Synonyms of the word

drown

• v. (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
• v. (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
• v. (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively)…
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other…

choke

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

conk

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

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

croak

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

decease

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

die

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

eliminate

• v. (transitive) To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
• v. (slang) To kill (a person or animal).
• v. (physiology) To excrete (waste products).
• v. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
• v. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

exit

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

expire

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

go

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

kill

• v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
• v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
• v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
• v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
• v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
• v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
• v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
• v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
• n. The act of killing.
• n. Specifically, the death blow.
• n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
• n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
• n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
• n. A kiln.

overwhelm

• v. To engulf, surge over and submerge.
• v. To overpower, crush.
• v. To overpower emotionally.
• v. To cause to surround, to cover.
• n. The state or condition of being overwhelmed.

pass

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

perish

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

submerge

• v. (intransitive) To sink out of sight.
• v. (transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
• v. (transitive) To be engulfed in or with something.