Synonyms of the word

scrap

• n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
• n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
• n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
• n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
• v. (transitive) To discard.
• v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
• v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
• v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
• n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
• v. to fight.

altercate

• v. (transitive) To argue, quarrel or wrangle with someone.

argue

• v. (obsolete) To prove.
• v. To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply.
• v. (intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.
• v. (intransitive) To have an argument, a quarrel.
• v. (transitive) To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).

argufy

• v. to argue without any aim; to dispute; wrangle; to disagree.

battle

• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England, agriculture) Improving; nutritious; fattening.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) Fertile; fruitful.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To nourish; feed.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To render (for example soil) fertile…
• n. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an…
• n. A struggle; a contest.
• n. (now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
• n. (obsolete) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
• v. (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight.
• v. (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.

bit

• n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
• n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
• n. (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British…
• n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
• n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first…
• n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly…
• n. A small amount of something.
• n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
• n. A portion of something.
• n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
• n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
• n. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
• n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
• n. The cutting iron of a plane.
• adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
• v. (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
• v. simple past tense of bite.
• v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past participle of bite, bitten.
• adj. (colloquial) bitten.
• adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten.
• n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
• n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
• n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
• n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
• n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).

chip

• n. A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
• n. A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
• n. (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
• n. (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
• n. (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised…
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, especially in the plural) A fried strip of potato of square…
• n. (US, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes…
• n. (sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to…
• n. (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
• n. A dried piece of dung used as fuel.
• n. (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
• n. (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
• n. A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent…
• n. (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
• n. (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making…
• n. (archaic, derogatory) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
• n. (golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
• v. (transitive) To break into small pieces.
• v. (transitive) To break small pieces from.
• v. (transitive, sports) To play a shot hitting the ball predominately upwards rather than forwards.
• v. (transitive, sports) In association football, specifically, to play a shot on goal by kicking the ball…
• v. (transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
• v. (intransitive) To become chipped.
• v. (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
• v. (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
• v. (Britain, transitive, often with "in") to contribute.

combat

• n. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
• v. (transitive) To fight with; to struggle for victory against.

conflict

• n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
• n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
• v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.
• v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

contend

• v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
• v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
• v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

convert

• n. A person who has converted to a religion.
• n. A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
• v. (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
• v. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
• v. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense…
• v. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
• v. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
• v. (transitive) To express (a unit of measure) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by…
• v. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
• v. (soccer) To score (a penalty).
• v. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
• v. (intransitive) To become converted.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
• v. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs…

debate

• n. (obsolete) Strife, discord.
• n. An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people,…
• n. An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
• n. (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
• n. (Frequently in French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To fight.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
• v. (transitive) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide.

discard

• v. (transitive) to throw away, to reject.
• v. (intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
• v. To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
• n. Anything discarded.
• n. A discarded playing card in a card game.

dispose

• v. (intransitive, used with "of") To eliminate or to get rid of something.
• v. To distribute and put in place.
• v. To deal out; to assign to a use.
• v. To incline.
• v. (obsolete) To bargain; to make terms.
• v. (obsolete) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

dispute

• n. An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
• n. Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial…
• v. (intransitive) To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
• v. (transitive) To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
• v. To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question;…
• v. To strive or contend about; to contest.
• v. (obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.

fence

• n. A thin, human-constructed barrier which separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.
• n. Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods,…
• n. Skill in oral debate.
• n. The art or practice of fencing.
• n. A guard or guide on machinery.
• n. (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
• n. (computing, programming) A memory barrier.
• v. (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
• v. (transitive) To defend or guard.
• v. (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To engage in (the sport) fencing.
• v. (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

fighting

• v. present participle of fight.
• adj. Engaged in war or other conflict.
• adj. Apt to provoke a fight.
• n. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight.

flake

• n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
• n. A scale of a fish or similar animal.
• n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
• n. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining…
• n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
• v. To break or chip off in a flake.
• v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
• v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
• v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
• n. (Britain) Dogfish.
• n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
• n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish…
• n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
• n. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

fleck

• n. A flake.
• n. A lock, as of wool.
• n. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
• v. (transitive) To mark with small spots.

fling

• n. An act of throwing, often violently.
• n. An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
• n. An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
• n. A short, often sexual, relationship.
• n. (figuratively) An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling").
• n. (obsolete) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
• n. A kind of dance.
• n. (obsolete) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.
• v. (transitive) To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To throw oneself in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence…
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To throw; to wince; to flounce.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To utter abusive language; to sneer.

fragment

• n. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.
• n. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
• n. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
• v. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

junk

• n. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
• n. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
• n. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
• n. (slang) Genitalia.
• n. (nautical) Salt beef.
• n. Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces,…
• n. (dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
• v. (transitive) To throw away.
• v. (transitive) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop).
• n. (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.

piece

• n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
• n. A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
• n. (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished…
• n. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
• n. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
• n. An artillery gun.
• n. (US, colloquial) A gun.
• n. (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Britain dialectal, US dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its…
• n. (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
• n. (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually…
• n. (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
• n. (baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the…
• n. (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
• n. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
• n. (US) A pacifier.
• n. (colloquial) A distance.
• v. (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
• v. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
• v. (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.

quarrel

• n. A verbal dispute or heated argument.
• n. A ground of dispute or objection; a complaint.
• n. (obsolete) earnest desire or longing.
• v. (intransitive) To disagree.
• v. (intransitive) To contend, argue fiercely, squabble.
• v. (intransitive) To find fault; to cavil.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To argue or squabble with.
• n. A diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window.
• n. A square tile; quarry tile.
• n. A square-headed arrow for a crossbow.
• n. A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps etc. make the form nearly square.
• n. A four-sided cutting tool or chisel with a diamond-shaped end.

rubbish

• adj. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.
• interj. (colloquial) Expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.
• interj. Expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense.
• n. Garbage, junk, refuse, waste.
• n. Nonsense.
• n. (archaic) ruins or debris of buildings.
• v. To denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.

struggle

• n. Strife, contention, great effort.
• v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
• v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

toss

• n. A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
• n. (cricket, soccer) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before…
• n. (Britain, slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
• v. To throw with an initial upward direction.
• v. To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
• v. To agitate; to make restless.
• v. To subject to trials; to harass.
• v. To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
• v. (informal) To discard: to toss out.
• v. To stir or mix (a salad).
• v. (Britain, slang) To masturbate.
• v. (transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables…
• v. (intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
• v. (intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
• v. (obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
• v. (rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle…

trash

• n. (chiefly US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
• n. A container into which things are discarded.
• n. Something worthless or of poor quality.
• n. (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash…
• n. (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
• n. (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered…
• n. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
• v. (US) To discard.
• v. (US) To make into a mess.
• v. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
• v. (US) To disrespect someone or something.
• v. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
• v. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
• v. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain;…

waste

• n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
• n. Excrement or urine.
• n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
• n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
• n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
• n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays…
• n. A vast expanse of water.
• n. A disused mine or part of one.
• n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
• n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
• n. Gradual loss or decay.
• n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
• n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
• n. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the…
• n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the…
• adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
• adj. Barren; desert.
• adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
• adj. Superfluous; needless.
• adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
• adj. Unfortunate; disappointing.
• v. (transitive) to devastate, destroy.
• v. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
• v. (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to…
• v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
• v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
• v. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences,…