Synonyms of the word

skip

• v. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
• v. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
• v. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
• v. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
• v. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
• v. To place an item in a skip.
• v. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
• v. (transitive, informal) To leave.
• v. To leap lightly over.
• v. To jump rope.
• n. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
• n. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
• n. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
• n. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
• n. (radio) skywave propagation.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back…
• n. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket.
• n. A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
• n. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
• n. A beehive.
• n. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
• n. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
• n. (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

bounce

• v. (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
• v. (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to…
• v. (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
• v. (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient…
• v. (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
• v. (intransitive, slang, African American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have…
• v. (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
• v. (intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.
• v. (intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered.
• v. (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
• v. (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard on unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
• v. (slang, dated) To bully; to scold.
• v. (archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
• v. (archaic) To boast; to bluster.
• n. A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
• n. A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
• n. An email return with any error.
• n. The sack, licensing.
• n. A bang, boom.
• n. A drink based on brandy^W.
• n. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
• n. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
• n. Scyllium catulus, a European dogfish.
• n. A genre of New Orleans music.
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Drugs..
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Swagger..
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A 'good' beat.
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A talent for leaping..

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

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,…

decamp

• v. (intransitive) To break up camp and move on.
• v. (intransitive) To disappear suddenly and secretly.

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

error

• n. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
• n. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
• n. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
• n. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
• n. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
• n. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
• n. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
• v. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
• v. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
• v. (nonstandard) To err.

fault

• n. A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. A weakness of character; a failing.
• n. A minor offense.
• n. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
• n. (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
• n. (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
• n. (tennis) An illegal serve.
• n. (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
• n. (obsolete) want; lack.
• n. (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
• v. (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
• v. (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
• v. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.

gait

• n. Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
• n. (horses) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
• v. To teach a specific gait to a horse.

hop

• n. A short jump.
• n. A jump on one leg.
• n. A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane.
• n. (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
• n. (US, dated) A dance.
• n. (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.
• v. (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
• v. (intransitive) To jump on one foot.
• v. (intransitive) To be in state of energetic activity.
• v. (transitive) To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
• v. (intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar…
• v. (obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.
• v. To dance.
• n. The plant (Humulus lupulus) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed.
• n. (usually in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.
• n. (US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
• n. The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
• v. To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer.

jump

• v. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that…
• v. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
• v. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
• v. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• v. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound)…
• v. (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position…
• v. (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
• v. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive) To cause to jump.
• v. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
• v. (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and…
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
• v. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
• v. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
• v. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
• v. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the…
• n. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
• n. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
• n. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
• n. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
• n. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
• n. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
• n. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• n. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
• n. A jumping move in a board game.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself…
• n. (sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over…
• n. (with on) An early start or an advantage.
• n. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured…
• n. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
• n. (computing) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
• adv. (obsolete) exactly; precisely.
• adj. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
• n. A kind of loose jacket for men.

leap

• v. (intransitive) To jump.
• v. (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.
• v. (transitive) To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• n. The act of leaping or jumping.
• n. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
• n. (figuratively) A significant move forward.
• n. (mining) A fault.
• n. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
• n. (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including…
• n. (obsolete) A basket.
• n. A weel or wicker trap for fish.
• n. (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.
• n. (figuratively) Synonym of exaggeration.
• n. basket.
• n. a trap or snare for fish.
• n. half a bushel.

leave

• v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
• v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
• v. (heading) To transfer something.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
• n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
• n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
• n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
• n. (dated or law) Permission.
• n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
• v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

miss

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit.
• v. (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
• v. (transitive) To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.
• v. (transitive) To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
• v. (transitive) To fail to attend.
• v. (transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
• v. (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
• v. (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
• n. A failure to hit.
• n. A failure to obtain or accomplish.
• n. An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).
• n. (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
• n. A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
• n. An unmarried woman; a girl.
• n. A kept woman; a mistress.
• n. (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted…

mistake

• n. An error; a blunder.
• n. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in…
• v. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
• v. (intransitive) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

neglect

• v. (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
• v. (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
• v. (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
• n. The act of neglecting.
• n. The state of being neglected.
• n. Habitual lack of care.

omission

• n. The act of omitting.
• n. The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
• n. Something deleted or left out.
• n. Something not done or neglected.
• n. (grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe (') to replace the missing letters,…

omit

• v. (transitive) To leave out or exclude.
• v. (transitive) To fail to perform.
• v. (transitive, rare) To neglect or take no notice of.

overleap

• v. (transitive) To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To pass over; to omit, leave out.

overlook

• n. A vista or point that gives a beautiful view.
• v. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to…
• v. Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly.
• v. To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
• v. To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
• v. To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking.
• v. To pretend not to have noticed, especially a mistake; to pass over without censure or punishment.

pretermit

• v. To intentionally disregard something, allow it to go unnoticed, or change the subject in response to someone's…

rebound

• n. The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
• n. A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
• n. An effort to recover from a setback.
• n. A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of…
• n. (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
• n. (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being…
• v. To bound or spring back from a force.
• v. To give back an echo.
• v. (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
• v. (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of rebind.

recoil

• n. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
• n. The state or condition of having recoiled.
• n. (firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function…
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To retreat before an opponent.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To retire, withdraw.
• v. To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
• v. (of a firearm) To kick back when fired.

resile

• v. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
• v. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.

reverberate

• v. (intransitive) to ring with many echos.
• v. (intransitive) to have a lasting effect.
• v. (intransitive) to repeatedly return.
• v. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
• v. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
• v. To fuse by reverberated heat.
• v. (intransitive) to rebound or recoil.
• v. (intransitive) to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
• v. (obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light.
• adj. reverberant.
• adj. Driven back, as sound; reflected.

ricochet

• n. (military) A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
• n. An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.
• v. To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.
• v. (military) To operate upon by ricochet firing.

skim

• v. (intransitive) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
• v. (transitive) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface…
• v. To hasten along with superficial attention.
• v. To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
• v. (transitive) to throw an object so it bounces on water (skimming stones).
• v. (intransitive) to ricochet.
• v. (transitive) to read quickly, skipping some detail.
• v. (transitive) to scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface.
• v. (transitive) to clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil…
• v. (transitive) to clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream…
• adj. (of milk) Having lowered fat content.
• n. A cursory reading, skipping the details.
• n. (informal) Skim milk.

skitter

• v. (intransitive) To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry.
• v. (intransitive) To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.
• v. (transitive) To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals;…
• n. (also figuratively) A skittering movement.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England, transitive) To cause to have diarrhea.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England, intransitive) To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.
• n. (Scotland, Northern England, uncountable) Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin…

spring

• v. To jump or leap.
• v. To pass over by leaping.
• v. To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.
• v. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
• v. To come into being, often quickly or sharply.
• v. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
• v. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.
• v. (nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.
• v. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets,…
• v. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
• v. To fly back.
• v. (intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.
• v. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its…
• v. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
• v. (obsolete) To grow; to prosper.
• v. (architecture, masonry, transitive) To build (an arch).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).
• n. A leap; a bound; a jump.
• n. (countable) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants…
• n. (countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September,…
• n. (countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March…
• n. (countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter…
• n. (countable) A place where water emerges from the ground.
• n. (uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched,…
• n. Elastic power or force.
• n. (countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent,…
• n. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
• n. (countable) The source of an action or of a supply.
• n. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
• n. That which springs, or is originated, from a source.
• n. (obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
• n. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
• n. (countable, nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa,…
• n. (nautical) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can…
• n. (nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.

throw

• v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
• v. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
• v. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
• v. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
• v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
• v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during…
• v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal…
• v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
• v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
• v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
• v. (transitive) To imprison.
• v. To organize an event, especially a party.
• v. To roll (a die or dice).
• v. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
• v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position…
• v. (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
• v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone…
• v. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
• v. (transitive) To project or send forth.
• v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
• v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles,…
• v. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role…
• n. The flight of a thrown object.
• n. The act of throwing something.
• n. One's ability to throw.
• n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
• n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
• n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
• n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
• n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
• v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
• n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
• n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
• n. Misspelling of throe.

vamoose

• v. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To run away, to flee.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To hurry.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To be expelled.