Synonyms of the word

recess

• n. (countable or uncountable) A break, pause or vacation.
• n. An inset, hole, space or opening.
• n. (US) A time of play, usually, on a playground.
• n. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
• n. (archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.
• n. (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
• n. (archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
• n. A secret or abstruse part.
• n. (botany, zoology) A sinus.
• v. To inset into something, or to recede.
• v. (intransitive) To take or declare a break.
• v. (transitive, informal) To appoint, with a recess appointment.
• v. To make a recess in.
• adj. (obsolete, rare) Remote, distant (in time or place).

abeyance

• n. (law) Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership…
• n. Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
• n. (heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.

adjourn

• v. (transitive) To postpone.
• v. (transitive) To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
• v. (intransitive) To end or suspend an event.
• v. (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move from one place to another.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

cease

• v. (formal, intransitive) To stop.
• v. (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.

concavity

• n. (uncountable) The state of being concave.
• n. (countable) A concave structure or surface.

corner

• n. The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
• n. An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction…
• n. A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
• n. (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party…
• n. (heading) Relating to the playing field.
• n. A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
• v. (transitive) To drive (someone) into a corner or other confined space.
• v. (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
• v. (finance, business, transitive) To get or attempt to get a sufficient command of (a stock, commodity,…
• v. (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
• v. (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
• n. Someone or something that corns.

deferral

• n. An act of deferring, a deferment.
• n. An accrual.
• n. A prepayment.

enclosure

• n. (countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
• n. (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
• n. (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
• n. (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
• n. (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
• n. (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

end

• n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
• n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
• n. Death, especially miserable.
• n. Result.
• n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
• n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
• n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
• n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
• n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
• n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
• n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
• v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

finish

• n. An end; the end of anything.
• n. A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
• n. The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
• n. (sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
• v. (transitive) To complete (something).
• v. (transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
• v. (transitive) To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the…
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end.

incurvation

• n. The act of acquiring or being given a curved form; a curving or bending; any instance of this.
• n. (obsolete) Bowing in reverence or worship.
• n. The state of being curved or bent; any curved shape or formation; curvature; a curve; a bend.
• n. A curving inwards; the condition of being curved inwards.

indent

• n. A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
• n. A stamp; an impression.
• n. A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of…
• n. A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
• v. (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
• v. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress.
• v. (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
• v. (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation,…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
• v. (military, India, dated) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.

inlet

• v. (transitive) To let in; admit.
• v. (transitive) To insert; inlay.
• n. A body of water let into a coast, such as a bay, cove, fjord or estuary.
• n. A passage that leads into a cavity.

lay

• v. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
• v. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
• v. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
• v. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
• v. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
• v. (law) To state; to allege.
• v. (military) To point; to aim.
• v. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
• v. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
• v. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
• v. To apply; to put.
• v. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
• v. To impute; to charge; to allege.
• v. To present or offer.
• n. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
• n. A share of the profits in a business.
• n. The direction a rope is twisted.
• n. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.
• n. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
• n. A lake.
• adj. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
• adj. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
• adj. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
• v. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
• v. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
• n. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
• n. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
• n. (obsolete) A law.
• n. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
• v. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

niche

• n. (architecture) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust,…
• n. (ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
• n. (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in…
• n. An arrow woven into a Muslim prayer rug pointing in the direction of Mecca.
• v. (transitive, marketing) To specialize in a niche, or particular narrow section of the market.
• adj. Pertaining to or intended for a market niche; having specific appeal.

pause

• v. (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
• v. (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
• v. (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
• n. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
• n. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
• n. Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
• n. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation…
• n. A break or paragraph in writing.
• n. Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).
• n. (as direct object) take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

pose

• n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
• v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
• v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
• n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
• n. Affectation.
• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
• v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
• v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

put

• v. To place something somewhere.
• v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
• v. (finance) To exercise a put option.
• v. To express something in a certain manner.
• v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.).
• v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
• v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
• v. To attach or attribute; to assign.
• v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
• v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
• v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
• v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
• n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
• n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
• n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
• n. An old card game.
• n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute.

recession

• n. The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
• n. A period of reduced economic activity.
• n. The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.

respite

• n. A brief interval of rest or relief.
• n. (law) A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death.
• n. (law) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
• v. (transitive) To delay or postpone.

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

stop

• v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
• v. (intransitive) To not continue.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
• v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
• v. (intransitive) To tarry.
• v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
• v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
• v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
• n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
• n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
• n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
• n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
• n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
• n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
• n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
• n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
• n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
• n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
• n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
• n. (photography) An f-stop.
• n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
• n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
• n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
• adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
• interj. halt! stop!
• punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
• adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

suspension

• n. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
• n. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
• n. The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a…
• n. The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
• n. (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly…
• n. (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which…
• n. (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted…
• n. (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an…
• n. (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function's domain…
• n. (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car,…

terminate

• v. (transitive or intransitive, formal) To end, especially in an incomplete state.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
• adj. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
• adj. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
• adj. (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

water

• n. (uncountable) A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear…
• n. (alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements…
• n. (often in the plural) Any body of water, or a specific part of it.
• n. A combination of water and other substance(s).
• n. (figuratively, in the plural or in the singular) A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective…
• n. (colloquial, figuratively) A person's intuition.
• n. (uncountable, dated, finance) Excess valuation of securities.
• n. The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
• n. A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
• v. (transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
• v. (transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
• v. (transitive) To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
• v. (intransitive) To get or take in water.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To urinate onto.
• v. (transitive) To dilute.
• v. (transitive, dated, finance) To overvalue (securities), especially through deceptive accounting.
• v. (intransitive) To fill with or secrete water.
• v. (transitive) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines;…