Synonyms of the word

slash

• n. A slashing action or motion, particularly.
• n. A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly.
• n. Something resembling such a mark, particularly.
• n. (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left…
• n. Clipping of slash fiction: fan fiction focused upon shipping characters.
• v. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly.
• v. To strike violently and randomly, particularly.
• v. To move quickly and violently.
• v. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
• v. (US and Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires…
• v. (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
• adv. Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
• conj. (US and Canada) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
• conj. (US and Canada) Used to list alternatives.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
• n. (Britain, slang) A piss: an act of urination.
• v. (Britain, slang, intransitive) To piss, to urinate.
• n. (US) A swampy area; a swamp.
• n. (Britain) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical…

agitate

• v. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
• v. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
• v. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.
• v. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

convulse

• v. (transitive) To violently shake or agitate.
• v. (transitive) To create great laughter.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contraction of the muscles, producing contortions of the…

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,…

cutting

• v. present participle of cut.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
• n. (countable) A section removed from the larger whole.
• n. (countable) A newspaper clipping.
• n. (countable) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
• n. (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
• n. (uncountable) The editing of film or other recordings.
• n. (uncountable) Self-harm; the act of cutting one's own skin.
• n. (machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
• n. (countable) A narrow passage, dug for a road, railway or canal to go through.
• adj. (not comparable) That is used for cutting.
• adj. Of remarks, criticism, etc., potentially hurtful.

diagonal

• adj. (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
• adj. Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
• adj. Having a slanted or oblique direction.
• adj. Of or related to the cattycorner legs of a quadruped, whether the front left and back right or front right…
• n. (geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
• n. Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly.

earth

• p.n. Our planet, third out from the Sun; see main entry Earth.
• n. (uncountable) Soil.
• n. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
• n. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
• n. (Britain) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in…
• n. A fox's home or lair.
• n. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
• n. (alchemy) One of the four basic elements.
• n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements.
• n. (Taoism) One of the five basic elements.
• v. (Britain) To connect electrically to the earth.
• v. To bury.
• v. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
• v. To burrow.

flog

• v. (transitive) To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment.
• v. (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To sell something.
• v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
• v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
• v. (transitive, agriculture) To exploit.
• n. (Internet slang) A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing…

gash

• n. A deep cut.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A vulva, pussy.
• n. (slang, offensive) A woman.
• n. (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit.
• n. (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft.
• n. (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing.
• n. (slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.
• v. To make a deep, long cut, to slash.

ground

• n. (uncountable) The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
• n. (uncountable) Terrain.
• n. (uncountable) Soil, earth.
• n. (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
• n. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
• n. Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
• n. Background, context, framework, surroundings.
• n. The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
• n. In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
• n. In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
• n. In etching, a gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from…
• n. (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings…
• n. (countable) A soccer stadium.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
• n. (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena…
• n. (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually…
• n. (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
• n. The pit of a theatre.
• v. (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
• v. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give…
• v. (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
• v. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
• v. (baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular))…
• v. (cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease…
• v. (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
• v. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
• v. (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with…
• v. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of grind.
• adj. Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
• adj. Processed by grinding.

jactitate

• v. (rare, intransitive) To move about restlessly.

land

• n. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
• n. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings…
• n. A country or region.
• n. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
• n. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
• n. A general country, state, or territory.
• n. (often in combination) realm, domain.
• n. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is…
• n. (Ireland, colloquial) A fright.
• n. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
• n. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
• n. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
• n. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
• n. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called…
• n. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is…
• v. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
• v. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To come into rest.
• v. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
• v. (transitive) To bring to land.
• v. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
• v. (transitive) To deliver.
• adj. Of or relating to land.
• adj. Residing or growing on land.
• n. lant; urine.

lash

• n. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
• n. (obsolete) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
• n. A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
• n. A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
• n. A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
• n. In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
• n. In British English, it refers to heavy drinking with friends, (i.e. We were out on the lash last night).
• v. (transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
• v. (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like…
• v. (transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
• v. (transitive) To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
• v. (intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
• v. (intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.
• v. (intransitive, of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
• v. (transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
• adj. (obsolete) Remiss, lax.
• adj. (obsolete) Relaxed.
• adj. Soft, watery, wet.
• adj. (Ulster) excellent, wonderful.
• adj. Drunk.

lather

• n. The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
• n. Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
• n. A state of agitation.
• v. (transitive) To cover with lather.
• v. (transitive) To beat or whip.
• v. (intransitive) To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.

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.

punctuation

• n. A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into…
• n. An act of punctuating.

reduce

• v. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish,…
• v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
• v. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
• v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
• v. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to…
• v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
• v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

separatrix

• n. (typography, historical) The ⟨L⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩ mark formerly used to divide integers from decimals.
• n. (typography, obsolete) Synonym of decimal point, which replaced such marks.
• n. (typography) The proofreader's mark resembling a slash ⟨ / ⟩ or vertical bar ⟨  placed after a note in…
• n. A terminator: a line on a partially-illuminated surface separating the lit and shaded regions.
• n. (physics) The line between regions having different magnetic fields.
• n. (mathematics) The boundary separating two modes of behavior in a differential equation.

shake

• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
• v. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
• v. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
• v. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
• v. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To move from side to side.
• v. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
• v. (intransitive) To dance.
• v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
• n. The act of shaking something.
• n. A milkshake.
• n. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
• n. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
• n. (building material) A thin shingle.
• n. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
• n. A fissure in rock or earth.
• n. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
• n. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.).
• n. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
• n. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff…
• n. A shook of staves and headings.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

slice

• n. That which is thin and broad.
• n. A thin, broad piece cut off.
• n. amount.
• n. A piece of pizza.
• n. (Britain) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
• n. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
• n. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything,…
• n. A salver, platter, or tray.
• n. A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned,…
• n. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare…
• n. (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
• n. (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook,…
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
• n. (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed…
• n. (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.).
• v. To cut into slices.
• v. To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
• v. (golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
• v. (tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low…
• v. (badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
• v. (soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
• v. (rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
• v. (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.

solidus

• n. (historical) Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account, particularly.
• n. (historical) The weight of the Roman gold coin, 1/60 of a Roman pound under Diocletian or 1/72 lb. (about…
• n. (historical) A medieval French weight, 1/20 of the Carolingian pound.
• n. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩, originally (Britain) in its use as the shilling mark and now its formal…
• n. (typography) The formal name of the oblique strikethrough overlay (as in A̷ and B̸) in Unicode.
• n. (typography) The division line between the numerator and the denominator of a fraction, whether horizontal…
• n. (chemistry, physics) The line in a phase diagram marking the temperatures and pressures below which a…

strap

• n. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
• n. A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
• n. Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular…
• n. A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge…
• n. A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
• n. (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
• n. (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
• n. A shoulder strap, see under shoulder.
• n. (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
• v. (transitive) To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
• v. (transitive) To fasten or bind with a strap.
• v. (transitive) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop.

stroke

• n. An act of stroking (moving one's hand over a surface).
• n. A blow or hit.
• n. A single movement with a tool.
• n. One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or…
• n. A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done…
• n. A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly.
• n. A streak made with a brush.
• n. The time when a clock strikes.
• n. (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
• n. (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
• n. (obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.
• n. (rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.
• n. (rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
• n. (professional wrestling) Backstage influence.
• n. (squash (sport)) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
• n. (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.
• n. (obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
• n. An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.
• n. A throb or beat, as of the heart.
• n. (obsolete) Power; influence.
• n. (obsolete) appetite.
• v. (transitive) To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.
• v. (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
• v. (transitive) To row the stroke oar of.

thrash

• v. To beat mercilessly.
• v. To defeat utterly.
• v. To thresh.
• v. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
• v. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior…
• v. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
• n. A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
• n. (music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical…

thresh

• v. (transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating,…
• v. (transitive, literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

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…

trim

• v. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'…
• v. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
• v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast;…
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially…
• v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
• v. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
• v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
• v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
• n. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
• n. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
• n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
• n. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
• n. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast;…
• n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
• adj. Physically fit.
• adj. Slender, lean.
• adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
• adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
• adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

virgule

• n. (typography, obsolete or historical) A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩…
• n. (typography, dated) A slash, ⟨/⟩ or ⟨／⟩, particularly (literature) in its use to mark line breaks wit…
• n. (typography, dated) A pipe, ⟨|⟩, particularly (poetry) in its use to mark metrical feet.

welt

• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve.
• n. A raised mark on the body caused by a blow; a wheal or weal.
• n. (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through…
• n. A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
• n. In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
• n. In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
• n. In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
• n. (heraldry) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
• v. To cause to have welts, to beat.
• v. To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.

whip

• n. A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided…
• n. (hunting) A whipper-in.
• n. (politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
• n. (Britain, politics, with definite article) A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing…
• n. Whipped cream.
• n. (nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and…
• n. (roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
• n. A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
• n. The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
• n. Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion.
• n. (Should we delete^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for deletion?? +])} this sense?) (informal, slang) Car;…
• v. (transitive) To hit with a whip.
• v. (transitive) By extension, to hit with any flexible object.
• v. (transitive, slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
• v. (transitive) To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
• v. (transitive) To urge into action.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying:…
• v. (transitive, nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
• v. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and…
• v. (transitive) To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
• v. (transitive) To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
• v. (intransitive) To snap back and forth like a whip.
• v. (intransitive) To move very fast.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
• v. (transitive, roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
• v. (figuratively) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
• v. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.

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.