Synonyms of the word

glance

• v. (intransitive) To look briefly (at something).
• v. (intransitive) To graze a surface.
• v. To sparkle.
• v. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move…
• v. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
• v. (soccer) To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
• v. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
• n. A brief or cursory look.
• n. A deflection.
• n. (cricket) A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
• n. A sudden flash of light or splendour.
• n. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
• n. (mineralogy) Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
• n. (mineralogy) Glance coal.

bounce

• v. (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
• v. (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to…
• v. (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
• v. (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient…
• v. (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
• v. (intransitive, slang, African American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have…
• v. (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
• v. (intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.
• v. (intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered.
• v. (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
• v. (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard on unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
• v. (slang, dated) To bully; to scold.
• v. (archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
• v. (archaic) To boast; to bluster.
• n. A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
• n. A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
• n. An email return with any error.
• n. The sack, licensing.
• n. A bang, boom.
• n. A drink based on brandy^W.
• n. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
• n. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
• n. Scyllium catulus, a European dogfish.
• n. A genre of New Orleans music.
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Drugs..
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Swagger..
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A 'good' beat.
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A talent for leaping..

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

carom

• n. (cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with…
• n. A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four…
• v. (intransitive) To make a carom (shot in billiards).
• v. To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.
• n. (spices) ajwain.

glimpse

• n. A brief look, glance, or peek.
• n. A sudden flash.
• n. A faint idea; an inkling.
• v. (transitive) To see or view briefly or incompletely.
• v. To appear by glimpses.

glint

• n. A short flash of light.
• adj. (archaic, Shropshire, of a blade) Not sharp; dull.
• v. To flash briefly.
• v. To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
• v. (archaic, Shropshire) To dry; to wither.

look

• v. (intransitive, often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
• v. To appear, to seem.
• v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
• v. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
• v. To face or present a view.
• v. To expect or anticipate.
• v. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
• v. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
• v. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To expect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
• v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
• interj. Pay attention.
• n. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
• n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
• n. A facial expression.

looking

• v. present participle of look.
• n. The act of one who looks; a glance.
• n. (obsolete) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance.

peek

• v. To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
• v. To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
• v. (computing, transitive) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
• v. Misspelling of pique.

rebound

• n. The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
• n. A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
• n. An effort to recover from a setback.
• n. A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of…
• n. (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
• n. (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being…
• v. To bound or spring back from a force.
• v. To give back an echo.
• v. (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
• v. (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of rebind.

recoil

• n. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
• n. The state or condition of having recoiled.
• n. (firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function…
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To retreat before an opponent.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To retire, withdraw.
• v. To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
• v. (of a firearm) To kick back when fired.

resile

• v. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
• v. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.

reverberate

• v. (intransitive) to ring with many echos.
• v. (intransitive) to have a lasting effect.
• v. (intransitive) to repeatedly return.
• v. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
• v. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
• v. To fuse by reverberated heat.
• v. (intransitive) to rebound or recoil.
• v. (intransitive) to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
• v. (obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light.
• adj. reverberant.
• adj. Driven back, as sound; reflected.

ricochet

• n. (military) A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
• n. An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.
• v. To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.
• v. (military) To operate upon by ricochet firing.

spring

• v. To jump or leap.
• v. To pass over by leaping.
• v. To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.
• v. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
• v. To come into being, often quickly or sharply.
• v. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
• v. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.
• v. (nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.
• v. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets,…
• v. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
• v. To fly back.
• v. (intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.
• v. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its…
• v. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
• v. (obsolete) To grow; to prosper.
• v. (architecture, masonry, transitive) To build (an arch).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).
• n. A leap; a bound; a jump.
• n. (countable) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants…
• n. (countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September,…
• n. (countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March…
• n. (countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter…
• n. (countable) A place where water emerges from the ground.
• n. (uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched,…
• n. Elastic power or force.
• n. (countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent,…
• n. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
• n. (countable) The source of an action or of a supply.
• n. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
• n. That which springs, or is originated, from a source.
• n. (obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
• n. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
• n. (countable, nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa,…
• n. (nautical) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can…
• n. (nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.