Synonyms of the word

squeeze

• v. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
• v. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
• v. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
• n. A close or tight fit.
• n. (figuratively) A difficult position.
• n. A hug or other affectionate grasp.
• n. (slang) A romantic partner.
• n. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the…
• n. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
• n. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
• n. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
• n. (epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling…
• n. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
• n. (dated) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe…

attempt

• v. To try.
• v. (obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
• v. (archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
• v. (archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
• n. The action of trying at something.
• n. An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

bosom

• n. (anatomy, somewhat dated) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
• n. The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
• n. The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
• n. The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
• n. (in the plural) A woman's breasts.
• n. Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
• n. A depression round the eye of a millstone.
• adj. In a very close relationship.
• v. To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
• v. To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
• v. (intransitive) To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
• v. (transitive) To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.

clasp

• n. A fastener or holder, particularly one that clasps.
• n. (in the singular) An embrace, a grasp, or handshake.
• v. (transitive) To take hold of; to grasp; to grab tightly.
• v. To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp.

clinch

• v. To clasp; to interlock.
• v. To make certain; to finalize.
• v. To fasten securely or permanently.
• v. To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
• v. To embrace passionately.
• v. To hold firmly; to clench.
• v. To set closely together; to close tightly.
• n. Any of several fastenings.
• n. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp.
• n. (obsolete) A pun.
• n. (nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of…
• n. A passionate embrace.
• n. In combat sports the act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engange…

coerce

• v. (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
• v. (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his…
• v. (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another…

compact

• n. An agreement or contract.
• adj. Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
• adj. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
• adj. (mathematics, not comparable, of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.
• adj. (topology, not comparable, of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
• adj. Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
• adj. (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
• adj. (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
• n. A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's…
• n. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
• v. (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
• v. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

compel

• v. (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.
• v. (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
• v. (transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.
• v. (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
• v. (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
• v. (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
• v. (obsolete) To call forth; to summon.

compress

• v. (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space…
• v. (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
• v. (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
• v. (transitive) To abridge.
• v. (technology, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
• v. (obsolete) To embrace sexually.
• n. A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing…
• n. A machine for compressing.

compressing

• v. present participle of compress.

compression

• n. An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
• n. (automotive) The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
• n. (computing) The process by which data is compressed.
• n. (music) The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
• n. (astronomy) The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.

constrict

• v. To narrow, especially by applying pressure.

constriction

• n. The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.
• n. A narrow part of something; a stricture.
• n. A compression.

contract

• n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or…
• n. (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at…
• n. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
• n. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
• n. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
• adj. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
• adj. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
• v. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to…
• v. (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
• v. (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
• v. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
• v. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
• v. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
• v. To betroth; to affiance.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

effort

• n. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
• n. An endeavour.
• n. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
• v. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stimulate.

embrace

• v. To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
• v. (obsolete) To cling to; to cherish; to love.
• v. To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.
• v. To accept; to undergo; to submit to.
• v. To encircle; to encompass; to enclose.
• v. (figuratively) To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.
• v. To fasten on, as armour.
• v. (law) To attempt to influence (a jury, court, etc.) corruptly.
• n. Hug (noun); putting arms around someone.
• n. (metaphorical) Enfolding, including.

embracement

• n. A clasp in the arms; embrace.
• n. State of embracing, encompassing or including various items; inclusion.
• n. Act or state of embracing or accepting; willing acceptance.
• n. State of being contained; enclosure.

embracing

• v. present participle of embrace.
• n. The act of giving an embrace.

endeavor

• n. A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.
• n. Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.
• v. (obsolete) To exert oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To attempt (something).
• v. To work with purpose.

endeavour

• n. British standard spelling of endeavor.
• v. British standard spelling of endeavor.

extort

• v. (transitive) To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any…
• v. (transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
• v. (transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.

fleece

• n. (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.
• n. (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached.
• n. (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher…
• n. (countable) An insulating wooly jacket.
• n. (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
• n. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
• n. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
• v. to con or trick someone out of money.
• v. to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep).

force

• n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
• n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
• n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
• n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
• n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
• n. (law) Legal validity.
• n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
• n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
• n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
• v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
• v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
• v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
• v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
• v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
• v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
• v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
• v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
• v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
• v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
• n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
• v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

gazump

• v. (Britain) To swindle; to extort.
• v. (Britain, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after…
• v. (Britain, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted…
• v. (Britain, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone…
• n. (US, slang, dated) An automobile.
• n. A politician who takes bribes.

gouge

• n. A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
• n. A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
• n. A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
• n. An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.
• n. (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
• n. (slang) Imposition; cheat; fraud.
• n. (slang) An impostor; a cheat.
• v. (transitive) To make a mark or hole by scooping.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
• v. (transitive) To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.

grip

• v. (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
• v. (transitive) To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
• v. (intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
• v. To trench; to drain.
• n. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
• n. A handle or other place to grip.
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or…
• n. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
• n. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
• n. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
• n. Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza, flu.
• n. (archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
• n. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
• n. Assistance; help or encouragement.
• n. A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
• n. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
• n. (figuratively) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
• n. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
• n. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
• n. (obsolete) The griffin.

hale

• n. (archaic) Health, welfare.
• adj. (dated) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
• v. To drag, pull, especially forcibly.

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

hug

• n. An affectionate close embrace.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To crouch; huddle as with cold.
• v. (intransitive) To cling closely together.
• v. (transitive) To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.
• v. (transitive) To stay close to (the shore etc.).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.

loss

• n. an instance of losing, such as a defeat.
• n. The result of an alteration in a function or characteristic of the body, or of its previous integrity.
• n. the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone, particularly in death.
• n. (in the plural) casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict.
• n. (financial) the sum an entity loses on balance.
• n. destruction, ruin.
• n. (engineering) electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
• v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost.

lover

• n. One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend,…
• n. A sexual partner.
• n. A person who loves something.
• n. (West Country, with "my") An informal term of address for any friend.

mash

• n. (obsolete) A mesh.
• n. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass…
• n. In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt…
• n. Mashed potatoes.
• n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
• n. (obsolete): A mess; trouble.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure.
• v. (transitive) In brewing, to convert, (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
• v. (transitive) To press down hard (on).
• v. (transitive, Southern US, informal) to press.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew (used mainly in Northern…
• v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
• n. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
• n. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher.
• n. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex).

motion

• n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
• n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
• n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
• n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
• n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
• n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
• n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
• n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
• v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
• v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
• v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

nip

• n. A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
• n. (vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.
• v. To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or…
• v. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
• v. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
• v. To annoy, as by nipping.
• v. To taunt.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
• n. A playful bite.
• n. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
• n. Briskly cold weather.
• n. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching.
• n. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
• n. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
• n. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
• n. (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
• n. (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another.
• n. (historical slang) A pickpocket.
• v. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.

obligate

• v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral…
• v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
• v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
• adj. (biology) Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role.
• adj. Absolutely indispensable; essential.

oblige

• v. (transitive) To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
• v. (transitive) To do someone a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
• v. (intransitive) To be indebted to someone.
• v. (intransitive) To do a service or favour.

overcharge

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain…
• v. (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
• v. (transitive, dated) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
• v. (transitive, dated) To fill too full; to crowd.
• v. (transitive, dated) To exaggerate.
• n. An excessive load or burden.
• n. An excessive charge in an account.

pinch

• v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
• v. To squeeze between two objects.
• v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
• v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
• v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
• v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
• v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
• v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
• v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
• v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
• v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
• v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
• n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
• n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
• n. An organic herbal smoke additive.

pluck

• v. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
• v. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
• v. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
• v. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly.
• v. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
• v. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
• v. (Britain, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
• n. An instance of plucking.
• n. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
• n. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

plume

• n. A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one.
• n. The furry tail of certain dog breeds (e.g. Samoyed, Malteagle) that stands erect or curls over their backs.
• n. A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet.
• n. A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
• n. An area over which (or aspace into which) a dispersed substance has spread or fanned out; a cloud.
• n. An upward spray of water or mist.
• n. (geology) An upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle.
• n. (astronomy) An arc of glowing material erupting from the surface of a star.
• n. A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental…
• v. (transitive) To preen and arrange the feathers of.
• v. (transitive) To congratulate (oneself) proudly.
• v. To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
• v. To adorn with feathers or plumes.
• v. To form a plume.
• v. To write; to pen.

press

• n. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
• n. (countable) A printing machine.
• n. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
• n. (countable) A publisher.
• n. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
• n. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the…
• n. (countable, wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager…
• n. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
• n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
• n. (obsolete) A crowd.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.
• v. (transitive) to compress, squeeze.
• v. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug.
• v. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
• v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding,…
• v. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
• v. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel.
• v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
• v. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward.
• v. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat.
• v. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to print.
• v. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

pressure

• n. A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
• n. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind.
• n. Distress.
• n. Urgency.
• n. (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
• n. (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.
• v. (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

push

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or…
• v. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
• v. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
• v. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
• v. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.
• v. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
• v. To make a higher bid at an auction.
• v. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
• v. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
• v. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
• v. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
• v. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
• v. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
• v. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at…
• n. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
• n. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• n. A great effort (to do something).
• n. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
• n. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company…
• n. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score.
• n. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request,…
• n. (dated) A crowd or throng or people.
• n. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

rack

• n. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
• n. Any of various kinds of frame for holding clothes, bottles, animal fodder, mined ore, shot on a vessel,…
• n. (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
• n. A distaff.
• n. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to…
• n. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction…
• n. A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
• n. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a…
• n. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
• n. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
• n. (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars,…
• n. (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners,…
• n. A grate on which bacon is laid.
• n. (obsolete) That which is extorted; exaction.
• n. (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
• v. To place in or hang on a rack.
• v. To torture (someone) on the rack.
• v. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
• v. (figuratively) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
• v. (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
• v. (slang) To strike a male in the groin with the knee.
• v. To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic…
• v. (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
• v. (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
• v. To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
• v. To stretch a person's joints.
• v. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
• v. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
• n. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
• v. (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning…
• v. (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
• n. A fast amble.
• n. (obsolete) A wreck; destruction.

red

• adj. Having red as its color.
• adj. (of hair) Having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”).
• adj. (often capitalized) Left-wing, especially socialist or communist.
• adj. (US, modern) Supportive of or dominated by the political party represented by the color red, especially…
• adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
• adj. (US, modern) Of, pertaining to, or run by (a member of) the political party represented by the color red,…
• adj. (Britain) Supportive of the Labour Party.
• adj. (politics) Related to the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
• adj. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum…
• adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.
• n. (countable and uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible…
• n. (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik,…
• n. (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
• n. (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
• n. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind.
• n. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
• n. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal).
• n. (Ireland, Britain, beverages, informal) red lemonade.
• n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
• n. (US, colloquial, uncountable) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
• v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede.
• v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of redd.
• v. (transitive, Pennsylvania) Alternative spelling of redd.

rob

• v. (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To burgle.
• v. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
• v. (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
• n. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches…

shove

• v. To push, especially roughly or with force.
• v. To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
• v. (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
• v. (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).
• n. A rough push.
• n. (poker slang) An all-in bet.

soak

• v. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
• v. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
• v. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
• v. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up).
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
• v. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
• v. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
• v. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
• n. An immersion in water etc.
• n. (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
• n. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

squash

• n. (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
• n. (Britain) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
• n. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
• n. (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
• n. (obsolete, countable, pejorative) Something unripe or soft.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
• v. (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
• v. (transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.
• v. to be hit by the vegetable described below.
• n. (countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
• n. Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
• n. The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
• n. (obsolete, zoo, countable) Muskrat.

squeezing

• v. present participle of squeeze.
• n. The act of pressing; compression.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) That which is forced out by pressure; dregs.

squelch

• v. (transitive, US) to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
• v. (transitive, radio technology) to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions…
• v. (intransitive, Britain) to make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
• v. (intransitive, Britain) to walk or step through a substance such as mud.
• n. A squelching sound.
• n. (radio technology) suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting…

stuff

• n. Miscellaneous items; things; (with possessive) personal effects.
• n. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
• n. A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
• n. Abstract substance or character.
• n. (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
• n. (slang, informal) Substitution for trivial details.
• n. (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
• n. (obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
• n. (obsolete) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
• n. (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship…
• n. Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
• v. (transitive) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
• v. (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
• v. (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
• v. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
• v. (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing…
• v. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
• v. (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense…
• v. (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
• v. (transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or…
• v. (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
• v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, idiomatic) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
• interj. (slang) A filler term used to dismiss explanation.

surcharge

• n. An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
• n. An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
• n. (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp;…
• n. (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
• n. (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's…
• n. (obsolete) An excessive load or burden.
• n. (law, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
• v. To apply a surcharge.
• v. To overload; to overburden.
• v. (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or…
• v. To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.

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.

tighten

• v. (transitive) To make tighter.
• v. (intransitive) To become tighter.
• v. (economics) To make money harder to borrow or obtain.
• v. (economics) To raise short-term interest rates.

try

• v. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
• v. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
• v. To test, to work out.
• v. To experiment, to strive.
• v. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
• v. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
• v. (slang, chiefly African American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want.
• n. An attempt.
• n. An act of tasting or sampling.
• n. (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
• n. (American football) a field goal or extra point.
• adj. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.

tweet

• n. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
• n. (Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
• v. (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) To post an update to Twitter.
• interj. An onomatopoeic of bird singing.

twinge

• n. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
• n. A sudden sharp pain.
• v. (transitive) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
• v. (transitive) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
• v. (intransitive) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting…

twitch

• n. A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
• n. (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
• n. (farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over…
• n. (physiology, countable) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal…
• v. (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
• v. (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
• v. (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
• n. couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed).

wedge

• n. One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered…
• n. A piece (of food, etc.) having this shape.
• n. (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting…
• n. (figuratively) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
• n. (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted…
• n. (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
• n. A group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
• n. One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
• n. (colloquial, Britain) A quantity of money.
• n. (typography, US) háček.
• n. (phonetics) The IPA character <ʌ>, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
• n. (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
• n. (meteorology) a wedge tornado.
• v. To support or secure using a wedge.
• v. To force into a narrow gap.
• v. To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
• v. (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
• n. (Britain, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical…

wring

• v. To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.
• v. To obtain by force.
• v. To hold tightly and press or twist.
• v. (intransitive) To writhe; to twist, as if in anguish.
• v. To kill an animal, usually poultry, by breaking its neck by twisting.
• v. To pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
• v. To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
• v. To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
• v. (nautical) To bend or strain out of its position.
• n. A powerful squeezing or twisting action.