Synonyms of the word

shin

• n. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.
• n. A fishplate for a railway.
• v. (Britain, as "shin up") To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the…
• v. To strike with the shin.
• v. (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
• n. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic…

clamber

• v. To climb with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
• n. The act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb.

climb

• v. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
• v. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
• v. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
• v. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
• v. (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing.
• v. (intransitive) to jump high.
• v. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
• v. (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
• n. An act of climbing.
• n. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
• n. An upwards struggle.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

letter

• n. A symbol in an alphabet.
• n. A written or printed communication, generally longer and more formal than a note.
• n. The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (often contrasted…
• n. (plural) Literature.
• n. (US, uncountable) A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm, US paper sizes rounded to the nearest…
• n. (Canada, uncountable) A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.
• n. (US, scholastic) Clipping of varsity letter.
• n. (printing, dated) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
• v. (transitive) to print, inscribe, or paint letters on something.
• v. (intransitive, US, scholastic) To earn a varsity letter (award).
• n. One who lets, or lets out.
• n. (archaic) One who retards or hinders.

scramble

• interj. (Britain) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that…
• v. (intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
• v. (transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
• v. (transitive) To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
• v. (transitive, military) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to…
• v. (intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
• v. (transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.
• v. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize…
• n. A rush or hurry.
• n. (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
• n. A motocross race.
• n. Any frantic period of activity.

shinbone

• n. (anatomy) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.
• n. (zoology) A segment of an insect's leg.

shinny

• v. To climb in an awkward manner.
• n. (Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or…
• n. (Canada) Street hockey.
• n. (Canada, informal) Hockey.
• n. Moonshine (illegal alcohol).

skin

• n. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
• n. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
• n. (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
• n. (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
• n. (countable, computing) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical…
• n. (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
• n. (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
• n. (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to…
• n. (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in…
• n. (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
• n. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
• n. (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
• n. (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom…
• v. (transitive) To injure the skin of.
• v. (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
• v. (colloquial) To high five.
• v. (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
• v. (Britain, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
• v. (intransitive) To become covered with skin.
• v. (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
• v. (US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own,…
• v. (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.

sputter

• n. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
• v. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
• v. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
• v. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
• v. (transitive) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily…
• v. (physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it…
• v. (physics, transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.

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.

tibia

• n. (anatomy) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the…
• n. (entomology) The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.
• n. (arachnology) The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.
• n. A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.