Synonyms of the word

jaw

• n. One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
• n. The part of the face below the mouth.
• n. (figuratively) Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth…
• n. A notch or opening.
• n. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
• n. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing…
• n. (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
• n. (slang, dated) Impudent or abusive talk.
• n. (slang) Axle guard.
• n. (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
• v. (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
• v. (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
• v. (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
• adj. (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump).

berate

• v. (transitive) to chide or scold vehemently.

bone

• n. (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up…
• n. (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
• n. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
• n. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
• n. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
• n. (figuratively) The framework of anything.
• n. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
• n. (US, informal) A dollar.
• n. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
• n. (slang) Dominoes or dice.
• adj. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
• v. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
• v. To fertilize with bone.
• v. To put whalebone into.
• v. (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
• v. (vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring…
• v. (usually with "up") To study.
• v. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
• v. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
• v. (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level…
• n. (slang) Clipping of trombone.

chaffer

• v. (intransitive) To haggle or barter.
• v. To talk much and idly; to chatter.
• n. bargaining; merchandise.
• n. (agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.

chat

• v. To be engaged in informal conversation.
• v. To talk more than a few words.
• v. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
• v. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face…
• n. (uncountable) Informal conversation.
• n. A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
• n. (totum pro parte, always with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a…
• n. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face…
• n. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae…
• n. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
• n. A small potato, such as is given to swine.
• n. (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, WWI military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
• n. Alternative form of chaat.

chatter

• n. Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
• n. The sound of talking.
• n. The sound made by a magpie.
• n. An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
• n. In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge…
• v. (intransitive) To talk idly.
• v. (intransitive) Of teeth, machinery, etc, to make a noise by rapid collisions.
• v. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
• n. one who chats.
• n. (Internet) a user of chat rooms.

chew

• v. To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break…
• v. To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
• v. (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
• n. The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
• n. A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
• n. (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
• n. (countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.

chide

• v. (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

chitchat

• n. Alternative spelling of chit-chat.
• v. Alternative spelling of chit-chat.

claver

• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chatter.
• v. to gossip or chit-chat.
• n. Alternative form of clover.

confab

• v. To speak casually with; to chat.
• n. A casual talk or chat.

confabulate

• v. (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.
• v. (intransitive) To confer.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.

converse

• v. (formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation.
• v. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with.
• v. (obsolete) To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study.
• n. (now literary) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
• adj. Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
• n. The opposite or reverse.
• n. (logic) Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B…
• n. (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse…

criticise

• v. To evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults.
• v. To find fault (with something).

criticize

• v. To find fault (with something).
• v. To evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.

discourse

• n. (uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.
• n. (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
• n. (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
• n. (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
• n. (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can…
• n. (obsolete) Dealing; transaction.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
• v. (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To debate.
• v. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To produce or emit (musical sounds).

feature

• n. (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
• n. An important or main item.
• n. (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently…
• n. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
• n. (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
• n. The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty,…
• n. (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and…
• n. (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer,…
• v. (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
• v. (transitive) To star, to contain.
• v. (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

gossip

• n. Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
• n. Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
• n. A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
• n. (obsolete) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother.
• v. To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
• v. To talk idly.

grate

• n. A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
• n. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater.
• v. (intransitive) To rub against, making a (usually unpleasant) squeaking sound.
• v. (by extension, intransitive) To grate on one’s nerves; to irritate or annoy.
• v. (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound.
• v. (by extension, transitive, obsolete) To annoy.
• adj. (obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable.

grind

• v. To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
• v. To shape with the force of friction.
• v. (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
• v. To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
• v. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
• v. (sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
• v. To oppress, hold down or weaken.
• v. (slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
• v. (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed…
• v. (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
• v. To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
• v. To instill through repetitive teaching.
• v. (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
• v. (slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
• n. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
• n. Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
• n. A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
• n. A tedious task.
• n. A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
• n. (archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
• n. Grindcore (subgenre of heavy metal).
• n. A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

knock

• n. An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
• n. An impact.
• n. (figuratively) criticism.
• n. (cricket) a batsman's innings.
• n. (automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by…
• n. (cycling) Synonym of hunger knock.
• v. (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
• v. (transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
• v. (colloquial) To denigrate, undervalue.
• v. (soccer) To pass, kick a ball towards another player.
• v. (slang, dated, Britain) To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

lambast

• v. (Britain) Alternative form of lambaste.

lambaste

• v. To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
• v. (dated) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.

lecture

• n. A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
• n. A berating or scolding.
• n. (obsolete) The act of reading.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
• v. (transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

lineament

• n. Any distinctive shape or line, etc.
• n. A distinctive feature that characterizes something, especially the parts of the face of an individual.

manducate

• v. (literary) to chew; to masticate.
• v. (literary) to eat.

masticate

• v. (transitive) To chew (food).
• v. (transitive) To grind or knead something into a pulp.

mouth

• n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
• n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
• n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
• n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
• n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
• n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
• v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
• v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
• v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
• v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
• v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

natter

• v. (colloquial) To talk casually; to discuss unimportant matters.
• v. (Scotland) To nag.
• n. (colloquial) Mindless and irrelevant chatter.

os

• n. (rare, medicine) Bone.
• n. (rare) A mouth; an opening.
• n. In particular, either end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) or external (to the vagina).
• n. An osar or esker.
• n. (rare) plural of o. More commonly oes or o's.

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

rebuke

• n. A harsh criticism.
• v. To criticise harshly; to reprove.

remonstrate

• v. (intransitive) To object; to express disapproval (with, against).
• v. (intransitive, chiefly historical) Specifically, to lodge an official objection (especially by means of…
• v. (transitive, often with an object consisting of direct speech or a clause beginning with that) To state…
• v. To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.

reprimand

• n. A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
• v. To reprove in a formal or official way.

reproof

• n. An act or instance of reproving; a rebuke.
• v. To proof again.

scold

• n. A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
• v. To rebuke.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

visit

• v. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally…
• v. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
• v. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
• v. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below…
• v. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
• n. A single act of visiting.
• n. (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

yack

• n. chatter.
• n. Alternative form of yak.
• v. (slang) to vomit, usually because of intoxication.
• v. (colloquial) to talk incessantly.