Synonyms of the word

extort

• v. (transitive) To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any…
• v. (transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
• v. (transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.

fleece

• n. (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.
• n. (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached.
• n. (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher…
• n. (countable) An insulating wooly jacket.
• n. (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
• n. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
• n. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
• v. to con or trick someone out of money.
• v. to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep).

gazump

• v. (Britain) To swindle; to extort.
• v. (Britain, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after…
• v. (Britain, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted…
• v. (Britain, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone…
• n. (US, slang, dated) An automobile.
• n. A politician who takes bribes.

gouge

• n. A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
• n. A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
• n. A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
• n. An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.
• n. (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
• n. (slang) Imposition; cheat; fraud.
• n. (slang) An impostor; a cheat.
• v. (transitive) To make a mark or hole by scooping.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
• v. (transitive) To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

obtain

• v. (transitive) To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold; to keep, possess or occupy.
• v. (intransitive) To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.

overcharge

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain…
• v. (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
• v. (transitive, dated) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
• v. (transitive, dated) To fill too full; to crowd.
• v. (transitive, dated) To exaggerate.
• n. An excessive load or burden.
• n. An excessive charge in an account.

pluck

• v. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
• v. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
• v. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
• v. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly.
• v. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
• v. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
• v. (Britain, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
• n. An instance of plucking.
• n. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
• n. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

plume

• n. A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one.
• n. The furry tail of certain dog breeds (e.g. Samoyed, Malteagle) that stands erect or curls over their backs.
• n. A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet.
• n. A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
• n. An area over which (or aspace into which) a dispersed substance has spread or fanned out; a cloud.
• n. An upward spray of water or mist.
• n. (geology) An upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle.
• n. (astronomy) An arc of glowing material erupting from the surface of a star.
• n. A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental…
• v. (transitive) To preen and arrange the feathers of.
• v. (transitive) To congratulate (oneself) proudly.
• v. To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
• v. To adorn with feathers or plumes.
• v. To form a plume.
• v. To write; to pen.

rack

• n. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
• n. Any of various kinds of frame for holding clothes, bottles, animal fodder, mined ore, shot on a vessel,…
• n. (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
• n. A distaff.
• n. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to…
• n. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction…
• n. A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
• n. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a…
• n. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
• n. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
• n. (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars,…
• n. (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners,…
• n. A grate on which bacon is laid.
• n. (obsolete) That which is extorted; exaction.
• n. (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
• v. To place in or hang on a rack.
• v. To torture (someone) on the rack.
• v. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
• v. (figuratively) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
• v. (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
• v. (slang) To strike a male in the groin with the knee.
• v. To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic…
• v. (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
• v. (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
• v. To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
• v. To stretch a person's joints.
• v. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
• v. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
• n. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
• v. (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning…
• v. (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
• n. A fast amble.
• n. (obsolete) A wreck; destruction.

rob

• v. (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To burgle.
• v. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
• v. (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
• n. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches…

soak

• v. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
• v. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
• v. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
• v. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up).
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
• v. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
• v. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
• v. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
• n. An immersion in water etc.
• n. (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
• n. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

squeeze

• v. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
• v. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
• v. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
• n. A close or tight fit.
• n. (figuratively) A difficult position.
• n. A hug or other affectionate grasp.
• n. (slang) A romantic partner.
• n. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the…
• n. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
• n. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
• n. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
• n. (epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling…
• n. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
• n. (dated) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe…

surcharge

• n. An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
• n. An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
• n. (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp;…
• n. (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
• n. (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's…
• n. (obsolete) An excessive load or burden.
• n. (law, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
• v. To apply a surcharge.
• v. To overload; to overburden.
• v. (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or…
• v. To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.

take

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

wring

• v. To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.
• v. To obtain by force.
• v. To hold tightly and press or twist.
• v. (intransitive) To writhe; to twist, as if in anguish.
• v. To kill an animal, usually poultry, by breaking its neck by twisting.
• v. To pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
• v. To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
• v. To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
• v. (nautical) To bend or strain out of its position.
• n. A powerful squeezing or twisting action.