Synonyms of the word

dribble

• v. To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool.
• v. To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle.
• v. In various ball games, to run with the ball, controlling its path with the feet.
• v. (basketball) To bounce the ball on the floor with one hand at a time, enabling the player to move with…
• v. To advance by dribbling.
• v. (transitive) to let something fall in drips.
• v. (transitive) in various ball games, to move the ball by repeated light kicks so as not to lose control…
• v. (dated) To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
• n. A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
• n. A small amount of a liquid.
• n. In sport, the act of dribbling.

actuation

• n. The act of putting into motion.

carry

• v. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
• v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
• v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
• v. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
• v. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
• v. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the…
• v. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
• v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
• v. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
• v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
• v. (transitive) To have on one's person.
• v. To be pregnant (with).
• v. To have propulsive power; to propel.
• v. To hold the head; said of a horse.
• v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
• v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in…
• v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
• v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
• v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
• v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
• n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
• n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
• n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

course

• n. A sequence of events.
• n. A path that something or someone moves along.
• n. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
• n. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
• n. A row or file of objects.
• n. (music) A string on a lute.
• n. (music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.
• v. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
• v. To run through or over.
• v. To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
• v. To cause to chase after or pursue game.
• adv. (colloquial) Alternative form of of course.

dribbling

• v. present participle of dribble.
• n. An amount of liquid that is dribbled.

drip

• v. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
• v. (intransitive) To leak slowly.
• v. (transitive) To let fall in drops.
• v. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
• v. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
• v. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
• n. A drop of a liquid.
• n. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's…
• n. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
• n. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
• n. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond…
• acr. (finance) Dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

drivel

• n. senseless talk; nonsense.
• n. saliva, drool.
• n. (obsolete) A fool; an idiot.
• n. (obsolete) A servant; a drudge.
• v. To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
• v. To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly.
• v. To be weak or foolish; to dote.

drool

• v. to secrete saliva in anticipation of food.
• v. to secrete saliva upon seeing something nice.
• v. to talk nonsense.
• n. saliva trickling from the mouth.

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

feed

• v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
• v. (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
• v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
• v. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
• v. (figuratively) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
• v. To supply with something.
• v. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
• v. (sports, transitive) To pass to.
• v. (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply.
• n. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
• n. Something supplied continuously.
• n. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
• n. (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
• n. (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of fee.

filter

• n. A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other…
• n. Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that…
• n. Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
• n. (figuratively) self-restraint in speech.
• n. (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary…
• v. (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
• v. (transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
• v. (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
• v. (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road.

flow

• n. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.
• n. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
• n. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of…
• n. The rising movement of the tide.
• n. Smoothness or continuity.
• n. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
• n. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
• n. The emission of blood during menstruation.
• n. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
• v. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
• v. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
• v. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
• v. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
• v. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
• v. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated…
• v. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
• v. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
• v. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

flowing

• v. present participle of flow.
• n. The action of the verb to flow.
• adj. Tending to flow.
• adj. Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

pour

• v. (transitive) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of…
• v. (transitive) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
• v. (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
• v. (intransitive) To flow, pass or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
• v. (intransitive) to move in a throng, as a crowd.
• n. The act of pouring.
• n. Something, or an amount, poured.
• n. (colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.
• v. Misspelling of pore.

propulsion

• n. Force causing movement.

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.

saliva

• n. (physiology) A clear, slightly alkaline liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous…

salivate

• v. (intransitive) To produce saliva.
• v. (intransitive) To show eager anticipation at the expectation of something.

slabber

• v. (intransitive) To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
• v. (transitive) To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
• v. (transitive) To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
• v. (transitive) To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
• n. Moisture falling from the mouth; slaver.
• n. A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
• n. A slabbing machine.

slaver

• v. (intransitive) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
• v. (intransitive) To fawn.
• v. (transitive) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
• v. To be besmeared with saliva.
• n. saliva running from the mouth; drool.
• n. a person engaged in the slave trade.
• n. white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'.
• n. (nautical) a ship used to transport slaves.

slobber

• n. Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
• n. (dated) A jellyfish.
• v. To allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth; to drool.

spit

• n. A rod on which meat is grilled (UK English) or broiled (US English).
• n. A narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
• n. The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
• v. To impale on a spit.
• v. To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
• v. To spade; to dig.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth.
• v. To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.
• v. (transitive) To utter violently.
• v. (transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, utter.
• n. (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
• n. (countable) An instance of spitting.

spittle

• n. Spit, usually frothy and of a milky coloration.
• n. Something frothy and white that resembles spit.
• n. Spit-up or drool of an infant.
• n. A small sort of spade.
• n. Obsolete form of spital.
• v. To dig or stir with a small spade.

trickle

• n. A very thin river.
• n. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
• v. (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
• v. (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
• v. (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.