Synonyms of the word punch


PUNCHBIFF - BLOW - CLOUT - HIT - LICK - PERFORATE - PIERCE - PLUG - POKE - PUNCHER - THRUST - TOOL

punch

  • n. (countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.
  • n. (uncountable) Power, strength, energy.
  • n. (uncountable) Impact.
  • n. (uncountable) A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) causing a video game character to punch.
  • v. (transitive) To strike with one's fist.
  • v. (transitive, of cattle) To herd.
  • v. (transitive) To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar…
  • v. (transitive) To enter (information) on a device or system.
  • v. (transitive) To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.
  • v. (transitive) To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc).
  • v. To thrust against; to poke.
  • n. (countable) A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving…
  • n. (countable) A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
  • n. (countable) A hole or opening created with a punch.
  • n. (piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
  • n. A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
  • v. To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
  • v. To mark a ticket.
  • n. A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.

biff

  • n. A sudden, sharp blow or punch.
  • n. (sports) A wipeout.
  • v. (transitive) To strike such a blow against.
  • v. (New Zealand, slang, transitive) To discard; to throw out; to throw away.
  • v. (sports) To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall.

blow

  • adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
  • v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
  • v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
  • v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
  • v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
  • v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
  • v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
  • v. (intransitive) To explode.
  • v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
  • v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
  • v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
  • v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
  • v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
  • v. (transitive) To leave.
  • v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
  • v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
  • v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
  • v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
  • v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
  • v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
  • v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
  • n. A strong wind.
  • n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
  • n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
  • n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
  • n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
  • n. The act of striking or hitting.
  • n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
  • n. A damaging occurrence.
  • v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
  • n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
  • n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
  • n. A bloom, state of flowering.

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.

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.

lick

  • n. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
  • n. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
  • n. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts…
  • n. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
  • n. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
  • n. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
  • n. (colloquial) A bit.
  • n. (music) A short motif.
  • n. Speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.).
  • v. To stroke with the tongue.
  • v. (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
  • v. (colloquial) To overcome.
  • v. (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
  • v. (colloquial) To do anything partially.
  • v. (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
  • v. To lap; to take in with the tongue.

perforate

  • v. to pierce; to penetrate.
  • v. to make a line of holes in a thin material to allow separation at the line.
  • adj. (philately, biology) perforated.

pierce

  • v. (transitive) to puncture; to break through.
  • v. (transitive) to create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry.
  • v. (transitive) to break or interrupt abruptly.
  • v. (figuratively) To penetrate; to affect deeply.

plug

  • n. (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
  • n. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
  • n. (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
  • n. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
  • n. (US, slang) A worthless horse.
  • n. (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
  • n. A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features…
  • n. (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
  • n. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
  • n. (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually…
  • n. A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the…
  • v. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
  • v. (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
  • v. (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
  • v. (slang, transitive) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.

poke

  • v. To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
  • v. To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
  • v. (figuratively) To rummage as in to poke about in.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
  • v. To put a poke on.
  • v. To thrust with the horns; to gore.
  • v. (informal, Internet) To notify.
  • v. (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
  • n. A prod, jab, or punch.
  • n. (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
  • n. (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
  • n. (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with…
  • n. (computing) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program…
  • n. (now regional) A sack or bag.
  • n. A long, wide sleeve; a poke sleeve.
  • n. (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
  • n. (dialectal) Pokeweed.
  • n. (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs,…

puncher

  • n. (often in combination) A person who punches (in a specified manner).
  • n. (US, slang) A cowpuncher; a cowboy.

thrust

  • n. (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
  • n. A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.).
  • n. The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
  • n. (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
  • v. (intransitive) To make advance with force.
  • v. (transitive) To force something upon someone.
  • v. (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
  • v. (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
  • v. (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
  • v. To stab; to pierce; usually with through.

tool

  • n. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
  • n. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
  • n. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
  • n. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
  • n. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
  • n. (slang) Penis.
  • n. (by extension, slang, pejorative) An obnoxious or uptight person.
  • v. (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
  • v. (transitive) To equip with tools.
  • v. (transitive) To work very hard.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to…
  • v. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To drive (a coach, etc.).
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

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