bench | (verb) To lift a weight using a bench press | - |
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(verb) To exercise using a bench press | - |
(verb) exhibit on a bench | - |
(verb) take out of a game; of players | - |
blanch | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blench, pale |
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(verb) cook (vegetables) briefly | Synonyms: parboil |
blench | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blanch, pale |
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branch | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate |
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(verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: ramify |
brunch | (verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
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bunch | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bundle, clump, cluster |
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(verb) form into a bunch | Synonyms: bunch together, bunch up |
cinch | (verb) get a grip on; get mastery of | - |
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(verb) make sure of | - |
(verb) tie a cinch around | Synonyms: girth |
clench | (verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clinch |
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(verb) squeeze together tightly | - |
clinch | (verb) settle conclusively | - |
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(verb) flatten the ends (of nails and rivets) | - |
(verb) secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts | - |
(verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clench |
(verb) embrace amorously | - |
(verb) hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches | - |
cranch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: craunch, crunch, grind |
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craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
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crunch | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash |
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(verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch |
(verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: munch |
(verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind |
drench | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse |
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(verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: imbrue |
(verb) force to drink | - |
(verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: swamp |
entrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: intrench |
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(verb) occupy a trench or secured area | Synonyms: dig in |
(verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, impinge, trench |
flinch | (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
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hunch | (verb) round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward | Synonyms: hump, hunch forward, hunch over |
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inch | (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: edge |
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intrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: entrench |
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launch | (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: plunge |
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(verb) propel with force | - |
(verb) launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage | - |
(verb) get going; give impetus to | Synonyms: set in motion |
(verb) smoothen the surface of | - |
(verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, found, set up |
lunch | (verb) take the midday meal | - |
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(verb) provide a midday meal for | - |
lynch | (verb) kill without legal sanction | - |
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munch | (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: crunch |
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pinch | (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: vellicate |
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(verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
(verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: crimp |
(verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: top |
(verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
punch | (verb) deliver a quick blow to | Synonyms: plug |
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(verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: perforate |
(verb) drive forcibly as if by a punch | - |
quench | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quell, squelch |
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(verb) cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid | - |
(verb) reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance | - |
(verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, assuage, slake |
(verb) suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device | - |
(verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, extinguish, snuff out |
ranch | (verb) manage or run a ranch | - |
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retrench | (verb) make a reduction, as in one's workforce | - |
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(verb) tighten one's belt; use resources carefully | - |
scranch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scraunch |
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scraunch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scranch |
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scrunch | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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(verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat |
(verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, thud |
squinch | (verb) cross one's eyes as if in strabismus | Synonyms: squint |
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(verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, wince |
(verb) crouch down | - |
stanch | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, staunch, stem |
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staunch | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, stanch, stem |
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trench | (verb) cut or carve deeply into | - |
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(verb) dig a trench or trenches | - |
(verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: ditch |
(verb) fortify by surrounding with trenches | - |
(verb) set, plant, or bury in a trench | - |
(verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, impinge |
wench | (verb) frequent prostitutes | - |
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winch | (verb) pull or lift up with or as if with a winch | - |
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wrench | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrick |
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(verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: twist |
(verb) twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish | Synonyms: wring |
(verb) make a sudden twisting motion | - |