Synonyms of the word

bunt

• n. (nautical) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center…
• n. A push or shove; a butt.
• n. (baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes…
• n. (baseball, softball) The act of bunting.
• n. (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
• n. A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust; pepperbrand.
• v. (transitive, baseball) to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) to intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
• v. (intransitive, aviation) to perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.
• v. (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.

butt

• n. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow…
• n. (countable) The waste end of anything.
• n. (countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
• n. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
• v. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
• v. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
• v. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
• n. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
• n. A thrust in fencing.
• n. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half…
• n. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
• n. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot.
• n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
• n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.

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.

hitting

• n. A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object.
• n. The skill of hitting.
• v. present participle of hit.

smut

• n. (uncountable) Soot.
• n. (countable) A flake of ash or soot.
• n. (uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
• n. (uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
• n. (derogatory) A promiscuous woman.
• n. Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal…
• n. (mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
• v. To stain (or be stained) with soot etc.
• v. (intransitive) To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.
• v. To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
• v. To clear of the smut fungus.

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.

striking

• adj. Making a strong impression.
• v. present participle of strike.
• n. The act by which something strikes or is struck.