Synonyms of the word

fan

• n. A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one…
• n. An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
• n. Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
• n. An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is…
• n. A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the…
• n. (mathematics) A section of a tree having a finite number of branches.
• v. (transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
• v. (transitive) To slap (a behind, especially).
• v. (intransitive, usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape…
• v. a maneuver done by flicking the top rear of an old style gun.
• n. An admirer or aficionado, especially of a sport or performer; someone who is fond of something or someone.

agitate

• v. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
• v. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
• v. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.
• v. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.

buff

• n. Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
• n. A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
• n. A brownish yellow colour.
• n. A military coat made of buff leather.
• n. (informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject; an enthusiast.
• n. (video games, role-playing games) An effect that temporarily makes a character stronger.
• n. (rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
• n. The bare skin.
• n. The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
• n. A substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
• n. The meat of a buffalo.
• adj. Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
• adj. (bodybuilding): Unusually muscular. (also buffed or buffed out).
• adj. (slang) attractive.
• v. To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
• v. (video games, role-playing games) To make a character or an item stronger.
• v. To strike.
• n. (obsolete) A buffet; a blow.

compound

• n. an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
• n. a group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
• adj. composed of elements; not simple.
• adj. (music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
• n. Anything made by combining several things.
• n. (chemistry, dated) A substance made from any combination elements.
• n. (chemistry) A substance formed by chemical union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by…
• n. (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem; compound word; for example laptop, formed…
• v. (transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts.
• v. (transitive) To assemble (ingredients) into a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
• v. (transitive) To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something…
• v. (transitive, law) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
• v. (transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise.
• v. (intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; usually followed by…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To compose; to constitute.
• v. (transitive) To worsen a situation.

deepen

• v. To make deep or deeper.
• v. To make darker or more intense; to darken.
• v. To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree.
• v. To make lower in tone.
• v. To make more thorough or extensive.
• v. To make more intimate.
• v. To make more sound or heavy.
• v. (intransitive) To become deeper.
• v. (intransitive) To become darker or more intense.
• v. (intransitive) To become lower in tone.
• v. (intransitive) To become more thorough or extensive.
• v. (intransitive) To become more intimate.
• v. (intransitive) To become more sound or heavy.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

devotee

• n. An ardent enthusiast or admirer.
• n. A fanatical or zealous believer in a particular religion or god.
• n. (slang) Someone with an amputee fetish.

enthusiast

• n. A person filled with or guided by enthusiasm.
• n. (archaic) A person exhibiting over-zealous religious fervour.

follower

• n. (literally) One who follows, comes after another.
• n. Something that comes after another thing.
• n. One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer.
• n. One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc.
• n. An imitator, who follows another's example.
• n. A pursuer.
• n. A person or an account holding entity who's following someone or something (such as a company, a government…
• n. A machine part receiving motion from another.
• n. A man courting a maidservant.
• n. Young cattle.
• n. A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly.
• n. (Australian rules football) Any of the three players (the ruckman, ruck rover, and rover) who usually…
• n. (colloquial, dated) A debt collector.

heighten

• v. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
• v. To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.

intensify

• v. (transitive) To render more intense.
• v. (intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

lover

• n. One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend,…
• n. A sexual partner.
• n. A person who loves something.
• n. (West Country, with "my") An informal term of address for any friend.

partisan

• n. An adherent to a party or faction.
• n. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
• n. A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways…
• n. (now rare) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an…
• adj. Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops: as, a partisan officer or corps.
• adj. Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable…
• adj. Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause: partisan politics.
• n. (historical) A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in…
• n. (obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.

partizan

• n. Alternative spelling of partisan.
• n. (obsolete) A weapon of the 16^th and 17^th centuries consisting of a pike with a long double-edged blade,…

rooter

• n. One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
• n. (US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.

shake

• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
• v. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
• v. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
• v. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
• v. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To move from side to side.
• v. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
• v. (intransitive) To dance.
• v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
• n. The act of shaking something.
• n. A milkshake.
• n. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
• n. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
• n. (building material) A thin shingle.
• n. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
• n. A fissure in rock or earth.
• n. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
• n. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.).
• n. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
• n. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff…
• n. A shook of staves and headings.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

sieve

• n. A device to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid…
• n. A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input…
• n. (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
• n. (category theory) A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of…
• v. To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
• v. (sports) To concede; let in.

sift

• v. To sieve or strain (something).
• v. To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
• v. To examine (something) carefully.

strain

• n. (obsolete) Treasure.
• n. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
• n. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
• n. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
• n. A tendency or disposition.
• n. (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the…
• n. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
• n. (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement,…
• n. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be…
• v. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
• v. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
• v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
• v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
• v. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what…
• v. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
• v. (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
• v. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
• v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
• v. To urge with importunity; to press.
• n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
• n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
• n. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
• n. (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering…
• n. (obsolete) The track of a deer.

winnow

• v. (transitive, agriculture) To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating…
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To separate, sift, analyze, or test in this manner.
• v. (transitive, literary) To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
• v. (intransitive, literary, dated) To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.
• n. That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.