Synonyms of the word

bolt

• n. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one…
• n. A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
• n. A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides…
• n. A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
• n. A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by…
• n. A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
• n. A sudden event, action or emotion.
• n. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
• n. (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
• n. A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
• n. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
• n. (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected;…
• n. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
• v. To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
• v. To secure a door by locking or barring it.
• v. (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
• v. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
• v. (intransitive) To escape.
• v. (intransitive, botany) Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.
• v. To swallow food without chewing it.
• v. To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
• v. (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected;…
• v. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
• adv. Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
• v. To sift, especially through a cloth.
• v. To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
• v. To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
• v. (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
• n. A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

abandonment

• n. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
• n. The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child;…
• n. An abandoned building or structure.
• n. (law) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by…
• n. (law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured…
• n. The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government…
• n. A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its…
• n. The self-surrender to an outside influence.
• n. Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.

abscond

• v. (intransitive, reflexive, archaic) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.
• v. (intransitive, reflexive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution.
• v. (intransitive) To withdraw from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To conceal; to take away.
• v. (transitive) To evade, to hide or flee from.

absquatulate

• v. (intransitive, slang) To leave quickly or in a hurry; to take oneself off; to decamp; to depart, flee.
• v. (intransitive, slang) to abscond.

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.

bar

• n. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
• n. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal…
• n. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
• n. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
• n. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar…
• n. (typography) Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in…
• n. (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed…
• n. A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves;…
• n. The counter of such a premises.
• n. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
• n. (by extension, In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) A premises or counter serving any type…
• n. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
• n. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
• n. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
• n. (programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity,…
• n. (Britain, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants…
• n. (law, "the Bar", "the bar") The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
• n. (law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically…
• n. (telecommunications) A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself.
• n. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal…
• n. (music) One of those musical sections.
• n. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault.
• n. (soccer) The crossbar.
• n. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones…
• n. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
• n. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
• n. (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
• n. An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
• n. A city gate, in some British place names.
• n. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
• n. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
• n. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
• n. (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel…
• n. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which…
• v. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To prohibit.
• v. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
• v. to imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
• prep. Except, with the exception of.
• prep. (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
• n. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea…

dash

• n. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal…
• n. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
• n. A short run.
• n. A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
• n. Vigor.
• n. A dashboard.
• n. (Nigeria and Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
• n. (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.).
• v. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
• v. (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
• v. (transitive) To throw violently.
• v. (transitive) To sprinkle; to splatter.
• v. (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
• v. (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
• v. (transitive) To complete hastily, usually with down or off.
• v. To draw quickly; jot.
• v. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something…
• interj. (euphemistic) Damn!

deadbolt

• n. The part of the lock which is moved when the key is engaged.
• n. A kind of lock in which the bolt (moving portion) is held in position by the cylinder rather than by a…
• v. (transitive) To fasten or secure with a deadbolt.

decamp

• v. (intransitive) To break up camp and move on.
• v. (intransitive) To disappear suddenly and secretly.

desertion

• n. The act of deserting.

eat

• v. To ingest; to be ingested.
• v. To use up.
• v. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
• v. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on someone.
• n. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

flee

• v. (intransitive) To run away; to escape.
• v. (transitive) To escape from.
• v. (intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.

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.

forsaking

• v. present participle of forsake.
• n. The act by which somebody is forsaken; an abandonment.

furl

• v. (transitive) To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag).

gobble

• v. To make the sound of a turkey.
• v. To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff. Often used with up.
• n. The sound of a turkey.
• n. (Scotland, slang, vulgar) fellatio; blowjob.

haste

• n. Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
• n. (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
• v. (transitive) To urge onward; to hasten.
• v. (intransitive) To move with haste.

hurry

• n. Rushed action.
• n. Urgency.
• n. (sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster…
• v. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
• v. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
• v. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
• v. (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

leave

• v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
• v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
• v. (heading) To transfer something.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
• n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
• n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
• n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
• n. (dated or law) Permission.
• n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
• v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

lightning

• n. A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between…
• n. A discharge of this kind.
• n. (figuratively) Anything that moves very fast.
• n. The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental…
• adj. Extremely fast or sudden.
• adj. Moving at the speed of lightning.
• v. (impersonal, childish or nonstandard) To produce lightning.

lock

• n. Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
• n. (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
• n. A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between…
• n. (firearms) The firing mechanism.
• n. Complete control over a situation.
• n. Something sure to be a success.
• n. (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
• n. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
• n. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
• n. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• v. (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
• v. (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
• v. (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
• v. (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
• v. (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
• v. To furnish (a canal) with locks.
• v. To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
• v. To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
• v. (Internet, transitive) To officially prevent other users from posting in (a thread).
• n. A tuft or length of hair.

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…

rigidly

• adv. In a rigid manner; stiffly.

roll

• v. (ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward…
• v. (intransitive) To turn over and over.
• v. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
• v. (transitive) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing…
• v. (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
• v. (intransitive) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
• v. (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
• v. (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with…
• v. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
• v. (intransitive) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
• v. (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
• v. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
• v. (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one…
• v. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
• v. (US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
• v. (dice games, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
• v. (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
• v. (role-playing games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine…
• v. (computing) To generate a random number.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare…
• v. (transitive) To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
• v. (transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.
• v. (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
• v. (intransitive, of a camera) To film.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
• v. To have a rolling aspect.
• v. (figuratively, intranstive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
• v. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone.
• v. (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
• n. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
• n. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
• n. That which rolls; a roller.
• n. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
• n. (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on…
• n. (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
• n. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
• n. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
• n. (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
• n. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
• n. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
• n. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
• n. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
• n. A training match for a fighting dog.

rush

• n. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems…
• n. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
• n. The merest trifle; a straw.
• n. A sudden forward motion.
• n. A surge.
• n. General haste.
• n. A rapid, noisy flow.
• n. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
• n. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
• n. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.
• n. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
• n. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
• n. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
• n. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
• v. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
• v. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
• v. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
• v. (military) To swiftly attach to without warning.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing…
• v. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
• adj. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

rushing

• v. present participle of rush.
• n. A rapid surging motion.

screw

• n. A device that has a helical function.
• n. (derogatory) A prison guard.
• n. (derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or…
• n. (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
• n. (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (slang) Salary, wages.
• n. (billiards) Backspin.
• n. (slang) A small packet of tobacco.
• n. (dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
• n. (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated…
• n. An amphipod crustacean.
• n. (dated, slang) A prison guard.
• v. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation. Sometimes used…
• v. (transitive) To apply pressure on; to put the screws on.
• v. To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
• v. (transitive) To contort.
• v. (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
• v. (billiard, snooker, pool) To screw back.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.

slap

• n. A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.
• n. The sound of such a blow.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Makeup, cosmetics.
• v. (transitive) To give a slap to.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to strike soundly.
• v. (intransitive) To strike soundly against something.
• v. (transitive) To place, to put carelessly.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To impose a penalty, etc. upon (someone).
• adv. Exactly, precisely.

slapdash

• adj. Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
• adv. In a hasty or careless manner.
• adv. Directly, right there; slap-bang.
• adv. With a slap; all at once; slap.
• v. (colloquial) To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.

smack

• n. A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
• n. A slight trace of something; a smattering.
• n. (slang) Heroin.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
• v. (intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
• n. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and…
• n. A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
• n. A loud kiss.
• n. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
• v. To slap someone, or to make a smacking sound.
• v. (New Zealand) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (US spank).
• v. To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
• v. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
• adv. As if with a smack or slap.

stiffly

• adv. In a stiff manner.

swallow

• v. (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach…
• v. (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
• v. (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus…
• v. (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
• v. To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
• v. To retract; to recant.
• v. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
• n. (archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
• n. The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
• n. A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked…
• n. (nautical) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

thunderbolt

• n. A flash of lightning accompanied by an instant crash of thunder.
• n. (figuratively) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.
• n. Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
• n. (soccer) A very powerful shot.
• n. (paleontology) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
• n. (heraldry) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them,…