Synonym of the word GET

get

v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
v. (transitive) To receive.
v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
v. (copulative) To become.
v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
v. (transitive) To cause to do.
v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
v. (transitive) To getter.
v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
v. (euphemistic) To kill.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
n. Offspring.
n. Lineage.
n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
n. Something gained.
n. (Britain, regional) A git.
n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

ache

v. (intransitive) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to…
v. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
n. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
n. (obsolete) Parsley.
n. Rare spelling of aitch.

acquire

v. (transitive) To get.
v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
v. (medicine) To contract.
v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

aim

n. The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the…
n. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
n. Intention; purpose; design; scheme.
n. The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target.
n. (obsolete) Conjecture; guess.
v. (intransitive) To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or…
v. (intransitive) To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try…
v. (transitive) To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act,…
v. (transitive) To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group.
v. (obsolete) To guess or conjecture.
n. Initialism of America Online. AIM; AOL Instant Messenger.

alter

v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
v. (intransitive) To become different.
v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

amaze

v. (obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious.
v. (obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
v. (obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic.
v. To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex.
v. (intransitive) To undergo amazement; to be astounded.
n. (now poetic) Amazement, astonishment.

annoy

v. (transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant…
v. (intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
v. (transitive) To molest; to harm; to injure.
n. (now rare, literary) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
n. (now rare, literary) That which causes such a feeling.

arrest

n. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
n. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
n. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
n. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
n. A device to physically arrest motion.
n. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
n. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
n. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.
v. (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
v. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
v. (transitive) To catch the attention of.

arrive

v. (intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
v. (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame.
v. (intransitive) To come; said of time.
v. (intransitive) To happen or occur.
v. (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.

attract

v. To pull toward without touching.
v. To arouse interest.
v. To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite…

baffle

v. (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
v. (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
v. To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
v. (now rare) To foil; to thwart.
v. (intransitive) To struggle in vain.
n. A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is…
n. An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
n. (US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

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.

become

v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
v. (transitive) To be proper for; to befit.
v. (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).

bedevil

v. To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
v. To perplex or bewilder.

befuddle

v. (transitive) to perplex, confuse (someone).
v. (transitive) to stupefy someone, especially with alcohol.

beget

v. To cause; to produce.
v. To father; to sire; to produce (a child).
v. (Britain dialectal) To happen to; befall.

begin

v. (transitive, intransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
v. (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation.
v. (intransitive) To come into existence.
n. (nonstandard) Beginning; start.

bewilder

v. (transitive) To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.
v. (transitive) To disorientate someone.

bother

v. (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.
v. (intransitive) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
v. (intransitive) To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
n. Fuss, ado.
n. Trouble, inconvenience.
interj. A mild expression of annoyance.

bring

v. (transitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
v. (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
v. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
v. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
v. (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
interj. The sound of a telephone ringing.

buy

v. (transitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
v. (transitive) To obtain by some sacrifice.
v. (transitive) To bribe.
v. (transitive) To be equivalent to in value.
v. (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe.
v. (intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal).
v. (poker slang, transitive) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
n. Something which is bought; a purchase.

capture

n. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
n. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
n. Something that has been captured; a captive.
n. The recording or storage of something for later playback.
n. (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
v. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
v. To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
v. To reproduce convincingly.
v. To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

catch

n. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
n. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
n. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
n. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
n. (countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
n. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
n. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
n. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
n. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
n. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
n. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
n. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
n. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
n. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
n. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually…
n. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
n. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting…
n. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
n. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
n. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
n. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
n. A slight remembrance; a trace.
v. (heading) To capture, overtake.
v. (heading) To seize hold of.
v. (heading) To intercept.
v. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
v. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
v. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
v. (heading) To obtain or experience.

cause

n. (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action;…
n. (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.
n. (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
n. (obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
n. (countable, obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
n. (countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his…
v. To set off an event or action.
v. To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
v. To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.

chafe

n. Heat excited by friction.
n. Injury or wear caused by friction.
n. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
n. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.
v. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
v. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
v. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
v. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
v. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
v. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

change

v. (intransitive) To become something different.
v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
v. (transitive) To replace.
v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
v. (archaic) To exchange.
v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

channel

n. The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
n. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
n. The navigable part of a river.
n. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
n. That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
n. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
n. (nautical, in the plural) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase…
n. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
n. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
n. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
n. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from…
n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair…
n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such…
n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined…
n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
n. (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading…
n. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
n. (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
n. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated…
n. (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
n. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
v. To direct the flow of something.
v. To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal…
n. (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach…

channelise

v. (British spelling) alternative form of channelize.

channelize

v. To form a channel, especially by deepening or altering the course of a river.
v. (transitive) To transmit through a channel.
v. (transitive) To multiplex (messages) through a single line.

clutch

v. To seize, as though with claws.
v. To grip or grasp tightly.
n. The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
n. (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
n. A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car.
n. The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission.
n. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
n. A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
n. (US) An important or critical situation.
adj. (US, Canada) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
n. A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
n. A group or bunch (of people or things).

come

v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
v. (intransitive) To arrive.
v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
v. (intransitive) To take a position to something else in a sequence.
v. (intransitive, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
v. (copulative, figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be.
v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
v. (intransitive) Happen.
v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have a social background.
v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
n. (slang) Semen.
n. (slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.
interj. An exclamation to express annoyance.
interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
n. (typography, obsolete) Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form…

commence

v. (intransitive) To begin, start.
v. (transitive) To begin to be, or to act as.
v. (Britain, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.

communicate

v. To impart.
v. To share.

confound

v. To confuse; to mix up; to puzzle.
v. To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
v. To make something worse.
v. To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
v. To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
v. (dated) To damn (a mild oath).
v. (archaic) To bring to ruination.
v. To stun, amaze.
n. (statistics) a confounding variable.

confuse

v. To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
v. (obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
v. To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
v. To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
v. To mistake one thing for another.

contract

n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or…
n. (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at…
n. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
n. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
n. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
adj. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
adj. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
v. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to…
v. (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
v. (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
v. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
v. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
v. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
v. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
v. To betroth; to affiance.

convey

v. To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
v. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
v. (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
v. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
v. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

create

v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

destroy

v. (transitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
v. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
v. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
v. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.

develop

v. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
v. (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
v. (transitive) To create.
v. (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
v. (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
v. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
v. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving…
v. (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations…

devil

n. (theology) A creature of hell.
n. (theology) (the devil or the Devil) The chief devil; Satan.
n. The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
n. A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous…
n. A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
n. (euphemistically, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
n. A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil…
n. A dust devil.
n. (religion, Christian Science) An evil or erring entity.
n. (dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.
n. (cooking) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
n. A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
n. A Tasmanian devil.
n. (cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
v. To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
v. To annoy or bother; to bedevil.
v. To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
v. To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
v. To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
v. To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and…

discombobulate

v. (transitive, humorous) To throw into a state of confusion; to befuddle or perplex.

draw

v. (heading) To move or develop something.
v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
v. To disembowel.
v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
v. A random selection process.
v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

drive

n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent…
n. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
n. A driveway.
n. A type of public roadway.
n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk,…
n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with…
n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and…
n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs,…
n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
v. (transitive) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
v. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
v. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
v. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
v. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
v. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
v. (transitive) To cause to become.
v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
v. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
v. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
v. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
v. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball…
v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
v. To be the dominant party where two people are engaged in a sex act.

dumbfound

v. (transitive) To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.

effect

n. The result or outcome of a cause. See usage notes below.
n. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
n. Execution; performance; realization; operation.
n. (cinematography) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect").
n. (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced…
n. (physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
n. (usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
n. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
n. (obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
n. (obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.
v. To make or bring about; to implement.
v. Misspelling of affect.

effectuate

v. (transitive) To be the cause of something.
v. (transitive) To bring about something; to effect or execute something.

engender

v. (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
v. (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
v. (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
v. (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex.
v. (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.

experience

n. (countable, uncountable) Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
n. (countable) An activity which one has performed.
n. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge,…
n. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
v. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions…

father

n. A (generally human) male who begets a child.
n. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
n. A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
n. A term of respectful address for a priest.
n. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
n. The founder of a discipline or science.
n. A senator of Ancient Rome.
v. To be a father to; to sire.
v. (figuratively) To give rise to.
v. To act as a father; to support and nurture.
v. To provide with a father.
v. To adopt as one's own.

fetch

v. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
v. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
v. (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
v. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
v. (rare, literary) To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh).
v. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
v. (obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
v. To reduce; to throw.
v. To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects.
v. (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
n. The object of fetching; the source and origin of attraction; a force, quality or propensity which is attracting…
n. A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another…
n. The apparition of a living person; a wraith; one's double (seeing it is supposed to be a sign that one…
n. (computing) The act of fetching data.

find

v. (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
v. (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
v. (transitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
v. (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
v. (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
v. (transitive) To point out.
v. (transitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
v. (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
v. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.
v. (transitive, archaic) To provide for.
v. (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
v. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
n. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
n. The act of finding.

fix

n. A repair or corrective action.
n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
n. A determination of location.
n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

flummox

v. To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.

fox

n. A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy…
n. Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe…
n. The fur of a fox.
n. A fox terrier.
n. The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
n. A cunning person.
n. (slang) A physically attractive man or woman.
n. (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats,…
n. (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
n. (obsolete) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
v. (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
v. (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
v. (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
v. (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity.
v. (transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
v. (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
v. (transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
v. (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

fuddle

v. To confuse or befuddle.
v. To intoxicate.
n. Intoxication.
n. Muddle, confusion.
n. (Britain, dialect, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire) A party or picnic where attendees bring…

generate

v. (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
v. (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
v. (transitive) To procreate, beget.
v. (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
v. (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.

get

v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
v. (transitive) To receive.
v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
v. (copulative) To become.
v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
v. (transitive) To cause to do.
v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
v. (transitive) To getter.
v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
v. (euphemistic) To kill.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
n. Offspring.
n. Lineage.
n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
n. Something gained.
n. (Britain, regional) A git.
n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

go

v. To move.
v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
v. (intransitive) To attend.
v. To proceed.
v. To follow or travel along (a path).
v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
v. To pass, to be used up.
v. (intransitive) To die.
v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
v. To break down or apart.
v. (intransitive) To be sold.
v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
v. To say (something), to make a sound.
v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
v. To apply or subject oneself to.
v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
v. (intransitive) To date.
v. To attack.
v. To be in general; to be usually.
v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
n. (uncommon) The act of going.
n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
n. An attempt, a try.
n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
n. An act; the working or operation.
n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
n. A period of activity.
n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

gravel

n. (uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast.
n. A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
n. (uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
n. (uncountable, archaic) Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the…
v. (transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
v. To puzzle or annoy.
v. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
v. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
v. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

grow

v. (ergative) To become bigger.
v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
v. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

have

v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
v. (transitive) To give birth to.
v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
v. To trick, to deceive.
v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
v. (transitive) To host someone.

hear

v. (intransitive) To perceive sounds through the ear.
v. (transitive) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something)…
v. (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
v. (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
v. (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
v. (transitive) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
v. (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of.

hit

v. (heading, physical) To strike.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
v. (heading, games) To make a play.
v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
n. An attack on a location, person or people.
n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
adj. Designating of a popular song.
pron. (dialectal) It.

hurt

v. (intransitive) To be painful.
v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
adj. Wounded, physically injured.
adj. Pained.
n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
n. A husk.

incur

v. (transitive) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or…
v. (chiefly law) To render somebody liable or subject to.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To enter or pass into.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger.
v. (transitive) To render liable or subject to; to occasion.

induce

v. (transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite.
v. (transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
v. (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
v. (transitive, logic) To infer by induction.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To draw on, place upon.

intend

v. (intransitive, usually followed by the particle "to") To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished);…
v. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
v. (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.
v. To strain; make tense.
v. (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.
v. To apply with energy.
v. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
v. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
v. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

intercommunicate

v. To communicate, one with another.
v. To be interconnected.

irritate

v. (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
v. (transitive) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
v. (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
v. (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
v. (obsolete) To render null and void.

leave

v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
v. (heading) To transfer something.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
n. (dated or law) Permission.
n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

let

v. (transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
v. (transitive) To leave.
v. (transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).
v. (transitive) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
v. (transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
v. (transitive) Used to introduce an imperative in the first or third person.
v. (transitive, obsolete except with know) To cause (+ bare infinitive).
n. The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
v. (archaic) To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).
v. (obsolete) To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.
v. (obsolete) To tarry or delay.
n. An obstacle or hindrance.
n. (tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.

make

v. (transitive, heading) To create.
v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
v. To constitute.
v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
v. To appoint; to name.
v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
v. To enact; to establish.
v. To develop into; to prove to be.
v. To form or formulate in the mind.
v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
n. How a thing is made; construction.
n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
n. A person's character or disposition.
n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
n. (slang, military) A promotion.
n. A home-made project.
n. (basketball) A made basket.
n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

mean

v. To intend.
v. To convey meaning.
v. (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
v. (transitive) To result in; to bring about.
v. (transitive) To be important (to).
v. (Ireland, Britain regional) To lament.
adj. (obsolete) Common; general.
adj. Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
adj. Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
adj. Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
adj. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
adj. (chiefly Britain) Ungenerous; stingy, tightfisted; North American English: cheap; formal: niggardly, penurious,…
adj. Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating; small.
adj. Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
adj. Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
adj. Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
adj. Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
adj. (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
adj. Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
adj. (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
n. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
n. (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
n. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
n. (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part…
n. (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number…
n. (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number…
n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and…

modify

v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

mother

n. A (human) female who (a) parents a child (b) gives birth to a baby (c) donates a fertilized egg or (d)…
n. A female parent of an animal.
n. (figuratively) A female ancestor.
n. (figuratively) A source or origin.
n. (when followed by a surname) A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
n. (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
n. (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
n. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
n. The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
n. (obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria.
v. (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
n. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
n. A stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of acetobacters) which develops…
v. (transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns…
v. (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.
n. (euphemistic, vulgar, slang) Motherfucker.
n. (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example.
n. Alternative form of moth-er.

mystify

v. (transitive) To thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.

nark

n. (Britain, slang) A police spy or informer.
n. (Australia, slang) An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others; a spoilsport.
v. (transitive, thieves' cant) To watch; to observe.
v. (intransitive, slang) To serve or behave as a spy or informer.
v. (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate.
v. (intransitive, slang) To complain.
v. (transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop.
n. Alternative form of narc (narcotics officer).

nettle

n. Any plant, the foliage of which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
n. Certain plants that have spines or prickles.
n. Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica.
n. Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
v. (literally) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.
v. (figuratively) To pique, irritate, vex or provoke someone.

nonplus

n. A state of perplexity or bewilderment.
v. (transitive) to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox.

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.

perplex

v. (transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
v. (transitive) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
adj. (obsolete) intricate; difficult.

pose

n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
n. Affectation.
v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

prehend

v. (obsolete) To lay hold of; to seize.

produce

v. (transitive) To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
v. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
v. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
v. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
v. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
n. Items produced.
n. Amount produced.
n. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs,…
n. Offspring.
n. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.

pull

interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
n. An act of pulling (applying force).
n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
n. A journey made by rowing.
n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
n. (slang) The act of drinking.
n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
v. To attract or net; to pull in.
v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
v. (intransitive) To row.
v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

purchase

n. (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.).
n. An individual item one has purchased.
n. The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
n. That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession;…
n. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
n. (uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as…
n. The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology…
n. (rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
n. (law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by…
v. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
v. To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
v. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
v. To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
v. To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply…
v. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
v. To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.

puzzle

n. Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
n. A game for one person that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
n. A crossword puzzle.
n. A jigsaw puzzle.
n. A riddle.
n. (archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
n. The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
v. (transitive) To perplex (someone).
v. To make intricate; to entangle.

rag

n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

receive

v. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
v. To take possession of.
v. To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence,…
v. To incur (an injury).
v. To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
v. (telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
v. (sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.
n. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.

reproduce

v. To produce an image or copy of something.
v. (biology) To generate offspring (sexually or asexually), or organisms.
v. To produce again; to recreate.
v. To bring something to mind; to recall.

return

v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
n. The act of returning.
n. A return ticket.
n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
n. An answer.
n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
n. Gain or loss from an investment.
n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
n. (computing) A carriage return character.
n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…

rile

v. to make angry.
v. to stir or move from a state of calm or order.

ruin

n. (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a…
n. (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
n. (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
n. (obsolete) A fall or tumble.
n. A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
v. (transitive) to cause the fiscal ruin of.
v. To destroy or make something no longer usable.
v. To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
v. To upset or mess up the plans or progress of, or to put into disarray; to spoil.

score

n. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
n. The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of…
n. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or…
n. Twenty, 20 (number).
n. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
n. A weight of twenty pounds.
n. (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each…
n. (music) The music of a movie or play.
n. Subject.
n. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
n. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the…
n. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
n. (US, crime, slang) A robbery; a criminal act.
n. (US, crime, slang) A bribe paid to a police officer.
n. (US, crime, slang) An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
n. (US, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
n. (US, slang) A sexual conquest.
v. (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
v. (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.
v. (transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
interj. (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success.

scram

v. Get out of here; go away (frequently imperative).
v. (transitive, intransitive) To abruptly insert the control rods of a nuclear reactor, usually in case of…
n. A rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor.
n. Alternative spelling of SCRAM.
v. (Wales) Scratch with claws or fingernails.
n. (Wales) A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails.

seize

v. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
v. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
v. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
v. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
v. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
v. (Britain, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

sicken

v. (transitive) To make ill.
v. (intransitive) To become ill.
v. (transitive) To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
v. (sports) To lower the standing of.
v. (intransitive) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
v. (intransitive) To become disgusting or tedious.
v. (intransitive) To become weak; to decay; to languish.

sire

n. A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders…
n. A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
n. (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
n. (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
v. (transitive, of a male) to procreate; to father, beget, impregnate.

start

n. The beginning of an activity.
n. A sudden involuntary movement.
n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
n. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
v. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
v. (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
v. (euphemistic) To start your periods (menstruation).
n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

stick

n. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
n. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
n. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
n. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
n. (sports) A stick-like item.
n. (sports, uncountable) Ability; specifically.
n. (slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking,…
n. Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
n. A measure.
v. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
n. (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
n. (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
n. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
v. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
v. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
v. (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
v. (intransitive) To persist.
v. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
v. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
v. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
v. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
v. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
v. (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
v. (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
v. (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
v. (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
v. (transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
v. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.
v. (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
v. (transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
v. (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by…
v. (dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
v. (transitive, slang, dated) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
adj. (informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
n. (Britain, uncountable) Criticism or ridicule.

stimulate

v. To encourage into action.
v. To arouse an organism to functional activity.

stir

v. (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
v. (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something…
v. (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
v. (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
v. (transitive) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
v. (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
v. (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
v. (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
v. (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
n. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
n. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
n. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
n. (slang) Jail; prison.

stupefy

v. To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle.

suffer

v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
v. (intransitive) To become worse.
v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

sustain

n. (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
v. (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
v. (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
v. (transitive) To encourage (something).
v. (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
v. (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
v. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
v. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

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.

tally

adj. (Britain) Used as a mild intensifier: very (almost exclusively used by the upper classes).
interj. (radio, aviation) Target sighted.
n. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number;.
n. Later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
n. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially…
n. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
n. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
n. A tally shop.
n. A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
v. (transitive) To count something.
v. (transitive) To record something by making marks.
v. (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
v. (intransitive) To keep score.
v. (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
v. (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
adv. (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.

throw

v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
v. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
v. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
v. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during…
v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal…
v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
v. (transitive) To imprison.
v. To organize an event, especially a party.
v. To roll (a die or dice).
v. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position…
v. (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone…
v. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
v. (transitive) To project or send forth.
v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles,…
v. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role…
n. The flight of a thrown object.
n. The act of throwing something.
n. One's ability to throw.
n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
n. Misspelling of throe.

touch

v. Primarily physical senses.
v. Primarily non-physical senses.
v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
n. A little bit; a small amount.
n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
n. The children's game of tag.
n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

transfer

v. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
v. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
v. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
v. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
n. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
n. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
n. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
n. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
n. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side…
n. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

transmit

v. (transitive) To send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.
v. (transitive) To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal.
v. (transitive) To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity.
v. (transitive) To communicate news or information.
v. (transitive) To convey energy or force through a mechanism or medium.
v. (intransitive) To send out a signal (as opposed to receive).

transport

v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
n. (historical) A deported convict.

turn

v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
v. (archaic) To translate.
n. A change of direction or orientation.
n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
n. A single loop of a coil.
n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
n. A deed done to another.
n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
n. Character; personality; nature.
n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

undergo

v. (transitive, obsolete) To go or move under or beneath.
v. (transitive) To experience; to pass through a phase.
v. (transitive) To suffer or endure; bear with.

understand

v. (transitive) To be aware of the meaning of.
v. To believe, based on information.
v. To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
v. (obsolete, rare, humorous) To stand under; to support.

vex

v. (transitive, now rare) To trouble aggressively, to harass.
v. (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
v. (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
v. (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
v. (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

Synonyms of the word

get

ache

acquire

aim

alter

amaze

annoy

arrest

arrive

attract

baffle

beat

become

bedevil

befuddle

beget

begin

bewilder

bother

bring

buy

capture

catch

cause

chafe

change

channel

channelise

channelize

clutch

come

commence

communicate

confound

confuse

contract

convey

create

destroy

develop

devil

discombobulate

draw

drive

dumbfound

effect

effectuate

engender

experience

father

fetch

find

fix

flummox

fox

fuddle

generate

get

go

gravel

grow

have

hear

hit

hurt

incur

induce

intend

intercommunicate

irritate

leave

let

make

mean

modify

mother

mystify

nark

nettle