Synonyms of the word beetle


BEETLEBEAT - BEETLING - GO - HAMMER - HANG - INSECT - LOCOMOTE - MALLET - MOVE - OVERHANG - PROTRUSIVE - TRAVEL

beetle

  • n. Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like…
  • n. (uncountable) A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice…
  • n. Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”).
  • v. To move away quickly, to scurry away.
  • adj. Protruding, jutting, overhanging. (As in beetle brows.).
  • v. To loom over; to extend or jut.
  • n. A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
  • n. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton…
  • v. To beat with a heavy mallet.
  • v. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.

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.

beetling

  • v. present participle of beetle.
  • n. The process by which fabrics, etc. are beetled, or beaten with a mallet.
  • adj. Jutting or protruding, especially of a person's brows.

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…

hammer

  • n. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
  • n. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
  • n. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
  • n. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
  • n. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
  • n. (curling) The last rock in an end.
  • n. (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip…
  • n. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
  • n. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
  • v. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
  • v. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
  • v. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
  • v. (sports) To hit particularly hard.
  • v. (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
  • v. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.

hang

  • v. (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
  • v. (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
  • v. (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to…
  • v. (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, or the like.
  • v. (transitive, law) To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
  • v. (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised…
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.
  • v. (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
  • v. (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
  • v. (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
  • v. (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must…
  • v. (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard and mouse.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
  • v. (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
  • v. (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
  • v. (transitive, baseball, slang) Of a pitcher, to throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
  • n. The way in which something hangs.
  • n. (figuratively) A grip, understanding.
  • n. (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input devices.
  • n. A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
  • n. (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap, processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
  • n. Alternative spelling of Hang.

insect

  • n. An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
  • n. (colloquial) Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc.
  • n. (derogatory) A contemptible or powerless person.

locomote

  • v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

mallet

  • n. A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used…
  • n. A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.
  • n. A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.
  • n. A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
  • n. The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.
  • v. To strike with a mallet.

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…

overhang

  • v. (transitive) To hang over (something).
  • n. (economics) The volume that tips the balance between the demand and the supply toward demand lagging supply.
  • n. That portion of the roof structure that extends beyond the exterior walls of a building.
  • n. A fatty roll of pubis flab that hangs over one's genitals; a FUPA.
  • n. Anything that overhangs or protrudes over its base, such as a wave immediately before breaking, or a protruding…

protrusive

  • adj. that protrudes; protruding.
  • adj. rather conspicuous; obtrusive.

travel

  • v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
  • v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
  • v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
  • v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
  • v. (transitive) To force to journey.
  • v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
  • n. The act of traveling.
  • n. pl A series of journeys.
  • n. pl An account of one's travels.
  • n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
  • n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
  • n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

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