Synonyms of the word

know

• v. (transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
• v. (transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
• v. (transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
• v. (transitive) To experience.
• v. (transitive) To distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature…
• v. (transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence…
• v. To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
• v. (transitive, archaic, biblical) To have sexual relations with.
• v. (intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be acquainted (with another person).
• v. (transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
• n. (rare) Knowledge; the state of knowing.

accept

• v. (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
• v. (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
• v. (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
• v. (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
• v. (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
• v. (transitive) To endure patiently.
• v. (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
• v. (transitive) To receive officially.
• v. (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
• adj. (obsolete) Accepted.

acknowledge

• v. (transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.
• v. To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority…
• v. To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or an favour).
• v. To notify receipt, as of a letter.
• v. To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in…

agnise

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

agnize

• v. (transitive, archaic) To recognise; to acknowledge.

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.

bed

• n. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on.
• n. A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
• n. (heading) A layer or surface.
• v. Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
• v. Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

bonk

• v. (informal) To strike or collide with something.
• v. (informal, chiefly Britain) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (skateboarding) To hit something with the front wheels of the skateboard, whilst in the air, this pre-dates…
• v. (snowboarding) To hit something (especially a tree) with one's snowboard, especially while in the air.
• v. (informal) To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.
• n. A bump on the head.
• n. Any minor collision or random meeting.
• n. (informal, chiefly Britain) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. A condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.

cognise

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

cognize

• v. To know or be aware of.
• v. To select a pattern of information and assign it as an entity.

copulate

• v. To engage in sexual intercourse.
• adj. (obsolete) Joined; associated; coupled.
• adj. (grammar) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.

couple

• n. Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
• n. Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
• n. (informal) A small number.
• n. One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic…
• n. (physics) Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel…
• n. (architecture) A couple-close.
• n. (obsolete) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
• adj. (informal, US) Two or (a) small number of.
• v. (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
• v. (transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.
• v. (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

differentiate

• v. (transitive) To show, or be the distinction between two things.
• v. (intransitive) To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To modify, or be modified.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To calculate the derivative of a function.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.
• v. (intransitive, biology) To produce distinct organs or to achieve specific functions by a process of development…

distinguish

• v. To see someone or something as different from others.
• v. To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
• v. To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.

eff

• v. (euphemistic, slang) Fuck.

experience

• n. (countable, uncountable) Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
• n. (countable) An activity which one has performed.
• n. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge,…
• n. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
• v. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions…

fuck

• v. (vulgar, colloquial) To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.
• v. (vulgar, colloquial) To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice…
• v. (vulgar, colloquial) To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
• v. (vulgar, colloquial, usually followed by “up”) To break; to destroy.
• v. (vulgar, colloquial) To defraud or otherwise treat badly.
• v. (vulgar, colloquial) To play with; to tinker.
• v. (vulgar, colloquial, often derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with someone or something.
• n. (vulgar, colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (vulgar, colloquial) A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
• n. (vulgar, colloquial) A highly contemptible person.
• n. (vulgar, colloquial) A thing of no value, a small amount.
• interj. (vulgar, colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent.
• adv. (vulgar, colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the words "yes" and "no".
• part. (vulgar, slang, especially African American Vernacular) Used as a shortened form of various common interrogative…

hump

• n. A mound of earth.
• n. A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
• n. A speed hump.
• n. A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
• n. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (Britain, slang) A bad mood.
• n. (slang) A painfully boorish person.
• v. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).

jazz

• n. (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American…
• n. Energy, excitement, excitability.
• n. The substance or makeup of a thing.
• n. Unspecified thing(s).
• n. (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
• n. Nonsense.
• v. To destroy.
• v. To play (jazz music).
• v. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
• v. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite.
• v. To complicate.
• v. (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
• v. To distract/pester.

knowing

• adj. Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.
• adj. Shrewd or showing clever awareness.
• adj. Suggestive of private knowledge.
• adj. Deliberate.
• v. present participle of know.
• n. The act or condition of having knowledge.

live

• v. (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
• v. (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
• v. (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
• v. (intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.
• v. (intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner.
• v. (transitive) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
• v. (transitive) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
• v. (intransitive) To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by "on" or "upon") To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself;…
• v. (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full rich life.
• adj. (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
• adj. Being in existence; actual.
• adj. Having active properties; being energized.
• adj. Operational; being in actual use rather than in testing.
• adj. (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.
• adj. (sports) Still in active play.
• adj. (broadcasting) Seen or heard from a broadcast, as it happens.
• adj. Of a performance or speech, in person.
• adj. Of a recorded performance, made in front of an audience, or not having been edited after recording.
• adj. Of firearms or explosives, capable of causing harm.
• adj. (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution…
• adj. (poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
• adj. Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
• adj. Being in a state of ignition; burning.
• adj. (obsolete) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing.
• adj. (obsolete) Vivid; bright.
• adv. Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.
• adv. Of making a performance or speech, in person.

love

• n. (uncountable) Strong affection.
• n. (countable) The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart.
• n. (colloquial, Britain) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
• n. (euphemistic) A sexual desire; sexual activity.
• n. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members,…
• n. (obsolete) A thin silk material.
• n. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
• v. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To need, thrive on.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
• v. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
• v. (transitive) To lust for.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise; commend.
• v. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
• n. (racquet sports) Zero, no score.

mate

• n. A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
• n. (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
• n. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A friend, usually of the same sex.
• n. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) a colloquial "sir"; an informal and friendly term of address…
• n. (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's…
• n. (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
• n. (nautical) A first mate.
• n. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
• n. The other member of a matched pair of objects.
• n. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
• v. (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.
• v. (intransitive) To copulate.
• v. (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
• v. (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
• v. (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
• v. (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
• v. (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
• v. (transitive) To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
• v. (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
• v. (transitive, aeronautics, space) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can…
• n. (chess) Short for checkmate.
• v. (intransitive) To win a game of chess by putting the opponent in checkmate.
• v. To confuse; to confound.
• n. Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
• n. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea.

pair

• n. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
• n. Two people in a relationship, partnership (especially sexual) or friendship.
• n. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale…
• n. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
• n. (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better…
• n. (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
• n. (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
• n. (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
• n. (slang) A pair of breasts.
• n. (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of…
• n. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote…
• n. (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
• n. (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually…
• v. (transitive) To group into sets of two.
• v. (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
• v. (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question…
• v. (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
• v. (computing) to form wireless connection between to devices.
• v. (obsolete) To impair.

realise

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

realize

• v. (formal, transitive) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring…
• v. (transitive) To become aware of a fact or situation.
• v. (transitive) To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to…
• v. (transitive, business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts;…
• v. (transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing…
• v. (transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.

recall

• v. (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
• v. (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
• v. (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
• v. (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
• v. (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
• n. The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
• n. Memory; the ability to remember.
• n. (information retrieval) the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.

recognise

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.

recognize

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realize or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.
• v. To show appreciation of.
• v. (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
• v. (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
• v. (immunology) To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
• v. To cognize again.

recollect

• v. To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
• v. To compose oneself.

remember

• v. To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
• v. To memorize; to put something into memory.
• v. To keep in mind, be mindful of.
• v. To not forget (to do something required).
• v. To convey greetings from.
• v. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively).
• v. (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.

retrieve

• v. (transitive) To regain or get back something.
• v. (transitive) To rescue (a) creature(s).
• v. (transitive) To salvage something.
• v. (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
• v. (transitive) To remember or recall something.
• v. (transitive) To fetch or carry back something.
• v. (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
• v. (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
• v. (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
• v. (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
• v. (obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
• n. A retrieval.
• n. (sports) The return of a difficult ball.
• n. (obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
• n. (obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.

screw

• n. A device that has a helical function.
• n. (derogatory) A prison guard.
• n. (derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or…
• n. (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
• n. (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (slang) Salary, wages.
• n. (billiards) Backspin.
• n. (slang) A small packet of tobacco.
• n. (dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
• n. (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated…
• n. An amphipod crustacean.
• n. (dated, slang) A prison guard.
• v. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation. Sometimes used…
• v. (transitive) To apply pressure on; to put the screws on.
• v. To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
• v. (transitive) To contort.
• v. (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
• v. (billiard, snooker, pool) To screw back.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.

secern

• v. To discriminate, distinguish.
• v. (medicine) To secrete.

secernate

• v. secern.

see

• v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
• v. To form a mental picture of.
• v. (social) To meet, to visit.
• v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
• v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
• v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
• v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
• v. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
• v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
• n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
• n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric.
• n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

separate

• adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
• adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
• v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
• v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
• v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
• v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
• n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

severalize

• v. (transitive) To distinguish; to make or treat as several.

tell

• v. (transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
• v. (transitive) To narrate.
• v. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
• v. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
• v. (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
• v. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
• v. (transitive) To reveal.
• v. (intransitive) To be revealed.
• v. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
• v. (transitive) To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
• v. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
• n. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts…
• n. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
• n. (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
• n. (archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

think

• v. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
• v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
• v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
• v. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that).
• v. (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
• v. (transitive) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
• v. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
• v. To presume; to venture.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
• v. (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.

undergo

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To go or move under or beneath.
• v. (transitive) To experience; to pass through a phase.
• v. (transitive) To suffer or endure; bear with.