Synonyms of the word

husk

• n. The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating…
• n. Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
• n. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
• v. (transitive) To remove husks from.
• n. An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm.
• v. (intransitive) To cough, clear one's throat.
• v. (transitive) To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.

case

• n. An actual event, situation, or fact.
• n. (now rare) A given condition or state.
• n. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
• n. (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
• n. (law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
• n. (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
• n. (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within…
• n. (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
• n. (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
• v. (obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.
• n. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
• n. A box, sheath, or covering generally.
• n. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
• n. An enclosing frame or casing.
• n. A suitcase.
• n. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be…
• n. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
• n. (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally…
• n. (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case)…
• n. (poker slang) Four of a kind.
• n. (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid…
• n. (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
• n. A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
• adj. (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
• v. (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
• v. (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
• v. (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for…

chaff

• n. The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
• n. By extension, any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
• n. Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil, dropped from aircraft specifically to interfere with…
• n. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
• n. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
• v. (intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
• v. (transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to…

remove

• v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
• v. (transitive) To murder.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
• v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
• v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
• v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
• n. The act of removing something.
• n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
• n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
• n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
• n. Distance in time or space; interval.
• n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
• n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

sheath

• n. A scabbard; a holster for a sword.
• n. Anything that has a similar shape to a scabbard for a sword that is for the purpose of holding an object…
• n. The insulating outer cover of an electrical cable.
• n. A tight-fitting dress.
• n. (Britain) A condom.
• n. The foreskin of certain animals, e.g. dogs and horses.
• n. The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.
• n. One of the elytra of an insect.
• v. To put an object (especially a weapon, in particular, a sword) into its sheath.

shell

• n. A hard external covering of an animal.
• n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
• n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
• n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
• n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
• n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
• n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
• n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
• n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
• n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
• n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
• n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
• n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
• n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
• n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
• n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
• n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
• n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
• n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
• n. An emaciated person.
• n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
• n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
• n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
• n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
• v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
• v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
• v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
• v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
• v. (topology) To form a shelling.

shuck

• n. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
• n. (slang) A phony.
• v. (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.

stalk

• n. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
• n. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
• n. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
• n. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes…
• n. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
• n. (zoology).
• n. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
• v. (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
• v. (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.^Wp.
• v. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
• v. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed…
• n. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
• n. A hunt (of a wild animal).
• v. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.

straw

• n. (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
• n. (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.
• n. (countable) A drinking straw.
• n. A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
• n. (figuratively) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
• adj. Made of straw.
• adj. Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
• adj. (figuratively) Imaginary, but presented as real.

stubble

• n. (countable and uncountable) Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

withdraw

• v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
• v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
• v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
• v. (intransitive) To retreat.
• v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.