Synonyms of the word

spike

• n. A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward/outward.
• n. Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
• n. An ear of corn or grain.
• n. (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
• n. (in plural spikes; informal) Running shoes with spikes in the soles.
• n. A sharp peak in a graph.
• n. The long, narrow part of a high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
• n. A long nail for storing papers and, by extension, the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles…
• n. (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the…
• n. (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
• n. A surge in power.
• n. (slang) The casual ward of a workhouse.
• n. Spike lavender.
• v. To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
• v. To set or furnish with spikes.
• v. To fix on a spike.
• v. To prevent or frustrate.
• v. To increase sharply.
• v. To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
• v. To add a small amount of one substance to another.
• v. (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight…
• v. (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
• v. (journalism) To decide not to publish or make public.
• v. (football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or…

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

banish

• v. (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
• v. To expel, especially from the mind.

bar

• n. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
• n. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal…
• n. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
• n. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
• n. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar…
• n. (typography) Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in…
• n. (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed…
• n. A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves;…
• n. The counter of such a premises.
• n. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
• n. (by extension, In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) A premises or counter serving any type…
• n. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
• n. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
• n. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
• n. (programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity,…
• n. (Britain, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants…
• n. (law, "the Bar", "the bar") The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
• n. (law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically…
• n. (telecommunications) A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself.
• n. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal…
• n. (music) One of those musical sections.
• n. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault.
• n. (soccer) The crossbar.
• n. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones…
• n. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
• n. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
• n. (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
• n. An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
• n. A city gate, in some British place names.
• n. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
• n. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
• n. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
• n. (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel…
• n. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which…
• v. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To prohibit.
• v. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
• v. to imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
• prep. Except, with the exception of.
• prep. (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
• n. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea…

capitulum

• n. (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from…
• n. (arachnology) The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome.
• n. (anatomy) A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket…
• n. (entomology, obsolete) The enlarged end of a proboscis.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

develop

• v. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
• v. (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
• v. (transitive) To create.
• v. (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
• v. (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
• v. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
• v. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving…
• v. (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations…

ear

• n. (countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes…
• n. (countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
• n. (countable, slang) A police informant.
• n. The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones.
• n. The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
• n. That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object,…
• n. (architecture) An acroterium.
• n. (architecture) A crossette.
• v. (humorous) To take in with the ears; to hear.
• n. (countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.
• v. (intransitive) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.
• v. (archaic) To plough.

empale

• v. Obsolete form of impale.
• v. (transitive) To make pale.

fasten

• v. To attach or connect in a secure manner.
• v. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

fix

• n. A repair or corrective action.
• n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
• n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
• n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
• n. A determination of location.
• n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
• v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
• v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
• v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
• v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
• v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
• v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
• v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
• v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
• v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

fortify

• v. To increase the defenses of; to strengthen and secure by military works; to render defensible against…
• v. To impart strength or vigor to.
• v. To increase the effectiveness of, as by additional ingredients.

fruit

• n. (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from…
• n. Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from…
• n. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
• n. Offspring from a sexual union.
• n. (colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual or effeminate man.
• n. (as a modifier) Of, pertaining to, or having fruit; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
• v. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

impale

• v. to pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
• v. more generally, to pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.

implement

• n. A tool or instrument for working with.
• v. to bring about; to put into practice.
• v. to carry out; to do.

increase

• v. (intransitive) (of a quantity) To become larger.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
• v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
• v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
• n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
• n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

inflorescence

• n. (botany) Flower cluster.
• n. A beginning to flower.

lace

• n. (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.^W.
• n. (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten…
• n. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
• n. (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
• v. (transitive) To fasten (something) with laces.
• v. (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
• v. (transitive) To interweave items.
• v. (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
• v. To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
• v. To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

nail

• n. The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
• n. The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
• n. The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
• n. A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven…
• n. A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The…
• n. An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 1/20th of an ell or 1/16th of a yard (2.25 inches or 5…
• v. (transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
• v. (intransitive) To drive a nail.
• v. (transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
• v. (slang) To catch.
• v. (transitive, slang) To expose as a sham.
• v. (transitive, slang) To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
• v. (transitive, slang) To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
• v. (transitive, slang) Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. To spike, as a cannon.

pierce

• v. (transitive) to puncture; to break through.
• v. (transitive) to create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry.
• v. (transitive) to break or interrupt abruptly.
• v. (figuratively) To penetrate; to affect deeply.

projection

• n. Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
• n. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
• n. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide…
• n. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation.
• n. (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself.
• n. (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
• n. (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth…
• n. (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
• n. (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
• n. (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
• n. (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

relegate

• v. Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
• v. (transitive, in extended use) Consign or assign.
• v. (transitive) Refer or submit.
• n. (historical, obsolete) A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without…
• adj. (archaic) Relegated; exiled.

rise

• v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
• v. To begin; to develop.
• v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
• v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
• v. To come; to offer itself.
• v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
• n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
• n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
• n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
• n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
• n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
• n. (informal) An angry reaction.
• n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

secure

• adj. Free from attack or danger; protected.
• adj. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
• adj. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
• adj. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
• adj. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
• adj. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
• adj. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly…
• adj. Overconfident; incautious; careless.
• v. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
• v. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against…
• v. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
• v. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

thrust

• n. (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
• n. A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.).
• n. The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
• n. (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
• v. (intransitive) To make advance with force.
• v. (transitive) To force something upon someone.
• v. (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
• v. (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
• v. (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
• v. To stab; to pierce; usually with through.

transfix

• v. (transitive) To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.
• v. (transitive) To pierce with a sharp pointed weapon.
• v. (transitive) To fix or impale.
• n. (linguistics) A discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word, typical of Semitic…