Synonyms of the word

heel

• n. (anatomy) The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
• n. The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
• n. The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
• n. The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.
• n. (usually in the plural) A woman's high-heeled shoe.
• n. (firearms) The back, upper part of the stock.
• n. The last or lowest part of anything.
• n. (US, Ireland) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
• n. (US) The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
• n. A contemptible, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies…
• n. (card games) The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
• n. Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
• n. (architecture) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
• n. (specifically, US) The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
• n. (architecture, workman slang) A cyma reversa.
• n. (carpentry) The short side of an angled cut.
• n. (golf) The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.
• n. In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.
• v. To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
• v. To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
• v. To kick with the heel.
• v. (transitive) To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
• v. (transitive) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
• v. (golf, transitive) To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
• v. (American football, transitive) To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the…
• v. (intransitive, especially of ships) To incline to one side; to tilt.
• n. The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.

angle

• n. (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes…
• n. (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional…
• n. A corner where two walls intersect.
• n. A change in direction.
• n. A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
• n. (media) The focus of a news story.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach…
• n. (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
• n. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
• n. (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the…
• v. (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
• v. (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
• v. (snooker) To leave the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle")…
• v. (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
• v. (informal) (with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
• n. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.

blackguard

• n. A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
• v. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

bottom

• n. The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
• n. (Britain, US) A valley, often used in place names.
• n. The buttocks or anus.
• n. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
• n. (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always…
• n. (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat.
• n. (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
• n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.
• n. (physics) A bottom quark.
• n. (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
• n. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
• n. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
• n. An abyss.
• n. (obsolete) Power of endurance.
• n. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
• v. To fall to the lowest point.
• v. To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest…
• v. (intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
• v. (intransitive) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a bottom.
• v. To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• v. To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
• adj. The lowest or last place or position.

bounder

• n. Something that bounds or jumps.
• n. (Britain, dated) A dishonourable man; a cad.
• n. A social climber.
• n. That which limits; a boundary.
• n. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.

bushel

• n. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
• n. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
• n. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
• n. (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
• n. (Britain) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. In the United States it is called a box.
• v. (US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.

cad

• n. A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
• n. (historical) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares;…

dance

• n. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social…
• n. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
• n. (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center…
• n. A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
• n. (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
• n. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
• v. (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
• v. (transitive) To perform the steps to.
• v. (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.

doctor

• n. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. The…
• n. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees…
• n. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats animals.
• n. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
• n. (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
• n. (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
• n. A fish, the friar skate.
• v. (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
• v. (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
• v. (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
• v. (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or…
• v. (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
• v. (transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.

dog

• n. A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable…
• n. A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive).
• n. (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
• n. (slang) A man (derived from definition 2).
• n. (slang, derogatory) A coward.
• n. (derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible.
• n. (slang) A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
• n. Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like…
• n. A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click…
• n. A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
• n. A hot dog.
• n. (poker slang) Underdog.
• n. (slang, almost always in the plural) Foot.
• v. (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
• v. (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
• v. (intransitive, emerging usage in Britain) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest…

end

• n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
• n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
• n. Death, especially miserable.
• n. Result.
• n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
• n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
• n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
• n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
• n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
• n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
• n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
• v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

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;…

follow

• v. (transitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
• v. (transitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
• v. (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
• v. (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
• v. (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
• v. (transitive) To be a logical consequence of.
• v. (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
• n. (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball…
• n. (Internet) The act of following another user's online activity.

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.

hound

• n. A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. (hunt hound,…
• n. (by extension) Someone who seeks something.
• n. (by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
• n. A despicable person.
• n. A houndfish.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top…
• n. A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To persistently harass.

lean

• v. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
• v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
• v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
• v. To hang outwards.
• v. To press against.
• n. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
• adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
• adj. (of meat) having little fat.
• adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
• adj. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
• adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed…
• adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean…
• v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or…
• v. To conceal.
• n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community…

list

• n. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
• n. Material used for cloth selvage.
• n. (in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
• n. A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the…
• n. (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing; especially,…
• n. (obsolete) A limit or boundary; a border.
• n. (obsolete) A stripe.
• n. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
• n. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
• n. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
• n. (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin.
• n. (tin-plate manufacture) A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
• v. To create or recite a list.
• v. To place in listings.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
• v. (transitive) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
• v. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.
• v. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
• v. (carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
• v. To plough and plant with a lister.
• v. (US, Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.
• n. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
• v. (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
• n. (nautical) A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.
• n. (architecture) A tilt to a building.
• v. (nautical) To tilt to one side.
• v. (nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
• v. (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
• n. (obsolete) Inclination; desire.

mend

• n. A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
• n. The act of repairing.
• v. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay,…
• v. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
• v. To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
• v. To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

portion

• n. An allocated amount.
• n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• n. One's fate; lot.
• n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
• n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
• v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
• v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

reheel

• v. To fit a shoe with a replacement heel.

repair

• n. The act of repairing something.
• n. The result of repairing something.
• n. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
• v. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
• v. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
• n. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
• n. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
• v. To transfer oneself to another place.
• v. to pair again.

restore

• n. (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
• v. (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
• v. (transitive) To bring back to a previous condition or state.
• v. (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to…
• v. (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
• v. (computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
• v. (obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.

scoundrel

• n. A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour or virtue.

slant

• n. A slope; an incline, inclination.
• n. A sloped surface or line.
• n. (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
• n. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
• n. An oblique movement or course.
• n. (biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.
• n. A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
• n. A container or surface bearing shallow sloping areas to hold watercolors.
• n. (US, obsolete) A sarcastic remark; shade, an indirect mocking insult.
• n. (slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
• n. (Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement…
• n. (originally US) A point of view, an angle; a bias.
• n. (US) A look, a glance.
• n. (US, pejorative) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
• v. To lean, tilt or incline.
• v. To bias or skew.

tilt

• v. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
• v. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
• v. (intransitive) To be at an angle.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
• v. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
• v. (poker) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck).
• v. (photography) To move a camera vertically in a controlled way.
• n. A slope or inclination. (uncountable).
• n. A jousting contest. (countable).
• n. A thrust, as with a lance.
• n. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
• n. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
• n. A tilt hammer.
• n. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
• n. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
• n. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
• v. (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

tip

• n. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
• n. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility…
• n. (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
• n. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
• n. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to knock over, make fall down or overturn.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
• v. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
• v. (transitive) To dump (refuse).
• v. (US, transitive) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
• v. (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
• n. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
• n. An act of tipping up or tilting.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse,…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
• n. (colloquial) A very untidy place.
• n. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips.
• v. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
• n. (now rare) A light blow or tap.
• v. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
• v. (thieves′ slang) To give, pass.
• n. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token…
• n. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting…
• n. A piece of advice.
• v. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

underside

• n. The side that is below or underneath, the bottom.

undersurface

• n. The underneath surface; the bottom, or underside.

villain

• n. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): A vile, wicked person.
• n. The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero.
• n. (poker) Any opponent player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare:…
• n. Archaic form of villein.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To debase; to degrade.