Synonyms of the word

stub

• n. Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
• n. A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
• n. (computing) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement…
• n. (computing) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing…
• n. (wikis) A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
• n. The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog.
• n. An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract.
• n. (obsolete) A log; a block; a blockhead.
• n. A pen with a short, blunt nib.
• n. A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
• n. The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
• v. To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
• v. To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
• v. To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.

butt

• n. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow…
• n. (countable) The waste end of anything.
• n. (countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
• n. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
• v. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
• v. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
• v. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
• n. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
• n. A thrust in fencing.
• n. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half…
• n. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
• n. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot.
• n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
• n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.

counterfoil

• n. the part of a cheque that is retained in the chequebook as a record; a stub.

deracinate

• v. To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
• v. To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.

extinguish

• v. (transitive) to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench.
• v. (transitive) to destroy or abolish something.
• v. (transitive) to obscure or eclipse something.
• v. (transitive, psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex.
• v. (transitive, literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction.

extirpate

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
• v. (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
• v. (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
• v. (transitive) To surgically remove.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

nub

• n. (obsolete) The innermost section of a chrysalis in a silk cocoon.
• n. A small lump or knob.
• n. The essence or core of an issue, argument etc.
• n. (slang) The clitoris.
• v. (baseball) To hit the ball weakly.
• v. To push; to nudge.
• v. To beckon.
• n. (Internet, slang) A noob; a newcomer or incompetent.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

piece

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

portion

• n. An allocated amount.
• n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• n. One's fate; lot.
• n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
• n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
• v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
• v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

quench

• v. (transitive) To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.
• v. (transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light.).
• v. (transitive) To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
• n. (physics) The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the…

receipt

• n. The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
• n. (obsolete) The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
• n. (in the plural) A quantity or amount received; takings.
• n. A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
• n. (archaic in New England and rural US since end of 20th century, elsewhere since middle of 20th century)…
• n. (obsolete) A receptacle.
• n. (obsolete) A revenue office.
• n. (obsolete) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
• n. (obsolete) Capability of receiving; capacity.
• n. (obsolete) A recess; a retired place.
• v. To give or write a receipt (for something).
• v. To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid.

record

• n. An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
• n. Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making…
• n. A vinyl disc on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.
• n. (computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
• n. The most extreme known value of some achievement, particularly in competitive events.
• v. (transitive) To make a record of information.
• v. (transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.
• v. (transitive, law) To give legal status to by making an official public record.
• v. (intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
• v. (intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To repeat; to practice.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To sing or repeat a tune.
• v. (obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.

strike

• v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
• v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
• v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
• v. To touch; to act by appulse.
• v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
• v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
• v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
• v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
• v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
• v. To make and ratify.
• v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
• v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
• v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
• v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
• v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
• v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
• v. To balance (a ledger or account).
• n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
• n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
• n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
• n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
• n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
• n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
• n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
• n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
• n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
• n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
• n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
• n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
• n. The discovery of a source of something.
• n. A strike plate.

uproot

• v. To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate.
• v. (by extension) To remove utterly; to eradicate.

weed

• n. (countable) Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.
• n. Short for duckweed.
• n. (uncountable, archaic or obsolete) Underbrush; low shrubs.
• n. A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
• n. (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
• n. (countable, Britain, informal) A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.
• n. (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
• v. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.
• n. (archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
• n. (archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
• n. (archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
• n. (archaic, especially in the plural as "widow's weeds") (Female) mourning apparel.
• n. (countable, Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who…
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wee.