Synonym of the word BEAT

beat

n. A stroke; a blow.
n. A pulsation or throb.
n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
n. A rhythm.
n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
v. To tread, as a path.
v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
v. To be in agitation or doubt.
v. To make a sound when struck.
v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
adj. (US slang) exhausted.
adj. dilapidated, beat up.
adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
adj. (slang) boring.
adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
n. A beatnik.

agitate

v. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action.
v. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
v. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
v. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.
v. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.

amaze

v. (obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious.
v. (obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
v. (obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic.
v. To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex.
v. (intransitive) To undergo amazement; to be astounded.
n. (now poetic) Amazement, astonishment.

baffle

v. (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
v. (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
v. To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
v. (now rare) To foil; to thwart.
v. (intransitive) To struggle in vain.
n. A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is…
n. An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
n. (US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

be

v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

beat

n. A stroke; a blow.
n. A pulsation or throb.
n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
n. A rhythm.
n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
v. To tread, as a path.
v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
v. To be in agitation or doubt.
v. To make a sound when struck.
v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
adj. (US slang) exhausted.
adj. dilapidated, beat up.
adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
adj. (slang) boring.
adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
n. A beatnik.

beatnik

n. A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and therewith is supposed to reject of…
n. A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.

bedevil

v. To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
v. To perplex or bewilder.

befuddle

v. (transitive) to perplex, confuse (someone).
v. (transitive) to stupefy someone, especially with alcohol.

bewilder

v. (transitive) To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.
v. (transitive) To disorientate someone.

bunk

n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
n. (military) A cot.
n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
v. To occupy a bunk.
v. To provide a bunk.
n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
v. (dated) To expel from a school.

bushed

adj. (informal) Very tired; exhausted.

cadence

n. The act or state of declining or sinking.
n. Balanced, rhythmic flow.
n. The measure or beat of movement.
n. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
n. (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases…
n. (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may…
n. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
n. (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
n. (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
n. (running) The number of steps per minute.
n. (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
n. (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
n. (heraldry) cadency.
n. (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
v. To give a cadence to.
v. To give structure to.

cheat

v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
v. To beguile.
n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
n. The weed cheatgrass.
n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

chisel

n. Gravel.
n. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
n. A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end…
v. (intransitive) To use a chisel.
v. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
v. (intransitive, informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

circumvent

v. (transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass.
v. (transitive) to surround or besiege.
v. (transitive) to outwit or outsmart.

commove

v. To move violently; to agitate, excite or rouse.

confound

v. To confuse; to mix up; to puzzle.
v. To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
v. To make something worse.
v. To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
v. To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
v. (dated) To damn (a mild oath).
v. (archaic) To bring to ruination.
v. To stun, amaze.
n. (statistics) a confounding variable.

confuse

v. To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
v. (obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
v. To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
v. To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
v. To mistake one thing for another.

create

v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

crush

n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
n. A violent crowding.
n. A crowd control barrier.
n. An infatuation or affection for.
n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
n. A party, festive function.
n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
v. To oppress or burden grievously.
v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

dead

adj. (not comparable) No longer living.
adj. (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
adj. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
adj. Without emotion.
adj. Stationary; static.
adj. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
adj. Unproductive.
adj. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; without power; without…
adj. (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
adj. (not comparable) No longer used or required.
adj. (engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
adj. (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
adj. (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in…
adj. (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
adj. (not comparable) Full and complete.
adj. (not comparable) Exact.
adj. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
adj. (informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
adj. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
adj. (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
adj. (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
adv. (degree) Exactly right.
adv. (degree) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
adv. As if dead.
n. (uncountable, singular only, often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
n. (plural, with "the") Those who have died.
v. (transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
v. (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.

defeat

v. (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
v. (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
v. (transitive) To nullify.
n. The act of defeating or being defeated.

discombobulate

v. (transitive, humorous) To throw into a state of confusion; to befuddle or perplex.

displace

v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
v. (psycology) to repress.

disturb

v. (transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions…
v. (transitive) to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.
v. (intransitive) to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.
n. (obsolete) disturbance.

drum

n. A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming…
n. Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
n. In particular, a barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
n. (obsolete or historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
n. (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
n. (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
n. A drumfish.
n. (slang, Britain) A person's home.
n. (Australia slang) A tip, a piece of information.
v. (intransitive) To beat a drum.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
v. (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
v. To throb, as the heart.
v. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used…

dumbfound

v. (transitive) To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.

exceed

v. (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
v. (transitive) To be better than (something).
v. (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass, outstrip or transcend.
v. (intransitive) To predominate.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.

exhaust

v. (transitive) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely.
v. (transitive) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents.
v. (transitive, figuratively) To drain; to use up or expend wholly, or until the supply comes to an end.
v. (transitive) to tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy.
v. (transitive) To bring out or develop completely.
v. (transitive) to discuss thoroughly or completely.
v. (transitive, chemistry) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances…
n. A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see…
n. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
n. The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
n. An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
n. exhaust gas.
adj. (obsolete) Exhausted; used up.

fag

n. (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
n. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
n. (Britain, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
n. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) In many British boarding schools, a younger student acting as…
v. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
v. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students…
v. (Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
n. (vulgar, offensive) A homosexual man.
n. (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.

fatigue

n. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
n. (often in the plural) A menial task(s), especially in the military.
n. (engineering) Material failure, such as cracking or separation, caused by stress on the material.
v. (transitive) to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
v. (transitive, cooking) to wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
v. (intransitive) to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
v. (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result…

flap

n. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
n. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
n. A hinged leaf.
n. A side fin of a ray - also termed a wing.
n. An upset, stir, scandal or controversy.
n. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
n. A disease in the lips of horses.
n. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound ɾ in the standard…
n. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
n. (slang, chiefly plural) The female genitals.
v. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
v. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
v. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as…

flummox

v. To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.

forge

n. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
n. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
n. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
v. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
v. To form or create with concerted effort.
v. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
v. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
v. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually…
v. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

form

n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
n. Level of performance.
n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
n. The den or home of a hare.
n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
n. (geometry) A quantic.
n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
v. (intransitive) To take shape.
v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

fox

n. A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy…
n. Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe…
n. The fur of a fox.
n. A fox terrier.
n. The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
n. A cunning person.
n. (slang) A physically attractive man or woman.
n. (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats,…
n. (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
n. (obsolete) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
v. (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
v. (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
v. (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
v. (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity.
v. (transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
v. (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
v. (transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
v. (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

fuddle

v. To confuse or befuddle.
v. To intoxicate.
n. Intoxication.
n. Muddle, confusion.
n. (Britain, dialect, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire) A party or picnic where attendees bring…

get

v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
v. (transitive) To receive.
v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
v. (copulative) To become.
v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
v. (transitive) To cause to do.
v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
v. (transitive) To getter.
v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
v. (euphemistic) To kill.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
n. Offspring.
n. Lineage.
n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
n. Something gained.
n. (Britain, regional) A git.
n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

glare

n. (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
n. Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
n. An angry or fierce stare.
n. (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing…
n. (US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
n. A viscous, transparent substance; glair.
v. (intransitive) To stare angrily.
v. (intransitive) To shine brightly.
v. To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
v. (transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
adj. (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary.

go

v. To move.
v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
v. (intransitive) To attend.
v. To proceed.
v. To follow or travel along (a path).
v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
v. To pass, to be used up.
v. (intransitive) To die.
v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
v. To break down or apart.
v. (intransitive) To be sold.
v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
v. To say (something), to make a sound.
v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
v. To apply or subject oneself to.
v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
v. (intransitive) To date.
v. To attack.
v. To be in general; to be usually.
v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
n. (uncommon) The act of going.
n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
n. An attempt, a try.
n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
n. An act; the working or operation.
n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
n. A period of activity.
n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

gravel

n. (uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast.
n. A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
n. (uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
n. (uncountable, archaic) Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the…
v. (transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
v. To puzzle or annoy.
v. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
v. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
v. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

heartbeat

n. One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
n. The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
n. A driving impulse or vital force.
n. A very short space of time; an instant.
n. (computing) A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize…

itinerary

n. A route or proposed route of a journey.
n. An account or record of a journey.
n. A guidebook for travellers.
adj. itinerant; travelling from place to place; done on a journey.

jade

n. (uncountable) A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often…
n. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
adj. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
n. A horse too old to be put to work.
n. (especially pejorative) A woman.
v. To tire, weary or fatigue.
v. (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
v. (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

make

v. (transitive, heading) To create.
v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
v. To constitute.
v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
v. To appoint; to name.
v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
v. To enact; to establish.
v. To develop into; to prove to be.
v. To form or formulate in the mind.
v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
n. How a thing is made; construction.
n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
n. A person's character or disposition.
n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
n. (slang, military) A promotion.
n. A home-made project.
n. (basketball) A made basket.
n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

measure

n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
n. The act or result of measuring.
n. Metrical rhythm.
n. A course of action.
v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
v. To estimate the unit size of something.
v. To judge, value, or appraise.
v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

meter

n. (always meter) A device that measures things.
n. (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
n. (always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures.
n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived…
n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number…
n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order…
n. (obsolete) A poem.
v. to measure with a metering device.
v. to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
v. to regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things…

metre

n. The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal…
v. (Britain, rare) Alternative spelling of meter.
n. The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition.
v. (poetry, music) To put into metrical form.

mold

n. A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
n. A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
n. Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
n. The shape or pattern of a mold.
n. General shape or form.
n. Distinctive character or type.
n. A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
n. (architecture) A group of moldings.
n. (anatomy) A fontanelle.
v. (transitive) To shape in or on a mold.
v. (transitive) To form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
v. (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence.
v. (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
v. (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
v. (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
v. (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
n. A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material…
v. (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
v. (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
n. Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
v. To cover with mold or soil.

mould

n. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.
v. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.

move

v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
n. The act of moving; a movement.
n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
n. The event of changing one's residence.
n. A change in strategy.
n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

mystify

v. (transitive) To thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.

nonconformist

n. A member of a church separated from the Church of England; a Protestant dissenter.
n. Loosely, a Christian who does not conform to the doctrines of an established church.
n. Someone who does not conform to accepted beliefs, customs or practices.
adj. Not conforming to established customs etc.

nonplus

n. A state of perplexity or bewilderment.
v. (transitive) to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox.

oscillation

n. the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated.
n. a regular periodic fluctuation in value about some mean.
n. a single such cycle.

outdo

v. (transitive) To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.

outfox

v. (transitive) to beat in a competition of wits.

outgo

v. (poetic) To go out, to set forth.
v. (archaic) To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond.
v. To overtake; to travel faster than.
v. To outdo; exceed; surpass.
n. The act or process of going out.
n. A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
n. (business, commerce) an expenditure, cost or outlay.

outmatch

v. (transitive) to surpass or be better than something or someone else.

outperform

v. To perform better than something or someone.

outsmart

v. (transitive) to beat in a competition of wits.

outstrip

v. (transitive) To outrun or leave behind.
v. (transitive) To exceed, excel or surpass.

outwear

v. To wear out.
v. To outlast; to survive longer than.

outwit

v. (transitive) To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.

overcome

v. (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To win (a battle).
v. (intransitive) To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
v. (transitive, usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.
v. To come or pass over; to spread over.
v. To overflow; to surcharge.

overreach

n. The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.
n. The act of extending or reaching too far, overextension.
v. To reach above or beyond in any direction.
v. To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.
v. To reach too far.
v. (of horses) To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot.
v. (nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.

pace

n. (obsolete) Passage, route.
n. Step.
n. Way of stepping.
n. Speed or velocity in general.
n. (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed…
n. A group of donkeys. The collective noun for donkeys.
adj. (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
v. Walk to and fro in a small space.
v. Set the speed in a race.
v. Measure by walking.
prep. (formal) With all due respect to.
n. Easter.

path

n. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
n. A course taken.
n. (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
n. A metaphorical course.
n. A method or direction of proceeding.
n. (computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure,…
n. (graph theory) A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not…
v. (transitive) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).

perplex

v. (transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
v. (transitive) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
adj. (obsolete) intricate; difficult.

play

v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
n. The conduct, or course of a game.
n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
n. (countable) A major move by a business.
n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

pose

n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
n. Affectation.
v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

pound

n. A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning…
n. A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring…
n. (US) The symbol # (octothorpe, hash).
n. The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
n. Any of various units of currency used in Egypt and Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus…
n. Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
n. Abbreviation for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. Using this abbreviation to describe pound-force…
n. A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. An animal shelter.
n. A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. Short form of…
n. A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
n. A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by…
v. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
v. (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
v. (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
v. (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
v. (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
v. (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
v. (transitive, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
v. To advance heavily with measured steps.
v. (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
v. (slang, dated) To wager a pound on.
n. A hard blow.

prosody

n. (linguistics) The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
n. (poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.

pulsate

v. to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
v. to quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.
v. to produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.

pulsation

n. The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.
n. Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc.
n. (now rare) Physical striking; a blow.
n. A single beat, throb or vibration.

pulse

n. (physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of…
n. A beat or throb.
n. (music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music.
n. An autosoliton.
v. To beat, to throb, to flash.
v. To flow, particularly of blood.
v. To emit in discrete quantities.
n. Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod,…

puzzle

n. Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
n. A game for one person that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
n. A crossword puzzle.
n. A jigsaw puzzle.
n. A riddle.
n. (archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
n. The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
v. (transitive) To perplex (someone).
v. To make intricate; to entangle.

quiver

n. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or…
n. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
n. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
n. (mathematics) A multidigraph.
adj. (archaic) Nimble, active.
v. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to…

rate

n. (obsolete) The worth of something; value.
n. The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
n. Speed.
n. The relative speed of change or progress.
n. The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
n. A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
n. A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
n. Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
n. (nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
n. (obsolete) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.
n. (obsolete) Order; arrangement.
n. (obsolete) Ratification; approval.
n. (horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
v. (transitive) To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
v. (transitive) To evaluate or estimate the value of.
v. (transitive) To consider or regard.
v. (transitive) To deserve; to be worth.
v. (transitive) To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
v. (transitive, chiefly Britain) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
v. (transitive, informal) To like; to think highly of.
v. (intransitive) To have position (in a certain class).
v. (intransitive) To have value or standing.
v. (transitive) To ratify.
v. To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
v. (transitive) To berate, scold.

recusant

n. (historical) Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth…
n. Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.
adj. pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy.

rhythm

n. The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music,…
n. A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
n. A flow, repetition or regularity.
n. The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
n. The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
n. A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
n. Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other…

round

adj. (physical) Shape.
adj. Complete, whole, not lacking.
adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
adj. (linguistics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
adj. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
adj. Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
adj. Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
adj. Large in magnitude.
n. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
n. A circular or repetitious route.
n. A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
n. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
n. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
n. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
n. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
n. (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
n. A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical…
n. (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing…
n. (sports) A stage in a competition.
n. (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
n. (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for…
n. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary,…
n. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
n. (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
n. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
n. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance;…
n. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated…
n. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
n. A circular dance.
n. Rotation, as in office; succession.
n. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
n. An assembly; a group; a circle.
n. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
n. (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
n. (nautical) A round-top.
n. A round of beef.
prep. (rare in US) Alternative form of around.
adv. Alternative form of around.
v. (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
v. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
v. (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
v. (intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
v. (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
v. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
v. (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
v. (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
v. To encircle; to encompass.
v. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
v. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak…
v. (transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter…
n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.

route

n. A course or way which is traveled or passed.
n. A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger…
n. A road or path; often specifically a highway.
n. (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
n. (historical) The major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the…
v. To direct or divert along a particular course.
v. (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
v. (computing) To send (information) through a router.
v. Eye dialect spelling of root.

sail

n. (nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the…
n. (uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use this power for travel or transport.
n. A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
n. (dated) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. Plural sail.
n. The blade of a windmill.
n. A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
n. The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
n. (fishing) A sailfish.
n. (paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids.
n. Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
v. To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled…
v. To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
v. To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
v. To set sail; to begin a voyage.
v. To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
v. To move briskly.

sailing

n. Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise.
n. Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel.
n. the time of departure from a port.
n. (countable) a scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.
adj. Travelling by ship.
v. present participle of sail.

scramble

interj. (Britain) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that…
v. (intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
v. (intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
v. (transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
v. (transitive) To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
v. (transitive, military) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to…
v. (intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.
v. (intransitive) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
v. (transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.
v. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize…
n. A rush or hurry.
n. (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
n. A motocross race.
n. Any frantic period of activity.

shape

n. The status or condition of something.
n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
n. Form; formation.
n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

shell

n. A hard external covering of an animal.
n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
n. An emaciated person.
n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
v. (topology) To form a shelling.

sound

adj. Healthy.
adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
adv. Soundly.
interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
n. The air bladder of a fish.
n. A cuttlefish.
v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

stick

n. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
n. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
n. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
n. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
n. (sports) A stick-like item.
n. (sports, uncountable) Ability; specifically.
n. (slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking,…
n. Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
n. A measure.
v. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
n. (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
n. (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
n. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
v. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
v. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
v. (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
v. (intransitive) To persist.
v. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
v. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
v. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
v. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
v. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
v. (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
v. (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
v. (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
v. (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
v. (transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
v. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.
v. (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
v. (transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
v. (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by…
v. (dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
v. (transitive, slang, dated) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
adj. (informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
n. (Britain, uncountable) Criticism or ridicule.

strike

v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
v. To touch; to act by appulse.
v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
v. To make and ratify.
v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
v. To balance (a ledger or account).
n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
n. The discovery of a source of something.
n. A strike plate.

stroke

n. An act of stroking (moving one's hand over a surface).
n. A blow or hit.
n. A single movement with a tool.
n. One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or…
n. A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done…
n. A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly.
n. A streak made with a brush.
n. The time when a clock strikes.
n. (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
n. (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
n. (obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.
n. (rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.
n. (rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
n. (professional wrestling) Backstage influence.
n. (squash (sport)) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
n. (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.
n. (obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
n. An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.
n. A throb or beat, as of the heart.
n. (obsolete) Power; influence.
n. (obsolete) appetite.
v. (transitive) To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.
v. (transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.
v. (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
v. (transitive) To row the stroke oar of.

stupefy

v. To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle.

surmount

v. To get over; to overcome.
v. To cap; to sit on top off.

surpass

v. (transitive) To go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.

throw

v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
v. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
v. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
v. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during…
v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal…
v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
v. (transitive) To imprison.
v. To organize an event, especially a party.
v. To roll (a die or dice).
v. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position…
v. (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone…
v. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
v. (transitive) To project or send forth.
v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles,…
v. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role…
n. The flight of a thrown object.
n. The act of throwing something.
n. One's ability to throw.
n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
n. Misspelling of throe.

thrum

n. A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. Also fig.
v. To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
v. To make a monotonous drumming noise.
n. the ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
n. (chiefly in plural) a fringe made of such threads.
n. any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
n. (botany) a threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
n. (botany) a tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
n. (anatomy) a bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
n. (nautical, chiefly in plural) small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
n. (nautical) a mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
n. (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
v. to furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
v. (nautical) to insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.

thump

n. A blow that produces a muffled sound.
n. The sound of such a blow; a thud.
v. (transitive) To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.
v. (transitive) To cause to make a thumping sound.
v. (intransitive) To thud or pound.
v. (intransitive) To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.

tick

n. A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
n. A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
n. A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
n. (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
n. (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
n. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) a mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement;…
n. (birdwatching, slang) A lifer (bird seen by a birdwatcher for the first time) that is uninteresting and…
n. The whinchat; so called from its note.
v. To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
v. To make a tick mark.
v. (informal) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
v. To strike gently; to pat.
n. (uncountable) Ticking.
n. A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
n. (Britain, colloquial) Credit, trust.
v. To go on trust, or credit.
v. To give tick; to trust.
n. (obsolete, place names) A goat.

ticktack

interj. Dated form of tick tock.
n. A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.
n. A kind of backgammon played with both men and pegs; tricktrack.

ticktock

n. The ticking sound of a clock.
n. A news story that recounts events in chronological order (Journalism).

tire

v. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
v. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
v. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).
v. (transitive) To bore.
n. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
n. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
n. A covering for the head; a headdress.
n. Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
n. (Canada, US) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
n. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
v. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
v. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
n. A tier, row, or rank.

tired

v. simple past tense and past participle of tire.
adj. In need of some rest or sleep.
adj. Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
adj. Overused, cliché.
adj. (slang, African American Vernacular) ineffectual; incompetent.

trounce

v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
v. (transitive) to punish.
v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

tucker

v. To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
n. (countable) One who or that which tucks.
n. (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food.
n. (countable) Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
n. (obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.

vanquish

v. To defeat, to overcome.

vex

v. (transitive, now rare) To trouble aggressively, to harass.
v. (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
v. (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
v. (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
v. (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

vibration

n. The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated.
n. (physics) Any periodic process, especially a rapid linear motion of a body about an equilibrium position.
n. A single complete vibrating motion.
n. (slang) An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere; vibes.

wear

v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off;…
v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or…
v. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
v. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or…
v. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
v. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce…
v. (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due…
v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
v. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or…
v. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue,…
v. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
v. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed…
n. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing.
n. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
n. (uncountable) fashion.

weary

adj. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
adj. Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
adj. Expressive of fatigue.
adj. Causing weariness; tiresome.
v. To make or to become weary.

work

n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
v. (transitive) To set into action.
v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
v. (intransitive) To ferment.
v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
v. (transitive) To cause to work.
v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

Synonyms of the word

beat

agitate

amaze

baffle

be

beat

beatnik

bedevil

befuddle

bewilder

bunk

bushed

cadence

cheat

chisel

circumvent

commove

confound

confuse

create

crush

dead

defeat

discombobulate

displace

disturb

drum

dumbfound

exceed

exhaust

fag

fatigue

flap

flummox

forge

form

fox

fuddle

get

glare

go

gravel

heartbeat

itinerary

jade

make

measure

meter

metre

mold

mould

move

mystify

nonconformist

nonplus

oscillation

outdo

outfox

outgo

outmatch

outperform

outsmart

outstrip

outwear

outwit

overcome

overreach

pace

path

perplex

play

pose

pound

prosody

pulsate

pulsation

pulse

puzzle

quiver