Synonyms of the word

groin

• n. The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the…
• n. The area adjoining this fold or depression.
• n. (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults.
• n. (euphemistic) The genitals.
• n. (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
• v. To deliver a blow to the genitals.
• v. (architecture) To build with groins.
• v. To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
• n. Alternative spelling of groyne.

area

• n. (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
• n. A particular geographic region.
• n. Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
• n. The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
• n. (Britain) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
• n. (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
• n. (slang) Genitals.

barrier

• n. A structure that bars passage.
• n. An obstacle or impediment.
• n. A boundary or limit.
• n. (grammar) A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it…
• n. (physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain…

breakwater

• n. a construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for…
• n. (nautical) a low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows…
• n. On beaches: a wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the…

build

• v. (transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
• v. (transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
• v. (transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
• v. (transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
• v. (intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
• v. (transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
• v. (intransitive, computing, of software) To be constructed by compilation of source code, usually with minimal…
• n. (countable, uncountable) The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body.
• n. (computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release…
• n. (video games, slang, countable) Any structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, created by…

bulwark

• n. A defensive wall or rampart.
• n. A defense or safeguard.
• n. A breakwater.
• n. (nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces…
• v. (transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
• v. (transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.

construct

• n. Something constructed from parts.
• n. A concept or model.
• n. (genetics) A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or…
• v. (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
• v. (transitive) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
• v. (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric…

groyne

• n. A (usually wooden) structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.;…

inguen

• n. (anatomy) The groin.

jetty

• n. A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor…
• n. A wharf or dock extending from the shore.
• n. (architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To jut out; to project.
• adj. (archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.

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.

mole

• n. A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.
• n. Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae.
• n. Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats.
• n. (espionage) An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially…
• n. A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines.
• n. A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through…
• n. A moll, a bitch, a slut.
• n. (nautical) A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places…
• n. (rare) A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
• n. (chemistry, physics) In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount…
• n. A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
• n. One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially…

region

• n. Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable…
• n. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
• n. (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number…
• n. (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
• n. (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
• n. (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
• n. (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental…

seawall

• n. a coastal defence in the form of an embankment.