Synonyms of the word

spell

• n. (obsolete) Speech, discourse.
• n. Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
• n. A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
• v. (obsolete) To speak, to declaim.
• v. (obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
• v. To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
• v. (intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
• v. (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To indicate that (some event) will occur.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
• v. To constitute; to measure.
• v. (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
• v. (transitive) To rest (someone or something).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
• n. A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
• n. (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
• n. (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short…
• n. A period of rest; time off.
• n. (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
• n. (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
• n. (dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
• n. The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

alternate

• adj. Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one…
• adj. (mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another…
• adj. (US) Other; alternative.
• adj. (botany) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects…
• n. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
• n. (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing…
• n. (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
• n. (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
• n. (heraldry) Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
• v. (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed…
• v. (intransitive) To vary by turns.
• v. (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation);…

bewitch

• v. to cast a spell on someone or something.
• v. to astonish, amaze.

charm

• n. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
• n. The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
• n. (physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the quantity of charm quarks & antiquarks.
• n. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
• v. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural…
• v. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
• v. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
• n. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
• n. A flock, group (especially of finches).

enchant

• v. To attract and delight, to charm.
• v. To cast a spell over.

enchantment

• n. The act of enchanting or the feeling of being enchanted.
• n. Something that enchants; a magical spell.

glamour

• n. (countable) an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
• n. Witchcraft; magic charm; a spell affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really…
• n. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
• n. Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear…
• n. (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
• v. (transitive) To enchant; to bewitch.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

hex

• v. To put a hex (a spell, especially an evil spell) on.
• n. An evil spell or curse.
• n. A witch.
• n. (rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
• n. (computing, informal) Clipping of hexadecimal.
• n. A hexagonal space on a game board.
• n. (climbing) a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other…

import

• n. (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
• n. (uncountable) The practice of importing.
• n. (uncountable) Significance, importance.
• v. (transitive) To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
• v. (transitive) To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
• v. (intransitive) To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
• v. (transitive) To be of importance to (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
• v. (transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
• v. (transitive) To mean, signify.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To express, to imply.

intend

• v. (intransitive, usually followed by the particle "to") To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished);…
• v. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
• v. (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.
• v. To strain; make tense.
• v. (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.
• v. To apply with energy.
• v. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
• v. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
• v. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

jinx

• n. A hex; an evil spell.
• n. A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck.
• v. (transitive) To cast a spell on.
• v. (transitive) To bring bad luck to.
• interj. Used after the same response is said by two people simultaneously. Often, a game is played where the person…

language

• n. (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a…
• n. (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
• n. (uncountable) The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.
• n. (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which…
• n. (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
• n. (uncountable) Manner of expression.
• n. (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
• n. (uncountable) Profanity.
• v. (rare, now nonstandard, or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.
• n. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

mean

• v. To intend.
• v. To convey meaning.
• v. (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
• v. (transitive) To result in; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To be important (to).
• v. (Ireland, Britain regional) To lament.
• adj. (obsolete) Common; general.
• adj. Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
• adj. Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
• adj. Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
• adj. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Ungenerous; stingy, tightfisted; North American English: cheap; formal: niggardly, penurious,…
• adj. Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating; small.
• adj. Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
• adj. Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
• adj. Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
• adj. Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
• adj. (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
• adj. Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
• adj. (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
• n. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
• n. (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
• n. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
• n. (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part…
• n. (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number…
• n. (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number…
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and…

patch

• n. A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen…
• n. A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
• n. A repair intended to be used for a limited time; (differs from previous usage in that it is intended to…
• n. A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location,…
• n. (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
• n. An area of professional responsibility.
• n. A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty; an imitation beauty mark.
• n. (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
• n. (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin; the drug…
• n. (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
• n. A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
• n. (computing) A patch file, a file used for input to a patch program or that describes changes made to a…
• n. A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
• n. A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
• n. (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical…
• n. A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
• v. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
• v. To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
• v. To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
• v. To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
• v. A temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
• v. (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner.
• v. (computing) To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence.
• v. To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
• n. (archaic) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.

piece

• n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
• n. A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
• n. (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished…
• n. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
• n. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
• n. An artillery gun.
• n. (US, colloquial) A gun.
• n. (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Britain dialectal, US dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its…
• n. (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
• n. (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually…
• n. (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
• n. (baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the…
• n. (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
• n. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
• n. (US) A pacifier.
• n. (colloquial) A distance.
• v. (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
• v. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
• v. (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.

recite

• v. (transitive) To repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, often before an audience.
• v. (transitive) To list or enumerate something.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a recitation.

relieve

• v. To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or…
• v. To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.
• v. To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).
• v. To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).
• v. (obsolete) To lift up; to raise again.
• v. (now rare) To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.).
• v. (law) To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.
• v. To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the siege on.
• v. To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.
• v. (military, job) To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.
• v. (now rare) To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief.
• v. (reflexive) To go to the toilet; to defecate or urinate.

shift

• n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
• n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
• n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
• n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
• n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
• n. (computing) A bit shift.
• n. (baseball) The infield shift.
• n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
• n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
• n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
• n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
• n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
• v. (transitive) To change, swap.
• v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
• v. (intransitive) To change position.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
• v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
• v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
• v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
• v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of.
• v. (intransitive) To hurry.
• v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
• v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
• v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

speech

• n. (uncountable) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations…
• n. (countable) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
• n. A style of speaking.
• n. (grammar) Speech reported in writing; see direct speech, reported speech.
• n. A dialect or language.
• n. Talk; mention; rumour.

time

• n. (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
• n. A duration of time.
• n. An instant of time.
• n. (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
• n. (countable) Ratio of comparison.
• n. (grammar, dated) Tense.
• n. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
• v. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
• v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
• v. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
• v. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
• v. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
• v. To measure, as in music or harmony.
• interj. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.

tour

• n. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
• n. A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
• n. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
• n. (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
• n. (military) A tour of duty.
• n. (graph theory) A closed trail.
• n. (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
• n. (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
• v. (intransitive) To make a journey.
• v. (transitive) To make a circuit of a place.
• n. (dated) A tower.
• v. To toot a horn.

trance

• n. A dazed or unconscious condition.
• n. (consciousness) A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience;…
• n. (psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention.
• n. (psychology) The previous state induced by hypnosis.
• n. (uncountable, music) Trance music, a genre of electronic dance music.
• n. (obsolete) A tedious journey.
• v. To entrance.
• v. (obsolete) To pass over or across; to traverse.
• v. (obsolete) To pass; to travel.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

while

• n. An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.
• conj. During the same time that.
• conj. Although.
• conj. (Northern England, Scotland) Until.
• conj. As long as.
• v. (transitive) To pass (time) idly.
• v. To loiter.

witch

• n. A person who practices witchcraft; a woman or (archaic outside dialects and Wicca) man who practices witchcraft.
• n. (derogatory) An ugly or unpleasant woman.
• n. One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
• n. One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
• n. (geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
• n. The stormy petrel.
• n. Any of a number of flatfish.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To practise witchcraft.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To bewitch.
• v. (transitive) To dowse for water.
• n. A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.

write

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
• v. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To send written information to.
• v. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
• v. (intransitive) To be an author.
• v. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
• v. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
• v. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
• v. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
• n. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.