Synonyms of the word

rob

• v. (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To burgle.
• v. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
• v. (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
• n. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches…

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

chisel

• n. Gravel.
• n. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
• n. A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end…
• v. (intransitive) To use a chisel.
• v. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

fleece

• n. (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.
• n. (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached.
• n. (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher…
• n. (countable) An insulating wooly jacket.
• n. (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
• n. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
• n. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
• v. to con or trick someone out of money.
• v. to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep).

gazump

• v. (Britain) To swindle; to extort.
• v. (Britain, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after…
• v. (Britain, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted…
• v. (Britain, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone…
• n. (US, slang, dated) An automobile.
• n. A politician who takes bribes.

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

overcharge

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain…
• v. (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
• v. (transitive, dated) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
• v. (transitive, dated) To fill too full; to crowd.
• v. (transitive, dated) To exaggerate.
• n. An excessive load or burden.
• n. An excessive charge in an account.

pluck

• v. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
• v. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
• v. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
• v. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly.
• v. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
• v. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
• v. (Britain, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
• n. An instance of plucking.
• n. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
• n. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

plume

• n. A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one.
• n. The furry tail of certain dog breeds (e.g. Samoyed, Malteagle) that stands erect or curls over their backs.
• n. A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet.
• n. A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
• n. An area over which (or aspace into which) a dispersed substance has spread or fanned out; a cloud.
• n. An upward spray of water or mist.
• n. (geology) An upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle.
• n. (astronomy) An arc of glowing material erupting from the surface of a star.
• n. A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental…
• v. (transitive) To preen and arrange the feathers of.
• v. (transitive) To congratulate (oneself) proudly.
• v. To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
• v. To adorn with feathers or plumes.
• v. To form a plume.
• v. To write; to pen.

soak

• v. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
• v. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
• v. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
• v. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up).
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
• v. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
• v. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
• v. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
• n. An immersion in water etc.
• n. (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
• n. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

steal

• v. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
• v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
• v. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
• v. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding…
• v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
• v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the…
• v. (sports, transitive) To dispossess.
• v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get.
• n. The act of stealing.
• n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
• n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball…
• n. (baseball) A stolen base.
• n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
• n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written…

surcharge

• n. An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
• n. An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
• n. (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp;…
• n. (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
• n. (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's…
• n. (obsolete) An excessive load or burden.
• n. (law, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
• v. To apply a surcharge.
• v. To overload; to overburden.
• v. (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or…
• v. To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.