Synonyms of the word

kick

• v. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
• v. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
• v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
• v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
• v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
• v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
• v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
• v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from…
• n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
• n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
• n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
• n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…
• n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
• n. (uncountable and countable) piquancy.
• n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
• n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
• n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
• n. a recoil of a gun.
• n. (informal) pocket.
• n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
• v. To die.

bang

• n. A sudden percussive noise.
• n. A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
• n. An explosion.
• n. (US, especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.
• n. (US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
• n. (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
• n. (figuratively) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
• n. (slang, mining) An explosive product.
• n. (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
• v. (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To hit hard.
• v. (slang, figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
• v. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
• v. (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
• adv. Right, directly.
• adv. Precisely.
• adv. With a sudden impact.
• interj. a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound.
• n. (in the plural) Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.

beef

• n. (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
• n. (slang, countable or uncountable, plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of…
• v. (intransitive) To complain.
• v. (transitive) To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.
• v. (African American Vernacular, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.
• adj. Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
• adj. Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
• adj. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.

bitch

• n. (dated) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
• n. (vulgar, offensive) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, typically a woman or man considered…
• n. (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person, often female, who does what others want; a slave.
• n. (obsolete, informal, of a man) A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
• n. (humorous, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
• n. (colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
• n. (colloquial, usually only used in the singular) A difficult or confounding problem.
• n. (colloquial) A queen (playing card), particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
• n. (figuratively) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
• n. (informal, slang) Place; situation.
• v. (intransitive) To behave or act as a bitch.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have…
• v. (transitive) To spoil, to ruin.

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

boot

• n. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
• n. A blow with the foot; a kick.
• n. (construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and…
• n. A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
• n. (US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a…
• n. A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice…
• n. (obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and…
• n. (archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
• n. (US, military, law enforcement, slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
• n. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
• n. (informal) The act or process of removing or firing someone.
• n. (Britain, slang) unattractive person, ugly woman.
• n. (firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended…
• n. (baseball) A bobbled ball.
• n. (botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
• v. To kick.
• v. To put boots on, especially for riding.
• v. To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
• v. (informal) To forcibly eject.
• v. (computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
• v. (slang) To vomit.
• n. (dated) remedy, amends.
• n. (uncountable) profit, plunder.
• n. (obsolete) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in…
• n. (obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To profit, avail, benefit.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
• n. (computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
• v. (computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
• n. A bootleg recording.

bounce

• v. (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
• v. (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to…
• v. (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
• v. (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient…
• v. (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
• v. (intransitive, slang, African American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have…
• v. (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
• v. (intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.
• v. (intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered.
• v. (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
• v. (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard on unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
• v. (slang, dated) To bully; to scold.
• v. (archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
• v. (archaic) To boast; to bluster.
• n. A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
• n. A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
• n. An email return with any error.
• n. The sack, licensing.
• n. A bang, boom.
• n. A drink based on brandy^W.
• n. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
• n. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
• n. Scyllium catulus, a European dogfish.
• n. A genre of New Orleans music.
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Drugs..
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Swagger..
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A 'good' beat.
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A talent for leaping..

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

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…

complain

• v. (intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
• v. (intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
• v. To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

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.

excitement

• n. (uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
• n. (countable) something that excites.

exhilaration

• n. The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
• n. The state of being enlivened, cheerful or exhilarated.

flush

• n. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.
• v. (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
• v. (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
• adj. Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
• adj. Wealthy or well off.
• adj. (typography) Short for flush left and right; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
• adj. Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.
• adj. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
• n. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
• n. Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
• n. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind;…
• n. Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
• n. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
• v. (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
• v. (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
• v. (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or…
• v. (transitive) To cause to blush.
• v. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
• v. (transitive) To excite, inflame.
• v. (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
• v. (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer) of its contents.
• v. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
• v. To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
• v. (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
• v. (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient,…
• v. (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which,…
• n. (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.

forgo

• v. To let pass, to leave alone.
• v. To do without, to abandon.
• v. To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.

gripe

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
• v. (archaic, transitive) To seize, grasp.
• v. (intransitive) To complain; to whine.
• v. To suffer griping pains.
• v. (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the…
• n. A complaint; a petty concern.
• n. (nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
• n. (obsolete) grasp; clutch; grip.
• n. (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
• n. (engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
• n. Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
• n. (nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
• n. (nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep…
• n. (nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure…
• n. (obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.

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.

impel

• v. (transitive) To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation (contrast…
• v. (transitive) To drive forward; to propel an object.

input

• n. The act or process of putting in; infusion.
• n. That which is put in, as in an amount.
• n. Contribution, or share in a contribution.
• n. Something fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the output of that process.
• v. (transitive) To put in; put on.
• v. (transitive) To enter data.
• v. (transitive) To accept data that is entered.

kicking

• adj. (slang) Terrific, great (of clothes) smart, fashionable.
• adj. (slang) Alive, active (especially in the phrase alive and kicking).
• adj. (slang, of a party or event) Actively ongoing and enjoyable.
• n. The action of the verb to kick.
• n. A violent assault involving repeated kicks.
• n. (slang) A great loss or defeat; licking.
• v. present participle of kick.

kvetch

• v. To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
• n. Person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
• n. An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.

motility

• n. (uncountable) The state of being motile.
• n. (countable) The degree to which something is motile.

motion

• n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
• n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
• n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
• n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
• n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
• n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
• n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
• n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
• v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
• v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
• v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

objection

• n. The act of objecting.
• n. A statement expressing opposition, or a reason or cause for expressing opposition (generally followed…
• n. (law) An official protest raised in a court of law during a legal trial over a violation of the rules…

plain

• adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
• adj. Simple.
• adj. Obvious.
• adj. Open.
• adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
• adv. (colloquial) Simply.
• n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
• n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
• n. A battlefield.
• n. (obsolete) A plane.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

propel

• v. To cause to move in a certain direction.
• v. To make to arrive to a certain situation or result.

quetch

• v. Alternative form of quitch.

rebound

• n. The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
• n. A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
• n. An effort to recover from a setback.
• n. A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of…
• n. (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
• n. (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being…
• v. To bound or spring back from a force.
• v. To give back an echo.
• v. (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
• v. (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of rebind.

recoil

• n. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
• n. The state or condition of having recoiled.
• n. (firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function…
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To retreat before an opponent.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To retire, withdraw.
• v. To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
• v. (of a firearm) To kick back when fired.

resile

• v. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
• v. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.

reverberate

• v. (intransitive) to ring with many echos.
• v. (intransitive) to have a lasting effect.
• v. (intransitive) to repeatedly return.
• v. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
• v. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
• v. To fuse by reverberated heat.
• v. (intransitive) to rebound or recoil.
• v. (intransitive) to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
• v. (obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light.
• adj. reverberant.
• adj. Driven back, as sound; reflected.

ricochet

• n. (military) A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
• n. An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.
• v. To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.
• v. (military) To operate upon by ricochet firing.

rush

• n. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems…
• n. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
• n. The merest trifle; a straw.
• n. A sudden forward motion.
• n. A surge.
• n. General haste.
• n. A rapid, noisy flow.
• n. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
• n. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
• n. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.
• n. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
• n. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
• n. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
• n. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
• v. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
• v. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
• v. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
• v. (military) To swiftly attach to without warning.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing…
• v. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
• adj. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

score

• n. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
• n. The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of…
• n. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or…
• n. Twenty, 20 (number).
• n. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
• n. A weight of twenty pounds.
• n. (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each…
• n. (music) The music of a movie or play.
• n. Subject.
• n. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
• n. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the…
• n. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
• n. (US, crime, slang) A robbery; a criminal act.
• n. (US, crime, slang) A bribe paid to a police officer.
• n. (US, crime, slang) An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
• n. (US, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
• n. (US, slang) A sexual conquest.
• v. (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.
• v. (transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
• interj. (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success.

spring

• v. To jump or leap.
• v. To pass over by leaping.
• v. To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.
• v. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
• v. To come into being, often quickly or sharply.
• v. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
• v. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.
• v. (nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.
• v. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets,…
• v. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
• v. To fly back.
• v. (intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.
• v. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its…
• v. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
• v. (obsolete) To grow; to prosper.
• v. (architecture, masonry, transitive) To build (an arch).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).
• n. A leap; a bound; a jump.
• n. (countable) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants…
• n. (countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September,…
• n. (countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March…
• n. (countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter…
• n. (countable) A place where water emerges from the ground.
• n. (uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched,…
• n. Elastic power or force.
• n. (countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent,…
• n. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
• n. (countable) The source of an action or of a supply.
• n. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
• n. That which springs, or is originated, from a source.
• n. (obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
• n. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
• n. (countable, nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa,…
• n. (nautical) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can…
• n. (nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.

squawk

• n. A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call.
• n. (aviation) A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency…
• n. (aviation) An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance.
• n. The American night heron.
• v. To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.
• v. To speak out; to protest.
• v. To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret.
• v. (aviation) To set or transmit a four-digit transponder code. (Normally followed by the specific code in…

stimulant

• n. A substance that acts to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body.
• n. Something that promotes activity, interest, or enthusiasm.
• adj. Acting as a stimulant.

stimulation

• n. A pushing or goading toward action.
• n. An activity causing excitement or pleasure.
• n. (biology) Any action or condition that creates a response; sensory input.

stimulus

• n. Anything that may have an impact or influence on a system.
• n. (physiology) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or…
• n. (psychology) Anything effectively impinging upon any of the sensory apparatuses of a living organism,…
• n. Anything that induces a person to take action.

tally

• adj. (Britain) Used as a mild intensifier: very (almost exclusively used by the upper classes).
• interj. (radio, aviation) Target sighted.
• n. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number;.
• n. Later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
• n. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially…
• n. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
• n. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
• n. A tally shop.
• n. A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
• v. (transitive) To count something.
• v. (transitive) To record something by making marks.
• v. (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
• v. (intransitive) To keep score.
• v. (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
• v. (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
• adv. (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.

thrill

• v. (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify;…
• v. (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
• v. (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
• v. (obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
• n. A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
• n. A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
• n. (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
• n. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.