Synonyms of the word

rick

• n. A stack, stook or pile of grain, straw, hay etc., especially as protected with thatching.
• n. (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four…
• v. To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
• v. slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.
• n. (military, pejorative and demeaning) A brand new (naive) boot camp inductee.

cramp

• n. A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
• n. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
• n. A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
• n. A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper…
• v. (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
• v. (transitive) To prohibit movement or expression.
• v. (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
• v. To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp.
• v. (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
• v. To form on a cramp.

crick

• n. A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult…
• n. A small jackscrew.
• v. to violently spasm.
• n. (Appalachia) Alternative form of creek.
• n. The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

hayrick

• n. A haystack.

haystack

• n. A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.
• n. (canoeing) A standing wave in a rapid.
• n. (programming, PHP) The text string within which another string is searched for.

heap

• n. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
• n. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
• n. A great number or large quantity of things.
• n. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
• n. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
• n. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
• n. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount.
• v. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
• v. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
• v. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

injure

• v. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
• v. (transitive) To damage or impair.
• v. (transitive) To do injustice to.

kink

• v. To laugh loudly.
• v. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
• n. (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a…
• n. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
• n. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
• n. An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
• n. (slang, countable and uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
• n. (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation.
• v. (transitive) To form a kink or twist.
• v. (intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.

pile

• n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
• n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
• n. A mass formed in layers.
• n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
• n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
• n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
• n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
• n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
• n. (figuratively) A list or league.
• v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
• v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
• v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
• v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
• v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
• n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
• n. The head of an arrow or spear.
• n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
• v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
• n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
• n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
• n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

spasm

• n. A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.
• n. A violent, excruciating seizure of pain.
• n. A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion.
• v. To produce and undergo a spasm.

sprain

• n. The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining.
• v. To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain,…

stack

• n. (heading) A pile.
• n. A smokestack.
• n. (heading) In digital computing.
• n. (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
• n. (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
• n. (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
• n. (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
• n. (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
• n. (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
• n. (heading) In architecture.
• n. (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
• n. (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
• v. (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
• v. (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
• v. (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
• v. (transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
• v. (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

wound

• n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
• n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
• n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
• v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
• v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.

wrench

• n. (obsolete) A trick or artifice.
• n. (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.
• n. A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
• n. An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
• n. (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.
• n. (archaic) A winch or windlass.
• n. (obsolete) A screw.
• n. A distorting change from the original meaning.
• n. (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes;…
• n. (Britain) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
• n. A violent emotional change caused by separation.
• n. (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of…
• n. (obsolete) means; contrivance.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe.
• v. (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn aside or deflect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To slander.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch.
• v. (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
• v. (transitive) To distort from the original meaning.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
• v. (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
• v. (transitive) To rack with pain.
• v. (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
• v. (transitive) To use the tool known as a wrench.

wrick

• v. To twist; turn.
• v. To wrench; strain.
• n. A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back.