Synonyms of the word

claw

• n. A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
• n. A foot equipped with such.
• n. The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
• n. A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
• n. (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
• n. (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
• v. To scratch or to tear at.
• v. To use the claws to seize, to grip.
• v. To use the claws to climb.
• v. (juggling) To perform a claw catch.
• v. To move with one's fingertips.
• v. (obsolete) To relieve uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching; hence, to humor or flatter, to court…
• v. (obsolete) To rail at; to scold.

appendage

• n. an external body part that projects from the body.
• n. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism.
• n. a part that is joined to something larger.

assail

• v. To attack violently using words or force.

assault

• n. A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
• n. A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, for example words, arguments, appeals, and the like.
• n. (criminal law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence,…
• n. (singular only, law) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
• n. (tort law) An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.
• n. (singular only, law) The tort whose action is such an act.
• n. (fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
• v. To attack, threaten or harass.

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.

chela

• n. A pincer-like claw of a crustacean or arachnid.
• n. A pupil or disciple, especially in Hinduism.

clutch

• v. To seize, as though with claws.
• v. To grip or grasp tightly.
• n. The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
• n. (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
• n. A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car.
• n. The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission.
• n. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
• n. A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
• n. (US) An important or critical situation.
• adj. (US, Canada) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
• n. A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
• n. A group or bunch (of people or things).

extremity

• n. The most extreme or furthest point of something.
• n. An extreme measure.
• n. A hand or foot.
• n. A limb (major appendage of human or animal such as a leg an arm or a wing).

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

make

• v. (transitive, heading) To create.
• v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• v. To constitute.
• v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
• v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
• v. To appoint; to name.
• v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• v. To enact; to establish.
• v. To develop into; to prove to be.
• v. To form or formulate in the mind.
• v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
• v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
• n. How a thing is made; construction.
• n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
• n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• n. A person's character or disposition.
• n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
• n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
• n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
• n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
• n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
• n. (slang, military) A promotion.
• n. A home-made project.
• n. (basketball) A made basket.
• n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

member

• n. One who officially belongs to a group.
• n. A part of a whole.
• n. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
• n. The penis.
• n. (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
• n. (set theory) An element of a set.
• n. (object-oriented programming) A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a…
• n. (Australia, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
• n. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
• n. (computing) A file stored within an archive file.
• v. (obsolete outside dialects) To remember.
• v. (obsolete) To cause to remember; to mention.

nipper

• n. One who, or that which, nips.
• n. (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
• n. (slang) A child.
• n. (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
• n. (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
• n. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
• n. (obsolete) A satirist.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
• n. A fish, the cunner.
• n. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
• n. The claws of a crab or lobster.
• n. (dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.

pincer

• n. any object that resembles one half of a pair of pincers.

prehend

• v. (obsolete) To lay hold of; to seize.

round

• adj. (physical) Shape.
• adj. Complete, whole, not lacking.
• adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
• adj. (linguistics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
• adj. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
• adj. Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
• adj. Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
• adj. Large in magnitude.
• n. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
• n. A circular or repetitious route.
• n. A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
• n. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
• n. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
• n. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
• n. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
• n. (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
• n. A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical…
• n. (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing…
• n. (sports) A stage in a competition.
• n. (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
• n. (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for…
• n. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary,…
• n. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
• n. (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
• n. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
• n. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance;…
• n. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated…
• n. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
• n. A circular dance.
• n. Rotation, as in office; succession.
• n. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
• n. An assembly; a group; a circle.
• n. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
• n. (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
• n. (nautical) A round-top.
• n. A round of beef.
• prep. (rare in US) Alternative form of around.
• adv. Alternative form of around.
• v. (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
• v. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
• v. (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
• v. (intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
• v. (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
• v. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
• v. (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
• v. (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
• v. To encircle; to encompass.
• v. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
• v. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak…
• v. (transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter…
• n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
• n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.

scrape

• v. To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.
• v. To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
• v. To barely manage to achieve.
• v. To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
• v. (computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such…
• v. To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
• v. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
• v. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
• v. To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth…
• n. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
• n. A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
• n. An awkward set of circumstances.
• n. (Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
• n. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

scratch

• v. To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws,…
• v. To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation.
• v. To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
• v. To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
• v. (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating…
• v. (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
• v. (billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
• v. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
• v. To dig or excavate with the claws.
• v. To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to…
• n. (countable) A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
• n. An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
• n. (sports).
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
• n. (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of…
• n. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
• n. (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
• adj. For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
• adj. Hastily assembled; put together in a hurry or from disparate elements.
• adj. (computing, from scratchpad) Relating to a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for…
• adj. Constructed from whatever materials are to hand.
• adj. (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the…
• adj. Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances;…

seize

• v. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
• v. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
• v. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
• v. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
• v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
• v. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
• v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
• v. (Britain, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

snipe

• n. Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family…
• n. A fool; a blockhead.
• n. A shot fired from a concealed place.
• n. (naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.
• v. (intransitive) To hunt snipe.
• v. (intransitive) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
• v. (intransitive) (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.
• v. (transitive) To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder)…
• v. (transitive) To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
• n. (slang) A cigarette butt.
• n. An animated promotional logo during a television show.
• n. A strip of copy announcing some late breaking news or item of interest, typically placed in a print advertisement…
• n. A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle…
• n. A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.
• v. (intransitive) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.

unguis

• n. (zoology) The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.
• n. One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
• n. (botany) The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; an ungula.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.