Synonyms of the word

conk

• n. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom…
• n. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
• n. Alternative spelling of conch.
• v. (slang) To hit, especially on the head.
• n. (US, dated) A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
• v. (US, dated) To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.

choke

• v. (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other…
• v. (transitive) To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.
• v. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
• v. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
• v. (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) to reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at…
• v. (intransitive) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially…
• v. To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
• v. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
• v. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
• v. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
• n. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
• n. (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
• n. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
• n. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
• n. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
• n. (electronics) choking coil.
• n. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.

croak

• n. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
• n. The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit).
• n. The cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
• v. (intransitive) To make a croak.
• v. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
• v. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry.
• v. (slang) To die.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
• v. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

decease

• n. (formal) Death, departure from life.
• v. (now rare) To die.

die

• v. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
• v. (transitive) To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
• v. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
• v. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
• v. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
• v. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
• v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
• v. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
• v. (transitive, video games) To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition.
• v. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved…
• v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
• v. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
• n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
• n. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
• n. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.).
• n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
• n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
• n. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
• n. Any small cubical or square body.
• n. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
• n. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
• n. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
• n. Obsolete spelling of dye.
• v. Obsolete spelling of dye.

exit

• n. A way out.
• n. A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
• n. The action of leaving.
• n. Death.
• v. To go out.
• v. To leave.
• v. To die.

expire

• v. (intransitive) to die.
• v. (intransitive) to become invalid.
• v. (intransitive) to exhale; to breathe (out).
• v. (transitive) to exhale (something).
• v. (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
• v. (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.

faint

• adj. (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness.
• adj. Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected.
• adj. hardly perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp.
• adj. Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy.
• adj. Slight; minimal.
• n. The act of fainting, syncope.
• n. (rare) The state of one who has fainted; a swoon.
• v. (intransitive) To lose consciousness. Caused by a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as…
• v. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
• v. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

halt

• v. (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
• v. (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay;…
• v. (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
• v. (intransitive) To stop marching.
• v. (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
• v. (transitive) To bring to a stop.
• v. (transitive) To cause to discontinue.
• n. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
• n. (rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
• adj. (archaic) Lame, limping.
• v. To limp.
• v. To waver.
• v. To falter.
• n. (dated) Lameness; a limp.

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.

nose

• n. A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
• n. A snout, the nose of an animal.
• n. The tip of an object.
• n. (horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish…
• n. A perfumer.
• n. The power of smelling.
• n. Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
• n. The skill in recognising bouquet.
• n. (by extension) Skill at finding information.
• v. (intransitive) To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
• v. (intransitive) To snoop.
• v. (transitive) To detect by smell or as if by smell.
• v. (transitive) To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
• v. (transitive) To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a nose.
• v. (transitive) To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

perish

• v. (intransitive) To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.
• v. (intransitive) To die; to cease to live.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to perish.

stall

• n. (countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
• n. A stable; a place for cattle.
• n. A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
• n. (countable) A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market.
• n. A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
• n. (countable) A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with…
• n. (aeronautics) Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded.
• n. (paganism and Heathenry) An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial…
• n. A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
• n. A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
• n. A sheath to protect the finger.
• n. (mining) The space left by excavation between pillars.
• n. (Canada) A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
• v. (transitive) To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
• v. To fatten.
• v. (intransitive) To come to a standstill.
• v. (transitive) To cause to stop making progress, to hinder, to slow down, to delay or forestall.
• v. To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
• v. (intransitive, aeronautics) To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in total loss of lift.
• v. (obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell.
• v. (obsolete) To be stuck, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
• v. (obsolete) To be tired of eating, as cattle.
• v. To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
• v. To forestall; to anticipate.
• v. To keep close; to keep secret.
• n. An action that is intended to cause or actually causes delay.
• v. (transitive) To employ delaying tactics against.
• v. (intransitive) To employ delaying tactics.

stop

• v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
• v. (intransitive) To not continue.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
• v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
• v. (intransitive) To tarry.
• v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
• v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
• v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
• n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
• n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
• n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
• n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
• n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
• n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
• n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
• n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
• n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
• n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
• n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
• n. (photography) An f-stop.
• n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
• n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
• n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
• adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
• interj. halt! stop!
• punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
• adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

swoon

• n. A faint.
• n. An infatuation.
• v. To faint, to lose consciousness.
• v. To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation.
• v. To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.