| acclaim | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclamation, eclat, plaudit, plaudits |
|---|
| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: hail, herald |
| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: applaud, clap, spat |
| aim | (noun) the action of directing something at an object | - |
|---|
| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: design, intent, intention, purpose |
| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: object, objective, target |
| (noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: bearing, heading |
| (verb) have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal | Synonyms: aspire, draw a bead on, shoot for |
| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: propose, purport, purpose |
| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: calculate, direct |
| (verb) direct (a remark) toward an intended goal | - |
| (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: drive, get |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: direct, take, take aim, train |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: direct, place, point, target |
| alastrim | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
|---|
| angelim | (noun) any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira | Synonyms: andelmin |
|---|
| bedim | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: benight |
|---|
| (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: obscure, overcloud |
| brim | (noun) a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat | - |
|---|
| (noun) the top edge of a vessel or other container | Synonyms: lip, rim |
| (verb) fill as much as possible | - |
| (verb) be completely full | - |
| claim | (noun) demand for something as rightful or due | - |
|---|
| (noun) an established or recognized right | Synonyms: title |
| (noun) an informal right to something | Synonyms: title |
| (noun) an assertion of a right (as to money or property) | - |
| (noun) a demand | Synonyms: call |
| (noun) an assertion that something is true or factual | - |
| (verb) assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing | - |
| (verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: exact, take |
| (verb) ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example | - |
| (verb) lay claim to; as of an idea | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: arrogate, lay claim |
| counterclaim | (noun) a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action | - |
|---|
| (verb) set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim | - |
| declaim | (verb) recite in elocution | Synonyms: recite |
|---|
| (verb) speak against in an impassioned manner | Synonyms: inveigh |
| denim | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: dungaree, jean |
|---|
| (noun) (used in the plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear | Synonyms: blue jeans, jeans |
| dim | (adjective) made dim or less bright | Synonyms: dimmed |
|---|
| (adjective) lacking in light; not bright or harsh | Synonyms: subdued |
| (adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: black, bleak |
| (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: faint, shadowy, vague, wispy |
| (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow |
| (verb) make dim or lusterless | - |
| (verb) become dim or lusterless | - |
| (verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: blind |
| (verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: blur, slur |
| (verb) switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam | Synonyms: dip |
| disclaim | (verb) make a disclaimer about | - |
|---|
| (verb) renounce a legal claim or title to | - |
| exclaim | (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, outcry, shout |
|---|
| (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: proclaim, promulgate |
| grim | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick |
|---|
| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, low-spirited, low |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry |
| (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
| (adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: black, mordant |
| (adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, forbidding |
| hakim | (noun) a Muslim physician | Synonyms: hakeem |
|---|
| (noun) a Muslim ruler or governor or judge | - |
| interim | (adjective) serving during an intermediate interval of time | - |
|---|
| (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: lag, meantime, meanwhile |
| isocheim | (noun) a line on a map connecting places with the same mean winter temperature. | - |
|---|
| literatim | (adverb) letter for letter | - |
|---|
| maim | (verb) injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation | - |
|---|
| maxim | (noun) a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits | Synonyms: axiom |
|---|
| megrim | (noun) a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men | Synonyms: hemicrania, migraine, sick headache |
|---|
| minim | (noun) a musical note having the time value of half a whole note | Synonyms: half note |
|---|
| (noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram | - |
| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters | - |
| nim | (noun) game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table | - |
|---|
| passim | (adverb) used to refer to cited works | Synonyms: throughout |
|---|
| paynim | (noun) a heathen; a person who is not a Christian (especially a Muslim) | - |
|---|
| pilgrim | (noun) someone who journeys in foreign lands | - |
|---|
| (noun) someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion | - |
| prelim | (noun) an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue | Synonyms: preliminary exam, preliminary examination |
|---|
| (noun) a minor match preceding the main event | Synonyms: preliminary |
| prim | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
|---|
| (adjective) affectedly dainty or refined | Synonyms: mincing, niminy-piminy, twee |
| (verb) dress primly | Synonyms: prim out, prim up |
| (verb) contract one's lips | - |
| (verb) assume a prim appearance | - |
| proclaim | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, promulgate |
|---|
| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, glorify, laud |
| (verb) declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles | - |
| (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: predicate |
| quitclaim | (noun) act of transferring a title or right or claim to another | - |
|---|
| (noun) document transferring title or right or claim to another | Synonyms: quitclaim deed |
| reclaim | (verb) make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state | - |
|---|
| (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, tame |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: rectify, reform, regenerate |
| (verb) claim back | Synonyms: repossess |
| (verb) reuse (materials from waste products) | Synonyms: recover |
| rim | (noun) the top edge of a vessel or other container | Synonyms: brim, lip |
|---|
| (noun) a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object | Synonyms: flange |
| (noun) the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached | - |
| (noun) (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended | - |
| (noun) the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object | - |
| (verb) roll around the rim of | - |
| (verb) furnish with a rim | - |
| (verb) run around the rim of | - |
| scrim | (noun) a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater | - |
|---|
| seriatim | (adverb) in a series; point by point | - |
|---|
| shim | (noun) a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices | - |
|---|
| shittim | (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittimwood, southern buckthorn |
|---|
| skim | (adjective) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed | Synonyms: skimmed |
|---|
| (noun) reading or glancing through quickly | Synonyms: skimming |
| (noun) a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid | - |
| (verb) read superficially | Synonyms: skim over |
| (verb) move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of | Synonyms: skim over |
| (verb) remove from the surface | Synonyms: cream, cream off, skim off |
| (verb) cause to skip over a surface | Synonyms: skip, skitter |
| (verb) coat (a liquid) with a layer | - |
| (verb) travel on the surface of water | Synonyms: plane |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, rake, run down, scan |
| slim | (adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slender |
|---|
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slight, svelte |
| (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slenderize, slim down, thin |
| swim | (noun) the act of swimming | Synonyms: swimming |
|---|
| (verb) travel through water | - |
| (verb) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom | Synonyms: float |
| (verb) move as if gliding through water | - |
| (verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid | Synonyms: drown |
| (verb) be dizzy or giddy | - |
| trim | (adjective) severely simple in line or design | Synonyms: tailored |
|---|
| (adjective) thin and fit | Synonyms: spare |
| (adjective) characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder | Synonyms: shipshape, well-kept |
| (adjective) neat and smart in appearance | Synonyms: clean-cut, trig |
| (noun) cutting down to the desired size or shape | Synonyms: clipping, trimming |
| (noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: passementerie, trimming |
| (noun) attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation | - |
| (noun) a state of arrangement or appearance | Synonyms: trimness |
| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used | - |
| (verb) cut closely | Synonyms: shave |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip |
| (verb) remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size | Synonyms: pare |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, garnish |
| (verb) decorate, as with ornaments | - |
| (verb) be in equilibrium during a flight | - |
| (verb) balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces | - |
| verbatim | (adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: direct |
|---|
| (adverb) using exactly the same words | Synonyms: word for word |
| victim | (noun) an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance | - |
|---|
| (noun) a person who is tricked or swindled | Synonyms: dupe |
| vim | (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour |
|---|
| (noun) a healthy capacity for vigorous activity | Synonyms: energy, vitality |
| whim | (noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whimsey, whimsy |
|---|
| (noun) a sudden desire | Synonyms: caprice, impulse |