2-Letter Words Starting with A

Passed summer in a dormant position

File data, if somehow connected

Like some local stations, vis-a-vis a radio network

Like some local stations, vis- -vis a radio network

Gave a scare to

Like many Playboy Playmate photos

Sprayed with paint

Landed supplies when breeze subsided

Airproof

ALCHEMIZE To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alkalify

Made more durable

Relieved everyone except the first turned aside

Ideal valet becomes unkempt and is relieved

ALUMINIZE To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Ambition

Descriptive of new dentifrices

Ammonify

English word

""A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.""

Shown to be similar

Article's broken down and analysed

ANATOMIZE Styptic. <mark>

Made English clean digs I refurbished

Adapted a foreign word to English usage

ANIMALIZE To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.

ANNUALIZE

Kind of ape

Enos or Able.

If it looks like a man and walks like a man, what is it (wordplay)

Old-fashioned

Awfully quaint, a Fifties youth is seen as behind the times

Passe.

Said sorry for serving old sago pie

Expressed regret for what one has done

Expressed regret

Began damage control, perhaps

Ended a spat, in a way

Expressed regrets

Engraved on copper using resin and nitric acid

ARABICIZE

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.

Settled a dispute

AROMATIZE To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.

Oasis acted badly in a group, perhaps

Kind of press

Got together, tossing coats aside

Star-shaped, as crystals

Needing explanation, perhaps

Marked danger branding a horse

Marked symbolically

Knocked out a dishonest criminal

Amazed - and so is the organisation

Left slack-jawed

That's ascribed to a TD about a matter of tax

Thought to be by Alfred Tennyson initially, but going in to be tested

Tried out for a part

Read (for)

Tried out

Throw her out, said official

Licensed originator is a man

Revised share-out I'd sanctioned

""Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. as, an authorized agent.""

Short-term (wordplay)

Just like the BBC

Shortened

ABSOLUTIZE

Accession

Escorted

""ADJUDICATE To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.""

AEROSOLIZE

Disposed.

Gardenias, good on both sides, could be made to look larger

""AGGRANDIZE To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.""

ALKALINIZE

ALLEGORISE

""ALLEGORIZE To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. as, to allegorize the history of a people.""

Began the same way

Produced 'Love's Labours Lost', say, fully performed many times

Old-time area (anagram) - made better

Made better

Improved a red meat stew by putting oil back in

Utterly destroyed

Destroyed completely

Wiped out

Proclaimed a religious woman third-rate, ab'orred on the radio

Made an enemy of

Expected; opposite of unanticipated and unexpected.unanticipated and unexpected.

Type of drug that can counteract glandular activity

TYPHOID an infectious disease

APOSTATISE

""APOSTATIZE To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.""

APPERCEIVE To perceive; to comprehend.

Ate in dapper-fashion, that could have been relevant

Doled out

Became more valuable

Was grateful for

Employed to learn a trade

ARPEGGIATE

Clearly stated to be jointed

Put into words

Said to be segmented

Found out

Killed by oxygen starvation

Bit in papers after a small dose of drug reportedly caused death

Choked

Integrated.

Incorporated

AUTOMATIZE same as automate.automate.

""AUTOMOBILE a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.""

AUTOTOMIZE cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

AXIOMATIZE

Like a Disney film professor (2 words)

Contemplating truancy (wordplay)

Given to woolgathering

ACCESSORISE

ACCESSORIZE

Accustomed to new conditions

Accustomed to upset mice with acid and salt

Peruvian city in adapted

Pulled off top

Done - with a high degree of skill

Having particular skills

ACHROMATIZE To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Governed by theologians (wordplay)

Controlled diet? In dreams!

Gave out

""AGGLUTINATE To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.""

Airfreight

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

Having a diploid set of chromosomes derived from each parent.

Rendered insensible by anesthetizing. Same as anaesthetized.insensible by anesthetizing. Same as anaesthetized.

Expressed censure (with "on").

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

APOTHEOSIZE To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

Taken without permission or consent especially by public authority.

Came close to

Reckoned without precision as a quietly expert team won game

Fools dine at folly and get done in

Done in, two beasts of burden eat half of dinner, being shattered

Murdered

ADMINISTRATE To administer.

AESTHETICIZE

Having two or more complete sets of chromosomes derived from different species.

Disease and Illness

ANATHEMATIZE Styptic. <mark>

APARTHEID segregation by race; -- a term used in South Africa.

""BILLBOARD A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.""

APOSTROPHISE

APOSTROPHIZE To address by apostrophe.

ATTITUDINISE

ATTITUDINIZE To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.

Shown to be true

Established as genuine

Certified

Having more than two sets of chromosomes all derived from the same species.

As has been said before, "treat dementia of Nero"

Previously referred to supervisors in a note I'd composed

English word

""ANAGRAMMATIZE To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.""

English word