Synonyms of the word

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.

blackguard

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

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.

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;…

chase

• n. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
• n. A hunt.
• n. (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
• n. (Britain) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
• n. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
• n. (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
• n. (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the…
• n. (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a…
• n. (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
• v. (transitive) To pursue, to follow at speed.
• v. (transitive) To hunt.
• v. (intransitive) To give chase; to hunt.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
• v. (transitive) To dilute alcohol.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
• n. (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing…
• n. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
• n. (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing)…
• n. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
• n. The cavity of a mold.
• n. (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually…
• v. (transitive) To groove; indent.
• v. (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space…
• v. (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
• v. (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.

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…

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.

hunt

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
• v. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
• v. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
• v. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
• v. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
• v. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
• v. (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor…
• n. The act of hunting.
• n. A hunting expedition.
• n. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the…

scoundrel

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

tag

• n. A small label.
• n. A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the…
• n. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
• n. A type of cardboard.
• n. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
• n. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
• n. An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said").
• n. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
• n. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
• n. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
• n. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information…
• n. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
• n. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
• n. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
• n. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
• n. A sheep in its first year.
• n. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify,…
• n. (slang) A person's name.
• v. (transitive) To label (something).
• v. (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
• v. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
• v. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
• v. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
• v. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
• v. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
• v. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
• v. To fasten; to attach.
• n. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

tail

• n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
• n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
• n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
• n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
• n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
• n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
• n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
• n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
• n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
• n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary…
• n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
• n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
• n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
• n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
• n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
• n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
• n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
• n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness…
• n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
• n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
• n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
• n. (mining) A tailing.
• n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
• v. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
• v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in…
• v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
• v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
• v. To pull or draw by the tail.
• adj. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
• n. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

trace

• n. An act of tracing.
• n. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
• n. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
• n. A very small amount.
• n. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
• n. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
• n. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree…
• n. (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting…
• n. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
• n. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
• n. (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been…
• v. (transitive) To follow the trail of.
• v. To follow the history of.
• v. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
• v. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
• v. (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction,…

track

• n. A mark left by something that has passed along.
• n. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
• n. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
• n. A road or other similar beaten path.
• n. Physical course; way.
• n. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
• n. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
• n. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
• n. A tract or area, such as of land.
• n. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
• n. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width).
• n. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
• n. (cricket) The pitch.
• n. Sound stored on a record.
• n. The physical track on a record.
• n. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short…
• n. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
• n. (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
• n. A session talk on a conference.
• v. To continue observing over time.
• v. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).

trail

• v. (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
• v. (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
• v. (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report…
• v. To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
• v. (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the…
• v. To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.
• v. (dated) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
• n. The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints…
• n. A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders,…
• n. A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
• n. (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.

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.