Synonyms of the word

dash

• n. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal…
• n. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
• n. A short run.
• n. A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
• n. Vigor.
• n. A dashboard.
• n. (Nigeria and Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
• n. (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.).
• v. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
• v. (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
• v. (transitive) To throw violently.
• v. (transitive) To sprinkle; to splatter.
• v. (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
• v. (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
• v. (transitive) To complete hastily, usually with down or off.
• v. To draw quickly; jot.
• v. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something…
• interj. (euphemistic) Damn!

baffle

• v. (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
• v. (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
• v. To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
• v. (now rare) To foil; to thwart.
• v. (intransitive) To struggle in vain.
• n. A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is…
• n. An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
• n. (US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

bilk

• n. (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
• n. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
• v. (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
• v. (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).

bolt

• n. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one…
• n. A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
• n. A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides…
• n. A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
• n. A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by…
• n. A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
• n. A sudden event, action or emotion.
• n. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
• n. (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
• n. A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
• n. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
• n. (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected;…
• n. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
• v. To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
• v. To secure a door by locking or barring it.
• v. (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
• v. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
• v. (intransitive) To escape.
• v. (intransitive, botany) Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.
• v. To swallow food without chewing it.
• v. To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
• v. (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected;…
• v. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
• adv. Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
• v. To sift, especially through a cloth.
• v. To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
• v. To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
• v. (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
• n. A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

cast

• v. (heading, physical) To move, or be moved, away.
• v. To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
• v. (dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
• v. (heading, social) To predict, to decide, to plan.
• v. To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
• v. To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
• v. (archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.
• v. To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
• v. To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
• v. (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by…
• v. To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
• v. (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
• v. (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
• v. (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
• v. (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
• n. An act of throwing.
• n. Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
• n. A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
• n. The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
• n. The casting procedure.
• n. An object made in a mould.
• n. A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
• n. The mould used to make cast objects.
• n. (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
• n. A squint.
• n. Visual appearance.
• n. The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
• n. An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.
• n. Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
• n. A group of crabs.

crash

• n. An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
• n. A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally…
• n. A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.
• n. A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
• n. A comedown of a drug.
• n. A group of rhinoceroses.
• n. dysphoria.
• adj. quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.
• v. (transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
• v. (transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
• v. (transitive, slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation, usually with unfavorable…
• v. (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources…
• v. (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.
• v. (slang) To give, as a favor.
• v. (slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
• v. (computing, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.
• v. (computing, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
• v. (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after…
• v. (transitive) To hit or strike with force.
• n. (fibre) Plain linen.

cross

• n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least…
• n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese…
• n. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute…
• n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
• n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
• n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a…
• n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
• n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other.
• n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
• n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
• n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
• n. (soccer) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
• n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place…
• n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross).
• n. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross…
• n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
• n. A line drawn across or through another line.
• n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
• n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
• n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
• adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction.
• adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
• adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
• adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
• adj. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
• prep. (archaic) across.
• prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
• v. To make or form a cross.
• v. To move relatively.
• v. (social) To oppose.
• v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
• v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited…

dah

• n. The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
• n. (Burma) A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single…

dart

• n. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed…
• n. Anything resembling such a pointed missile weapon; anything that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
• n. (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
• n. A sudden or fast movement.
• n. (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
• n. A fish; the dace.
• n. (in the plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.
• n. (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
• v. (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
• v. (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
• v. (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
• v. (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.

daunt

• v. to discourage, intimidate.
• v. to overwhelm.

elan

• n. ardor or zeal inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

elegance

• n. Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
• n. Restraint and grace of style.
• n. The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
• n. (countable) A refinement or luxury.

flair

• n. A natural or innate talent or aptitude; a knack.
• n. Distinctive style or elegance; panache or elan.
• n. (obsolete) Smell; odor.
• n. (obsolete) The sense of smell.
• v. (transitive) To add flair.

flash

• v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
• v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
• v. To be visible briefly.
• v. To make visible briefly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
• v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
• v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
• v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
• v. To communicate quickly.
• v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
• v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
• v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
• v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
• v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
• v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
• v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
• n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
• n. A very short amount of time.
• n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
• n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
• n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
• n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
• n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
• n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
• n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
• adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
• adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
• n. A pool.
• n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…

foil

• n. A very thin sheet of metal.
• n. (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
• n. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
• n. (figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the…
• n. (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
• n. (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip.
• n. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation…
• n. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
• n. Shortened form of hydrofoil.
• n. Shortened form of aerofoil/airfoil.
• v. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
• v. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
• v. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
• v. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
• n. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
• n. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
• n. (hunting) The track of an animal.
• v. (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
• v. (obsolete) To defile; to soil.

frustrate

• v. (transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
• v. (transitive) To hinder or thwart.
• v. (transitive) To cause stress or panic.
• adj. vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.

haste

• n. Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
• n. (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
• v. (transitive) To urge onward; to hasten.
• v. (intransitive) To move with haste.

hasten

• v. To move in a quick fashion.
• v. To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
• v. To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.

hie

• v. (intransitive, poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
• v. (reflexive, poetic) To hurry (oneself).
• n. Haste; diligence.

hotfoot

• n. (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting…
• adv. (Britain) hastily; without delay.

hurl

• v. (transitive) To throw (something) with force.
• v. (transitive) To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
• v. (intransitive) To participate in the sport of hurling.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
• v. (obsolete) To twist or turn.
• n. A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling.
• n. The act of vomiting.
• n. (hurling) The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
• n. (Ulster) (car) ride.
• n. (obsolete) tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
• n. (obsolete) A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.

hurry

• n. Rushed action.
• n. Urgency.
• n. (sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster…
• v. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
• v. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
• v. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
• v. (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

hurtle

• v. (intransitive) To move rapidly, violently, or without control.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused…
• v. (transitive) To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.
• n. A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
• n. A clattering sound.

hyphen

• n. The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that…
• n. (figuratively) Something that links two more consequential things.
• v. (transitive, dated) To separate or punctuate with a hyphen; to hyphenate.
• p.n. (colloquial) Used to refer to a person with a hyphenated name.
• conj. Used to emphasize the coordinating function usually indicated by the punctuation "-".

intimidate

• v. (transitive) To make timid or fearful; to inspire or affect with fear; to deter, especially by threats…

mix

• v. To stir two or more substances together.
• v. To combine items from two or more sources normally kept separate.
• v. To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.
• v. To use a mixer (machine) on.
• v. (music) To combine several tracks.
• v. (music) To produce a finished version of a recording.
• v. To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
• n. The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
• n. The result of combining items normally kept separate.
• n. (music) The result of mixing several tracks.
• n. (music) The finished version of a recording.

pall

• n. (archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
• n. (Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
• n. (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the…
• n. (Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
• n. (heraldry) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter…
• n. A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
• n. An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
• n. (obsolete) nausea.
• n. A feeling of gloom.
• v. To cloak.
• v. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
• v. (intransitive) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.

panache

• n. (countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.
• n. (uncountable) Flamboyant, energetic style or action; dash; verve.

punctuation

• n. A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into…
• n. An act of punctuating.

queer

• adj. (now slightly dated) Weird, odd or different; whimsical.
• adj. (slightly dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer).
• adj. (colloquial) Homosexual.
• adj. (colloquial) Not heterosexual: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, etc.
• adj. (broadly) Pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual…
• n. (colloquial) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
• n. (colloquial) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
• n. (colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare…
• n. (definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.
• v. (transitive) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
• v. (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
• v. (slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
• v. (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender,…
• adv. Queerly.

race

• n. A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective…
• n. (computing) A race condition.
• n. A progressive movement toward a goal.
• n. A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
• n. A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.
• n. Swift progress; rapid course; a running.
• n. Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
• n. Travels, runs, or journeys.
• n. The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
• v. (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
• v. (transitive) To compete against in such a race.
• v. (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed.
• v. (intransitive) Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
• n. A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics.
• n. (taxonomy) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly…
• n. A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
• n. (figuratively) A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved from an older one (with…
• n. (obsolete) Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities,…
• n. (obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.
• n. A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.

restrain

• v. (transitive) To control or keep in check.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
• v. (transitive) To restrict or limit.

run

• v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
• v. (fluids) To flow.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• v. (social) To carry out an activity.
• v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
• v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
• v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
• v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
• v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
• v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• v. To have growth or development.
• v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
• v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
• n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
• n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
• n. A pleasure trip.
• n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
• n. Migration (of fish).
• n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
• n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
• n. A (regular) trip or route.
• n. The route taken while running or skiing.
• n. The distance sailed by a ship.
• n. A voyage.
• n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
• n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
• n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
• n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
• n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
• n. A trial.
• n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
• n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
• n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
• n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
• n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
• n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
• n. Any sudden large demand for something.
• n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
• n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
• n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
• n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
• n. (cricket) A point scored.
• n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
• n. Unrestricted use of.
• n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
• n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
• n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
• n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
• n. A pair or set of millstones.
• n. (video games) A playthrough.
• n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
• n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
• n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
• n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
• adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
• adj. Cast in a mould.
• adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
• adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

running

• adj. Moving or advancing by running.
• adj. successive; one following the other without break or intervention.
• adj. Flowing; easy; cursive.
• adj. Continuous; keeping along step by step.
• adj. (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
• adj. (medicine) Discharging pus.
• adj. (of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
• adv. (informal) consecutively; in a row.
• n. The action of the verb to run.
• n. The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
• n. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
• n. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
• v. present participle of run.

rush

• n. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems…
• n. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
• n. The merest trifle; a straw.
• n. A sudden forward motion.
• n. A surge.
• n. General haste.
• n. A rapid, noisy flow.
• n. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
• n. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
• n. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.
• n. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
• n. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
• n. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
• n. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
• v. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
• v. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
• v. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
• v. (military) To swiftly attach to without warning.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing…
• v. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
• adj. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

rushing

• v. present participle of rush.
• n. A rapid surging motion.

scare

• n. A minor fright.
• n. A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.
• v. To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.

scoot

• n. (slang) A dollar.
• n. (slang) a scooter.
• v. To walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily.
• v. To ride on a scooter.
• v. (of an animal) To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end.

scotch

• n. A surface cut or abrasion.
• n. A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
• n. A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
• v. (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
• v. (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
• v. (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
• v. (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
• v. (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To clothe or cover up.
• adj. Of Scottish origin.
• n. Whisky of Scottish origin.
• n. Scotch tape.
• v. (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) to rape.

scud

• adj. (slang, Scotland) Naked.
• v. (intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set.
• v. (Northumbria) To hit.
• v. (Northumbria) To speed.
• v. (Northumbria) To skim.
• n. The act of scudding.
• n. Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
• n. A gust of wind.
• n. (Bristol) A scab on a wound.
• n. A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
• n. Any swimming amphipod.
• n. (slang, Scotland) Pornography.
• n. (slang, Scotland) Irn-Bru.

shoot

• v. To launch a projectile.
• v. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
• v. (sports) To act or achieve.
• v. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
• v. To develop, move forward.
• v. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
• v. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
• v. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.^W.
• n. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
• n. A photography session.
• n. A hunt or shooting competition.
• n. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
• n. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
• n. A rush of water; a rapid.
• n. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
• n. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
• n. A shoat; a young pig.
• n. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a…
• interj. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain.

smash

• n. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A traffic accident.
• n. (colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
• n. (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
• v. To break (something brittle) violently.
• v. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
• v. To hit extremely hard.
• v. (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success.
• v. (US) To deform through continuous pressure.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

speed

• n. The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity.
• n. The rate of motion or action, specifically (mathematics)/(physics) the magnitude of the velocity; the…
• n. (photography) The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
• n. (photography) The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open.
• n. (photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
• n. (photography) The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a…
• n. (archaic) Luck, success, prosperity.
• n. (slang) Personal preference.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
• v. (intransitive) To go fast.
• v. (intransitive) To exceed the speed limit.
• v. (transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
• v. (obsolete) To be expedient.
• v. (archaic) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
• v. (archaic) To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
• v. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
• v. To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

sprint

• n. A short race at top speed.
• n. A burst of speed or activity.
• n. In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.

style

• n. A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
• n. Flair; grace; fashionable skill.
• n. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
• n. A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
• n. A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
• n. (nonstandard) A stylus.
• n. (obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
• n. A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
• n. A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
• n. A long, slender, bristle-like process.
• n. The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
• n. (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
• v. (transitive) To create or give a style, fashion or image to.
• v. (transitive) To call or give a name or title to.

thwart

• v. (transitive) To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
• v. (obsolete) To move across or counter to; to cross.
• n. (nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel…
• n. (nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
• adj. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
• adj. (figuratively) Perverse; crossgrained.
• adv. Obliquely; transversely; athwart.