2-Letter Words Starting with A

Applique

Approach

APPROBATE Approved.

Sliding over a wet surface

Aquatint

ARABICIZE

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.

""ARBITRATE To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case. as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.""

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

Hobnobber's activity

Asterisk

While 18 13, it's beyond a dream!

Very surprising

Greatly surprising

Attemper

Agent at unit being treated is getting weaker

""ATTRIBUTE To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).""

Audition

Giving the thumbs up to writer, I perform on stage maybe

""AUTHORIZE To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.""

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Semiautomatic.

""AVALANCHE A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.""

Shortening

Reducing

ABSOLUTIZE

Gaining speed

Increasing speed

ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Accession

Accompany

""ACCUMULATE To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. as, to accumulate a sum of money.""

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

Making less pure

Debasing

AEROSOLIZE

AGGRANDISE

""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.""

Using repeated initial letters

Allograft

""AMALGAMATE To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.""

Causing improvement in or reducing the bad effects of an unfavorable condition.

ANASTOMOSE Styptic. <mark>

""Criticising vehemently and effectively; making light of; as, afire with annihilating invective.as, afire with annihilating invective.""

ANNUNCIATE To announce.

ANTAGONIZE To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

ANTICIPATE To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

CLOTTING clot

GAMBLING the act of taking a chance

LYNCHING the act of lynching

POACHING encroachment

SPENDING the act of spending

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.

Appertain

Sharing out

APPRECIATE To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.

Apprehend

Setting to work to learn from a master.

ARPEGGIATE

Stating clearly

Confirming seating in car trip

Working out in revolutionary Argentina (sic)

A carol about tried and tested type of working out, for sure

ASPHYXIATE To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate.

""ASSEVERATE To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.""

Taking in and understanding

AUSCULTATE To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

Autograft

Autograph

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.""

AUTOROTATE

AUTOTOMIZE cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

AXIOMATIZE

ACCESSORISE

ACCESSORIZE

ACCLIMATISE

""ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

Like a good hotel

Willing to help

Considerate of others

Accomplish

ACCULTURATE

ACHROMATIZE To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Admitting the truth of

Administer

Amassing silver bars, in which African capital's invested

""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.""

ANESTHETIZE to cause to become unconscious by administration of an anaesthetic agent.

Animadvert

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

Antilitter

SMUGGLING smuggle

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

APPROPRIATE Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

APPROXIMATE Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

Killing donkey is against new orders

Murdering

ADMINISTRATE To administer.

AESTHETICIZE

ANATHEMATIZE Styptic. <mark>

APOSTROPHISE

APOSTROPHIZE To address by apostrophe.

Adopting a position just for effect

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

""AUTHENTICATE To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.""

Autosuggest

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

SHOPLIFTING shoplift