Synonyms of the word

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.

afters

• n. (Britain, informal) dessert.
• n. (informal) The festivities held after a wedding meal.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, informal, sports) fighting or arguing off the ball or when play has stopped.

assail

• v. To attack violently using words or force.

assault

• n. A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
• n. A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, for example words, arguments, appeals, and the like.
• n. (criminal law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence,…
• n. (singular only, law) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
• n. (tort law) An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.
• n. (singular only, law) The tort whose action is such an act.
• n. (fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
• v. To attack, threaten or harass.

attack

• n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
• n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
• n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
• n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
• n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
• n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
• n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
• n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
• n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
• n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
• v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
• v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
• v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
• v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

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.

blister

• n. A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction…
• n. A swelling on a plant.
• n. (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
• n. A bubble, as on a painted surface.
• n. (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable…
• n. A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
• v. To cause blisters to form.
• v. (transitive) To criticise severely.
• v. (intransitive) To break out in blisters.

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.

convulse

• v. (transitive) To violently shake or agitate.
• v. (transitive) To create great laughter.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contraction of the muscles, producing contortions of the…

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.

dessert

• n. A sweet confection served as the last course of a meal.

flexibility

• n. The quality of being flexible; suppleness; pliability.
• n. The quality of having options.

flexibleness

• n. The state or quality of being flexible.

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…

instrument

• n. A device used to produce music.
• n. A means or agency for achieving an effect.
• n. A measuring or displaying device.
• n. A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
• n. (law) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
• n. (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
• v. (transitive) To apply measuring devices.
• v. (transitive) To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
• v. To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.

jactitate

• v. (rare, intransitive) To move about restlessly.

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.

legislator

• n. Someone who creates or enacts laws, especially a member of a legislative body.

pip

• n. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
• n. (humorous) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
• n. (obsolete) A pippin.
• n. (Britain) A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.
• n. (US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
• n. (Britain, dated, WW I, signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
• n. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
• n. (military, public service) One of the stars worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of…
• n. A spot; a speck.
• n. A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
• n. A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation.
• v. To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
• v. To hit with a gunshot.
• v. To peep, to chirp.
• v. (avian biology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
• n. One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final…
• n. (finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex)…

round

• adj. (physical) Shape.
• adj. Complete, whole, not lacking.
• adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
• adj. (linguistics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
• adj. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
• adj. Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
• adj. Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
• adj. Large in magnitude.
• n. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
• n. A circular or repetitious route.
• n. A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
• n. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
• n. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
• n. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
• n. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
• n. (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
• n. A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical…
• n. (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing…
• n. (sports) A stage in a competition.
• n. (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
• n. (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for…
• n. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary,…
• n. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
• n. (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
• n. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
• n. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance;…
• n. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated…
• n. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
• n. A circular dance.
• n. Rotation, as in office; succession.
• n. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
• n. An assembly; a group; a circle.
• n. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
• n. (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
• n. (nautical) A round-top.
• n. A round of beef.
• prep. (rare in US) Alternative form of around.
• adv. Alternative form of around.
• v. (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
• v. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
• v. (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
• v. (intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
• v. (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
• v. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
• v. (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
• v. (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
• v. To encircle; to encompass.
• v. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
• v. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak…
• v. (transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter…
• n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
• n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.

scald

• v. To burn with hot liquid.
• v. (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
• n. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
• n. (obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
• adj. (obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
• adj. (obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
• n. Alternative form of skald.

scramble

• interj. (Britain) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that…
• v. (intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
• v. (transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
• v. (transitive) To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
• v. (transitive, military) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to…
• v. (intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
• v. (transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.
• v. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize…
• n. A rush or hurry.
• n. (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
• n. A motocross race.
• n. Any frantic period of activity.

shell

• n. A hard external covering of an animal.
• n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
• n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
• n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
• n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
• n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
• n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
• n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
• n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
• n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
• n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
• n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
• n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
• n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
• n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
• n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
• n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
• n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
• n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
• n. An emaciated person.
• n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
• n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
• n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
• n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
• v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
• v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
• v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
• v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
• v. (topology) To form a shelling.

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…

snipe

• n. Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family…
• n. A fool; a blockhead.
• n. A shot fired from a concealed place.
• n. (naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.
• v. (intransitive) To hunt snipe.
• v. (intransitive) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
• v. (intransitive) (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.
• v. (transitive) To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder)…
• v. (transitive) To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
• n. (slang) A cigarette butt.
• n. An animated promotional logo during a television show.
• n. A strip of copy announcing some late breaking news or item of interest, typically placed in a print advertisement…
• n. A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle…
• n. A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.
• v. (intransitive) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.

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.

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.

sweet

• adj. Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
• adj. Having a taste of sugar.
• adj. Containing a sweetening ingredient.
• adj. (wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.
• adj. Not having a salty taste.
• adj. Having a pleasant smell.
• adj. Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
• adj. Having a pleasant sound.
• adj. Having a pleasing disposition.
• adj. Having a helpful disposition.
• adj. (mineralogy) Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
• adj. (informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
• adj. (informal, followed by on) Romantically fixated, enamored (followed by with), fond (followed by of).
• adj. (obsolete) Fresh; not salt or brackish.
• adj. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
• adv. In a sweet manner.
• n. (uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
• n. (countable, Britain) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
• n. (countable, Britain) A food eaten for dessert.
• n. sweetheart; darling.
• n. (obsolete) That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
• n. (obsolete) Sweetness, delight; something pleasant to the mind or senses.

thrash

• v. To beat mercilessly.
• v. To defeat utterly.
• v. To thresh.
• v. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
• v. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior…
• v. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
• n. A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
• n. (music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical…

thresh

• v. (transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating,…
• v. (transitive, literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

toss

• n. A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
• n. (cricket, soccer) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before…
• n. (Britain, slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
• v. To throw with an initial upward direction.
• v. To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
• v. To agitate; to make restless.
• v. To subject to trials; to harass.
• v. To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
• v. (informal) To discard: to toss out.
• v. To stir or mix (a salad).
• v. (Britain, slang) To masturbate.
• v. (transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables…
• v. (intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
• v. (intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
• v. (obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
• v. (rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle…

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.

vanquish

• v. To defeat, to overcome.

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.

whiplash

• n. the lash of a whip.
• n. an injury to the upper spine caused by a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side…
• v. To jerk back and forth; to buffet.
• v. To lash as if with a whip.

whisk

• n. A quick, light sweeping motion.
• n. A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device…
• n. A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
• n. A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
• n. A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
• n. A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
• n. (archaic) An impertinent fellow.
• v. (transitive) To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
• v. (transitive) In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
• v. (transitive) To move something rapidly and with no warning.
• v. (intransitive) To move lightly and nimbly.
• n. (obsolete) The card game whist.

worst

• adj. superlative form of bad: most bad.
• n. something or someone that is the worst.
• adv. In the worst way: most badly, most ill.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To make worse.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
• v. (rare) To outdo or defeat, especially in battle.