Synonyms of the word

flutter

• v. (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
• v. (intransitive, of a winged animal) To flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the…
• v. (transitive) To cause something to flap.
• v. (transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
• n. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
• n. A state of agitation.
• n. An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
• n. (Britain) A small bet or risky investment.
• n. (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.

arrhythmia

• n. An irregular heartbeat.

bat

• n. Any of the small, nocturnal, flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, which navigate by means of echolocation.
• n. (offensive) An old woman.
• n. (archaic) (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) A prostitute…
• n. A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
• n. A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
• n. (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
• n. (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
• n. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
• n. A part of a brick with one whole end.
• n. A stroke; a sharp blow.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
• n. (informal) Rate of motion; speed.
• n. (US, slang, dated) A spree; a jollification.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
• v. (transitive) to hit with a bat.
• v. (intransitive) to take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball,…
• v. (intransitive) to strike or swipe as though with a bat.
• v. (transitive) to flutter: bat one's eyelashes.
• v. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
• v. (US, Britain, dialect) To wink.
• n. (obsolete) packsaddle.
• n. Dated form of baht. (Thai currency).

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

blink

• v. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
• v. To flash on and off at regular intervals.
• v. (hyperbolic) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
• v. To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
• v. (Scotland) To trick; to deceive.
• v. To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
• v. (video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.
• n. The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
• n. (figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
• n. (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
• n. A glimpse or glance.
• n. (Britain, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
• n. (nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice…
• n. (sports, in the plural) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
• n. (video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances.

commotion

• n. A state of turbulent motion.
• n. An agitated disturbance or a hubbub.
• n. (euphemistic) Sexual excitement.

dart

• n. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed…
• n. Anything resembling such a pointed missile weapon; anything that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
• n. (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
• n. A sudden or fast movement.
• n. (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
• n. A fish; the dace.
• n. (in the plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.
• n. (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
• v. (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
• v. (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
• v. (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
• v. (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.

disorder

• n. Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
• n. A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
• n. (medicine, countable) A physical or psychical malfunction.
• v. (transitive) To throw into a state of disorder.
• v. (transitive) To knock out of order or sequence.

disruption

• n. An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
• n. A continuing act of disorder.

disturbance

• n. The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
• n. Something that disturbs.
• n. A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.
• n. An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
• n. (psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.

flap

• n. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
• n. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
• n. A hinged leaf.
• n. A side fin of a ray - also termed a wing.
• n. An upset, stir, scandal or controversy.
• n. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
• n. A disease in the lips of horses.
• n. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
• n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound ɾ in the standard…
• n. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
• n. (slang, chiefly plural) The female genitals.
• v. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
• v. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
• v. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as…

flapping

• adj. That flaps or flap.
• n. An instance where one flaps.
• n. (phonology) A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and…
• n. (computing, telecommunications) The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised…
• v. present participle of flap.

fleet

• n. A group of vessels or vehicles.
• n. Any group of associated items.
• n. (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of…
• n. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear-admiral's…
• n. (obsolete) A flood; a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, a river subject to the tide. cognate to Low German…
• n. (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
• v. (obsolete) To float.
• v. To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
• v. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
• v. (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of…
• v. (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
• v. (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
• v. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
• v. To take the cream from; to skim.
• adj. (literary) Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble;…
• adj. (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

flicker

• n. An unsteady flash of light.
• n. A short moment.
• v. (intransitive) To burn or shine unsteadily. To burn or shine with a wavering light.
• v. (intransitive) To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
• v. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
• n. (US) A certain type of small woodpecker, especially of the genus Colaptes.
• n. One who flicks.

flit

• n. A fluttering or darting movement.
• n. (physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
• n. (slang) A homosexual.
• v. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
• v. To move quickly from one location to another.
• v. (physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
• v. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
• adj. (poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.

flitter

• v. to scatter in pieces.
• v. to move about rapidly and nimbly.
• v. to move quickly from one condition or location to another.
• v. to flutter or quiver.
• n. A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
• n. (science fiction) A small aircraft or spacecraft.

fluttering

• n. Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
• v. present participle of flutter.

hoo-ha

• n. A fuss, uproar, commotion or stir; hype; brouhaha, hullabaloo.
• n. (slang, euphemistic) vagina, vulva.

hoo-hah

• n. Alternative spelling of hoo-ha (fuss, uproar).
• n. Alternative spelling of hoo-ha (vagina).

hurry

• n. Rushed action.
• n. Urgency.
• n. (sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster…
• v. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
• v. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
• v. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
• v. (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

kerfuffle

• n. (chiefly Britain, informal) A disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion, or tumult.
• v. (chiefly Britain, informal) To make a disorderly outburst or commotion.

motility

• n. (uncountable) The state of being motile.
• n. (countable) The degree to which something is motile.

motion

• n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
• n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
• n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
• n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
• n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
• n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
• n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
• n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
• v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
• v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
• v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

nictate

• v. To wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane.

nictitate

• v. (transitive) to wink or blink.

palpitate

• v. (intransitive) To beat strongly or rapidly; said especially of the heart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to beat strongly or rapidly.
• v. (intransitive) To shake tremulously.

pound

• n. A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning…
• n. A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring…
• n. (US) The symbol # (octothorpe, hash).
• n. The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
• n. Any of various units of currency used in Egypt and Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus…
• n. Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
• n. Abbreviation for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. Using this abbreviation to describe pound-force…
• n. A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. An animal shelter.
• n. A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. Short form of…
• n. A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
• n. A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by…
• v. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
• v. (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
• v. (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
• v. (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
• v. (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
• v. (transitive, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
• v. To advance heavily with measured steps.
• v. (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
• v. (slang, dated) To wager a pound on.
• n. A hard blow.

quiver

• n. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or…
• n. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
• n. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
• n. (mathematics) A multidigraph.
• adj. (archaic) Nimble, active.
• v. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to…

speed

• n. The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity.
• n. The rate of motion or action, specifically (mathematics)/(physics) the magnitude of the velocity; the…
• n. (photography) The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
• n. (photography) The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open.
• n. (photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
• n. (photography) The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a…
• n. (archaic) Luck, success, prosperity.
• n. (slang) Personal preference.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
• v. (intransitive) To go fast.
• v. (intransitive) To exceed the speed limit.
• v. (transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
• v. (obsolete) To be expedient.
• v. (archaic) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
• v. (archaic) To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
• v. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
• v. To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.

thump

• n. A blow that produces a muffled sound.
• n. The sound of such a blow; a thud.
• v. (transitive) To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a thumping sound.
• v. (intransitive) To thud or pound.
• v. (intransitive) To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.

to-do

• n. (archaic) Ado.
• n. A task that has been noted as one that must be completed, especially on a list.
• n. A fuss made over something, commotion.

undulation

• n. an instance or act of undulating.
• n. a wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
• n. (music) a tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
• n. a wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
• n. a wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.

wave

• v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
• v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
• v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
• v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
• n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
• n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
• n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
• n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
• n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
• v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

waver

• v. (intransitive) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
• v. (intransitive) To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
• v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
• v. (intransitive) To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
• v. (intransitive) To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
• n. An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
• n. Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
• n. Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
• n. A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.

wink

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To turn a blind eye.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion. (When transitive,…
• v. (intransitive) To twinkle.
• v. (intransitive) To be dim and flicker.
• n. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
• n. A brief time; an instant.
• n. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
• n. A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.

zip

• n. The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
• n. (informal) Energy; vigor; vim.
• n. (Britain, New Zealand) A zip fastener.
• n. (slang) Zero; nothing.
• n. A trip on a zipline.
• n. (computing, informal) A zip file.
• n. (slang) An ounce of marijuana.
• interj. The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
• v. (transitive) To close with a zip fastener.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To close as if with a zip fastener.
• v. (transitive, computing) To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file,…
• v. (intransitive) (followed by a preposition) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) (followed by a preposition) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to…
• v. (transitive) To make (something) move quickly.
• v. To travel on a zipline.
• n. (US) A ZIP code; a US postal code.
• n. (US, by extension) Any postal code, for any country.