites
toy with
eat between meals
eat like a bird
graze on
snack on
take small bites from
nosh on
masticate
more ❯
Verb
▲
To remove completely, leaving no trace
efface
erase
cancel
eradicate
obliterate
expunge
delete
remove
wipe out
annihilate
blot out
excise
destroy
eliminate
extirpate
rub out
abolish
exterminate
liquidate
raze
conceal
black out
blue-pencil
clean up
cross out
edit
fade
ink out
root out
score out
snuff out
stamp out
strike out
sweep away
blank out
block out
cover over
cancel out
rub away
scratch out
smooth away
wear away
white out
axeUK
axUS
trounce
rout
clobber
thrash
drub
blow out
crucify
hammer
paste
pound
beat hollow
spoil
subdue
own
make mincemeat of
stuff
wipe the floor with
overcome
defeat utterly
skunk
shellac
turn inside out
whip
marmalize
take to the cleaners
wreak havoc on
vanquish
despoil
lick
snuff
disrupt
repress
cut to pieces
tank
do for
blight
put away
cause the death of
give someone a drubbing
check
dash
scotch
run rings around
quench
frustrate
blast
win a resounding victory over
pillage
bring down
sack
best
scupper
silence
depredate
down
subjugate
make away with
blow out of the water
devour
get
bust
give someone a pasting
mess up
thwart
bring someone to their knees
carry off
triumph over
worst
bring to naught
take
spoliate
wax
put to sleep
destruct
consume
leave desolate
screw up
foul up
curb
louse up
take someone's life
plunder
crack down on
ravish
crack
fragment
claim
fracture
blow
master
disfigure
disintegrate
nip in the bud
raid
queer
clamp down on
kill off
make a mess of
trample
hinder
harm
put the lid on
blow a hole in
bring to ruin
burn
ransack
disassemble
smite
weaken
stymie
disable
depopulate
reject
rape
give a drubbing to
botch
veto
split
burst
splinter
muck up
ruinate
scourge
dismember
snap
hit
blackball
shiver
banjax
dish
put out
floor
slap down
sever
rive
prevail over
get the better of
offset
lay waste to
overrun
take down
pip at the post
walk over
lay in ruins
pull to pieces
destabilizeUS
hamper
loot
foil
incapacitate
douse
incinerate
exhaust
interrupt
deplete
scorch
prevent
maraud
obstruct
impoverish
suspend
prang
cane
harry
be victorious over
depress
outplay
play havoc with
strip
unseat
immolate
lynch
muller
rob
interfere with
control
afflict
taint
surmount
bankrupt
guillotine
outclass
slam
separate
destabiliseUK
reduce to ruins
dominate
outmaneuverUS
outmanoeuvreUK
skin
scrunch
rend
choke
prostrate
swamp
tumble
restrict
limit
mutilate
maim
humble
deep-six
cruel
euchre
run rings round
wallop
divide
overbear
overmatch
deck
upend
dampen
walk all over
smash to smithereens
snow under
whomp
tan
counteract
lambaste
wipe off map
give someone a hiding
bear down
win against
shut down
sit on
put out of action
edge out
throw a spanner in the works of
wreak havoc
part
disorganize
counterbalance
make hash of
throw a monkey wrench in the works of
bring about the downfall of
bust up
walk away
stun
emulsify
soften
combine
blend
mash
avenge
torment
attack
cool
lower
stamp something out
chasten
chastise
displace
pick apart
pacify
subject
subordinate
rub someone out
kayo
threaten
squish
rip down
banish
grease
put end to
block
burn away
mess
bollix
let down
rupture
commit genocide
rifle
knock the stuffing out of
mass murder
gun down
torture
stick
tear
spray paint
knock someone off
crool
scar
cut a swath through
stain
do one in
circumduct
disqualify
unfit
render meaningless
take care of
outfight
beat up
put in their place
put in the shade
checkmate
intrude on
get tough on
disappoint
decay
reave
perforate
puncture
empty
make desolate
havoc
disband
defile
poison
bodge
make a hash of
glitch up
put a damper on
take off
take severe measures against
take stern measures against
come down heavily on
supplant
unsettle
blanket
dowse
fall to pieces
fall to bits
backtrack on
renege on
disaffirm
prey
pirate
wrest
foray
seize
capture
forage
adjourn
cease
rebut
countervail
drive to the wall
move in for the kill
restrain
waive
go back on
dethrone
oust
depose
explode
hush up
prorogue
conclude
reduce to nothing
bring to nothing
wreak havoc upon
clean out
forget it
nig
renig
compensate
call all bets off
confine
give the coup de grâce
administer the coup de grâce
turn out
stub out
detect
damp down
stagger
defeat heavily
defeat easily
implode
sunder
rift
moisten
dampen down
wind up
disunite
whelm
overmaster
oppress
clamp down
get tough
keep in check
crack down
cow
blow up
immobilizeUS
undercut
split up
close
loose
collapse
shoot
fade out
resolve into
postpone
render void
wind down
make ineffective
halt
arrest
jeopardizeUS
compromise
come down on
tighten up on
keep under control
spend
bowl over
demoraliseUK
grind down
demoralizeUS
win
astonish
immobiliseUK
gain mastery over
render speechless
gain a victory over
render incapable
lay low
wolf
put lid on
contravene
countercheck
keep inside
impugn
traverse
stonewall
bury
keep in
drive underground
hold down
redress
fly in the face of
beat down
bottle
trample on
ding
clamp
hold in
break with
shush
cross
oppose
spike
belie
turn thumbs down
stem
disprove
turn down
render helpless
render powerless
come down on like a ton of bricks
rebel
invert
blow to pieces
tarnish
deteriorate
debilitate
diminish
flog
steamroll
engulf
sweep someone off his
knock for six
take someone's breath away
pommel
whitewash
torch
gobble up
edge
powder
fragmentize
crunch
splinterize
fragmentalize
smatter
wound
devitalize
blemish
impede
corrupt
corrode
enervate
deconstruct
entrap
outjump
outflank
ambush
route
outrun
drown
outhit
flax
absorb
drain
envelop
expend
tear to pieces
put in toilet
break into pieces
cross up
crab
inconvenience
debase
wither
endamage
sap
shock
bloody
flaw
enfeeble
plow under
work over
dismount
demount
pull apart
take to cleaners
take it all
get around
run roughshod over
pwn
nose out
win a victory over
do down
crush to smithereens
blow apart
take to bits
strip down
unrig
rough up
detract from
shake up
hurt
jeopardiseUK
combust
scald
chuck
cremate
carboniseUK
carbonizeUS
rip to pieces
denude
pull to bits
take to pieces
part out
deprive
denudate
rip to shreds
bare
disrobe
divest
use up
play out
draw down
lose
cause detriment to
do harm to
be detrimental to
bin
throw a monkey wrench into
throw away
put at risk
decommission
eject
recycle
toss out
expel
clear out
destroy by fire
burn up
reduce to ashes
burn to the ground
burn down
burn to a crisp
render ineffective
eighty-six
toss
unload
exorcizeUS
exorciseUK
cashier
pitch
go through
shuck off
have
craze
overreach
outsmart
crimp
outfox
cramp
retire
slough
cast
slough off
chuck away
lay by
chuck out
cast off
forsake
balls up
get shot of
get shut of
make waves
put out to pasture
fling off
throw on the scrapheap
consign to scrap heap
fling away
see the back of
garroteUS
garrotteUK
suffocate
strangle
asphyxiate
hang
sacrifice
more ❯
Verb
▲
To come safely through a precarious situation
weather
survive
withstand
endure
stand
overcome
resist
ride out
brave
suffer
surmount
come through
get through
outlast
outlive
toughen
expose
harden
live through
season
wear
acclimate
coarsen
pull through
rise above
stick out
come through unscathed
make it through
stand up to
bear up against
become toughened
grow hardened
grow strong
last out
make it
sit out
wear away
bear the brunt of
stick it out
more ❯
Verb
▲
To smooth by rubbing or applying friction
file
rub
buff
rasp
burnish
furbish
polish
shape
smooth
abrade
grind
hone
refine
sand
sandpaper
scrape
rub down
chafe
finish
grate
level
raze
sharpen
whet
edge
scratch
strop
scour
stone
excoriate
lacerate
annoy
nettle
vex
bother
irk
pique
peeve
rile
ruffle
provoke
harass
damage
peel
exasperate
aggravate
anger
bug
nark
get
put out
hack off
mark
nick
eat
needle
gripe
itch
frost
persecute
spite
wound
miff
burn up
get to
disturb
wind up
trouble
agitate
upset
infuriate
distress
incense
madden
shave
displease
torment
perturb
hassle
nag
incise
pare
rankle
ride
snick
gravel
rub up the wrong way
hurt
get across
gouge
give someone the hump
worry
offend
gash
enrage
rattle
goad
disquiet
make angry
plague
tick off
make someone see red
bum out
drive up the wall
flake
inflame
decorticate
notch
scarify
tear
tatter
wear out
disconcert
rip
fluster
chagrin
antagonizeUS
tease
make cross
discompose
discountenance
harry
rub something raw
etch
exacerbate
rankle with
drive crazy
rark
drive mad
niggle
molest
tee off
make a mark on
get on nerves
get under one's skin
antagoniseUK
give a hard time
drive round the twist
give someone the pip
get on your nerves
hack you off
put your back up
make waves
get your back up
eat away
clear
impair
pinch
rake
chip
husk
shell
hull
shuck
brush
drag
riffle
ripple
take off
drive to distraction
rub away
dent
scar
be sore
be painful
scrub
thin
hump
strip away
peel away
wear threadbare
drive round the bend
get on someone
badger
deface
key
scrawl on
groove
prick
scrabble
unravel
break the skin of
confuse
unsettle
cheese off
brown off
unnerve
rub you up the wrong way
incommode
get in your hair
be on your back
inconvenience
discommode
put your nose out of joint
insult
flurry
affront
discomfit
wear thin
faze
stir
slit
slash
put off
affect
throw
taunt
shake up
discombobulate
make nervous
become worn
become threadbare
ravel
wear through
become ragged
roil
incite
grill
bait
throw off balance
rend
split
work into lather
get across someone
set on
stir up
rub the wrong way
make someone's blood boil
put someone's back up
send into a rage
start
set one off
try one's patience
take a rise out of
put someone out
try someone's patience
get in someone's hair
get someone's back up
get on someone's nerves
get a rise out of
hit where one lives
make blood boil
get on one's nerves
stump
bully
frill
cause someone to lose their composure
rattle one's cage
disrupt
flummox
throw into a tizz
browbeat
put into a flap
put someone off their stroke
furbelow
cow
excite
bluster
intimidate
throw into tizzy
floor
fuddle
go through
become tattered
puncture
cleave
come apart
go into holes
try
injure
shear
slice
pain
fuss
hound
dissatisfy
frustrate
disgust
outrage
mither
bite
grieve
concern
cut open
maim
tear apart
afflict
pester
panic
alarm
nip
carve
pierce
lance
furrow
drive bananas
pother
give a bad time
be at
turn off
be a pain in the neck
depress
get in one's hair
grate on
mix up
give someone grief
give someone a hard time
embarrass
make anxious
cause anxiety
cause to panic
exercise
rage
wear to shreds
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Verb
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(especially of waves) To sweep or splash in a particular direction
wash
break
lap
dash
splash
surge
flow
roll
splosh
beat
move
plash
ripple
slap
strike
sweep
lave
swish
bubble
gurgle
pound
slosh
swish against
guggle
trickle
dribble
swash
lash
purl
burble
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