Synonyms of the word

sough

• v. To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound.
• n. A murmuring sound; rushing, rustling, or whistling sound.
• n. A gentle breeze; a waft; a breath.
• n. A (deep) sigh.
• n. (Scotland, obsolete) A vague rumour.
• n. (Scotland, obsolete) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.
• n. A small drain; an adit.

broadcast

• adj. cast or scattered widely, in all directions.
• adj. transmitted, signalled, or communicated via radio waves or electronic means.
• adj. relating to transmissions of messages or signals via radio waves or electronic means.
• n. A transmission of a radio or television programme aired to be received by anyone with a receiver.
• n. A programme (show, bulletin, documentary, and so on) so transmitted.
• n. (dated) The act of scattering seed.
• v. To transmit a message or signal via radio waves or electronic means.
• v. To transmit a message over a wide area.
• v. To appear as speaker, presenter or performer in a broadcast program.
• v. (archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.
• v. To send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.

circularise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of circularize.

circularize

• v. (intransitive) To publicize something by publishing and distributing circulars.
• v. (transitive) To distribute a circular or circulars to.
• v. To canvass opinion by using a questionnaire.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) circular in shape.

circulate

• v. (intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit.
• v. (transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit.
• v. to move from person to person, as at a party.
• v. to spread or disseminate.
• v. to become widely known.

diffuse

• v. (transitive) To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or…
• v. (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion…
• adj. Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.

disperse

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
• v. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
• adj. Scattered or spread out.

disseminate

• v. (transitive) To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc for growth and propagation, like seeds.
• v. (intransitive) To become widespread.

distribute

• v. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
• v. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
• v. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
• v. (transitive) To scatter or spread.
• v. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
• v. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
• v. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
• v. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
• v. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
• v. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

emit

• v. (transitive) To send out or give off.

groan

• n. A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief.
• n. A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration or disapproval.
• v. To make a groan.
• v. (obsolete) To strive after earnestly, as if with groans.

lay

• v. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
• v. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
• v. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
• v. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
• v. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
• v. (law) To state; to allege.
• v. (military) To point; to aim.
• v. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
• v. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
• v. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
• v. To apply; to put.
• v. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
• v. To impute; to charge; to allege.
• v. To present or offer.
• n. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
• n. A share of the profits in a business.
• n. The direction a rope is twisted.
• n. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.
• n. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
• n. A lake.
• adj. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
• adj. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
• adj. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
• v. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
• v. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
• n. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
• n. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
• n. (obsolete) A law.
• n. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
• v. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

moan

• n. a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly poetic) To grieve.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden.
• v. (intransitive) To make a moan or similar sound.
• v. (transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To complain; to grumble.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

pose

• n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
• v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
• v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
• n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
• n. Affectation.
• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
• v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
• v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

propagate

• v. (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
• v. (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
• v. (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To multiply; to increase.
• v. (transitive) To generate; to produce.
• v. (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots…
• v. (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
• v. (transitive, computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

put

• v. To place something somewhere.
• v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
• v. (finance) To exercise a put option.
• v. To express something in a certain manner.
• v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.).
• v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
• v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
• v. To attach or attribute; to assign.
• v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
• v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
• v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
• v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
• n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
• n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
• n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
• n. An old card game.
• n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute.

seed

• n. (countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.
• n. (countable, botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
• n. (uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.
• n. (uncountable) Semen.
• n. (countable) A precursor.
• n. (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the…
• n. (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
• n. Race; generation; birth.
• v. (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
• v. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
• v. (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
• v. (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
• v. (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through BitTorrent.
• v. To be able to compete (especially in a quarter-final/semi-final/final).
• v. To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
• v. (dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of see.

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

sow

• n. A female pig.
• n. A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
• n. A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
• n. (derogatory, slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.
• n. A sowbug.
• n. (military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a…
• v. (transitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
• v. (figuratively) To spread abroad; to propagate.
• v. (figuratively) To scatter over; to besprinkle.

spread

• v. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
• v. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
• v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
• v. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
• v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
• v. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
• v. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
• v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
• n. The act of spreading.
• n. Something that has been spread.
• n. An expanse of land.
• n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
• n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
• n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
• n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams.
• n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
• n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
• n. A numerical difference.
• n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
• n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery…
• n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of…
• n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
• n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
• n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
• n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.