Synonyms of the word

recur

• v. (now rare) To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc.
• v. (intransitive) To happen again.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To recurse.

apply

• v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
• v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
• v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
• v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
• v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
• v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
• v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
• v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
• v. (obsolete) To visit.
• adj. Alternative spelling of appley.

employ

• n. The state of being an employee; employment.
• v. To hire (somebody for work or a job).
• v. To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
• v. To make busy.

hap

• n. (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or…
• v. (intransitive, literary) to happen; to befall; to chance.
• v. (transitive, literary) To happen to.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small…
• v. (dialect) To wrap, clothe.
• n. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.

happen

• v. To occur or take place.
• v. To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.
• v. (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
• adv. (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.

occur

• v. To happen or take place.
• v. To present or offer (itself).
• v. (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
• v. (sciences) To be present or found.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

recall

• v. (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
• v. (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
• v. (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
• v. (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
• v. (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
• n. The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
• n. Memory; the ability to remember.
• n. (information retrieval) the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.

repeat

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
• v. (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
• v. (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
• v. (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
• v. (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method…
• n. An iteration; a repetition.
• n. A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial…
• n. Patterns of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.

resort

• n. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment,…
• n. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
• n. (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
• v. To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
• v. To fall back; to revert.
• v. To make one's way, go (to).
• v. to repeat a sorting process; sort again.
• n. An act of sorting again.
• n. (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.

return

• v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
• v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
• v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
• v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
• v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
• v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
• v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
• v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
• v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
• v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
• v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
• v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
• n. The act of returning.
• n. A return ticket.
• n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
• n. An answer.
• n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
• n. Gain or loss from an investment.
• n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
• n. (computing) A carriage return character.
• n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
• n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
• n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
• n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
• n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
• n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…

use

• n. The act of using.
• n. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
• n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
• n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
• n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
• n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
• n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
• n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
• n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward…
• v. To accustom; to habituate.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become accustomed (to), to accustom oneself (to).
• v. (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
• v. (transitive, often with up) To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing.
• v. (transitive) To exploit.
• v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
• v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
• v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
• v. (transitive, with auxiliary could) To need; to benefit from.
• v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.

utilise

• v. To make useful, to find a practical use for.
• v. To make use of; to use.
• v. To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
• v. To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended.

utilize

• v. (US, Canada, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilise.