Synonyms of the word

quarry

• n. A site for mining stone, limestone or slate.
• v. (transitive) To obtain (mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
• n. (uncountable) An animal which is hunted, notably mammal or bird.
• n. A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds.
• n. An object of search or pursuit.
• v. To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
• n. A diamond-shaped tile or pane, notably of glass or stone.

animal

• n. In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a…
• n. In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
• n. In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc.).
• n. (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
• n. (informal) A person of a particular type.
• adj. Of or relating to animals.
• adj. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
• adj. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
• adj. (slang, Ireland) Excellent.

beast

• n. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous…
• n. (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
• n. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
• n. (slang) A large and impressive thing or structure.
• n. (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
• n. (slang, prisons) A sex offender.
• n. (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
• v. (Britain, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
• adj. (slang) great; excellent; powerful.

brute

• adj. Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
• adj. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
• adj. Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
• adj. Crude, unpolished.
• adj. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
• adj. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
• adj. Inexplicable.
• n. (now archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
• n. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.
• n. (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
• v. Obsolete spelling of bruit.

creature

• n. (now rare) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
• n. A living being; an animal or human.
• n. A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

excavation

• n. (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part…
• n. (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
• n. (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
• n. (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
• n. (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
• n. (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.

exploit

• n. A heroic or extraordinary deed.
• n. An achievement.
• n. (computing) A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
• v. (transitive) To use for one’s own advantage.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly deprive someone of something to which she or he has a natural right.

fauna

• n. (uncountable) animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
• n. (countable) a book, cataloguing the animals of a country etc.

pit

• n. A hole in the ground.
• n. (motor racing) An area at a motor racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
• n. (music) A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion…
• n. A mine.
• n. (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance…
• n. (trading) A trading pit.
• n. (in the plural, with the, idiomatic, slang) Something particularly unpleasant.
• n. The bottom part of.
• n. (colloquial) Armpit.
• n. (aviation) A luggage hold.
• n. (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
• n. The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
• n. The grave, or underworld.
• n. An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are…
• n. Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the…
• n. (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
• v. (transitive) To make pits in.
• v. To put (a dog) into a pit for fighting.
• v. (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
• v. (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs…
• n. A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
• n. A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
• n. The core of an implosion weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper…
• v. (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
• n. (informal) A pit bull terrier.

prey

• n. (archaic) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in…
• n. That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
• n. A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
• n. The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
• n. The victim of a disease.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a predator.

tap

• n. A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.
• n. A device used to dispense liquids.
• n. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
• n. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
• n. (mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die…
• n. A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
• n. An interception of communication by authority.
• v. To furnish with taps.
• v. To draw off liquid from a vessel.
• v. To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
• v. To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
• v. To intercept a communication without authority.
• v. (mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
• v. (card games, board games) To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already…
• n. Device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
• v. To strike lightly.
• v. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
• v. To make a sharp noise.
• v. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
• v. (slang, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
• v. (combat sports, transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit.
• v. To put a new sole or heel on.
• n. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
• n. tap dance.
• n. (computing) The act of touching a touch screen.
• n. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel;…
• n. (military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring…
• n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard…

target

• n. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
• n. A goal or objective.
• n. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
• n. (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually…
• n. (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
• n. (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
• n. (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
• n. (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to…
• n. (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
• n. (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
• n. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer,…
• n. (Britain, dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast…
• n. (Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.
• n. (Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.
• v. (transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.
• v. (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.

victim

• n. Anyone who is harmed by another.
• n. (original sense) A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in…
• n. An aggrieved or disadvantaged party in a crime (e.g. swindle.).
• n. A person who suffers any other injury, loss, or damage as a result of a voluntary undertaking.
• n. An unfortunate person who suffers from a disaster or other adverse circumstance.
• n. (narratology) A character who is conquered or manipulated by a villain.