bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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buckle | (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: heave, warp |
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(verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: clasp |
(verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: crumple |
cackle | (verb) emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing | - |
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(verb) squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens | - |
(verb) talk or utter in a cackling manner | - |
(verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: gaggle |
chuckle | (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chortle, laugh softly |
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cockle | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: crumple, knit, pucker, rumple |
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(verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
crackle | (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
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(verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
(verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
freckle | (verb) mark with freckles | - |
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(verb) become freckled | - |
hackle | (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hatchel, heckle |
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heckle | (verb) challenge aggressively | - |
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(verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, hatchel |
knuckle | (verb) press or rub with the knuckles | - |
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(verb) shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground | - |
pickle | (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
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prickle | (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prick |
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(verb) cause a stinging or tingling sensation | Synonyms: tingle |
(verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prick |
ruckle | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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(verb) make a hoarse, rattling sound | - |
shackle | (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: fetter |
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(verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: pinion |
speckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: bespeckle |
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(verb) produce a mottled effect | Synonyms: stipple |
stickle | (verb) dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points) | - |
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strickle | (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strike |
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(verb) level off with a strickle in a measuring container | - |
suckle | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, wet-nurse |
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(verb) suck milk from the mother's breasts | - |
tackle | (verb) seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball | - |
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(verb) put a harness | Synonyms: harness |
(verb) accept as a challenge | Synonyms: take on, undertake |
tickle | (verb) touch or stroke lightly | - |
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(verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: thrill, vibrate |
(verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: titillate, vellicate |
trickle | (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: dribble, filter |
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truckle | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady |
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(verb) yield to out of weakness | - |
unbuckle | (verb) undo the buckle of | - |
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