bat | (verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: flutter |
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(verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
(verb) strike with, or as if with a baseball bat | - |
(verb) use a bat | - |
(verb) have a turn at bat | - |
beat | (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
(verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
(verb) hit repeatedly | - |
(verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression | Synonyms: beat up, work over |
(verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: scramble |
(verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music | - |
(verb) strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting | - |
(verb) shape by beating | - |
(verb) make by pounding or trampling | - |
(verb) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly | - |
(verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: pound, thump |
(verb) sail with much tacking or with difficulty | - |
(verb) move with a flapping motion | Synonyms: flap |
(verb) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks | - |
(verb) move with a thrashing motion | Synonyms: flap |
(verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: pulsate, quiver |
(verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: drum, thrum |
(verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: tick, ticktack, ticktock |
(verb) glare or strike with great intensity | - |
(verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: bunk |
(verb) be superior | - |
blat | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blate, bleat |
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bleat | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blat, blate |
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(verb) talk whiningly | - |
bloat | (verb) become bloated or swollen or puff up | - |
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(verb) make bloated or swollen | - |
boat | (verb) ride in a boat on water | - |
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browbeat | (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: bully, swagger |
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(verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
cat | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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(verb) beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails | - |
chat | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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cheat | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
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(verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: chisel, rip off |
(verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: chisel |
(verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
chitchat | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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cleat | (verb) secure on a cleat | - |
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(verb) provide with cleats | - |
coat | (verb) cover or provide with a coat | - |
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(verb) put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface | Synonyms: surface |
(verb) form a coat over | Synonyms: cake |
combat | (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: battle |
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defat | (verb) remove the fat from | - |
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defeat | (verb) win a victory over | Synonyms: get the better of, overcome |
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(verb) thwart the passage of | Synonyms: kill, shoot down, vote down, vote out |
eat | (verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: corrode, rust |
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(verb) take in solid food | - |
(verb) eat a meal; take a meal | - |
(verb) take in food; used of animals only | Synonyms: feed |
(verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
(verb) worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way | Synonyms: eat on |
entreat | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, press |
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fat | (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
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float | (verb) convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation | - |
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(verb) allow (currencies) to fluctuate | - |
(verb) make the surface of level or smooth | - |
(verb) put into the water | - |
(verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, drift |
(verb) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom | Synonyms: swim |
(verb) set afloat | - |
(verb) move lightly, as if suspended | - |
(verb) circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with | - |
format | (verb) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data | Synonyms: initialise, initialize |
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(verb) determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science) | - |
(verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format | Synonyms: arrange |
gloat | (verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: crow, triumph |
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(verb) gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy | - |
hat | (verb) put on or wear a hat | - |
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(verb) furnish with a hat | - |
heat | (verb) gain heat or get hot | Synonyms: heat up, hot up |
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(verb) make hot or hotter | Synonyms: heat up |
(verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake |
(verb) provide with heat | - |
maltreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, mistreat, step |
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mat | (verb) change texture so as to become matted and felt-like | Synonyms: felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up |
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(verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: entangle, snarl, tangle |
mistreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, step |
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motorboat | (verb) ride in a motorboat | - |
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overeat | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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overheat | (verb) get excessively and undesirably hot | - |
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(verb) make excessively or undesirably hot | - |
pat | (verb) hit lightly | Synonyms: dab |
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(verb) pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin | Synonyms: chuck |
photostat | (verb) make a copy by means of a Photostat device | - |
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plat | (verb) make a plot of | Synonyms: plot |
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pleat | (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: ruffle |
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(verb) fold into pleats | Synonyms: plicate |
preheat | (verb) heat beforehand | - |
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rat | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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(verb) catch rats, especially with dogs | - |
(verb) give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat | - |
(verb) desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage | - |
(verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, fink, scab |
(verb) employ scabs or strike breakers in | - |
refloat | (verb) set afloat again | - |
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reheat | (verb) heat again | - |
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repeat | (verb) happen or occur again | Synonyms: recur |
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(verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, restate, retell |
(verb) to say again or imitate | Synonyms: echo |
(verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, reduplicate, replicate |
(verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, reprise, reprize |
(verb) do over | Synonyms: take over |
reseat | (verb) show to a different seat | - |
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(verb) provide with new seats | - |
(verb) provide with a new seat | - |
retreat | (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, withdraw |
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(verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, withdraw |
(verb) move back | Synonyms: retrograde |
(verb) move away, as for privacy | - |
scat | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, take to the woods, turn tail |
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seat | (verb) show to a seat; assign a seat for | Synonyms: sit, sit down |
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(verb) place or attach firmly in or on a base | - |
(verb) place in or on a seat | - |
(verb) provide with seats | - |
(verb) put a seat on a chair | - |
(verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: induct, invest |
(verb) be able to seat | - |
skimcoat | (verb) coat with a mixture of gypsum and spackle | - |
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slat | (verb) close the slats of (windows) | - |
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(verb) equip or bar with slats | - |
snapchat | (verb) To have a conversation on Snapchat | - |
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spat | (verb) clap one's hands together | Synonyms: clap |
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(verb) spawn | - |
(verb) engage in a brief and petty quarrel | - |
(verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, applaud, clap |
(verb) strike with a sound like that of falling rain | - |
(verb) become permanently attached | - |
(verb) come down like raindrops | - |
splat | (verb) split open and flatten for cooking | - |
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(verb) flatten on impact | - |
(verb) give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact | - |
squat | (verb) to perform the squat weightlifting exercise | - |
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(verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up |
(verb) occupy (a dwelling) illegally | - |
(verb) be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide | - |
sugarcoat | (verb) cause to appear more pleasant or appealing | - |
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(verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: candy, glaze |
swat | (verb) to make an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location | - |
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(verb) hit swiftly with a violent blow | - |
sweat | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: perspire, sudate |
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tat | (verb) make lacework by knotting or looping | Synonyms: intertwine |
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thermostat | (verb) control the temperature with a thermostat | - |
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treat | (verb) provide treatment for | Synonyms: care for |
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(verb) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | Synonyms: process |
(verb) regard or consider in a specific way | - |
(verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, plow |
(verb) engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement | - |
(verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink | Synonyms: regale |
(verb) provide with a gift or entertainment | - |
(verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, handle |
troat | (verb) emit a cry intended to attract other animals; used especially of animals at rutting time | - |
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undercoat | (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: ground, prime |
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unseat | (verb) dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse | - |
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(verb) remove from political office | - |