Synonyms of the word

careen

• v. (nautical) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles…
• v. (nautical) To tilt on one side.
• v. To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
• v. To tilt or lean while in motion.
• v. To career, to move rapidly straight ahead.

keel

• n. (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
• n. (nautical) Sometimes, a rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship…
• n. (aeronautics) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane,…
• n. (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
• n. A material similar to chalk or crayon used to mark pavement.
• n. (zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral…
• n. (botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens…
• n. A brewer's cooling vat.
• v. (intransitive, followed by "over") to collapse, to fall.
• v. To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
• v. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
• v. Eye dialect spelling of kill.

lurch

• n. A sudden or unsteady movement.
• v. To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
• v. (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
• n. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
• n. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has been left in the lurch.
• v. (obsolete) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
• v. (obsolete) To steal; to rob.

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…

pitch

• n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
• n. (geology) Pitchstone.
• v. To cover or smear with pitch.
• v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
• n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
• n. An effort to sell or promote something.
• n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
• n. The angle at which an object sits.
• n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
• n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• n. The place where a busker performs.
• n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
• n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
• n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
• n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
• n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• v. (transitive) To throw.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
• v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
• v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
• v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
• v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
• v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
• v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
• v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
• n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
• n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
• v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
• v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

pitching

• v. present participle of pitch.
• n. The act of throwing or casting.
• n. The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
• n. (engineering) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.

reel

• n. A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
• n. A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
• n. (textiles) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, —-- for cotton or linen…
• n. (agriculture) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine,…
• n. (film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
• v. To wind on a reel.
• v. To spin or revolve repeatedly.
• v. To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
• v. To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
• v. (reel back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.
• v. To make or cause to reel.
• v. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
• v. To be in shock.
• v. (obsolete) To roll.

rock

• n. Some formations of minerals.
• n. A large hill or island having no vegetation.
• n. (figuratively) Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support…
• n. A lump or cube of ice.
• n. (Britain, uncountable) A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally…
• n. (US, slang) A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
• n. Some people.
• n. Some fish.
• n. (basketball, slang) A basketball.
• n. (rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to…
• v. (transitive and intransitive) To move gently back and forth.
• v. (transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently.
• v. (intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
• v. (transitive and intransitive, of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
• v. (transitive) To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
• v. (intransitive) To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
• v. (euphemistic) to make love to or have sex with someone.
• n. An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
• n. A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar,…
• v. (intransitive) To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
• v. (transitive) to thrill or excite, especially with rock music.
• v. (transitive) to do something with excitement yet skillfully.
• v. (transitive) To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular…
• n. (countable) distaff.
• n. (uncountable) The flax or wool on a distaff.
• n. Archaic form of roc (mythical bird).

shift

• n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
• n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
• n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
• n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
• n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
• n. (computing) A bit shift.
• n. (baseball) The infield shift.
• n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
• n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
• n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
• n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
• n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
• v. (transitive) To change, swap.
• v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
• v. (intransitive) To change position.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
• v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
• v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
• v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
• v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of.
• v. (intransitive) To hurry.
• v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
• v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
• v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

stagger

• n. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
• n. (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden…
• n. Bewilderment; perplexity.
• n. The spacing out of various actions over time.
• n. (motorsport) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It…
• n. (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one…
• v. Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
• v. Doubt, waver, be shocked.
• v. (transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different,…

swag

• v. (intransitive and transitive) To sway; to cause to sway.
• v. (intransitive) To droop; to sag.
• v. (transitive) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
• n. (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
• n. A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects.
• n. (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
• n. (obsolete, thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.
• n. (thieves' cant, uncountable) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
• n. (uncountable) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, such as those handed out at conventions.
• n. (countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and…
• n. (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
• n. (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
• v. (Australia, transitive, intransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
• v. To transport stolen goods.
• n. Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.

sway

• n. The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
• n. A rocking or swinging motion.
• n. Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side.
• n. Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
• n. Rule; dominion; control.
• n. A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
• n. The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.
• v. To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
• v. To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.
• v. To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide…
• v. To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp.
• v. (nautical) To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.
• v. To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
• v. To have weight or influence.
• v. To bear sway; to rule; to govern.

tilt

• v. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
• v. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
• v. (intransitive) To be at an angle.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
• v. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
• v. (poker) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck).
• v. (photography) To move a camera vertically in a controlled way.
• n. A slope or inclination. (uncountable).
• n. A jousting contest. (countable).
• n. A thrust, as with a lance.
• n. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
• n. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
• n. A tilt hammer.
• n. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
• n. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
• n. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
• v. (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

wobble

• n. An unsteady motion.
• n. A tremulous sound.
• n. (music) A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep.
• v. (intransitive) To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.
• v. (intransitive) To tremble or quaver.
• v. (intransitive) To vacillate in one's opinions.
• v. (transitive) To cause to wobble.