Synonyms of the word

barrack

• n. (military, chiefly in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred…
• n. (chiefly in the plural) primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing…
• n. (chiefly in the plural) any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.
• n. (US, regional) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
• n. (Ireland, colloquial, usually in the plural) A police station.
• v. (transitive) To house military personnel; to quarter.
• v. (intransitive) To live in barracks.
• v. (Britain, transitive) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for or support a team.

accommodate

• v. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
• v. (transitive) To provide housing for.
• v. (transitive) to provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
• v. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige;.
• v. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings…
• v. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
• v. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
• adj. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

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…

cheer

• n. (obsolete) The face.
• n. (obsolete) One's expression or countenance.
• n. (archaic) One's attitude, mood.
• n. (uncountable) A cheerful attitude; gaiety; mirth.
• n. That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment.
• n. A cry expressing joy, approval or support such as "hurray".
• n. A chant made in support of a team at a sports event.
• v. (transitive) To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up.
• v. (transitive) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts.

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.

encourage

• v. To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
• v. To spur on, strongly recommend.
• v. To foster, give help or patronage.

exhort

• v. To urge; to advise earnestly.

flout

• v. To express contempt for the rules and law by (word or action).
• v. To scorn.
• n. The act by which something is flouted.

gibe

• n. A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a jibe (2, 3).
• v. (intransitive) To agree.
• v. (transitive) To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.

inspire

• v. (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural…
• v. (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what…
• v. (intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
• v. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
• v. (transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.

jeer

• n. A mocking remark or reflection.
• v. (intransitive, jeer at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt.
• n. (nautical) A gear; a tackle.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards…

lodge

• n. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
• n. Porter's or caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.
• n. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
• n. (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
• n. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
• n. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
• n. A den or cave.
• n. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
• n. (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore…
• n. A collection of objects lodged together.
• n. A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration,…
• v. (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
• v. (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
• v. (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
• v. (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
• v. (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
• v. (transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

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.

scoff

• n. Derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
• n. An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
• v. To jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision.
• n. (South Africa) Food.
• n. (British Army) Food.
• v. (Britain) To eat food quickly.
• v. (South Africa) To eat.
• v. (British Army) To eat.

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.

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.

urge

• n. A strong desire; an itch to do something.
• v. (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
• v. (transitive) To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
• v. (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
• v. (transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.
• v. (transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
• v. (transitive) To press onward or forward.
• v. (transitive) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.