Synonyms of the word

blast

• n. A violent gust of wind.
• n. A forcible stream of air from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
• n. A hit from a pipe.
• n. The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
• n. The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an…
• n. An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
• n. An explosive charge for blasting.
• n. A loud, sudden sound.
• n. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
• n. (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.
• n. (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
• n. A flatulent disease of sheep.
• n. (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) An algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence information.
• v. (transitive) To confound by a loud blast or din.
• v. (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
• v. (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
• v. (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
• v. (transitive) To curse; to damn.
• v. (transitive) (sci-fi) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
• v. (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
• v. To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
• v. (transitive) To blight or wither.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be blighted or withered.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To blow, for example on a trumpet.
• interj. Blast it; damn it.
• n. (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).

attack

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

bam

• interj. Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
• interj. Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.
• n. (Scotland, slang) ned, bampot.
• n. (dated) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
• v. (slang, archaic) To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.
• v. (slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.
• n. Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum.

bang

• n. A sudden percussive noise.
• n. A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
• n. An explosion.
• n. (US, especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.
• n. (US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
• n. (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
• n. (figuratively) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
• n. (slang, mining) An explosive product.
• n. (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
• v. (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To hit hard.
• v. (slang, figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
• v. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
• v. (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
• adv. Right, directly.
• adv. Precisely.
• adv. With a sudden impact.
• interj. a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound.
• n. (in the plural) Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.

blare

• n. (usually singular) A loud sound.
• n. Dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
• v. (intransitive) To make a loud sound.
• v. (transitive) To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

blowup

• n. An explosion, or violent outburst.
• n. (photography) An enlargement.

bomb

• n. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
• n. (slang) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
• n. (Britain, slang) A large amount of money, a fortune.
• n. (social) Something highly effective or attractive.
• n. (chemistry) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
• n. (obsolete) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
• n. (slang) A woman’s breast.
• n. (wrestling) A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first…
• n. (slang) A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To fail dismally.
• v. (informal) To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
• v. (obsolete) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
• v. (slang) To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
• v. (informal) To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
• adj. (slang) Great, awesome.

bombard

• n. a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
• n. (obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument.
• n. (obsolete) a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
• n. (poetic, rare) A bombardment.
• n. (music) A bombardon.
• v. To attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
• v. (figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
• v. (physics) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made…

boom

• v. To make a loud, resonant sound.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
• v. (transitive) To make something boom.
• v. (slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise.
• v. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
• n. A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
• n. One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
• interj. used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
• interj. used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
• n. (nautical) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats…
• n. A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
• n. A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
• n. (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally…
• n. A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment…
• n. A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
• n. The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
• v. To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
• n. (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
• v. (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.

clap

• n. The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
• n. The explosive sound of thunder.
• n. Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.
• n. A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.
• n. A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
• n. (falconry) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
• n. (Yorkshire) A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground).
• v. To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.
• v. To applaud.
• v. To slap with the hand in a jovial manner.
• v. To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound.
• v. To come together suddenly with noise.
• v. To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together).
• v. To set or put, usually in haste.
• v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To shoot (somebody) with a gun.
• n. (slang, with "the") Gonorrhea.

criticism

• n. The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination…

detonation

• n. An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances…
• n. Engine knocking, an improper combustion in internal combustion engines.

eruption

• n. A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.
• n. A sudden release of pressure or tension.
• n. An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.

experience

• n. (countable, uncountable) Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
• n. (countable) An activity which one has performed.
• n. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge,…
• n. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
• v. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions…

explosion

• n. A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical.).
• n. A bursting due to pressure.
• n. The sound of an explosion.
• n. A sudden uncontrolled increase.
• n. A sudden outburst.

fire

• n. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon…
• n. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained…
• n. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
• n. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered a one of…
• n. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
• n. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
• n. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.
• n. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
• n. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
• n. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
• n. (countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character…
• v. (transitive) To set (something) on fire.
• v. (transitive) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
• v. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
• v. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct…
• v. (transitive) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse or stream of something).
• v. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
• v. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
• v. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
• v. (intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
• v. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
• v. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
• v. To feed or serve the fire of.
• v. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
• v. (farriery) To cauterize.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
• adj. (slang) Amazing.
• interj. A cry of distress indicating that something is on fire.
• interj. A signal to shoot.

flack

• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
• v. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To beat by flapping.
• n. A publicist, a publicity agent.
• v. To publicise, to promote.
• n. Alternative spelling of flak.

flak

• n. Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.
• n. Anti-aircraft shell fire.
• n. (figuratively, informal) Adverse criticism.
• n. (informal) A public-relations spokesperson.

fly

• n. (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
• n. (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless…
• n. (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other…
• n. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
• n. (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
• n. (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest…
• n. (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
• n. (obsolete) A parasite.
• n. (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
• v. (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded…
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
• v. (intransitive) To travel very fast.
• v. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
• v. To hunt with a hawk.
• v. (transitive) To display a flag on a flagpole.
• n. (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
• n. An act of flying.
• n. (baseball) A fly ball.
• n. (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
• n. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
• n. A strip of material hiding the zipper, buttons etc. at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants,…
• n. The free edge of a flag.
• n. The horizontal length of a flag.
• n. Butterfly, a form of swimming.
• n. (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
• n. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
• n. (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
• n. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of…
• n. A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the…
• n. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while…
• n. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
• n. (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
• n. (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
• n. (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the…
• n. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
• n. (cotton manufacture) waste cotton.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground…
• adj. (slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
• adj. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance.
• adj. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.

gust

• n. A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
• n. Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To blow in gusts.
• n. (archaic) The physiological faculty of taste.
• n. Relish, enjoyment, appreciation.
• n. Intellectual taste; fancy.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To taste.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To have a relish for.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

nail

• n. The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
• n. The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
• n. The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
• n. A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven…
• n. A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The…
• n. An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 1/20th of an ell or 1/16th of a yard (2.25 inches or 5…
• v. (transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
• v. (intransitive) To drive a nail.
• v. (transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
• v. (slang) To catch.
• v. (transitive, slang) To expose as a sham.
• v. (transitive, slang) To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
• v. (transitive, slang) To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
• v. (transitive, slang) Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. To spike, as a cannon.

noise

• n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
• n. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
• n. (technology) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio).
• n. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within…
• n. Rumour or complaint.
• n. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
• n. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
• v. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.
• v. (transitive) To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.

resound

• v. (intransitive) to sound again.
• v. (transitive) to echo a sound.
• v. (intransitive) to reverberate with sound or noise.
• v. (intransitive) to make a reverberating sound.
• v. (transitive) To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo.
• v. To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the…

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.

smash

• n. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A traffic accident.
• n. (colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
• n. (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
• v. To break (something brittle) violently.
• v. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
• v. To hit extremely hard.
• v. (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success.
• v. (US) To deform through continuous pressure.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

wind

• n. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or…
• n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
• n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.).
• n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
• n. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
• n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
• n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,…
• n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent…
• n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
• n. A bird, the dotterel.
• n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary…
• v. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
• v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
• v. (Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
• v. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
• v. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
• v. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
• v. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
• v. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
• v. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
• v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
• v. (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
• v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate;…
• v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
• v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
• n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.