Synonyms of the word

swash

• n. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
• n. (typography) a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
• n. A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or…
• n. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
• n. (obsolete) A blustering noise.
• n. (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
• n. (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
• n. (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
• v. (intransitive) To swagger; to bluster and brag.
• v. (intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
• v. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
• adj. Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

amplify

• v. (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers,…
• v. (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars,…
• v. (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

behave

• v. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
• v. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
• v. (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

bluster

• n. Pompous, officious talk.
• n. A gust of wind.
• n. Fitful noise and violence.
• v. To speak or protest loudly.
• v. To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
• v. To blow in strong or sudden gusts.

boast

• n. A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
• n. (squash (sport)) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
• v. (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
• v. (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
• v. (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
• v. (squash (sport)) To play a boast shot.
• v. (ergative) To possess something special.
• v. (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
• v. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form…

brag

• adj. First-rate.
• adj. (archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
• adv. (obsolete) proudly; boastfully.
• n. A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
• n. The thing which is boasted of.
• n. (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
• v. (intransitive) To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done.
• v. (transitive) To boast of.

disperse

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
• v. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
• adj. Scattered or spread out.

do

• v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
• v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
• v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
• v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
• v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
• v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
• v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
• v. To cook.
• v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
• v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
• v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
• v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
• v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
• v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
• v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
• v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
• v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
• v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
• v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
• v. (transitive) To take drugs.
• v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
• n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
• n. (informal) A hairdo.
• n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
• n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
• n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
• n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
• n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
• adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

dot

• n. A small spot.
• n. (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word;…
• n. A diacritical mark comprised of a small opaque circle above or below any of various letters of the Latin…
• n. (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part,…
• n. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
• n. (obsolete) A lump or clot.
• n. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
• n. (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
• v. (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
• v. (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
• v. To mark by means of dots or small spots.
• v. To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
• prep. Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
• n. (US, Louisiana) A dowry.

dust

• n. (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically…
• n. (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
• n. (obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
• n. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
• n. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
• n. (figuratively) Something worthless.
• n. (figuratively) A low or mean condition.
• n. (slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
• n. (mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
• v. (transitive) To remove dust from.
• v. (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
• v. (intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
• v. (transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
• v. (chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.
• v. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

exaggerate

• v. To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

gas

• n. (uncountable, chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained…
• n. (countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
• n. (uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane)…
• n. (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
• n. (US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
• n. (slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
• n. (baseball) A fastball.
• v. (transitive) To kill with poisonous gas.
• v. (intransitive) To talk, chat.
• v. (intransitive) To emit gas.
• v. (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
• v. (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
• n. (uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
• n. (US) Gas pedal.
• v. (US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
• v. (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
• adj. (Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany; fun, amusing.

gasconade

• n. Boastful talk.
• adj. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to exaggeration or extravagant boasting; bombastic.
• v. (obsolete, derogatory) To talk boastfully.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

hyperbolize

• v. (intransitive, now rare) To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To represent or talk about with hyperbole.

locomote

• v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

magnify

• v. (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
• v. (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify,…
• v. (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
• v. (intransitive, slang, obsolete) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.

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…

overdraw

• v. To withdraw more money from an account than there is credit; to make an overdraft.
• v. (archery) To use a device for shooting arrows shorter than the draw of the bow.
• n. Commonly described in graphics technical terms as the process by which during the rendering of a scene,…
• n. A value determining/describing “Overdraw” or “Overdraw factor” is commonly the number of times each pixel…

overstate

• v. To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.

plash

• n. (Britain, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
• n. A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
• v. (intransitive) To splash.
• v. (transitive) To cause a splash.
• v. (transitive) To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
• n. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
• v. (transitive) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.

scatter

• v. (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
• v. (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
• v. (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
• v. (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
• v. (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
• v. (transitive) To be dispersed upon.

spatter

• v. (transitive) To splash with small droplets.
• v. (transitive) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

splash

• n. (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
• n. A small amount of liquid.
• n. A small amount (of color).
• n. A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
• n. An impact or impression.
• n. (computing, informal) splash screen.
• n. (wrestling) A body press; A move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top…
• v. To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
• v. To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter.
• v. (transitive) to hit or expel liquid at.
• v. To create an impact or impression; to print, post or publicize prominently.
• v. (transitive) To spend (money).
• v. To launch a ship.

splatter

• n. An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
• n. (attributive) A genre of gory horror.
• v. (intransitive) To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to splatter.
• v. (transitive) To spatter (something or somebody).

splosh

• v. to make the sound of splashing.
• v. to traverse mushy or marshy wetlands.
• v. to spill or spill over.
• n. (countable) A heavy splashing sound.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Tea (the drink).

sprinkle

• v. (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for…
• v. (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
• v. (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
• v. (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse;…
• n. A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
• n. A light rain shower.

swagger

• v. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
• v. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
• n. Confidence, pride.
• n. A bold or arrogant strut.
• n. A prideful boasting or bragging.
• n. (Australia, historical) Synonym of swagman.

tout

• n. Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
• n. A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
• v. (transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
• v. (obsolete) To look upon or watch.
• v. (Britain, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc…
• v. (US, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation…
• v. (Britain, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or…
• v. (US, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
• v. "tout for": to look for, try to obtain.
• n. (card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

travel

• v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
• v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
• v. (transitive) To force to journey.
• v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
• n. The act of traveling.
• n. pl A series of journeys.
• n. pl An account of one's travels.
• n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
• n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
• n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

vaunt

• v. (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
• v. (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
• v. (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
• n. A boast; an instance of vaunting.
• n. (obsolete) The first part.

wave

• v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
• v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
• v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
• v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
• n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
• n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
• n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
• n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
• n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
• v. Obsolete spelling of waive.