Synonyms of the word

strap

• n. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
• n. A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
• n. Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular…
• n. A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge…
• n. A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
• n. (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
• n. (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
• n. A shoulder strap, see under shoulder.
• n. (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
• v. (transitive) To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
• v. (transitive) To fasten or bind with a strap.
• v. (transitive) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop.

band

• n. A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
• n. (architecture) A strip of decoration.
• n. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
• n. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
• n. (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic…
• n. (physics) A part of the radio spectrum.
• n. (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
• n. (obsolete) A bond.
• n. (obsolete) Pledge; security.
• n. (especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify…
• n. (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc.
• n. (slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $10K, held together by a band; (by extension)…
• v. (transitive) To fasten with a band.
• v. (transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
• n. A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
• n. A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
• n. A marching band.
• n. A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
• n. (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society.
• n. (Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government…
• v. (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

bind

• v. (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
• v. (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
• v. (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
• v. (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
• v. (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
• v. (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
• v. (transitive) To couple.
• v. (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other…
• v. (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or…
• v. (law) To place under legal obligation to serve.
• v. (transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
• v. (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action.
• v. (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
• v. (transitive, computing) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method…
• n. That which binds or ties.
• n. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
• n. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
• n. (music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
• n. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.

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;…

flog

• v. (transitive) To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment.
• v. (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To sell something.
• v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
• v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
• v. (transitive, agriculture) To exploit.
• n. (Internet slang) A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing…

hanger

• n. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
• n. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially.
• n. That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short,…
• n. (Britain) A steep, wooded slope.
• n. (baseball, slang) A hanging pitch; a pitch (typically a breaking ball or slider) that is poorly executed…

lash

• n. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
• n. (obsolete) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
• n. A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
• n. A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
• n. A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
• n. In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
• n. In British English, it refers to heavy drinking with friends, (i.e. We were out on the lash last night).
• v. (transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
• v. (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like…
• v. (transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
• v. (transitive) To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
• v. (intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
• v. (intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.
• v. (intransitive, of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
• v. (transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
• adj. (obsolete) Remiss, lax.
• adj. (obsolete) Relaxed.
• adj. Soft, watery, wet.
• adj. (Ulster) excellent, wonderful.
• adj. Drunk.

lather

• n. The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
• n. Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
• n. A state of agitation.
• v. (transitive) To cover with lather.
• v. (transitive) To beat or whip.
• v. (intransitive) To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.

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.

sharpen

• v. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To make sharp.

slash

• n. A slashing action or motion, particularly.
• n. A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly.
• n. Something resembling such a mark, particularly.
• n. (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left…
• n. Clipping of slash fiction: fan fiction focused upon shipping characters.
• v. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly.
• v. To strike violently and randomly, particularly.
• v. To move quickly and violently.
• v. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
• v. (US and Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires…
• v. (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
• adv. Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
• conj. (US and Canada) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
• conj. (US and Canada) Used to list alternatives.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
• n. (Britain, slang) A piss: an act of urination.
• v. (Britain, slang, intransitive) To piss, to urinate.
• n. (US) A swampy area; a swamp.
• n. (Britain) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical…

tie

• n. A knot; a fastening.
• n. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
• n. A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black…
• n. The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
• n. A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which…
• n. A strong connection between people or groups of people; a bond.
• n. (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
• n. (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together…
• n. (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs…
• n. (sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
• n. (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a…
• n. (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
• n. (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
• n. (graph theory) connection between two vertices.
• v. (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
• v. (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To secure (something) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
• v. (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
• v. (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

welt

• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve.
• n. A raised mark on the body caused by a blow; a wheal or weal.
• n. (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through…
• n. A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
• n. In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
• n. In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
• n. In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
• n. (heraldry) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
• v. To cause to have welts, to beat.
• v. To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.

whip

• n. A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided…
• n. (hunting) A whipper-in.
• n. (politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
• n. (Britain, politics, with definite article) A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing…
• n. Whipped cream.
• n. (nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and…
• n. (roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
• n. A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
• n. The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
• n. Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion.
• n. (Should we delete^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for deletion?? +])} this sense?) (informal, slang) Car;…
• v. (transitive) To hit with a whip.
• v. (transitive) By extension, to hit with any flexible object.
• v. (transitive, slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
• v. (transitive) To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
• v. (transitive) To urge into action.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying:…
• v. (transitive, nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
• v. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and…
• v. (transitive) To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
• v. (transitive) To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
• v. (intransitive) To snap back and forth like a whip.
• v. (intransitive) To move very fast.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
• v. (transitive, roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
• v. (figuratively) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
• v. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.