Synonyms of the word

pawn

• n. (chess) The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight;…
• n. (colloquial) Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end, usually not the end that individual…
• n. The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
• n. An instance of pawning something.
• n. (now rare) An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
• n. (rare) A pawn shop, pawnbroker.
• v. To pledge; to stake or wager.
• v. To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
• n. Alternative form of paan.
• v. (video games) Alternative form of pwn.

assistant

• adj. Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
• adj. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
• n. (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
• n. A person who assists or helps someone else.
• n. (Britain) Sales assistant.
• n. A software tool that provides assistance in some task.

borrowing

• v. present participle of borrow.
• n. An instance of borrowing something.
• n. (linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.

cat's-paw

• n. A paw of a cat.
• n. (figuratively) Someone who acts in another's interest, (properly) unknowingly or through trickery.
• n. (nautical) A minor breeze that ripples the surface of a body of water.
• n. (nautical) A twisting variant of the lark's-foot hitch which forms two small bights used to hook a pair…
• n. (figuratively, uncommon) Someone or something that comes down quickly upon a victim in the manner of a…
• n. (US carpentry) A small crowbar with a handle at a right angle to a blade with a V-shaped notch, principally…
• n. (historical weaponry, torture) A metal set of claws worn over the hand or wielded in the hand used to…
• n. (US law) A supervisor whose reliance on a subordinate's analysis is so complete as to render him or her…
• n. Any of several species of North American freshwater mussels of the genus Epioblasma, especially E. obliquata.
• n. Any of several species of Australian bloodworts of the genus Anigozanthos, especially A. humilis.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

chessman

• n. (chess) A chess piece.

consign

• v. (transitive, business) To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
• v. (transitive) To entrust to the care of another.
• v. (transitive) To send to a final destination.
• v. To assign; to devote; to set apart.
• v. To stamp or impress; to affect.

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.

helper

• n. One who helps; an aide.
• n. (Singapore) A person who does cleaning and cooking in a family, or in a market.

hock

• n. A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied…
• n. The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
• n. Meat from that part of a food animal.
• v. (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
• n. Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
• n. Debt.
• n. Installment purchase.
• n. Prison.
• v. (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.

instrument

• n. A device used to produce music.
• n. A means or agency for achieving an effect.
• n. A measuring or displaying device.
• n. A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
• n. (law) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
• n. (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
• v. (transitive) To apply measuring devices.
• v. (transitive) To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
• v. To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.

pledge

• v. To make a solemn promise (to do something).
• v. To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
• v. (transitive) To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.
• n. A solemn promise to do something.
• n. Something given by a person who is borrowing money etc to the person he has borrowed it from, to be kept…
• n. A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved.
• n. A security to guarantee payment of a debt.
• n. A drinking toast.
• n. (with the) A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.

soak

• v. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
• v. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
• v. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
• v. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up).
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
• v. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
• v. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
• v. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
• n. An immersion in water etc.
• n. (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
• n. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

supporter

• n. A person who gives support to someone or something.
• n. Something that supports another thing.