Synonyms of the word

rally

• n. A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause.
• n. (squash (sport), table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a…
• n. (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals…
• n. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
• v. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• v. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight;…
• v. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
• v. (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
• v. To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
• n. Good-humoured raillery.

assemblage

• n. The process of assembling or bringing together.
• n. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
• n. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often…

bait

• n. Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare,…
• n. Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
• n. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
• n. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
• n. A light or hasty luncheon.
• v. (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
• v. (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
• v. (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
• v. (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.
• v. (intransitive) (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
• v. (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops…

bemock

• v. (archaic) To ridicule or mock.
• v. (transitive) To mock repeatedly; flout.
• v. (transitive) To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.

call

• n. A telephone conversation.
• n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• n. A cry or shout.
• n. A decision or judgement.
• n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• n. A beckoning or summoning.
• n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
• n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
• n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• v. (heading) To use one's voice.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
• v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

cod

• n. (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
• n. (now rare) The scrotum (also in plural).
• n. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) A pillow or cushion.
• n. The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.
• n. The sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, as inclusive of the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus)and Greenland…
• n. The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries,…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock…
• n. A joke or an imitation.
• n. A stupid or foolish person.
• adj. Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).
• v. (slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.

collect

• v. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
• v. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
• v. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.).
• v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
• v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
• v. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
• v. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
• adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
• adv. With payment due from the recipient.
• n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook,…

convalescence

• n. A gradual healing after illness or injury.
• n. The period of time spent healing.

deed

• n. An action or act; something that is done.
• n. A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
• n. Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
• n. (law) A legal contract showing bond in form of a document.
• v. (informal) To transfer real property by deed.

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.

exchange

• n. An act of exchanging or trading.
• n. A place for conducting trading.
• n. A telephone exchange.
• n. (telephony, US only?) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before…
• n. A conversation.
• n. (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
• n. (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
• n. (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through…
• v. (transitive) To trade or barter.
• v. (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.

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.

feat

• n. A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
• adj. (archaic) Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.
• v. (obsolete) To form; to fashion.

garner

• n. A granary; a store of grain.
• n. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
• v. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
• v. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
• v. (often figuratively) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to…
• v. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

gather

• v. To collect; normally separate things.
• v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
• v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
• v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
• v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
• v. To gain; to win.
• n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
• n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
• n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
• n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

gathering

• n. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
• n. A group of people or things.
• n. (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
• n. A charitable contribution; a collection.
• n. (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
• v. present participle of gather.

mobilise

• v. (transitive) To make something mobile.
• v. (transitive) To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war.
• v. (intransitive) To become made ready for war.

mobilize

• v. (transitive) To make something mobile.
• v. (transitive) To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war.
• v. (intransitive) To become made ready for war.

mock

• n. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
• n. Mockery, the act of mocking.
• n. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
• v. To mimic, to simulate.
• v. To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
• v. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
• adj. Imitation, not genuine; fake.

muster

• n. Gathering.
• n. Showing.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To show, exhibit.
• v. (intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a…
• v. (transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders,…
• v. (transitive, US) To enroll (into service).

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

rallying

• v. present participle of rally.
• n. The act of one who rallies.

razz

• n. (poker) A version of seven card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).
• v. (informal) To tease playfully; to heckle.
• v. (informal) (Newfoundland) To drive an automobile around.

rebound

• n. The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
• n. A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
• n. An effort to recover from a setback.
• n. A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of…
• n. (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
• n. (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being…
• v. To bound or spring back from a force.
• v. To give back an echo.
• v. (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
• v. (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of rebind.

recover

• v. (transitive) To get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc.).
• v. (transitive) To return to, resume (a given state of mind or body).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To get better from; to get over.
• v. (intransitive) To get better, regain one's health.
• v. (intransitive) To regain one's composure, balance etc.
• v. (intransitive, law) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit.
• v. (transitive, law) To gain as compensation or reparation.
• v. (transitive, law) To gain by legal process.
• n. (obsolete) Recovery.
• n. (military) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and…
• v. To cover again.
• v. (roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.

recovery

• n. The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
• n. A return to normal health.
• n. A return to former status or position.
• n. (economics) Renewed growth after a slump.
• n. (mining) The extraction of an ore from a mine, or of a metal from an ore.

recuperate

• v. To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
• v. (sociology) To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use.

recuperation

• n. Gradual restoration to health; convalescence.
• n. Instance of getting something back.
• n. (sociology) Process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society.

ride

• v. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle…
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
• v. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such…
• v. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
• v. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
• v. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
• v. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
• v. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
• v. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
• n. An instance of riding.
• n. (informal) A vehicle.
• n. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
• n. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
• n. (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
• n. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
• n. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

summon

• v. (transitive) To call people together; to convene.
• v. (transitive) To ask someone to come; to send for.
• v. (transitive) To use a personal skill.
• v. (fantasy, transitive) To create a resource by magic.
• v. (law, transitive) To order someone to appear in court, especially by issuing a summons.
• n. call, command, order.

tantalise

• v. Alternative spelling of tantalize.

tantalize

• v. (transitive) to tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach.
• v. (transitive) to bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied.

taunt

• v. to make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
• n. A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.
• adj. (nautical) Very high or tall.

tease

• v. To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
• v. To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
• v. To back-comb.
• v. (transitive) To poke fun at.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
• v. (transitive) To entice, to tempt.
• v. (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
• n. One who teases.
• n. A single act of teasing.
• n. A cock tease; an exotic dancer; a stripper.

twit

• v. (transitive) To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.
• v. (transitive, computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).
• n. A reproach, gibe or taunt.
• n. A foolish or annoying person.