Synonyms of the word

nest

• n. A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
• n. A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
• n. A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or job situation.
• n. A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
• n. A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
• n. A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent, guardian, or a person acting in the capacity…
• n. (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him…
• n. (military) A fortified position for a weapon, e.g. a machine gun nest.
• n. (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
• n. A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
• n. (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
• n. A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
• n. A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
• v. (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
• v. (intransitive) To settle into a home.
• v. (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
• v. (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
• v. (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
• v. (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").

clutch

• v. To seize, as though with claws.
• v. To grip or grasp tightly.
• n. The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
• n. (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
• n. A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car.
• n. The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission.
• n. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
• n. A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
• n. (US) An important or critical situation.
• adj. (US, Canada) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
• n. A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
• n. A group or bunch (of people or things).

collect

• v. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
• v. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
• v. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.).
• v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
• v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
• v. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
• v. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
• adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
• adv. With payment due from the recipient.
• n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook,…

cuddle

• n. A snuggle; an affectionate embrace, often given to family members and close friends.
• v. (intransitive) To embrace affectionately, lie together snugly.
• v. (transitive) To cradle in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth.
• v. To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.

embed

• v. To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
• v. (by extension) To include in surrounding matter.
• v. (computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file (unrelated to the other computing meaning…
• v. (mathematics, transitive) To define a one-to-one function from (one set) to another so that certain properties…
• n. An embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.
• n. An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.
• n. (computing) An item embedded in another document.

engraft

• v. To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a…
• v. To fix firmly into place.
• adj. (rare) Engrafted.

furniture

• n. (now usually uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics,…
• n. The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
• n. Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
• n. (firearms) the stock and forearm of a weapon.

gang

• v. (intransitive, chiefly Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To go; walk; proceed.
• n. (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
• n. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
• n. A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
• n. A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad.
• n. (US) A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with…
• n. A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit, or a group…
• n. (US) A chain gang.
• n. A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor;…
• n. A set; all required for an outfit.
• n. (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
• n. (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.
• n. (mining) The mineral substance which encloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.
• v. (intransitive) To band together as a group or gang.
• v. (transitive) to attach similar items together to form a larger unit.
• v. Eye dialect spelling of gan.
• v. Synonym of gangbang: to have sex with a single partner as a gang.

garner

• n. A granary; a store of grain.
• n. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
• v. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
• v. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
• v. (often figuratively) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to…
• v. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

gather

• v. To collect; normally separate things.
• v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
• v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
• v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
• v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
• v. To gain; to win.
• n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
• n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
• n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
• n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

imbed

• v. Alternative spelling of embed.

implant

• v. (transitive) To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
• v. (transitive) To insert (something) surgically into the body.
• v. (intransitive) Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.
• n. Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants.
• n. (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively…

inhabit

• v. (transitive) To live or reside in.
• v. (transitive) To be present in; to occupy.

mob

• n. A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
• n. A commonly used collective noun for animals such as horses or cattle.
• n. The Mafia, or a similar group that engages in organized crime (preceded by the).
• n. (video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the…
• n. (archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
• n. (Australian Aboriginal) A cohesive group of people.
• v. (transitive) To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.
• v. (transitive) To crowd into or around a place.
• n. (obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.
• n. A mob cap.
• v. (transitive) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
• n. mobile phone.

nestle

• v. To settle oneself comfortably and snugly.
• v. To press oneself against another affectionately.
• v. To lie half-hidden or in shelter.
• v. (archaic, ornithology) To build or sit upon a nest.
• v. (transitive) To move or place into a comfortable position.

nuzzle

• v. (of animals, lovers, etc) To touch someone or something with the nose.
• v. (obsolete) To nurse; to foster; to bring up.
• v. (obsolete) To nestle; to house, as in a nest.

occupy

• v. (transitive) To take or use time.
• v. (transitive) To take or use space.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
• v. (obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.

pack

• n. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for…
• n. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack.
• n. a multitude.
• n. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
• n. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game.
• n. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
• n. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
• n. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
• n. A group of Cub Scouts.
• n. A shook of cask staves.
• n. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
• n. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
• n. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack,…
• n. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
• n. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
• n. (rugby) The team on the field.
• v. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
• v. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
• v. (transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
• v. To move, send or carry.
• v. (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
• v. (intransitive, LGBT slang, of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a simulated penis or other manbulge-causing…

plant

• n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically…
• n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land…
• n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have…
• n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including…
• n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
• n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
• n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
• n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
• n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the…
• n. (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
• n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
• n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
• n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
• n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
• n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
• v. (transitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
• v. (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
• v. (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
• v. To place in the ground.
• v. To furnish or supply with plants.
• v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
• v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
• v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
• v. To set up; to install; to instate.

retreat

• n. The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
• n. The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
• n. A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
• n. (rare and obsolete, euphemistic) An peaceful, quiet place in which to urinate and defecate: an outhouse;…
• n. A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude.
• n. A period of meditation, prayer or study.
• n. Withdrawal by military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
• n. A signal for a military withdrawal.
• n. A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
• n. A military ceremony to lower the flag.
• n. (chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.
• v. (of military forces) to withdraw from a position, go back.
• v. (of a glacier) to shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures.

ring

• n. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
• n. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
• n. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
• n. A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a…
• n. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
• n. (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
• n. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
• n. (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
• n. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
• n. (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level,…
• n. (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
• v. (transitive) To surround or enclose.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.
• v. (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
• v. (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
• v. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
• n. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
• n. (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
• n. (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
• n. (colloquial) A telephone call.
• n. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
• n. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
• v. (intransitive) Of a bell, to produce sound.
• v. (transitive) To make (a bell) produce sound.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
• v. (transitive, colloquial, Britain, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
• v. (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
• v. (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
• v. (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
• n. (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation…
• n. (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative…

snuggle

• n. An affectionate hug.
• n. The final remnant left in a liquor bottle.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To lie close to another person or thing, hugging or being cosy.
• v. To move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cosy position.