Synonyms of the word

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

actuation

• n. The act of putting into motion.

advantage

• n. (countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to…
• n. (obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit.
• n. (tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
• n. (soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team…
• n. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
• v. (transitive) To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.
• v. (reflexive) To do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of.

aspiration

• n. The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or…
• n. The action of aspirating.
• n. (phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.

attract

• v. To pull toward without touching.
• v. To arouse interest.
• v. To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite…

back

• adj. (not comparable) Near the rear.
• adj. (not comparable) Not current.
• adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area.
• adj. In arrear; overdue.
• adj. Moving or operating backward.
• adj. (comparable, phonetics) Produced in the back of the mouth.
• adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
• adv. Away from the front or from an edge.
• adv. In a manner that impedes.
• adv. In a reciprocal manner.
• n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest…
• n. That which is farthest away from the front.
• n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
• n. A support or resource in reserve.
• n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
• n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
• n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
• n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
• v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
• v. (transitive) To support.
• v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise…
• v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to…
• v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
• v. (Britain, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
• v. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
• v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
• v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
• v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
• v. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend…
• v. To row backward with (oars).
• n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers,…
• n. A ferryboat.

bust

• n. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
• n. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
• v. To break something.
• v. (slang) To arrest for a crime.
• v. (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal,…
• v. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
• v. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
• v. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
• v. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
• n. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
• n. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
• n. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
• n. (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.
• adj. (slang) Without any money, broke.

clout

• n. Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
• n. (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
• n. (informal) A home run.
• n. (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail…
• n. (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
• n. (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
• n. (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
• n. (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
• v. To hit, especially with the fist.
• v. To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
• v. To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
• v. To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
• v. To join or patch clumsily.

commit

• v. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; — used with to, unto.
• v. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• v. (transitive) to have enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
• v. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
• v. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
• v. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally…
• v. (computing) To make a set of changes permanent.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
• n. (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository),…

deplume

• v. (transitive) To strip of feathers or plumage.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To lay bare; to expose.

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.

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.

displume

• v. To deprive of feathers, plumes, awards.

drag

• n. (uncountable) Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
• n. (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
• n. (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body,…
• n. (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
• n. (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle…
• n. (countable, slang) Horse-drawn wagon or buggy.
• n. (countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'.
• n. (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents.
• n. (countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
• n. A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
• n. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
• n. (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
• n. (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
• n. (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the…
• n. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially,…
• n. A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
• n. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
• v. (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly.
• v. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
• v. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
• v. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
• v. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
• v. (computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.
• v. To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface.
• v. (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
• v. To fish with a dragnet.
• v. To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of…
• v. To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
• v. (figuratively) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
• v. (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
• n. (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
• v. To perform as a drag queen or drag king.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

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.

effort

• n. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
• n. An endeavour.
• n. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
• v. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stimulate.

endorse

• v. To support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature.
• v. To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it…
• v. To give an endorsement.
• n. (heraldry) A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.

exertion

• n. An expenditure of physical or mental effort.

extract

• n. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
• n. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
• n. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential…
• n. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained.
• n. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant…
• n. (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all…
• n. Ancestry; descent.
• n. A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein,…
• v. (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction,…
• v. (transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare…
• v. (transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
• v. (transitive) To select parts of a whole.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

force

• n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
• n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
• n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
• n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
• n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
• n. (law) Legal validity.
• n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
• n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
• n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
• v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
• v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
• v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
• v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
• v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
• v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
• v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
• v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
• v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
• v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
• n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
• v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

harm

• n. physical Injury; hurt; damage.
• n. emotional or figurative hurt.
• n. detriment; misfortune.
• n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
• v. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

indorse

• v. (Britain, India, rare) Alternative form of endorse.

inhalation

• n. The act of inhaling; inbreathing.
• n. The substance (medicament) which is inhaled.

injure

• v. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
• v. (transitive) To damage or impair.
• v. (transitive) To do injustice to.

injury

• n. damage to the body of a human or animal.
• n. violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests.
• n. (archaic) injustice.
• v. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.

inspiration

• n. (physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the…
• n. (countable) A breath, a single inhalation.
• n. A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified…
• n. The act of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
• n. A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions…
• n. A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.

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…

overstretch

• v. To stretch too far.
• v. To stretch over something.

perpetrate

• v. (transitive) To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.

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.

propulsion

• n. Force causing movement.

puff

• n. (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
• n. (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
• n. (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
• n. (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
• n. (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement about an object's quality.
• n. (dated, slang) A puffer, one who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up…
• n. A puffball.
• n. A powder puff.
• n. (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
• n. (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
• n. (derogatory, slang, Britain, particularly northern UK) a homosexual; a poof.
• n. (slang, dated, Britain) Life.
• v. (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
• v. (intransitive) To pant.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To advertise.
• v. To blow as an expression of scorn.
• v. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
• v. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
• v. To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
• v. To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
• v. To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
• v. To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
• v. To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

pulling

• v. present participle of pull.
• n. The act by which something is pulled.

rein

• n. A strap or rope attached to the bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.
• n. (figuratively) An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing.
• v. To direct or stop a horse by using reins.
• v. To restrain; to control; to check.
• n. (now rare, archaic, chiefly in plural) A kidney.
• n. The inward impulses; the affections and passions, formerly supposed to be located in the area of the kidneys.

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.

rend

• v. (transitive) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst.
• v. (transitive) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
• v. (intransitive) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
• n. A violent separation of parts.

rip

• n. A tear (in paper, etc.).
• n. A type of tide or current.
• n. (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
• n. (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
• n. (Britain, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
• v. (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy such as paper or fabric),…
• v. (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move quickly and destructively.
• v. (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain. Contrast crosscut.
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable…
• v. (slang, narcotics) To take a "hit" of marijuana.
• v. (slang) To fart.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on).
• v. (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
• v. To move or act fast, to rush headlong.
• v. (archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover;…
• v. (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.
• n. A wicker basket for fish.
• n. (colloquial, regional, dated) A worthless horse; a nag.
• n. (colloquial, regional, dated) An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.

rive

• v. (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
• v. (transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
• v. (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
• n. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

root

• n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores…
• n. A root vegetable.
• n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
• n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
• n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
• n. The primary source; origin.
• n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified…
• n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often…
• n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
• n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
• n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects…
• n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
• n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
• n. The lowest place, position, or part.
• n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and…
• n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
• n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
• v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
• v. (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
• v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
• v. (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots.
• v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
• v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of…

row

• n. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
• n. A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to…
• n. (weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
• v. (transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
• v. (intransitive) To be moved by oars.
• n. A noisy argument.
• n. A continual loud noise.
• v. (intransitive) to argue noisily.

rupture

• n. A burst, split, or break.
• n. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
• n. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
• n. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

side

• n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
• n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
• n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
• n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
• n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the…
• n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.).
• n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
• n. One set of competitors in a game.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
• n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
• n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being…
• n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
• n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
• n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
• v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
• v. To lean on one side.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
• v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
• adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
• adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
• adj. (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing;…
• adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
• adv. (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.

snap

• n. A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
• n. A sudden break.
• n. An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
• n. The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together…
• n. A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
• n. A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot).
• n. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
• n. A thin circular cookie or similar good.
• n. A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
• n. A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be…
• n. A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
• n. (American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.
• n. (somewhat colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
• n. (Britain, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
• n. (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching…
• n. (obsolete) A greedy fellow.
• n. That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement;…
• n. briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
• n. (slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily…
• n. (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
• n. A snapper, or snap beetle.
• n. (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed…
• n. A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
• n. (colloquial) Something of no value.
• n. A visual message sent on the application Snapchat.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
• v. (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
• v. (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
• v. (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
• v. (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
• v. (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
• v. (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
• v. (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
• v. (transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound.
• v. (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
• v. (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
• v. (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
• v. (transitive, American football) To put the ball in play by passing it from the center to a back; to hike…
• v. To misfire.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
• interj. The winning cry at a game of snap.
• interj. (Britain) By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar.
• interj. (Britain) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
• interj. (Canada, US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement…
• interj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly…
• adj. (informal) Done, performed, made, etc. quickly and without deliberation.

strip

• n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
• n. A comic strip.
• n. A landing strip.
• n. A strip steak.
• n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
• n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
• n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
• n. Striptease.
• n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
• n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
• v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
• v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
• v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
• v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
• v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
• v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
• v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
• v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
• v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
• v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
• v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
• v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
• v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
• v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

support

• n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
• n. Financial or other help.
• n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
• n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
• n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
• n. Evidence.
• n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
• n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
• v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
• v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
• v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
• v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
• v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
• v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
• v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
• v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
• v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
• v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

sweat

• n. Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature…
• n. (Britain, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
• n. (historical) The sweating sickness.
• n. Moisture issuing from any substance.
• n. A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
• v. (intransitive) To emit sweat.
• v. (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
• v. (transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To worry.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To worry about (something).
• v. (transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
• v. (intransitive) To emit moisture.
• v. (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
• v. (transitive, slang) To stress out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To cook slowly in shallow oil without browning.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that…

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.

tear

• v. (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether…
• v. (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
• v. (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
• v. (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing.
• v. (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
• v. (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
• v. (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
• v. (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
• n. A hole or break caused by tearing.
• n. (slang) A rampage.
• n. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
• n. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop,…
• n. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
• n. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
• v. (intransitive) To produce tears.

trauma

• n. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
• n. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
• n. An event that causes great distress.

travail

• n. (archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
• n. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
• n. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
• n. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
• n. Obsolete form of travel.
• n. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”).
• v. To toil.
• v. To go through the labor of childbirth.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

vantage

• n. An advantage.
• n. A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
• n. A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
• n. (dated, tennis) Alternative form of advantage (score after deuce).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To profit; to aid.

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.

wound

• n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
• n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
• n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
• v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
• v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.

wrench

• n. (obsolete) A trick or artifice.
• n. (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.
• n. A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
• n. An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
• n. (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.
• n. (archaic) A winch or windlass.
• n. (obsolete) A screw.
• n. A distorting change from the original meaning.
• n. (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes;…
• n. (Britain) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
• n. A violent emotional change caused by separation.
• n. (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of…
• n. (obsolete) means; contrivance.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe.
• v. (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn aside or deflect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To slander.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch.
• v. (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
• v. (transitive) To distort from the original meaning.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
• v. (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
• v. (transitive) To rack with pain.
• v. (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
• v. (transitive) To use the tool known as a wrench.