adjourn | (verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: break up, recess |
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(verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: retire, withdraw |
auburn | (adjective) (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown | - |
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bourn | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourne |
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(noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourne |
burn | (noun) damage inflicted by fire | - |
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(noun) a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: burn mark |
(noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burning |
(noun) an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation | - |
(verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: sunburn |
(verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: combust |
(verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: incinerate |
(verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn down, fire |
(verb) damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation | - |
(verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
(verb) use up (energy) | Synonyms: burn off, burn up |
(verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: cut |
(verb) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion | - |
(verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, sting |
(verb) feel hot or painful | - |
(verb) spend (significant amounts of money) | - |
(verb) execute by tying to a stake and setting alight | - |
(verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: glow |
(verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: combust |
churn | (noun) a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk | Synonyms: butter churn |
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(verb) stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter | - |
(verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, moil, roil |
downturn | (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downswing |
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heartburn | (noun) a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder | Synonyms: pyrosis |
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mourn | (verb) feel sadness | - |
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(verb) observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one | - |
outturn | (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, turnout |
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overturn | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: turnover, upset |
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(noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: upset |
(verb) change radically | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
(verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, reverse |
(verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
(verb) turn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: tip over, tump over, turn over |
(verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, tip over, tump over, turn over, upset |
(verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, subvert |
return | (noun) the act of going back to a prior location | - |
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(noun) a coming to or returning home | Synonyms: homecoming |
(noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: regaining, restitution, restoration |
(noun) a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player | - |
(noun) (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble | - |
(noun) a reciprocal group action | Synonyms: getting even, paying back |
(noun) the act of someone appearing again | Synonyms: reappearance |
(noun) the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed | Synonyms: return key |
(noun) document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability | Synonyms: income tax return, tax return |
(noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, riposte |
(noun) happening again (especially at regular intervals) | Synonyms: recurrence |
(noun) the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction | Synonyms: coming back |
(noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, take, takings, yield |
(verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, revert, turn back |
(verb) be restored | Synonyms: come back |
(verb) go back to something earlier | Synonyms: come back, hark back, recall |
(verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, riposte |
(verb) submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority | - |
(verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, render |
(verb) make a return | - |
(verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, render, yield |
(verb) go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before | - |
(verb) return to a previous position; in mathematics | - |
(verb) bring back to the point of departure | Synonyms: bring back, take back |
(verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, refund, repay |
(verb) return in kind | - |
(verb) give back | Synonyms: render |
(verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, pass |
(verb) elect again | Synonyms: reelect |
sideburn | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers |
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sojourn | (noun) a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) | Synonyms: visit |
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(verb) spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily | - |
spurn | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, turn down |
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sunburn | (noun) redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: erythema solare |
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(verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: burn |
taciturn | (adjective) habitually reserved and uncommunicative | - |
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turn | (noun) the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course | Synonyms: turning |
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(noun) the act of turning away or in the opposite direction | - |
(noun) taking a short walk out and back | - |
(noun) a favor for someone | Synonyms: good turn |
(noun) (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession | Synonyms: play |
(noun) turning or twisting around (in place) | Synonyms: twist |
(noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, number, routine |
(noun) a movement in a new direction | Synonyms: turning |
(noun) an unforeseen development | Synonyms: turn of events, twist |
(noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, crook, twist |
(noun) (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive | Synonyms: bout, round |
(noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: go, spell, tour |
(verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, twist, wrench, wrick |
(verb) change to the contrary | Synonyms: change by reversal, reverse |
(verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: ferment, sour, work |
(verb) pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become | Synonyms: grow |
(verb) undergo a transformation or a change of position or action | Synonyms: change state |
(verb) change color | - |
(verb) become officially one year older | - |
(verb) have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to | Synonyms: call on |
(verb) direct at someone | - |
(verb) shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel | - |
(verb) let (something) fall or spill from a container | Synonyms: release |
(verb) alter the functioning or setting of | - |
(verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, flex, twist |
(verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plough, plow |
(verb) to change orientation or direction | - |
(verb) cause to move around a center so as to show another side of | Synonyms: turn over |
(verb) cause to move around or rotate | - |
(verb) pass to the other side of | Synonyms: move around |
(verb) move around an axis or a center | - |
(verb) to send or let go | - |
(verb) cause to move along an axis or into a new direction | - |
(verb) channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something | - |
(verb) get by buying and selling | - |
(verb) accomplish by rotating | - |
(verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: become |
(verb) cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics | - |
upturn | (noun) an upward movement or trend as in business activity | - |
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urn | (noun) a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet | - |
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(noun) a large pot for making coffee or tea | - |
windburn | (noun) redness and irritation of the skin caused by exposure to high-velocity wind | - |
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