Synonyms of the word

furrow

• n. A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
• n. Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
• n. A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
• v. (transitive) To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.).
• v. (transitive) To wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.

chamfer

• n. (woodworking, engineering, drafting, CAD) an obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished…
• v. (transitive) to cut off the edge or corner of something; to bevel.
• v. (transitive) to cut a groove in something; to flute.

chase

• n. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
• n. A hunt.
• n. (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
• n. (Britain) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
• n. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
• n. (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
• n. (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the…
• n. (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a…
• n. (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
• v. (transitive) To pursue, to follow at speed.
• v. (transitive) To hunt.
• v. (intransitive) To give chase; to hunt.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
• v. (transitive) To dilute alcohol.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
• n. (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing…
• n. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
• n. (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing)…
• n. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
• n. The cavity of a mold.
• n. (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually…
• v. (transitive) To groove; indent.
• v. (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space…
• v. (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
• v. (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.

crease

• n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping…
• n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
• n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
• v. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
• n. Archaic form of kris.

crinkle

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
• v. (intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
• n. A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

delve

• v. (intransitive) To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To dig, to excavate.
• n. (now rare) A pit or den.

depression

• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of…
• n. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer…
• n. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting…
• n. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
• n. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
• n. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the…

dig

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
• v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
• v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
• v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
• v. To thrust; to poke.
• v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
• n. An archeological investigation.
• n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
• n. A thrust; a poke.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
• n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
• v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
• v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

fold

• v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
• v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
• v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
• v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
• v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
• v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
• v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
• n. An act of folding.
• n. A bend or crease.
• n. Any correct move in origami.
• n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
• n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
• n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
• n. A group of sheep or goats.
• n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
• n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
• n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
• n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
• n. (figuratively) Home, family.
• n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
• n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
• v. To confine sheep in a fold.
• n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

groove

• n. A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location…
• n. A fixed routine.
• n. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
• n. A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
• n. (mining) A shaft or excavation.
• v. To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
• v. To create, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.

impression

• n. The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
• n. The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
• n. A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
• n. An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
• n. An outward appearance.
• n. (advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad. is shown…
• n. (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
• n. (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.

imprint

• n. An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
• n. The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
• n. A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
• v. To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
• v. To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
• v. To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

rut

• n. (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.
• n. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
• v. (intransitive) to be in the annual rut.
• v. (intransitive) to have sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive) To mount or cover during copulation.
• n. (automotive) A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a…
• n. A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling (See also rutter).
• n. A dull routine.
• v. (transitive) To make a furrow.

seam

• n. (sewing) A folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more…
• n. A suture.
• n. A thin stratum, especially of coal or mineral.
• n. (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces…
• n. An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
• n. An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
• n. (construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
• n. A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
• n. (figuratively) A line of junction; a joint.
• v. To put together with a seam.
• v. To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch,…
• v. To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
• v. To crack open along a seam.
• v. (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
• v. (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) grease; tallow; lard.

trench

• n. A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
• n. (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
• n. (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological…
• n. (informal) A trench coat.
• v. (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority…
• v. (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually…
• v. (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
• v. To have direction; to aim or tend.
• v. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
• v. To cut furrows or ditches in.
• v. To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling…

wrinkle

• n. A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
• n. A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
• n. A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed…
• n. (dated) A notion or fancy; a whim.
• v. (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
• v. (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
• v. (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To sneer (at).
• n. (US, dialect) A winkle.