Synonyms of the word

buckle

• v. (intransitive) To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
• v. (transitive) To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
• v. (intransitive) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
• v. To buckle down; to apply oneself.
• n. (countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining…
• n. (Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
• n. (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or…
• n. A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
• n. A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
• n. A contorted expression, as of the face.
• v. (transitive) To fasten using a buckle.
• v. (Scotland) To unite in marriage.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

clasp

• n. A fastener or holder, particularly one that clasps.
• n. (in the singular) An embrace, a grasp, or handshake.
• v. (transitive) To take hold of; to grasp; to grab tightly.
• v. To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp.

collapse

• v. (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
• v. (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
• v. (intransitive) To fold compactly.
• v. (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
• v. (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
• n. The act of collapsing.
• n. Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).

crumple

• n. A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
• v. (transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
• v. (transitive) To cause to collapse.
• v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To collapse.

distortion

• n. An act of distorting.
• n. A result of distorting.
• n. A misrepresentation of the truth.
• n. Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
• n. An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
• n. (optics) an aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.

fasten

• v. To attach or connect in a secure manner.
• v. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

fastener

• n. something or someone that fastens.
• n. mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers,…

fastening

• v. present participle of fasten.
• n. a hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together.

fix

• n. A repair or corrective action.
• n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
• n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
• n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
• n. A determination of location.
• n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
• v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
• v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
• v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
• v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
• v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
• v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
• v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
• v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
• v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

fixing

• n. The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
• n. (Britain, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs,…
• n. See fixings.
• v. present participle of fix.
• v. (Southern US, slang, with infinitive) Going; preparing; ready. Only used in fixing to.

founder

• n. One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something…
• n. (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
• n. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
• n. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
• v. (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
• v. (intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
• v. (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
• v. (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
• v. (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or…

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

heave

• v. (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
• v. (transitive) To throw, cast.
• v. (intransitive) To rise and fall.
• v. (transitive) To utter with effort.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or…
• v. (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
• v. (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
• v. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
• v. (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
• n. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
• n. An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves,…
• n. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
• n. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time…

holdfast

• n. Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
• n. (zoology) A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile…
• n. (archaic, medicine) Actinomycosis.

secure

• adj. Free from attack or danger; protected.
• adj. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
• adj. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
• adj. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
• adj. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
• adj. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
• adj. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly…
• adj. Overconfident; incautious; careless.
• v. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
• v. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against…
• v. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
• v. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

warp

• n. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally.
• n. (countable) A distortion.
• n. (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
• n. (figuratively) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
• n. (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for…
• n. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such…
• n. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
• n. The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced…
• n. (obsolete outside dialects) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure:…
• v. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, rare, obsolete, figuratively) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
• v. (transitive, rare, obsolete, poetic) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
• v. To move.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete outside dialects, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or…
• v. (transitive, very rare, obsolete) To throw.