Synonyms of the word

hack

• v. (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
• v. (intransitive) To cough noisily.
• v. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g.,…
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account…
• v. (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
• v. (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective,…
• v. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something…
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To work with on an intimately technical level.
• v. (ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
• v. (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
• v. (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
• v. (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
• v. To strike in a frantic movement.
• v. (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
• n. A tool for chopping.
• n. A hacking blow.
• n. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
• n. A dry cough.
• n. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
• n. (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
• n. (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes…
• n. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
• n. (computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
• n. (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
• n. (computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
• n. (computing) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced…
• n. (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
• n. (slang, military) Time check.
• n. (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
• n. A kick on the shins in football.
• n. (falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom…
• n. A food-rack for cattle.
• n. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
• n. A grating in a mill race.
• v. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
• v. (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
• n. (obsolete) An ordinary saddle horse, especially one which has been let out for hire and is old and tired.
• n. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack).
• n. (pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
• n. (slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
• n. A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney…
• n. (pejorative) An untalented writer.
• n. (pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to…
• n. (pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
• n. (politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory).
• n. (obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
• n. (obsolete) A procuress.
• v. (dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
• v. To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
• v. (obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
• v. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
• v. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
• n. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for…
• v. To play hackeysack.

author

• n. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
• n. Someone who writes books for a living.
• n. The works of an author or authors.
• v. (chiefly US) To create a work as its author.

auto

• adj. automatic (of a gearbox / transmission).
• n. (chiefly attributively) An automobile.
• n. A setting for automatic operation.
• n. A writ.
• n. An automatic gearbox / transmission.
• n. A car with an automatic gearbox / transmission.
• n. (India) An autorickshaw.

automobile

• n. (US, Canada) A type of vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended…
• v. (dated) To travel by automobile.

cab

• n. A taxi; a taxicab.
• n. Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
• n. Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
• n. Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
• v. To travel by taxicab.
• n. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or…
• n. (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.

car

• n. (obsolete) A turn.
• n. A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered…
• n. (dated) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot.
• n. (rail transport, chiefly Canada, US) An unpowered unit in a railroad train.
• n. (rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.
• n. (rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.
• n. A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.
• n. The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.
• n. The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.
• n. The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.
• n. (sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
• n. (uncountable, US) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.
• n. (US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
• n. (computing) The first part of a cons in LISP. The first element of a list.

chop

• n. A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
• n. A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
• n. (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
• n. Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
• n. (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared…
• n. (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment.
• n. (dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
• v. (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
• v. (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
• v. (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
• v. (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
• v. (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
• v. (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
• v. (obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
• v. To chap or crack.
• v. (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
• v. To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
• n. A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
• n. The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
• n. A change; a vicissitude.
• n. An official stamp or seal.
• n. Mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
• n. (Internet) An IRC channel operator.

contend

• v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
• v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
• v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

cope

• v. To deal effectively with something difficult.
• v. To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
• v. (falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
• n. A long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.
• n. Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
• n. The "vault" or "canopy" of the skies, heavens etc.
• n. (construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry,…
• n. (foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
• n. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
• v. (transitive) To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
• v. (intransitive) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
• v. (obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
• v. (obsolete) To exchange or barter.
• v. (obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
• v. (obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
• v. (obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

cough

• v. (intransitive) To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
• v. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.
• v. (intransitive) To make a noise like a cough.
• n. A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.
• n. A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.
• n. Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame.

cut

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

deal

• n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
• n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
• v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
• v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
• v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
• v. (baseball) To pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
• v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
• v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
• v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
• v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
• n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
• n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
• n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
• n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
• n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
• n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
• n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
• n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
• n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
• n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
• adj. Made of deal.

drudge

• n. A person who works in a low servile job.
• n. (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
• v. to labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

edit

• n. A change to the text of a document.
• n. (computing) A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
• v. To change a text, or a document.
• v. (transitive) To be the editor of a publication.
• v. (computing) To change the contents of a file, website, programme etc.
• v. (biology) To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
• v. To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.

foul

• adj. Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
• adj. (of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive.
• adj. Detestable, unpleasant.
• adj. Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
• adj. (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
• adj. (of the weather) Unpleasant, stormy or rainy.
• adj. Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
• adj. (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
• adj. (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
• v. (transitive) To make dirty.
• v. (transitive) To besmirch.
• v. (transitive) To clog or obstruct.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
• v. (transitive, basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
• v. (intransitive) To become clogged.
• v. (intransitive) To become entangled.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To commit a foul.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
• n. (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing…
• n. (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released…
• n. (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.

grapple

• v. (transitive) To seize something and hold it firmly.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) Normally used with with: to ponder and intensely evaluate a problem.
• v. (transitive) To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly.
• v. (intransitive) To use a grapple.
• v. (intransitive) To wrestle or tussle.
• n. A tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.
• n. A close hand-to-hand struggle.
• n. (uncountable) The act of grappling.

hacker

• n. (computing) One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.
• n. (computing) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, or to carry out malicious attacks.
• n. (computing) A computer security professional.
• n. Something that hacks; a tool or device for hacking.
• n. Someone who hacks.
• n. (US) One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially a sport such as golf or…
• n. (US) One who operates a taxicab.

horse

• n. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
• n. Equipment with legs.
• n. (nautical) Type of equipment.
• n. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course…
• n. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
• n. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss…
• n. (dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
• n. (dated, slang, among students) horseplay; tomfoolery.
• v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".).
• v. (transitive) To provide with a horse.
• v. (obsolete) To get on horseback.
• v. To sit astride of; to bestride.
• v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
• v. To take or carry on the back.
• v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such…
• n. (uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin (drug).

jade

• n. (uncountable) A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often…
• n. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
• adj. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
• n. A horse too old to be put to work.
• n. (especially pejorative) A woman.
• v. To tire, weary or fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
• v. (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

machine

• n. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a…
• n. (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
• n. (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
• n. (computing) A computer.
• n. (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient,…
• n. Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting…
• n. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
• n. (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially…
• n. (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
• v. to make by machinery.
• v. to shape or finish by machinery.

manage

• v. (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
• v. (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
• v. (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt.
• v. (intransitive) To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
• v. To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
• v. (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
• v. (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
• n. (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
• n. (horseriding) Manège.

motorcar

• n. An enclosed passenger vehicle powered by an engine.

mount

• n. A mountain.
• n. (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences…
• n. (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
• n. (obsolete) A bank; a fund.
• n. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse.
• n. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
• v. (heading, physical) To move upwards.
• v. (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support.
• v. (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
• v. (obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).
• v. (transitive) To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
• v. (transitive) To begin (a military assault, etc.); to launch.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To deploy (cannon) for use in or around it.
• v. (transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).

nag

• n. A small horse; a pony.
• n. An old useless horse.
• n. (obsolete, derogatory) A paramour.
• v. To continuously remind or complain to someone in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary…
• v. To act inappropriately in the eyes of peers, to backstab, to verbally abuse.
• v. To bother with persistent memories.
• v. Other sorts of persistent annoyance, e.g.
• n. One who nags.

plug

• n. (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
• n. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
• n. (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
• n. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
• n. (US, slang) A worthless horse.
• n. (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
• n. A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features…
• n. (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
• n. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
• n. (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually…
• n. A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the…
• v. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
• v. (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
• v. (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
• v. (slang, transitive) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.

pol

• n. (informal) A politician.

politician

• n. One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.
• n. Specifically, one who regards elected political office as a career.
• n. A politically active or interested person.
• n. A sly or ingratiating person.

politico

• n. (colloquial, often derogatory) A politician.

program

• n. A set of structured activities.
• n. A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
• n. (broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
• n. (computing) A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific…
• n. (especially in the phrase "get with the program") A particular mindset or method of doing things.
• v. (transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to…
• v. (transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code.
• v. (transitive) To put together the schedule of an event.
• v. (transitive) To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.

programme

• n. British spelling standard spelling of program.
• n. (Britain, dated, possibly nonstandard) Alternative spelling of program (A computer program).
• v. British spelling standard spelling of program.

redact

• v. To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while releasing the remainder.
• v. (law) To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically…
• v. To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
• v. (rare) To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc.
• v. (obsolete) To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one.
• v. (obsolete) To gather or organize works or ideas into a unified whole; to collect, order, or write in a…
• v. (obsolete, rare) To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person.
• v. (obsolete) To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable.
• v. (obsolete) To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction.

taxi

• n. A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver.
• n. (South Africa) A share taxi.
• v. To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power.

taxicab

• n. a vehicle that passengers hire to take them between locations of their choice, the fare being calculated…

tool

• n. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
• n. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
• n. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
• n. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
• n. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
• n. (slang) Penis.
• n. (by extension, slang, pejorative) An obnoxious or uptight person.
• v. (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
• v. (transitive) To equip with tools.
• v. (transitive) To work very hard.
• v. (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to…
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To drive (a coach, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

whoop

• n. An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.
• n. A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
• n. A bump on a racetrack.
• n. A bird, the hoopoe.
• v. (intransitive) To make a whoop.
• v. (transitive) To shout, to yell.
• v. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
• v. (transitive, informal) To beat, to strike.
• v. (transitive, informal) To defeat thoroughly.

writer

• n. A person who writes, or produces literary work.
• n. (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a…
• n. Anything that writes or produces output.