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Synonyms of the word 
DELIVER → BEAR - BIRTH - BRING - CEDE - COMMUNICATE - CONVEY - DEPORT - EMIT - EXPEL - EXTRADITE - FETCH - GET - GIFT - GIVE - HAND - HAVE - MOUTH - PASS - PITCH - PRESENT - PRODUCE - REACH - REDEEM - RENDER - RESCUE - RETURN - SAVE - SPEAK - SURRENDER - TALK - THROW - UTTER - VERBALISE - VERBALIZEdeliver- v. To set free.
- v. (process) To do with birth.
- v. To free from or disburden of anything.
- v. To bring or transport something to its destination.
- v. To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
- v. To express in words, declare, or utter.
- v. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
- v. To discover; to show.
- v. (obsolete) To admit; to allow to pass.
- v. (medicine) To administer a drug.
bear- n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and…
- n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
- n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
- n. (slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
- n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
- n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
- n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
- v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
- adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices…
- v. (transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
- v. (transitive) To carry something.
- v. (transitive) To be equipped with (something).
- v. (transitive) To wear or display.
- v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
- v. (transitive) To put up with something.
- v. (transitive) To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
- v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
- v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
- v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
- v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
- v. (trasitive, intransitive) To take effect; to have influence or force.
- v. (intransitive, usually with on or upon) To relate or refer.
- v. (transitive) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
- v. (transitive) To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
- v. (transitive) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
- v. (transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
- v. (transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
- v. (transitive) To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
- v. (transitive) To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).
- v. (transitive) To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
- n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
- n. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).
birth- n. (uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life.
- n. (countable) An instance of childbirth.
- n. (countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
- n. (uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
- n. That which is born.
- n. Misspelling of berth.
- adj. A familial relationship established by childbirth.
- v. (dated or regional) To bear or give birth to (a child).
- v. (figuratively) To produce, give rise to.
bring- v. (transitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
- v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
- v. (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
- v. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
- v. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
- v. (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
- interj. The sound of a telephone ringing.
cede- v. (transitive) To give up, give way, give away.
communicate- v. To impart.
- v. To share.
convey- v. To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
- v. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
- v. (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
- v. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
- v. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
deport- v. (reflexive, now rare) To comport (oneself); to behave.
- v. (transitive) To evict, especially from a country.
emit- v. (transitive) To send out or give off.
expel- v. To eject or erupt.
- v. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
- v. (transitive) To remove from membership.
- v. (transitive) To deport.
extradite- v. To remove a person from one state to another by legal process.
fetch- v. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
- v. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
- v. (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
- v. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
- v. (rare, literary) To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh).
- v. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
- v. (obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
- v. To reduce; to throw.
- v. To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects.
- v. (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
- n. The object of fetching; the source and origin of attraction; a force, quality or propensity which is attracting…
- n. A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another…
- n. The apparition of a living person; a wraith; one's double (seeing it is supposed to be a sign that one…
- n. (computing) The act of fetching data.
get- v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- v. (transitive) To receive.
- v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- v. (copulative) To become.
- v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- v. (transitive) To cause to do.
- v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
- v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
- v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
- v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
- v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
- v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
- v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
- v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- v. (transitive) To getter.
- v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
- v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
- v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
- v. (euphemistic) To kill.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
- n. Offspring.
- n. Lineage.
- n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- n. Something gained.
- n. (Britain, regional) A git.
- n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
gift- n. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
- n. A talent or natural ability.
- n. Something gained incidentally, without effort.
- n. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.
- v. (transitive) To give as a gift or donation.
- v. (transitive) To give away, to concede easily.
give- v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
- v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
- v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
- v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
- v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
- v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
- v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
- v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
- v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
- v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
- v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
- v. To be going on, to be occurring.
- n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.
hand- n. The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other…
- n. (heading) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
- n. (heading) In linear measurement.
- n. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
- n. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
- n. An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special…
- n. An instance of helping.
- n. Handwriting; style of penmanship.
- n. A person's autograph or signature.
- n. Personal possession; ownership.
- n. (usually in the plural, hands) Management, domain, control.
- n. (heading) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
- n. Applause.
- n. (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar,…
- n. (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
- n. A whole rhizome of ginger.
- n. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of…
- n. (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
- n. (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
- n. (obsolete) Rate; price.
- v. (transitive) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
- v. (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To manage.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
- v. (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
- v. (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.
have- v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
- v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
- v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
- v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
- v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
- v. (transitive) To give birth to.
- v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
- v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
- v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
- v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
- v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
- v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
- v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
- v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
- v. To trick, to deceive.
- v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
- v. (transitive) To host someone.
mouth- n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
- n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
- n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
- n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
- n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
- n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
- n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
- n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
- n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
- v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
- v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
- v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
- v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
- v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
- v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.
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).
pitch- n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- n. (geology) Pitchstone.
- v. To cover or smear with pitch.
- v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
- n. An effort to sell or promote something.
- n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
- n. The angle at which an object sits.
- n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
- n. The place where a busker performs.
- n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
- n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
- n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- v. (transitive) To throw.
- v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
- v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
- v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
- v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
- v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
- n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
- v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
present- adj. Relating to now, for the time being; current.
- adj. Located in the immediate vicinity.
- adj. (obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.
- adj. (obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.
- adj. (dated) Ready; quick in emergency.
- adj. (obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.
- adj. Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the…
- adj. Attentive; alert; focused.
- n. The current moment or period of time.
- n. The present tense.
- n. A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other…
- n. (military) The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
- v. To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
- v. (transitive) To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop…
- v. (transitive) To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
- v. (transitive, now rare) To charge (a person) with a crime or accusation; to bring before court.
- v. (reflexive) To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
- v. (transitive) To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
- v. (transitive) To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
- v. (transitive) To put on, stage (a play etc.).
- v. (transitive, military) To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
- v. (reflexive) To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
- v. (intransitive, medicine) To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
- v. (intransitive, medicine) To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the…
- v. (intransitive, with "as") To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).
- v. (transitive) To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
- v. (transitive) To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
- v. (transitive) To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
- v. (transitive) To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
- v. (transitive) To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.
produce- v. (transitive) To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
- v. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
- v. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
- v. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
- v. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
- n. Items produced.
- n. Amount produced.
- n. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs,…
- n. Offspring.
- n. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.
reach- v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
- v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
- v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
- v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
- v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
- v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
- v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
- v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
- v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
- v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
- n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
- n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
- n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
- n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
- n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- n. An effort to vomit; a retching.
redeem- v. (transitive) To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
- v. (transitive) To liberate by payment of a ransom.
- v. (transitive) To set free by force.
- v. (transitive) To save, rescue.
- v. (transitive) To clear, release from debt or blame.
- v. (transitive) To expiate, atone (for …).
- v. (finance, transitive) To convert (some bond or security) into cash.
- v. (transitive) To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
- v. (transitive) To repair, restore.
- v. (transitive) To reform, change (for the better).
- v. (transitive) To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something.
- v. (archaic, transitive) To reclaim.
render- v. (transitive) To cause to become.
- v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
- v. (transitive) To pass down.
- v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
- v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
- v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
- v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
- v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
- v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
- v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
- v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
- n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
- n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
- n. (obsolete) A surrender.
- n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
- n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
- n. One who rends.
rescue- v. To save from any violence, danger or evil.
- v. To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
- v. To recover forcibly.
- v. To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
- v. (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
- v. (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
- n. An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
- n. A liberation, freeing.
- n. The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
- n. A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
- n. A rescuee.
return- v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
- v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
- v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
- v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
- v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
- v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- n. The act of returning.
- n. A return ticket.
- n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- n. An answer.
- n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
- n. Gain or loss from an investment.
- n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
- n. (computing) A carriage return character.
- n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…
save- n. In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- n. (baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins…
- n. (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run…
- n. (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- n. (role-playing games) A saving throw.
- v. (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
- v. To put aside, to avoid.
- prep. Except; with the exception of.
- conj. (dated) unless; except.
speak- v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
- v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
- v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
- v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
- v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
- v. (transitive) To utter.
- v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
- v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
- v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
- n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
- n. Speach, conversation.
- n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.
surrender- v. (transitive) To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
- v. (military, by extension, transitive) To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
- v. (intransitive or reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to…
- v. (transitive) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
- v. (reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
- v. (transitive, intransitive, blackjack) To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial…
- n. An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
- n. The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
- n. (law, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy…
talk- n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- n. A lecture.
- n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
- n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
- n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
- v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
- v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
throw- v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
- v. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
- v. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
- v. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during…
- v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal…
- v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
- v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
- v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
- v. (transitive) To imprison.
- v. To organize an event, especially a party.
- v. To roll (a die or dice).
- v. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
- v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position…
- v. (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
- v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone…
- v. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- v. (transitive) To project or send forth.
- v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles,…
- v. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role…
- n. The flight of a thrown object.
- n. The act of throwing something.
- n. One's ability to throw.
- n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
- n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
- n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
- n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
- n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
- v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
- n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
- n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
- n. Misspelling of throe.
utter- adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
- adj. (obsolete) Outward.
- adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
- v. (transitive) To say.
- v. (transitive) To use the voice.
- v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
- v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
- v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
- adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.
verbalise- v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.
verbalize- v. To speak or to use words to express.
- v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.
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