Synonyms of the word quack


QUACKACT - BEHAVE - CHARLATAN - DO - DOC - DOCTOR - EMIT - MEDICO - MOUNTEBANK - PHYSICIAN - SOUND - UNQUALIFIED - UTTER

quack

  • n. The sound made by a duck.
  • v. To make a noise like a duck.
  • n. A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims…
  • n. A charlatan.
  • n. (slang) A doctor.
  • v. To practice or commit quackery.
  • v. (obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
  • adj. (Should we delete([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for deletion?? +]) this sense?) Falsely presented as having…

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.

behave

  • v. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
  • v. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.

charlatan

  • n. A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.

do

  • v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
  • v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
  • v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
  • v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
  • v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
  • v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
  • v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
  • v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
  • v. To cook.
  • v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
  • v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
  • v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
  • v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
  • v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
  • v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
  • v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
  • v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
  • v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
  • v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  • v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
  • v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
  • v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
  • v. (transitive) To take drugs.
  • v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
  • n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
  • n. (informal) A hairdo.
  • n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
  • n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
  • n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
  • n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
  • n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
  • n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
  • adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

doc

  • n. (informal) A doctor.
  • n. (informal, usually in the plural) A document, especially (in professional jargon) a piece of technical…
  • n. (informal) A documentary.

doctor

  • n. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. The…
  • n. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees…
  • n. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats animals.
  • n. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
  • n. (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
  • n. (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
  • n. A fish, the friar skate.
  • v. (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
  • v. (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
  • v. (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
  • v. (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or…
  • v. (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
  • v. (transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.

emit

  • v. (transitive) To send out or give off.

medico

  • n. (informal, humorous) A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student.

mountebank

  • n. One who sells dubious medicines.
  • n. One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a mountebank.
  • v. (transitive) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.

physician

  • n. A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon;…
  • n. A medical doctor trained in human medicine.

sound

  • adj. Healthy.
  • adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
  • adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
  • adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
  • adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
  • adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
  • adv. Soundly.
  • interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
  • n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
  • n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
  • n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
  • n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
  • v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
  • v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
  • v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
  • n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
  • n. The air bladder of a fish.
  • n. A cuttlefish.
  • v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
  • v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
  • v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
  • v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
  • n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
  • n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

unqualified

  • adj. Not qualified, ineligible, unfit for a position or task.
  • adj. Not elaborated upon, undescribed.

utter

  • adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
  • adj. (obsolete) Outward.
  • adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
  • v. (transitive) To say.
  • v. (transitive) To use the voice.
  • v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
  • v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
  • adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

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