Synonyms of the word

hock

• n. A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied…
• n. The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
• n. Meat from that part of a food animal.
• v. (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
• n. Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
• n. Debt.
• n. Installment purchase.
• n. Prison.
• v. (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.

articulation

• n. (countable or uncountable) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged,…
• n. (countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.
• n. (uncountable) The quality, clarity or sharpness of speech.
• n. (linguistics) The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.
• n. (music, uncountable) The manner in which something is articulated (tongued, slurred or bowed).
• n. (accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity,…

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

consign

• v. (transitive, business) To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
• v. (transitive) To entrust to the care of another.
• v. (transitive) To send to a final destination.
• v. To assign; to devote; to set apart.
• v. To stamp or impress; to affect.

disable

• v. (transitive) To render unable; to take away an ability of.
• v. (chiefly of a person) To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.
• v. to deactivate a function of an electronical or mechanical device.
• adj. (obsolete) Lacking ability; unable.

handicap

• n. Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
• n. An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest…
• n. (sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages…
• n. A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage,…
• n. (obsolete, card game) An old card game, similar to lanterloo.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
• v. (transitive, by extension) To place at disadvantage.
• v. To estimate betting odds.

incapacitate

• v. (transitive) to make incapable (of doing something).

invalid

• adj. Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate.
• n. (dated, sometimes offensive) Any person with a disability or illness.
• n. (dated, sometimes offensive) A person who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or…
• n. (archaic) A disabled member of the armed forces; one unfit for active duty due to injury.
• adj. Intended for use by an invalid.
• v. (Britain) To exempt from duty because of injury or ill health.

joint

• adj. Done by two or more people or organisations working together.
• n. The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
• n. The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
• n. (anatomy) Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be…
• n. The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
• n. A cut of meat.
• n. The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
• n. (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
• n. (chiefly US slang, somewhat pejorative) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality…
• n. (slang, with the definite article) prison.
• n. (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
• v. (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together.
• v. (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
• v. (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into…
• v. (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.

pawn

• n. (chess) The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight;…
• n. (colloquial) Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end, usually not the end that individual…
• n. The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
• n. An instance of pawning something.
• n. (now rare) An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
• n. (rare) A pawn shop, pawnbroker.
• v. To pledge; to stake or wager.
• v. To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
• n. Alternative form of paan.
• v. (video games) Alternative form of pwn.

soak

• v. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
• v. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
• v. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
• v. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up).
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
• v. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
• v. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
• v. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
• n. An immersion in water etc.
• n. (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
• n. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.