Synonyms of the word

squawk

• n. A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call.
• n. (aviation) A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency…
• n. (aviation) An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance.
• n. The American night heron.
• v. To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.
• v. To speak out; to protest.
• v. To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret.
• v. (aviation) To set or transmit a four-digit transponder code. (Normally followed by the specific code in…

beef

• n. (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
• n. (slang, countable or uncountable, plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of…
• v. (intransitive) To complain.
• v. (transitive) To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.
• v. (African American Vernacular, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.
• adj. Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
• adj. Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
• adj. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.

bellyache

• n. Any pain in the belly, stomach, or abdomen.
• v. To unnecessarily complain or whine, often about simple matters.

bitch

• n. (dated) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
• n. (vulgar, offensive) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, typically a woman or man considered…
• n. (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person, often female, who does what others want; a slave.
• n. (obsolete, informal, of a man) A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
• n. (humorous, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
• n. (colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
• n. (colloquial, usually only used in the singular) A difficult or confounding problem.
• n. (colloquial) A queen (playing card), particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
• n. (figuratively) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
• n. (informal, slang) Place; situation.
• v. (intransitive) To behave or act as a bitch.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have…
• v. (transitive) To spoil, to ruin.

call

• n. A telephone conversation.
• n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• n. A cry or shout.
• n. A decision or judgement.
• n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• n. A beckoning or summoning.
• n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
• n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
• n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• v. (heading) To use one's voice.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
• v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

complain

• v. (intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
• v. (intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
• v. To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

crab

• n. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the…
• n. A bad-tempered person.
• n. (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
• n. (slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
• n. (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
• n. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
• v. (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
• v. (intransitive) To complain.
• v. (intransitive, nautical, aviation) To drift sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a…
• v. (transitive) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain…
• v. (obsolete, World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the…
• v. (rare) To back out of something.
• n. The crab apple or wild apple.
• n. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
• n. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
• n. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
• n. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
• n. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
• n. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
• v. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour.
• v. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
• v. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick.
• n. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native of South America.
• n. Short for carabiner.

cry

• v. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
• v. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
• v. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found,…
• v. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
• n. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
• n. A shout or scream.
• n. Words shouted or screamed.
• n. (collectively) A group of hounds.
• n. (obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
• n. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
• n. A desperate or urgent request.
• n. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.

gripe

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
• v. (archaic, transitive) To seize, grasp.
• v. (intransitive) To complain; to whine.
• v. To suffer griping pains.
• v. (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the…
• n. A complaint; a petty concern.
• n. (nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
• n. (obsolete) grasp; clutch; grip.
• n. (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
• n. (engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
• n. Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
• n. (nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
• n. (nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep…
• n. (nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure…
• n. (obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.

grouse

• n. Any of various game birds of the family Tetraonidae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the…
• v. To seek or shoot grouse.
• n. A cause for complaint.
• v. To complain or grumble.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Excellent.

holler

• n. A yell, shout.
• n. By extension, any communication to get somebody's attention.
• v. (intransitive) To yell or shout.
• v. (transitive) To call out one or more words.
• v. To complain, gripe.
• n. (Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow (small valley between mountains).
• adj. (dialectal, especially Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow.

hollo

• interj. Hey, hello.
• n. A cry of "hollo".
• v. To cry "hollo".

kick

• v. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
• v. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
• v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
• v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
• v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
• v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
• v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
• v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from…
• n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
• n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
• n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
• n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…
• n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
• n. (uncountable and countable) piquancy.
• n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
• n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
• n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
• n. a recoil of a gun.
• n. (informal) pocket.
• n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
• v. To die.

kvetch

• v. To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
• n. Person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
• n. An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.

noise

• n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
• n. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
• n. (technology) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio).
• n. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within…
• n. Rumour or complaint.
• n. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
• n. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
• v. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.
• v. (transitive) To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.

objection

• n. The act of objecting.
• n. A statement expressing opposition, or a reason or cause for expressing opposition (generally followed…
• n. (law) An official protest raised in a court of law during a legal trial over a violation of the rules…

plain

• adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
• adj. Simple.
• adj. Obvious.
• adj. Open.
• adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
• adv. (colloquial) Simply.
• n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
• n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
• n. A battlefield.
• n. (obsolete) A plane.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

quetch

• v. Alternative form of quitch.

screak

• n. shriek; screech.
• v. shriek; screech.

scream

• n. A loud, emphatic, exclamation of extreme emotion, usually horror, fear, excitement et cetera. Can be the…
• n. (music) A form of singing associated with the metal and screamo styles of music. It is a loud, rough,…
• n. (informal) Used as an intensifier.
• n. (printers' slang) exclamation mark.
• v. To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or…
• v. To move quickly; to race.

screech

• n. A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
• n. A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
• n. (Newfoundlander, uncountable) Newfoundland rum.
• n. A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
• v. To make such a sound.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) to travel very fast, as if making the sounds of brakes being released.

shout

• n. A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot;…
• n. (Britain, Australia, jargon, slang) A call-out for an emergency services team.
• n. (informal) A greeting, name-check or other mention, for example on a radio or TV programme. (also shout…
• v. (intransitive) To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention,…
• v. (transitive) To utter with a shout; to cry; to shout out.
• v. (colloquial) To pay for food, drink or entertainment for others.
• v. (Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To treat with shouts or clamor.

squall

• n. (meteorology) A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line.
• n. (often nautical) A sudden storm, as found in a squall line.
• v. To cry or wail loudly.

yell

• v. (intransitive) shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
• v. (transitive) to convey by shouting.
• n. A shout.
• n. A phrase to be shouted.
• adj. (Ulster) dry (of cow).