Synonyms of the word

bait

• n. Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare,…
• n. Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
• n. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
• n. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
• n. A light or hasty luncheon.
• v. (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
• v. (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
• v. (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
• v. (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.
• v. (intransitive) (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
• v. (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops…

assail

• v. To attack violently using words or force.

assault

• n. A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
• n. A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, for example words, arguments, appeals, and the like.
• n. (criminal law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence,…
• n. (singular only, law) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
• n. (tort law) An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.
• n. (singular only, law) The tort whose action is such an act.
• n. (fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
• v. To attack, threaten or harass.

attack

• n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
• n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
• n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
• n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
• n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
• n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
• n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
• n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
• n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
• n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
• v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
• v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
• v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
• v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

bemock

• v. (archaic) To ridicule or mock.
• v. (transitive) To mock repeatedly; flout.
• v. (transitive) To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.

cod

• n. (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
• n. (now rare) The scrotum (also in plural).
• n. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) A pillow or cushion.
• n. The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.
• n. The sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, as inclusive of the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus)and Greenland…
• n. The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries,…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock…
• n. A joke or an imitation.
• n. A stupid or foolish person.
• adj. Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).
• v. (slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.

come-on

• n. Something intended to attract, as in an advertisement.
• n. A statement or sometimes action reflecting sexual or relational interest.

decoy

• n. A person or object meant to lure something to danger.
• n. A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
• v. To act or use a decoy.
• v. (transitive) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

entice

• v. (transitive) To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

enticement

• n. The act or practice of enticing, of alluring or tempting.
• n. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; an alluring object.

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

lure

• n. Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
• n. (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
• n. A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
• n. A velvet smoothing brush.
• v. To attract by temptation etc.; to entice.
• v. To recall a hawk with a lure.

mock

• n. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
• n. Mockery, the act of mocking.
• n. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
• v. To mimic, to simulate.
• v. To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
• v. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
• adj. Imitation, not genuine; fake.

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

rally

• n. A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause.
• n. (squash (sport), table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a…
• n. (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals…
• n. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
• v. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• v. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight;…
• v. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
• v. (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
• v. To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
• n. Good-humoured raillery.

razz

• n. (poker) A version of seven card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).
• v. (informal) To tease playfully; to heckle.
• v. (informal) (Newfoundland) To drive an automobile around.

ride

• v. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle…
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
• v. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such…
• v. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
• v. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
• v. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
• v. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
• v. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
• v. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
• n. An instance of riding.
• n. (informal) A vehicle.
• n. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
• n. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
• n. (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
• n. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
• n. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

sweetener

• n. Something added to food to sweeten its taste, especially an artificial substitute for sugar.
• n. (informal) Something given or added to added to a deal to sweeten another's attitude, especially a bribe…

tantalise

• v. Alternative spelling of tantalize.

tantalize

• v. (transitive) to tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach.
• v. (transitive) to bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied.

taunt

• v. to make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
• n. A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.
• adj. (nautical) Very high or tall.

tease

• v. To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
• v. To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
• v. To back-comb.
• v. (transitive) To poke fun at.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
• v. (transitive) To entice, to tempt.
• v. (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
• n. One who teases.
• n. A single act of teasing.
• n. A cock tease; an exotic dancer; a stripper.

tempt

• v. (transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
• v. (transitive) To attract; to allure.
• v. (transitive) To provoke something; to court.

temptation

• n. The act of tempting.
• n. The condition of being tempted.
• n. Something attractive, tempting or seductive; an inducement or enticement.
• n. Pressure applied to your thinking designed to create wrong emotions which will eventually lead to wrong…

twit

• v. (transitive) To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.
• v. (transitive, computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).
• n. A reproach, gibe or taunt.
• n. A foolish or annoying person.