Synonyms of the word

tug

• v. (transitive) to pull or drag with great effort.
• v. (transitive) to pull hard repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) to tow by tugboat.
• n. a sudden powerful pull.
• n. (nautical) a tugboat.
• n. (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
• n. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
• n. (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
• n. (slang) An act of masturbation.

attract

• v. To pull toward without touching.
• v. To arouse interest.
• v. To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite…

boat

• n. A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or…
• n. (poker slang) A full house.
• n. A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
• n. (chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly…
• n. (Australia, politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees…
• v. (intransitive) To travel by boat.
• v. (transitive) To transport in a boat.
• v. (transitive) To place in a boat.

carry

• v. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
• v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
• v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
• v. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
• v. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
• v. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the…
• v. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
• v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
• v. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
• v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
• v. (transitive) To have on one's person.
• v. To be pregnant (with).
• v. To have propulsive power; to propel.
• v. To hold the head; said of a horse.
• v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
• v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in…
• v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
• v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
• v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
• v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
• n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
• n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
• n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

contend

• v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
• v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
• v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

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.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

drive

• n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
• n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
• n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
• n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
• n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent…
• n. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
• n. A driveway.
• n. A type of public roadway.
• n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
• n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
• n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk,…
• n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with…
• n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
• n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and…
• n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
• n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs,…
• n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
• n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
• n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
• v. (transitive) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
• v. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
• v. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
• v. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
• v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
• v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
• v. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
• v. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
• v. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
• v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
• v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball…
• v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
• v. To be the dominant party where two people are engaged in a sex act.

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

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.

jerk

• n. A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
• n. A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
• n. (US, slang, pejorative) A dull or stupid person.
• n. (US, slang, pejorative) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered,…
• n. (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
• n. (obsolete) A soda jerk.
• n. (weightlifting) A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position…
• v. (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
• v. (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
• v. (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
• v. (obsolete) To beat, to hit.
• v. (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
• v. (usually transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
• v. (obsolete) To flout with contempt.
• n. (Caribbean) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
• n. (Caribbean) Meat cured by jerking; charqui.
• v. To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

labor

• n. American standard spelling of labour.
• v. American standard spelling of labour.

labour

• n. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
• n. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
• n. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour…
• n. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
• n. The act of a mother giving birth.
• n. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
• n. (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
• n. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
• v. (intransitive) To toil, to work.
• v. (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
• v. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially…
• v. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
• v. (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

lug

• n. The act of hauling or dragging.
• n. That which is hauled or dragged.
• n. Anything that moves slowly.
• n. A lug nut.
• n. (electricity) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection;…
• n. A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
• n. A fool, a large man.
• n. (Britain) An ear or ear lobe.
• n. A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
• n. (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A rod or pole.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16½ feet.
• n. (nautical) A lugsail.
• n. (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
• n. A lugworm.
• v. (transitive) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull, including its figurative…
• v. (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.

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…

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

pulling

• v. present participle of pull.
• n. The act by which something is pulled.

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.

struggle

• n. Strife, contention, great effort.
• v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
• v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

tote

• n. A bag, specifically a tote bag.
• n. A heavy burden.
• v. To carry or bear.
• v. To add up; to calculate a total.
• n. (Britain) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.

tow

• v. (transitive) To pull something behind one using a line or chain; to haul.
• v. (running, cycling etc.) To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.
• n. The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
• n. Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
• n. Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
• n. A rope or cable used in towing.
• n. An untwisted bundle of fibers such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.

towboat

• n. (nautical) a tugboat.
• n. (nautical) a squat powerful boat designed to push barges.
• n. A vessel constructed for being towed, such as a canal boat.
• n. A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.

tower

• n. A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite,…
• n. A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires,…
• n. A water tower.
• n. A control tower.
• n. Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
• n. (figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
• n. (informal) An interlocking tower.
• n. (figuratively) A strong refuge; a defence.
• n. (historical) A tall fashionable headdress.
• n. (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
• n. The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, deemed an ill omen.
• v. (intransitive) To be very tall.
• v. (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
• n. One who tows.

transport

• v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
• v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
• v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
• n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
• n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
• n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
• n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
• n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
• n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
• n. (historical) A deported convict.

tugboat

• n. A small, powerful boat (a "tugship" in other languages) used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver…