Synonym of the word LIFT

lift

n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
n. An act of lifting or raising.
n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
n. (historical slang) A thief.
n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
n. an improvement in mood.
n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
n. A lift gate.
n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

abstract

n. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
n. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
n. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
n. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
n. (art) An abstract work of art.
n. (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of…
adj. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
adj. (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
adj. Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.
adj. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general,…
adj. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
adj. (archaic) Absent-minded.
adj. (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships…
adj. Insufficiently factual.
adj. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
adj. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
adj. (computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than…
v. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
v. (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
v. (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
v. (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
v. (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically;…
v. (intransitive, reflexive, literally figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
v. (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
v. (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
v. (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
v. (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used…

actuation

n. The act of putting into motion.

aid

n. (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.
n. (countable) A helper; an assistant.
n. (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.
n. (countable, Britain) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose,…
n. (countable, Britain) An exchequer loan.
n. (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
n. (countable) An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.
v. (transitive) To (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.

airlift

n. The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
n. Such a flight.
n. (archaeology) A pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed.
v. (transitive) To transport (troops etc) in an airlift.

alter

v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
v. (intransitive) To become different.
v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

ameliorate

v. (transitive) To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.

amend

v. (transitive) To make better.
v. (intransitive) To become better.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
v. (transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.

anaplasty

n. (surgery) The restoration of lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

annul

v. (transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
v. (transitive) To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.

appear

v. (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
v. (intransitive) To come before the public.
v. (intransitive) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge,…
v. (intransitive) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation…
v. (intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.

arise

v. To come up from a lower to a higher position.
v. To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
v. To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin…

ascension

n. The act of ascending; an ascent.
n. That which rises, as from distillation.

ascent

n. The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
n. The way or means by which one ascends.
n. An eminence, hill, or high place.
n. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising…
n. (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
n. An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy.

assist

v. (archaic) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
v. (archaic) To attend (with at).
v. To help.
v. (sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
v. (medicine) To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.
n. A helpful action or an act of giving.
n. (sports) The act of helping another player score points or goals.

assistance

n. Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.

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.

better

adj. comparative form of good: more good.
adj. comparative form of well: more well.
adv. comparative form of well: more well.
adv. More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
n. An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.
v. (transitive) To improve.
v. (intransitive) To become better; to improve.
v. (transitive) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
v. (transitive) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
v. (colloquial) Had better.
n. Alternative spelling of bettor.

buckle

v. (intransitive) To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
v. (transitive) To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
v. (intransitive) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
v. To buckle down; to apply oneself.
n. (countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining…
n. (Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
n. (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or…
n. A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
n. A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
n. A contorted expression, as of the face.
v. (transitive) To fasten using a buckle.
v. (Scotland) To unite in marriage.

cabbage

n. An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
n. (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
n. (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
n. Used as a term of endearment.
n. (uncountable, slang) Money.
n. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
n. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
n. The cabbage palmetto.
v. (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
v. (intransitive, slang) To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
n. (uncountable, slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally…
v. (transitive) To purloin or embezzle; to pilfer, to steal.

call

n. A telephone conversation.
n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
n. A cry or shout.
n. A decision or judgement.
n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
n. A beckoning or summoning.
n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
v. (heading) To use one's voice.
v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

cancel

v. (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
v. (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
v. (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
v. (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
v. (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction,…
v. (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
v. (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
v. (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
v. (slang) To kill.
n. A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
n. (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
n. (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

change

v. (intransitive) To become something different.
v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
v. (transitive) To replace.
v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
v. (archaic) To exchange.
v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

conveyance

n. An act or instance of conveying.
n. A means of transporting, especially a vehicle.
n. (law) An instrument transferring title of an object from one person or group of persons to another.
v. (law, transitive) To transfer (the title) of an object from one person or group of persons to another.

countermand

v. To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
v. To recall a person or unit with such an order.
v. To prohibit; to forbid.
v. To oppose; to revoke the command of.
n. An order to the contrary of a previous one.

device

n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

dig

v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
v. To thrust; to poke.
v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
n. An archeological investigation.
n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
n. A thrust; a poke.
n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

displace

v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
v. (psycology) to repress.

drive

n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent…
n. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
n. A driveway.
n. A type of public roadway.
n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk,…
n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with…
n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and…
n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs,…
n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
v. (transitive) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
v. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
v. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
v. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
v. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
v. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
v. (transitive) To cause to become.
v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
v. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
v. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
v. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
v. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball…
v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
v. To be the dominant party where two people are engaged in a sex act.

elevate

v. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
v. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
v. (transitive) To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
v. (transitive) To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
v. (transitive) To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
v. (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
v. (obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
adj. (obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft.

elevation

n. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons,…
n. The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
n. That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
n. The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between…
n. The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
n. The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle…
n. (architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the…
n. (Christianity) The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.

elevator

n. (US) A permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically, used to transport people…
n. A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).
n. (aeronautics) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controling the pitching motion of the machine.
n. A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of…
n. (anatomy) Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
n. A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.

emit

v. (transitive) To send out or give off.

end

n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
n. Death, especially miserable.
n. Result.
n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

facelift

n. Plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging.
n. By extension, any activity undertaken to renew, revamp, update, or improve the appearance of something.
v. To perform a facelift upon.

filch

v. (transitive) To illegally take possession of (especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
n. Something which has been filched or stolen.
n. An act of filching; larceny, theft.
n. (obsolete) A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief.
n. (obsolete) A hooked stick used to filch objects.

fly

n. (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
n. (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless…
n. (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other…
n. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
n. (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
n. (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest…
n. (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
n. (obsolete) A parasite.
n. (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
v. (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded…
v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
v. (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
v. (intransitive) To travel very fast.
v. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
v. To hunt with a hawk.
v. (transitive) To display a flag on a flagpole.
n. (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
n. An act of flying.
n. (baseball) A fly ball.
n. (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
n. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
n. A strip of material hiding the zipper, buttons etc. at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants,…
n. The free edge of a flag.
n. The horizontal length of a flag.
n. Butterfly, a form of swimming.
n. (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
n. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
n. (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
n. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of…
n. A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the…
n. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while…
n. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
n. (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
n. (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
n. (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the…
n. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
n. (cotton manufacture) waste cotton.
v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground…
adj. (slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
adj. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance.
adj. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.

go

v. To move.
v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
v. (intransitive) To attend.
v. To proceed.
v. To follow or travel along (a path).
v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
v. To pass, to be used up.
v. (intransitive) To die.
v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
v. To break down or apart.
v. (intransitive) To be sold.
v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
v. To say (something), to make a sound.
v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
v. To apply or subject oneself to.
v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
v. (intransitive) To date.
v. To attack.
v. To be in general; to be usually.
v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
n. (uncommon) The act of going.
n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
n. An attempt, a try.
n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
n. An act; the working or operation.
n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
n. A period of activity.
n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

heave

v. (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
v. (transitive) To throw, cast.
v. (intransitive) To rise and fall.
v. (transitive) To utter with effort.
v. (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
v. (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or…
v. (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
v. (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
v. (transitive, now rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
v. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
v. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
v. (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
n. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
n. An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves,…
n. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
n. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time…

help

n. (uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
n. (usually uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
n. Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
n. (usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation…
n. (uncountable, euphemistic) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social…
v. (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
v. (transitive) To contribute in some way to.
v. (intransitive) To provide assistance.
v. (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive…
interj. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance.

hoist

v. (transitive) To raise; to lift; to elevate; especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means…
v. (transitive, historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
v. (intransitive) To be lifted up.
v. (transitive, computing theory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
n. A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
n. The act of hoisting; a lift.
n. The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff.
n. The vertical edge of a flag which is next to the staff.
n. The height of a fore-and-aft sail, next the mast or stay.

hook

n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
n. (baseball) A curveball.
n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
n. (typography, rare) A háček.
n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
n. A snare; a trap.
n. A field sown two years in succession.
n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

improve

v. (transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
v. (intransitive) To become better.
v. (obsolete) To disprove or make void; to refute.
v. (obsolete) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
v. (dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.

layer

n. A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
n. A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
n. One of the items in a hierarchy.
v. (transitive, intransitive) to cut or divide (something) into layers.
v. (transitive, intransitive) to arrange (something) in layers.
n. A person who lays things, such as tiles.
n. A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
n. A hen kept to lay eggs.
n. A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.

lift

n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
n. An act of lifting or raising.
n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
n. (historical slang) A thief.
n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
n. an improvement in mood.
n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
n. A lift gate.
n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

liquidate

v. (transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
v. (transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
v. (transitive) To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
v. (transitive) To do away with.
v. (transitive) To kill.
v. (law, transitive) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to…
v. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear and intelligible.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To make liquid.

locomote

v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

look

v. (intransitive, often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
v. To appear, to seem.
v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
v. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
v. To face or present a view.
v. To expect or anticipate.
v. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
v. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
v. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To expect.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
interj. Pay attention.
n. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
n. A facial expression.

meliorate

v. (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.

modify

v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

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…

nobble

v. (Britain, Australia, slang) To injure or obstruct intentionally.
v. (Britain, slang) To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation.
v. (Britain, slang) To steal.

operate

v. (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical;…
v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed…
v. (transitive or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
v. (medicine, transitive or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner,…
v. (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
v. (transitive or intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

overturn

v. To turn over, capsize or upset (something).
v. To overthrow or destroy something.
v. (law) To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind.
v. To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.

pilfer

v. To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.

pinch

v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
v. To squeeze between two objects.
v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
n. An organic herbal smoke additive.

plagiarise

v. Alternative spelling of plagiarize.

plagiarize

v. (transitive, intransitive) To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech.

propulsion

n. Force causing movement.

purloin

v. (transitive) To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to…
v. (intransitive) To commit theft; to thieve.

raise

v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
n. A cairn or pile of stones.

raising

v. present participle of raise.
n. Elevation.
n. Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
n. Recruitment.
n. Collection or gathering, especially of money.
n. (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
n. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering,…

rear

v. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. ("Raise" is more…
v. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. (Less common than "raise" in American…
v. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
v. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
v. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
v. (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
v. (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up.
v. (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
v. (transitive) To move; stir.
v. (transitive, of geese) To carve.
v. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life).
adj. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
adj. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
adj. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
adv. (Britain, dialect) early; soon.
n. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
n. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
n. (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom.
v. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex).

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.

repeal

v. (transitive) To cancel, invalidate, annul.
v. To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment.
v. To suppress; to repel.
n. An act or instance of repealing.

rescind

v. (transitive) To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of…

reverse

adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
adj. (botany) Reversed.
adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
n. The opposite of something.
n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
v. To overthrow; to subvert.

revoke

v. (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
v. (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
v. (obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
v. (obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
v. (obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
v. (obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
n. The act of revoking in a game of cards.
n. A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious…
n. A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense…

rhytidectomy

n. (surgery) Plastic surgery to reduce the visible signs of aging in the face by removing wrinkles.

rhytidoplasty

n. (surgery) Plastic surgery to reduce the visible signs of aging in the face by removing wrinkles.

ride

v. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle…
v. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
v. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
v. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such…
v. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
v. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
v. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
v. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
v. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
v. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
v. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
n. An instance of riding.
n. (informal) A vehicle.
n. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
n. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
n. (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
n. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
n. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

rise

v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
v. To begin; to develop.
v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
v. To come; to offer itself.
v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
n. (informal) An angry reaction.
n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

rising

v. present participle of rise.
n. Rebellion.
n. The act of something that rises.
n. (US, dated) A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.
adj. Going up.
prep. (US, slang, dated) More than; exceeding; upwards of.

rustle

n. A soft crackling sound similar to the movement of leaves.
v. (ergative) To move (something) with a soft crackling sound.
v. (transitive) To make or obtain in a lively, energetic way.
v. (transitive) To steal (cattle or other livestock).

scalp

n. (now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
n. The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
n. A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by Native…
n. A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
n. (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish; a scaup.
n. (figuratively) The top; the summit.
v. To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
v. (slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
v. To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
v. (surgery) To remove the skin of.
v. (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.

seem

v. (copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
v. (obsolete) To befit; to beseem.

snarf

v. (transitive, slang) To eat or consume greedily.
v. (transitive, slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take…
v. (transitive, slang) To expel fluid or food through the mouth or nostrils accidentally, usually while attempting…
v. (transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirety; to copy as a whole.

sneak

n. One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
n. A cheat; a con artist; a trickster.
n. An informer; a tell-tale.
n. (obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter.
n. (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
v. (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who…
v. (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
v. (transitive, dated) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
v. (intransitive) (informal, especially with on) To inform an authority about another's misdemeanours; to…
adj. In advance; before release to the general public.
adj. In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.

steal

v. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
v. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
v. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding…
v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the…
v. (sports, transitive) To dispossess.
v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get.
n. The act of stealing.
n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball…
n. (baseball) A stolen base.
n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written…

swipe

v. (transitive) To steal or snatch.
v. (transitive) To scan or register by sliding something through a reader.
v. (intransitive) To grab or bat quickly.
v. (intransitive) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
n. (countable) A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; A sweep.
n. (countable) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
n. (countable, informal) A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
n. (uncountable) Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.

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.

terminate

v. (transitive or intransitive, formal) To end, especially in an incomplete state.
v. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.
v. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
adj. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
adj. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
adj. (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

transfer

v. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
v. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
v. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
v. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
n. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
n. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
n. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
n. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
n. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side…
n. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

transferral

n. Alternative spelling of transferal.

transport

v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
n. (historical) A deported convict.

transportation

n. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
n. (historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
n. (US) A means of conveyance.
n. (US) A ticket or fare.

travel

v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
v. (transitive) To force to journey.
v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
n. The act of traveling.
n. pl A series of journeys.
n. pl An account of one's travels.
n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

uprise

v. (archaic) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
v. (archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination.
v. To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
n. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

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.

vacate

v. To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction.
v. To leave an office or position.
v. To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
v. To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural…

warp

n. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally.
n. (countable) A distortion.
n. (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
n. (figuratively) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
n. (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for…
n. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such…
n. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
n. The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced…
n. (obsolete outside dialects) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure:…
v. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
v. (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
v. (transitive, intransitive, rare, obsolete, figuratively) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
v. (transitive, rare, obsolete, poetic) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
v. To move.
v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete outside dialects, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
v. (transitive, intransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or…
v. (transitive, very rare, obsolete) To throw.

wave

v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

wind

n. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or…
n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
n. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.).
n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
n. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,…
n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent…
n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
n. A bird, the dotterel.
n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary…
v. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
v. (Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
v. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
v. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
v. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
v. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
v. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
v. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
v. (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate;…
v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

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.

Synonyms of the word

lift

abstract

actuation

aid

airlift

alter

ameliorate

amend

anaplasty

annul

appear

arise

ascension

ascent

assist

assistance

bed

better

buckle

cabbage

call

cancel

change

conveyance

countermand

device

dig

displace

drive

elevate

elevation

elevator

emit

end

facelift

filch

fly

go

heave

help

hoist

hook

improve

layer

lift

liquidate

locomote

look

meliorate

modify

move

nobble

operate

overturn

pilfer

pinch

plagiarise

plagiarize

propulsion

purloin

raise

raising

rear

remove

repeal

rescind

reverse

revoke

rhytidectomy

rhytidoplasty

ride

rise

rising

rustle

scalp

seem

snarf

sneak

steal