Synonyms of the word

frazzle

• v. (transitive) To fray or wear down, especially at the edges.
• v. (transitive) To drain emotionally or physically.
• n. (informal) A burnt fragment; a cinder or crisp.
• n. (informal) The condition or quality of being frazzled; a frayed end.

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.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

bust

• n. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
• n. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
• v. To break something.
• v. (slang) To arrest for a crime.
• v. (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal,…
• v. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
• v. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
• v. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
• v. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
• n. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
• n. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
• n. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
• n. (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.
• adj. (slang) Without any money, broke.

exhaust

• v. (transitive) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely.
• v. (transitive) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To drain; to use up or expend wholly, or until the supply comes to an end.
• v. (transitive) to tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy.
• v. (transitive) To bring out or develop completely.
• v. (transitive) to discuss thoroughly or completely.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances…
• n. A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see…
• n. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
• n. The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
• n. An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
• n. exhaust gas.
• adj. (obsolete) Exhausted; used up.

exhaustion

• n. The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
• n. Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
• n. (dated, chemistry) The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
• n. (dated, physics) The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
• n. (mathematics) An exhaustive procedure.

fray

• n. Affray; broil; contest; combat; brawl; melee.
• n. (archaic) fright.
• v. (intransitive) To unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a…
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength).
• v. (transitive, archaic) frighten; alarm.
• v. (transitive) To bear the expense of; to defray.
• v. (intransitive) To rub.

tucker

• v. To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
• n. (countable) One who or that which tucks.
• n. (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food.
• n. (countable) Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
• n. (obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.

wear

• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off;…
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or…
• v. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
• v. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or…
• v. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
• v. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
• v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce…
• v. (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due…
• v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue,…
• v. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed…
• n. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing.
• n. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
• n. (uncountable) fashion.