Synonyms of the word

scratch

• v. To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws,…
• v. To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation.
• v. To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
• v. To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
• v. (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating…
• v. (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
• v. (billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
• v. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
• v. To dig or excavate with the claws.
• v. To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to…
• n. (countable) A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
• n. An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
• n. (sports).
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
• n. (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of…
• n. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
• n. (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
• adj. For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
• adj. Hastily assembled; put together in a hurry or from disparate elements.
• adj. (computing, from scratchpad) Relating to a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for…
• adj. Constructed from whatever materials are to hand.
• adj. (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the…
• adj. Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances;…

abrasion

• n. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
• n. (obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
• n. (geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching…
• n. An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
• n. (medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have…
• n. (dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.

accumulate

• v. (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
• v. (intransitive) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
• adj. (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.

adjoin

• v. (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field,…

amass

• v. (transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.
• v. (transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
• n. (obsolete) A mass; a heap.

blemish

• n. A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
• n. A moral defect; a character flaw.
• v. To spoil the appearance of.
• v. To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.

boodle

• n. Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
• n. (US, dialect) The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

bread

• n. (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
• n. (countable) Any variety of bread.
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
• v. (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs.
• n. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.
• v. (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.
• v. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.
• n. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

cabbage

• n. An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
• n. (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
• n. (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
• n. Used as a term of endearment.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Money.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
• n. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
• n. The cabbage palmetto.
• v. (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally…
• v. (transitive) To purloin or embezzle; to pilfer, to steal.

cacography

• n. Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language…
• n. Poor or illegible handwriting.

cancel

• v. (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
• v. (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
• v. (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
• v. (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction,…
• v. (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
• v. (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
• v. (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
• v. (slang) To kill.
• n. A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
• n. (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
• n. (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

carve

• v. (archaic) To cut.
• v. To cut meat in order to serve it.
• v. To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished…
• v. (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard…
• v. (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
• v. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
• n. (obsolete) A carucate.

chafe

• n. Heat excited by friction.
• n. Injury or wear caused by friction.
• n. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
• n. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.
• v. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
• v. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
• v. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
• v. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
• v. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
• v. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

clams

• n. plural of clam.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clam.

collect

• v. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
• v. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
• v. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.).
• v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
• v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
• v. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
• v. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
• adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
• adv. With payment due from the recipient.
• n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook,…

compile

• v. (transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
• v. (obsolete) To construct, build.
• v. (transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
• v. (intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.
• v. (obsolete) To write; to compose.
• n. (programming) An act of compiling code.

contact

• n. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
• n. The establishment of communication (with).
• n. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
• n. Someone with whom one is in communication.
• n. (informal) A contact lens.
• n. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
• n. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
• n. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
• v. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
• v. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone.

defect

• n. A fault or malfunction.
• n. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
• n. (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
• v. (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military…
• v. (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
• v. (military) To join the enemy army.
• v. (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.

delete

• v. To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer.
• n. (computing) A deletion.
• n. (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Delete.
• n. (recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.

dent

• n. A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
• n. A type of maize/corn with with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at…
• n. (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution,…
• v. (transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.
• v. (intransitive) To develop a dent or dents.
• n. (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

depression

• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of…
• n. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer…
• n. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting…
• n. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
• n. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
• n. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the…

dough

• n. A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter,…
• n. (slang) Money.
• v. (transitive) To make into dough.

engrave

• v. (transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or…
• v. (transitive) To carve (something) into a material.
• v. (obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.

excise

• n. A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from…
• v. To impose an excise tax on something.
• v. To cut out; to remove.
• v. (rare) To perform certain types of female circumcision.

excoriation

• n. The act of excoriating or flaying.
• n. The excoriated place or the state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
• n. Severe verbal denouncing.

expunge

• v. To erase or strike out.
• v. To eliminate completely; annihilate.

fray

• n. Affray; broil; contest; combat; brawl; melee.
• n. (archaic) fright.
• v. (intransitive) To unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a…
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength).
• v. (transitive, archaic) frighten; alarm.
• v. (transitive) To bear the expense of; to defray.
• v. (intransitive) To rub.

fret

• v. (transitive, obsolete/poetic) To devour, consume; eat.
• v. (transitive and intransitive) To gnaw, consume, eat away.
• v. (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
• v. (transitive) To cut through with fretsaw, create fretwork.
• v. (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
• v. (intransitive) To worry or be anxious.
• v. To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.
• v. To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple.
• v. To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle.
• v. (music) To press down the string behind a fret.
• n. The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
• n. Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
• n. Herpes; tetter.
• n. (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate…
• n. (music) One of the pieces of metal/wood/plastic across the neck of a guitar or other musical instrument…
• n. An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief).
• n. (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
• v. To ornament with raised work; tovariegate; to diversify.
• n. A strait; channel.
• n. (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea or coming inland from the sea.

gelt

• n. (rare) A lunatic.
• n. (obsolete) Gilding; gilt.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of geld.
• n. A gelding.
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. tribute; tax.
• n. (Judaism) Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
• n. (Judaism) Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah…
• n. (archaic, Britain, thieves' cant and Polari) Money.

grave

• n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
• n. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
• n. death, destruction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice…
• adj. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
• adj. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
• adj. Low in pitch, tone etc.
• adj. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
• n. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.

hand

• n. The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other…
• n. (heading) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
• n. (heading) In linear measurement.
• n. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
• n. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
• n. An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special…
• n. An instance of helping.
• n. Handwriting; style of penmanship.
• n. A person's autograph or signature.
• n. Personal possession; ownership.
• n. (usually in the plural, hands) Management, domain, control.
• n. (heading) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
• n. Applause.
• n. (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar,…
• n. (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
• n. A whole rhizome of ginger.
• n. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of…
• n. (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
• n. (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
• n. (obsolete) Rate; price.
• v. (transitive) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
• v. (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To manage.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
• v. (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
• v. (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.

handwriting

• n. The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed.
• n. The characteristic writing of a particular person.
• n. Text that was written by hand.
• v. present participle of handwrite.

hoard

• n. A hidden supply or fund.
• n. (archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
• n. Misspelling of horde.
• v. To amass, usually for one's personal collection.

impression

• n. The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
• n. The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
• n. A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
• n. An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
• n. An outward appearance.
• n. (advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad. is shown…
• n. (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
• n. (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.

imprint

• n. An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
• n. The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
• n. A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
• v. To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
• v. To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
• v. To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

incise

• v. to cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

incision

• n. A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation.
• n. The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.
• n. (obsolete) Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.

inscribe

• v. (transitive) To write or cut words onto something, especially a hard surface; to engrave.
• v. (geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.

irritate

• v. (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
• v. (transitive) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
• v. (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
• v. (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
• v. (obsolete) To render null and void.

itch

• n. A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
• n. A desire or want.
• v. (intransitive) To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
• v. (intransitive) To want or desire.
• v. (transitive) To cause to feel an itch.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.

kale

• n. An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea…
• n. Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea.
• n. (slang) money.

lesion

• n. A wound or injury.
• n. (medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such patch of skin.
• n. (biochemistry) Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.
• v. (transitive) To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

lettuce

• n. An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green and/or purple leaves.
• n. (uncountable) The leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable; as a dish often mixed with other…
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) United States paper currency; dollars.

lolly

• n. A piece of hard candy on a stick; a lollipop.
• n. (Britain, slang, uncountable) Money.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) Any confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a sweet, a piece of…
• n. (Canada) Snow or fine ice floating on water.

loot

• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum…
• n. The act of plundering.
• n. plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
• n. (colloquial, US) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents.
• n. (video games) Items dropped from defeated enemies in video games and online games.
• v. To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
• v. To steal from.
• v. (video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.

lucre

• n. Gain in money or goods; profit; riches. Often in a negative sense.

mar

• v. To spoil, to damage.
• n. A blemish.
• n. A small lake.

mark

• n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
• n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
• n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
• n. (heading) Attention.
• v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
• v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
• v. To take note of.
• v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
• v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
• v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
• v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
• v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
• v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
• v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
• n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
• n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
• n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
• n. A mark coin.
• v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).

mash

• n. (obsolete) A mesh.
• n. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass…
• n. In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt…
• n. Mashed potatoes.
• n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
• n. (obsolete): A mess; trouble.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure.
• v. (transitive) In brewing, to convert, (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
• v. (transitive) To press down hard (on).
• v. (transitive, Southern US, informal) to press.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew (used mainly in Northern…
• v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
• n. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
• n. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher.
• n. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex).

meet

• v. (heading) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
• v. (heading) Of groups: to gather or oppose.
• v. (heading) To make physical or perceptual contact.
• v. To satisfy; to comply with.
• v. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
• n. A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
• n. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
• n. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. A meeting.
• n. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…
• n. (Ireland) An act of French kissing someone.
• adj. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

money

• n. A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable…
• n. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
• n. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
• n. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more…
• n. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and…
• n. Wealth.
• n. An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
• n. A person who funds an operation.
• n. (as a modifier) Of or pertaining to money; monetary.

moolah

• n. Archaic form of mullah.
• n. Alternative spelling of moola.

noise

• n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
• n. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
• n. (technology) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio).
• n. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within…
• n. Rumour or complaint.
• n. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
• n. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
• v. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.
• v. (transitive) To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.

pelf

• n. Money; riches; gain; especially when dishonestly acquired (compare lucre).

prick

• n. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
• n. An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
• n. (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
• n. (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
• n. A small pointed object.
• n. The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
• n. (slang, vulgar) The penis.
• n. (slang, pejorative) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
• n. (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
• n. The footprint of a hare.
• n. (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
• n. (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
• v. (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
• v. (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
• v. (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
• v. (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to…
• v. (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
• v. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
• v. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an…
• v. (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular…
• v. (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
• v. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
• v. (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
• v. (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
• v. To aim at a point or mark.
• v. (obsolete) Usually as prick up: to dress; to prink.

rub

• n. An act of rubbing.
• n. A difficulty or problem.
• n. In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
• n. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure…
• v. (transitive) To rub something against (a second thing).
• v. (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
• v. (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
• v. (dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
• v. To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
• v. To hinder; to cross; to thwart.

scar

• n. A permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
• n. (by extension) A permanent effect on someone’s mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
• v. (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
• v. (intransitive) To form a scar.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
• n. A cliff.
• n. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
• n. A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish.

scrape

• v. To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.
• v. To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
• v. To barely manage to achieve.
• v. To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
• v. (computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such…
• v. To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
• v. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
• v. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
• v. To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth…
• n. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
• n. A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
• n. An awkward set of circumstances.
• n. (Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
• n. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

scraping

• v. present participle of scrape.
• n. The sound or action of something being scraped.
• n. What has been removed when something has been scraped.

scratching

• v. present participle of scratch.
• n. The act or sound of something being scratched.
• n. A pork scratching.
• n. Record scratching, a technique of starting and stopping a vinyl record from playing to produce music in…

scrawl

• n. An irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
• n. A hastily, or carelessly written note etc.
• v. (transitive) To write something hastily or illegibly.
• v. (intransitive) To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
• v. (intransitive) To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
• v. To creep; crawl; (by extension) to swarm with crawling things.

scribble

• v. To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.
• v. To doodle.
• v. (obsolete) To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.
• n. Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing.

script

• n. (countable, obsolete) A writing; a written document.
• n. Written characters; style of writing.
• n. (typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
• n. (countable, law) An original instrument or document.
• n. (countable) The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play,…
• n. (computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in…
• n. (linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
• n. An abbreviation for a prescription.
• v. (transitive) To make or write a script.

scrub

• adj. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
• n. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
• n. One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
• n. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
• n. (US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed,…
• n. Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand;…
• n. One not on the first team of players, a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse…
• v. (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious.
• v. (transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
• v. (databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with…
• v. (audio) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound,…
• v. (audio, video) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based…
• n. An instance of scrubbing.
• n. A cancellation.
• n. A worn-out brush.
• n. One who scrubs.
• n. (medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
• n. (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
• n. An exfoliant for the body.

shekels

• n. plural of shekel.

simoleons

• n. (slang) plural of simoleon.
• n. (slang) Money.

slit

• n. A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
• n. (vulgar, slang) The opening of the vagina.
• n. (vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
• v. To cut a narrow opening.
• v. To split in two parts.
• v. (transitive) To cut; to sever; to divide.
• adj. Having a cut narrow opening.

strike

• v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
• v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
• v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
• v. To touch; to act by appulse.
• v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
• v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
• v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
• v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
• v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
• v. To make and ratify.
• v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
• v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
• v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
• v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
• v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
• v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
• v. To balance (a ledger or account).
• n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
• n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
• n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
• n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
• n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
• n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
• n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
• n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
• n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
• n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
• n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
• n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
• n. The discovery of a source of something.
• n. A strike plate.

sugar

• n. (uncountable) Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to…
• n. (countable) A specific variety of sugar.
• n. (countable, chemistry) Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
• n. (countable) When used to sweeten a drink, an amount of this substance approximately equal to five grams…
• n. (countable) A term of endearment.
• n. (countable, slang) A kiss.
• n. (chiefly southern US, slang, uncountable) Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Diabetes.
• n. (dated) Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
• n. Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing…
• n. (US, slang) Heroin.
• v. (transitive) To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
• v. (transitive) To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
• v. (US, Canada, regional) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it…
• v. (entomology) To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
• v. (programming, transitive) To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
• interj. (informal, euphemistic) Used in place of shit!

touch

• v. Primarily physical senses.
• v. Primarily non-physical senses.
• v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
• v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• n. A little bit; a small amount.
• n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
• n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
• n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
• n. The children's game of tag.
• n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
• n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

wampum

• n. Small beads made from polished shells, especially white ones, formerly used as money and jewelry by certain…
• n. (informal) Money.

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.