Synonyms of the word

cream

• n. The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
• n. A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
• n. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped…
• n. (figuratively) The best part of something.
• n. (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to…
• n. (vulgar, slang) Semen.
• n. (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
• adj. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
• v. To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
• v. To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
• v. (slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
• v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
• v. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing).
• v. (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
• v. (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To take off the best or choicest part of.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.

apply

• v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
• v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
• v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
• v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
• v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
• v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
• v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
• v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
• v. (obsolete) To visit.
• adj. Alternative spelling of appley.

bat

• n. Any of the small, nocturnal, flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, which navigate by means of echolocation.
• n. (offensive) An old woman.
• n. (archaic) (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) A prostitute…
• n. A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
• n. A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
• n. (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
• n. (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
• n. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
• n. A part of a brick with one whole end.
• n. A stroke; a sharp blow.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
• n. (informal) Rate of motion; speed.
• n. (US, slang, dated) A spree; a jollification.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
• v. (transitive) to hit with a bat.
• v. (intransitive) to take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball,…
• v. (intransitive) to strike or swipe as though with a bat.
• v. (transitive) to flutter: bat one's eyelashes.
• v. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
• v. (US, Britain, dialect) To wink.
• n. (obsolete) packsaddle.
• n. Dated form of baht. (Thai currency).

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

clobber

• v. (transitive, slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally…
• n. (Britain, Australia, slang) Clothing.
• n. (Britain, slang) Equipment.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

drub

• n. (dialectal, Northern England) carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
• v. to beat (someone or something) with a stick.
• v. to defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
• v. to forcefully teach something.
• v. to criticize harshly; to excoriate.

elite

• adj. Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
• adj. Representing the choicest or most select of a group.
• n. A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status…
• n. Someone who is among the best at a certain task.

emollient

• n. Something which softens or lubricates the skin; moisturizer.
• n. Anything soothing the mind, or that makes something more acceptable.
• adj. Moisturizing.
• adj. Soothing or mollifying.

lick

• n. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
• n. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
• n. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts…
• n. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
• n. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
• n. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
• n. (colloquial) A bit.
• n. (music) A short motif.
• n. Speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.).
• v. To stroke with the tongue.
• v. (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
• v. (colloquial) To overcome.
• v. (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
• v. (colloquial) To do anything partially.
• v. (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
• v. To lap; to take in with the tongue.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

ointment

• n. (medicine) A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment…

pick

• n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
• n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
• n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
• n. A choice; ability to choose.
• n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
• n. (basketball) A screen.
• n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
• n. (American football) An interception.
• n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
• n. (baseball) A pickoff.
• n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
• n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
• n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
• n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
• n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
• n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
• v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
• v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
• v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
• v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
• v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
• v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
• v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
• v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
• v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
• v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
• v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
• v. To steal; to pilfer.
• v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
• v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

remove

• v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
• v. (transitive) To murder.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
• v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
• v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
• v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
• n. The act of removing something.
• n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
• n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
• n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
• n. Distance in time or space; interval.
• n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
• n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

scramble

• interj. (Britain) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that…
• v. (intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
• v. (transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
• v. (transitive) To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
• v. (transitive, military) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to…
• v. (intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
• v. (transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.
• v. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize…
• n. A rush or hurry.
• n. (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
• n. A motocross race.
• n. Any frantic period of activity.

shell

• n. A hard external covering of an animal.
• n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
• n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
• n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
• n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
• n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
• n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
• n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
• n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
• n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
• n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
• n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
• n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
• n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
• n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
• n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
• n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
• n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
• n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
• n. An emaciated person.
• n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
• n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
• n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
• n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
• v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
• v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
• v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
• v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
• v. (topology) To form a shelling.

skim

• v. (intransitive) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
• v. (transitive) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface…
• v. To hasten along with superficial attention.
• v. To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
• v. (transitive) to throw an object so it bounces on water (skimming stones).
• v. (intransitive) to ricochet.
• v. (transitive) to read quickly, skipping some detail.
• v. (transitive) to scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface.
• v. (transitive) to clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil…
• v. (transitive) to clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream…
• adj. (of milk) Having lowered fat content.
• n. A cursory reading, skipping the details.
• n. (informal) Skim milk.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

thrash

• v. To beat mercilessly.
• v. To defeat utterly.
• v. To thresh.
• v. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
• v. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior…
• v. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
• n. A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
• n. (music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical…

toiletry

• n. Any item used for personal hygiene or grooming.

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

vanquish

• v. To defeat, to overcome.

withdraw

• v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
• v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
• v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
• v. (intransitive) To retreat.
• v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.