Synonyms of the word plume


PLUMEADORNMENT - ARRANGE - ATTIRE - BEDECK - BEDIGHT - CHEAT - CHISEL - CLEAN - CONGRATULATE - DECK - DRESS - EXPERIENCE - FEATHER - FEEL - FLEECE - FORM - GAZUMP - HOOK - OVERCHARGE - OVERDRESS - PLUCK - PLUMAGE - PREEN - PRIDE - PRIMP - PRINK - ROB - SHAPE - SOAK - SURCHARGE

plume

  • n. A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one.
  • n. The furry tail of certain dog breeds (e.g. Samoyed, Malteagle) that stands erect or curls over their backs.
  • n. A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet.
  • n. A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
  • n. An area over which (or aspace into which) a dispersed substance has spread or fanned out; a cloud.
  • n. An upward spray of water or mist.
  • n. (geology) An upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle.
  • n. (astronomy) An arc of glowing material erupting from the surface of a star.
  • n. A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental…
  • v. (transitive) To preen and arrange the feathers of.
  • v. (transitive) To congratulate (oneself) proudly.
  • v. To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
  • v. To adorn with feathers or plumes.
  • v. To form a plume.
  • v. To write; to pen.

adornment

  • n. A decoration; that which adorns.
  • n. The act of decorating.

arrange

  • v. To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
  • v. To put in order, to organize.
  • v. To plan; to prepare in advance.
  • v. (music) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original…

attire

  • n. (clothing) One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.
  • n. (heraldry) The single horn of a deer or stag.
  • v. To dress or garb.

bedeck

  • v. (transitive) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.

bedight

  • v. (archaic) to equip or bedeck.

cheat

  • v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
  • v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
  • v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
  • v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
  • v. To beguile.
  • n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
  • n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
  • n. The weed cheatgrass.
  • n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
  • n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

chisel

  • n. Gravel.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
  • n. A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end…
  • v. (intransitive) To use a chisel.
  • v. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

clean

  • adj. (heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
  • adj. (heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
  • adj. Smooth, exact, and performed well.
  • adj. (obsolete) Total; utter.
  • adj. (informal) Cool or neat.
  • adj. (health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
  • adj. That does not damage the environment.
  • adj. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
  • adj. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
  • adj. Well-proportioned; shapely.
  • adj. (climbing, of a route) Ascended without falling.
  • n. Removal of dirt.
  • n. (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground…
  • v. (transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.
  • v. (transitive) To tidy up, make a place neat.
  • v. (transitive, climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
  • v. (intransitive) To make things clean in general.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
  • v. (intransitive, curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure…
  • v. (manga fandom slang) To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting…
  • v. To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
  • adv. Fully and completely.

congratulate

  • v. to express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for.

deck

  • n. Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
  • n. (nautical) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels…
  • n. (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
  • n. A pack or set of playing cards.
  • n. A set of slides for a presentation.
  • n. (obsolete) A heap or store.
  • v. (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
  • v. (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
  • v. (card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw and usually lose the game as a result.
  • v. (transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
  • v. (transitive, with out) To decorate (something).
  • v. To cover; to overspread.

dress

  • n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
  • n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
  • n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
  • n. A dress rehearsal.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
  • v. To adorn, ornament.
  • v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
  • v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
  • v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
  • v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
  • v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
  • v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
  • v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
  • v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
  • v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

experience

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

feather

  • n. A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection…
  • n. Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed…
  • n. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
  • n. A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object…
  • n. Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
  • n. One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers;…
  • n. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves…
  • v. To cover or furnish with feathers.
  • v. To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
  • v. (aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the…
  • v. (carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
  • v. (computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring…
  • v. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
  • v. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
  • v. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
  • v. To tread, as a cock.
  • v. (snooker) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.

feel

  • v. (heading) To use the sense of touch.
  • v. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
  • v. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
  • v. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
  • v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
  • n. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
  • n. A vague mental impression.
  • n. An act of fondling.
  • n. A vague understanding.
  • n. An intuitive ability.
  • n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
  • pron. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
  • adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
  • adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.

fleece

  • n. (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.
  • n. (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached.
  • n. (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher…
  • n. (countable) An insulating wooly jacket.
  • n. (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
  • n. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
  • n. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
  • v. to con or trick someone out of money.
  • v. to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep).

form

  • n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
  • n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
  • n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
  • n. Level of performance.
  • n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
  • n. The den or home of a hare.
  • n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
  • n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
  • n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
  • n. (geometry) A quantic.
  • n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
  • v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
  • v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
  • v. (intransitive) To take shape.
  • v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
  • v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
  • v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
  • v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
  • v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
  • v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

gazump

  • v. (Britain) To swindle; to extort.
  • v. (Britain, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after…
  • v. (Britain, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted…
  • v. (Britain, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone…
  • n. (US, slang, dated) An automobile.
  • n. A politician who takes bribes.

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.

overcharge

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain…
  • v. (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To fill too full; to crowd.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To exaggerate.
  • n. An excessive load or burden.
  • n. An excessive charge in an account.

overdress

  • v. To wear too many clothes for a particular occasion.
  • v. To wear clothing which is too elaborate or formal for a particular occasion.

pluck

  • v. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
  • v. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
  • v. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
  • v. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly.
  • v. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
  • v. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
  • v. (Britain, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
  • n. An instance of plucking.
  • n. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
  • n. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

plumage

  • n. Feathers, either covering a bird or used ornamentally.
  • n. Finery or elaborate dress.

preen

  • n. A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth.
  • n. (dialectal) pin.
  • n. (dialectal) bodkin; brooch.
  • v. (transitive) To pin; fasten.
  • v. (of birds) To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers.
  • v. To show off, posture, or smarm.
  • v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To trim up, as trees.

pride

  • n. The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority…
  • n. (often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one;…
  • n. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct;…
  • n. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of…
  • n. (zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
  • n. Show; ostentation; glory.
  • n. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.
  • n. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
  • n. Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
  • n. (zoology, collective) A company of lions.
  • v. (reflexive) To take or experience pride in something, be proud of it.

primp

  • v. (intransitive) To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror.

prink

  • v. (obsolete or dialectal) to give a wink; to wink.
  • n. the act of adjusting dress or appearance; a sprucing up.
  • v. to look, gaze.
  • v. to dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up.
  • v. to strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious.

rob

  • v. (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
  • v. (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To burgle.
  • v. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
  • v. (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
  • n. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches…

shape

  • n. The status or condition of something.
  • n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
  • n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
  • n. Form; formation.
  • n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
  • n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
  • n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
  • n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
  • v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
  • v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
  • v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
  • v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
  • v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
  • v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

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.

surcharge

  • n. An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
  • n. An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
  • n. (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp;…
  • n. (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
  • n. (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's…
  • n. (obsolete) An excessive load or burden.
  • n. (law, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
  • v. To apply a surcharge.
  • v. To overload; to overburden.
  • v. (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or…
  • v. To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.

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