Synonyms of the word

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.

animal

• n. In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a…
• n. In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
• n. In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc.).
• n. (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
• n. (informal) A person of a particular type.
• adj. Of or relating to animals.
• adj. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
• adj. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
• adj. (slang, Ireland) Excellent.

associate

• adj. Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.
• adj. Having partial status or privileges.
• adj. Following or accompanying; concomitant.
• adj. (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
• n. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
• n. Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
• n. A companion; a comrade.
• n. One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
• n. A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
• v. (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
• v. (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
• v. (transitive) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
• v. (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
• v. (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
• v. (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
• v. (mathematics) To be associative.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of.

beast

• n. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous…
• n. (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
• n. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
• n. (slang) A large and impressive thing or structure.
• n. (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
• n. (slang, prisons) A sex offender.
• n. (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
• v. (Britain, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
• adj. (slang) great; excellent; powerful.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

beverage

• n. (chiefly US) A liquid to consume; a drink; such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks;…
• n. (slang, archaic) (A gift of) drink money.

brute

• adj. Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
• adj. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
• adj. Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
• adj. Crude, unpolished.
• adj. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
• adj. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
• adj. Inexplicable.
• n. (now archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
• n. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.
• n. (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
• v. Obsolete spelling of bruit.

checkmate

• interj. (chess) Word called out by the victor when making the conclusive move.
• n. The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable…
• n. (figuratively, by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
• v. (transitive, chess) To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.
• v. (transitive, by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape.

conjoin

• v. (transitive) To join together; to unite; to combine.
• v. (transitive) To marry.
• v. (transitive, grammar) To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate…
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
• v. (intransitive) To unite, to join, to league.

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.

creature

• n. (now rare) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
• n. A living being; an animal or human.
• n. A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

drink

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
• v. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
• v. (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
• v. (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
• n. A beverage.
• n. A (served) alcoholic beverage.
• n. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
• n. A type of beverage (usually mixed).
• n. Alcoholic beverages in general.
• n. (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink.

drinkable

• adj. Able to be drunk (as liquid).
• adj. (of water) Safe to drink.
• adj. (of an alcoholic beverage, especially wine) Of good or satisfactory quality.
• n. (usually in the plural) That which can be drunk.

duplicate

• adj. Being the same as another; identical. This may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage…
• adj. (games) In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other…
• v. to make a copy of.
• v. to do repeatedly; to do again.
• v. to produce something equal to.
• n. One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
• n. (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars,…
• n. The game of duplicate bridge.
• n. The game of duplicate Scrabble.
• n. (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the…

duplication

• n. The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
• n. (biology) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.

fauna

• n. (uncountable) animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
• n. (countable) a book, cataloguing the animals of a country etc.

friend

• n. A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels…
• n. A boyfriend or girlfriend.
• n. An associate who provides assistance.
• n. A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
• n. A person who backs or supports something.
• n. (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
• n. (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
• n. (object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected…
• n. (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
• n. (obsolete) A paramour of either sex.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
• v. (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate…

holly

• n. Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used…
• n. The wood from this tree.
• n. (with a qualifier) Any of several unrelated plant species likened to Ilex because of their prickly, evergreen…

join

• v. (transitive) To combine more than one item into one; to put together.
• v. (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
• v. (transitive) To come into the company of.
• v. (transitive) To become a member of.
• v. (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
• v. To unite in marriage.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
• v. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
• n. An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
• n. (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
• n. (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…

match

• n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
• n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
• n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
• n. A marriage.
• n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
• n. Suitability.
• n. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
• n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
• n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
• n. An agreement or compact.
• n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly…
• v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
• v. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
• v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
• v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove…
• n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being…

officer

• n. One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or…
• n. One who holds a public office.
• n. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
• n. (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.
• v. (transitive) To supply with officers.
• v. (transitive) To command like an officer.

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.

partner

• n. Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.
• n. (nautical) One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship…
• n. (Jamaica) A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a…
• v. to make or be a partner.
• v. to work or perform as a partner.

potable

• adj. Good for drinking without fear of poisoning or disease.
• n. Any drinkable liquid; a beverage.

relation

• n. The manner in which two things may be associated.
• n. A member of one's family.
• n. The act of relating a story.
• n. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
• n. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.
• n. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
• n. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
• n. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
• n. (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

relative

• adj. Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
• adj. (computing, of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete…
• adj. (grammar) That relates to an antecedent.
• adj. (music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
• adj. Relevant; pertinent; related.
• adj. Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
• n. Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.
• n. (linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective,…

shell

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

spouse

• n. A person in a marriage or marital relationship.
• v. (dated) To wed; to espouse.

teammate

• n. One who is on the same team.

trounce

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

twin

• n. Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who…
• n. Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
• n. A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
• n. (US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
• n. (crystallography) A twin crystal.
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
• v. (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different…
• v. (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be born at the same birth.
• adj. double; dual; occurring as a matching pair.
• adj. forming a pair of twins.

vanquish

• v. To defeat, to overcome.