Synonyms of the word skimp


SKIMPFURNISH - PROVIDE - RENDER - RESTRICT - SAVE - SCANT - SCRIMP - STINT - SUPPLY - WORK

skimp

  • v. (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
  • v. To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
  • v. To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
  • v. To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
  • adj. (dated, Britain, dialect or US, colloquial) Scanty.
  • n. A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.
  • n. (in the plural, colloquial) Underwear.

furnish

  • n. Material used to create an engineered product.
  • v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

provide

  • v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
  • v. To act to prepare for something.
  • v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
  • v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
  • v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
  • v. To make possible or attainable.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
  • v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

render

  • v. (transitive) To cause to become.
  • v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
  • v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
  • v. (transitive) To pass down.
  • v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
  • v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
  • v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
  • v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
  • v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
  • v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
  • v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
  • v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
  • v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
  • v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
  • v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
  • v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
  • n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
  • n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
  • n. (obsolete) A surrender.
  • n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
  • n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
  • n. One who rends.

restrict

  • v. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine.
  • v. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
  • adj. (obsolete) Restricted.

save

  • n. In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
  • n. (baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins…
  • n. (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run…
  • n. (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
  • n. (role-playing games) A saving throw.
  • v. (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
  • v. To put aside, to avoid.
  • prep. Except; with the exception of.
  • conj. (dated) unless; except.

scant

  • adj. Very little, very few.
  • adj. Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough.
  • adj. Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
  • v. (transitive) To limit in amount or share; to stint.
  • v. (intransitive) To fail, or become less; to scantle.
  • n. (masonry) A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
  • n. (masonry) A sheet of stone.
  • n. (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.
  • adv. With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

scrimp

  • n. A pinching miser; a niggard.
  • v. (transitive) To make too small or short; to scant; to contract; to shorten.
  • v. (transitive) To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance.
  • v. (intransitive) To be frugal.
  • adj. Short; scanty; curtailed.

stint

  • n. A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
  • n. limit; bound; restraint; extent.
  • n. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
  • v. (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
  • v. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
  • v. (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
  • v. To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour…
  • v. To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.
  • n. Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or…
  • n. Misspelling of stent (medical device).

supply

  • v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
  • v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
  • v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
  • v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
  • v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
  • n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
  • n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
  • n. (in the plural) provisions.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
  • n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
  • adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

work

  • n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
  • n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
  • n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
  • n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
  • n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
  • v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
  • v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
  • v. (transitive) To set into action.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
  • v. (intransitive) To ferment.
  • v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
  • v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to work.
  • v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
  • v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
  • v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

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