allow | (verb) allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: take into account |
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(verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: appropriate, earmark, reserve, set aside |
(verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: countenance, let, permit |
(verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: permit, tolerate |
(verb) let have | Synonyms: grant |
(verb) grant as a discount or in exchange | - |
(verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: let, permit |
(verb) allow the other (baseball) team to score | Synonyms: give up |
(verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow for, leave, provide |
(verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: admit |
bedfellow | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedmate |
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(noun) a temporary associate | - |
bellow | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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(verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bawl |
(verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: roar |
billow | (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: surge |
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(verb) become inflated | Synonyms: balloon, inflate |
(verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: heave, surge |
(verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: wallow |
(verb) move with great difficulty | - |
callow | (adjective) young and inexperienced | Synonyms: fledgling, unfledged |
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cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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disallow | (verb) command against | Synonyms: forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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fallow | (adjective) undeveloped but potentially useful | - |
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(adjective) left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season | - |
(noun) cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons | - |
fellow | (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, gent, lad |
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(noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, boyfriend, swain |
(noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, companion, comrade, familiar |
(noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: colleague, confrere |
(noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: buster, dude |
(noun) a member of a learned society | - |
(noun) one of a pair | Synonyms: mate |
follow | (verb) behave in accordance or in agreement with | Synonyms: conform to |
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(verb) keep informed | Synonyms: keep abreast, keep up |
(verb) keep to | Synonyms: stick to, stick with |
(verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something | Synonyms: trace |
(verb) grasp the meaning | - |
(verb) imitate in behavior; take as a model | Synonyms: take after |
(verb) perform an accompaniment to | Synonyms: accompany, play along |
(verb) to travel behind, go after, come after | - |
(verb) travel along a certain course | Synonyms: travel along |
(verb) follow in or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: pursue |
(verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: surveil, survey |
(verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, espouse |
(verb) to subscribe to someone's updates on social media | - |
(verb) to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media | - |
(verb) act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes | Synonyms: abide by, comply |
(verb) be the successor (of) | Synonyms: come after, succeed |
(verb) follow with the eyes or the mind | Synonyms: keep an eye on, observe, watch, watch over |
(verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: be |
(verb) accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of | - |
(verb) adhere to or practice | - |
(verb) be later in time | Synonyms: postdate |
(verb) come after in time, as a result | Synonyms: come after |
(verb) be next | - |
(verb) to bring something about at a later time than | - |
(verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: come |
(verb) come as a logical consequence; follow logically | Synonyms: fall out |
hallow | (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, sanctify |
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hollow | (adjective) not solid; having a space or gap or cavity | - |
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(adjective) lacking in substance or character | - |
(adjective) devoid of significance or force | Synonyms: empty, vacuous |
(adjective) as if echoing in a hollow space | - |
(noun) a depression hollowed out of solid matter | Synonyms: hole |
(noun) a small valley between mountains | Synonyms: holler |
(noun) a cavity or space in something | - |
(verb) remove the interior of | Synonyms: core out, hollow out |
(verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: dig, excavate |
mallow | (noun) any of various plants of the family Malvaceae | - |
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marshmallow | (noun) spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar | - |
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mellow | (adjective) slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) | Synonyms: high |
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(adjective) unhurried and relaxed | Synonyms: laid-back |
(adjective) having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging | Synonyms: mellowed |
(adjective) softened through age or experience | Synonyms: mellowed |
(adverb) in a mellow manner | Synonyms: mellowly |
(verb) make or grow (more) mellow | - |
(verb) soften, make mellow | - |
(verb) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial | Synonyms: mellow out, melt |
pillow | (noun) a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person | - |
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(verb) rest on or as if on a pillow | Synonyms: rest |
playfellow | (noun) a companion at play | Synonyms: playmate |
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sallow | (adjective) unhealthy looking | Synonyms: sickly |
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(noun) any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal | - |
(verb) cause to become sallow | - |
schoolfellow | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolmate |
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shallow | (adjective) lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center | - |
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(adjective) not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply | - |
(adjective) lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious | - |
(noun) a stretch of shallow water | Synonyms: shoal |
(verb) become shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
(verb) make shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
swallow | (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, drink |
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(noun) small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations | - |
(noun) a small amount of liquid food | Synonyms: sup |
(verb) believe or accept without questioning or challenge | - |
(verb) keep from expressing | - |
(verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: accept, live with |
(verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: take back, unsay, withdraw |
(verb) utter unclearly | - |
(verb) engulf and destroy | - |
(verb) pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking | Synonyms: get down |
(verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, immerse, swallow up |
tallow | (noun) obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants | - |
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unfollow | (verb) to stop following a user on social media | - |
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unhallow | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: deconsecrate, desecrate |
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wallow | (noun) an indolent or clumsy rolling about | - |
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(noun) a puddle where animals go to wallow | - |
(verb) delight greatly in | - |
(verb) devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure | - |
(verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: rejoice, triumph |
(verb) roll around | Synonyms: welter |
(verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: billow |
waxmallow | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers | Synonyms: sleeping hibiscus, wax mallow |
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willow | (noun) a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers | - |
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(noun) any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix | Synonyms: willow tree |
workfellow | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, colleague, fellow worker |
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yellow | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | Synonyms: xanthous, yellowish |
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(adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied |
(adjective) cowardly or treacherous | - |
(adjective) changed to a yellowish color by age | Synonyms: yellowed |
(adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: scandalmongering, sensationalistic |
(adjective) affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc | Synonyms: icteric, jaundiced |
(noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellowness |
(verb) turn yellow | - |