Synonyms of the word

tread

• v. (intransitive) To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
• v. (transitive) To step or walk upon.
• v. To beat or press with the feet.
• v. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
• v. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
• v. (intransitive) To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
• v. (transitive, of a male bird) To copulate with.
• n. A step.
• n. A manner of stepping.
• n. (obsolete) A way; a track or path.
• n. The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
• n. The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
• n. The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
• n. The sound made when someone or something is walking.
• n. (biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
• n. The act of copulation in birds.
• n. (fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
• n. A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.

apply

• v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
• v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
• v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
• v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
• v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
• v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
• v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
• v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
• v. (obsolete) To visit.
• adj. Alternative spelling of appley.

brace

• n. (obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
• n. (obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
• n. A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
• n. That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
• n. A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
• n. A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
• n. The state of being braced or tight; tension.
• n. Harness; warlike preparation.
• n. (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words…
• n. A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally and then other things, but rarely…
• n. A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces,…
• n. (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally;…
• n. (Britain, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or…
• n. (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
• v. To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
• v. (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient…
• v. To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
• v. To confront with questions, demands or requests.
• v. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
• v. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
• v. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.

contact

• n. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
• n. The establishment of communication (with).
• n. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
• n. Someone with whom one is in communication.
• n. (informal) A contact lens.
• n. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
• n. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
• n. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
• v. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
• v. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone.

copulate

• v. To engage in sexual intercourse.
• adj. (obsolete) Joined; associated; coupled.
• adj. (grammar) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.

couple

• n. Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
• n. Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
• n. (informal) A small number.
• n. One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic…
• n. (physics) Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel…
• n. (architecture) A couple-close.
• n. (obsolete) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
• adj. (informal, US) Two or (a) small number of.
• v. (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
• v. (transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.
• v. (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

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.

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

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…

locomote

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

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).

mate

• n. A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
• n. (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
• n. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A friend, usually of the same sex.
• n. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) a colloquial "sir"; an informal and friendly term of address…
• n. (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's…
• n. (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
• n. (nautical) A first mate.
• n. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
• n. The other member of a matched pair of objects.
• n. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
• v. (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.
• v. (intransitive) To copulate.
• v. (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
• v. (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
• v. (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
• v. (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
• v. (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
• v. (transitive) To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
• v. (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
• v. (transitive, aeronautics, space) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can…
• n. (chess) Short for checkmate.
• v. (intransitive) To win a game of chess by putting the opponent in checkmate.
• v. To confuse; to confound.
• n. Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
• n. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea.

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…

pace

• n. (obsolete) Passage, route.
• n. Step.
• n. Way of stepping.
• n. Speed or velocity in general.
• n. (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed…
• n. A group of donkeys. The collective noun for donkeys.
• adj. (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
• v. Walk to and fro in a small space.
• v. Set the speed in a race.
• v. Measure by walking.
• prep. (formal) With all due respect to.
• n. Easter.

pair

• n. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
• n. Two people in a relationship, partnership (especially sexual) or friendship.
• n. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale…
• n. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
• n. (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better…
• n. (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
• n. (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
• n. (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
• n. (slang) A pair of breasts.
• n. (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of…
• n. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote…
• n. (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
• n. (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually…
• v. (transitive) To group into sets of two.
• v. (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
• v. (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question…
• v. (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
• v. (computing) to form wireless connection between to devices.
• v. (obsolete) To impair.

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.

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…

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…

step

• n. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
• n. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a…
• n. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
• n. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
• n. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
• n. A small space or distance.
• n. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
• n. A gait; manner of walking.
• n. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
• n. (plural) A walk; passage.
• n. (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
• n. (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of…
• n. (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series…
• n. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
• n. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
• n. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
• n. (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
• n. (slang) A stepsibling.
• v. (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet…
• v. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
• v. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
• v. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.

stride

• v. (intransitive) To walk with long steps.
• v. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
• v. To pass over at a step; to step over.
• v. To straddle; to bestride.
• n. A long step.
• n. (computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap,…
• n. (music) A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat…

surface

• n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
• n. The outside hull of a tangible object.
• n. (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.
• n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom)…
• n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the…
• v. (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
• v. (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
• v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
• v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
• v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To appear or be found.

tangency

• n. The state of being tangent; an instance of (something) being tangent.

trample

• v. (transitive) To crush something by walking on it.
• v. (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
• v. (intransitive) To walk heavily and destructively.
• v. (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
• n. the sound of heavy footsteps.

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.

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.