thrasher | (noun) thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs | Synonyms: mocking thrush |
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(noun) large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed | Synonyms: Alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thresher, thresher shark |
(noun) a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw | Synonyms: thresher, threshing machine |
thrashing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, trouncing, whacking |
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(noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
thread | (noun) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving | Synonyms: yarn |
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(noun) the raised helical rib going around a screw | Synonyms: screw thread |
(noun) the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together | Synonyms: train of thought |
(noun) any long object resembling a thin line | Synonyms: ribbon |
(verb) pass a thread through | - |
(verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, string |
(verb) remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string | - |
(verb) pass through or into | - |
(verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, wander, weave, wind |
threadbare | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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(adjective) having the nap worn away so that the threads show through | - |
threaded | (adjective) (of bolts or screws) having screw threads | - |
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threader | (noun) a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops | Synonyms: bodkin |
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threadfin | (noun) mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays | - |
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threadfish | (noun) fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins | Synonyms: Alectis ciliaris, thread-fish |
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threadiness | (noun) The state or quality of consisting of or bearing fibers or filaments. | - |
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threadlike | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, thready |
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threads | (noun) informal terms for clothing | Synonyms: duds, togs |
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threadworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, pinworm |
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thready | (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, stringy |
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(adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, threadlike |
threat | (noun) a warning that something unpleasant is imminent | - |
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(noun) declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another | - |
(noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: scourge, terror |
(noun) something that is a source of danger | Synonyms: menace |
threaten | (verb) to utter intentions of injury or punishment against | - |
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(verb) to be a menacing indication of something | - |
(verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril |
threatened | (adjective) (of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered | - |
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threatening | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister |
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(adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, lowering, sullen |
threateningly | (adverb) in a menacing manner | Synonyms: menacingly |
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three | (adjective) being one more than two | Synonyms: 3, iii |
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(noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips | Synonyms: trey |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
threefold | (adjective) three times as great or many | Synonyms: three-fold, treble, triple |
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(adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, treble, two-fold, twofold |
(adverb) by a factor of three | Synonyms: three times |
threepence | (noun) former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies | - |
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threepenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: sixpenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny |
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(adjective) used of nail size; 1 1/4 in long | - |
threescore | (adjective) being ten more than fifty | Synonyms: 60, lx, sixty |
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(noun) a set with 3 times 20 members | - |
threesome | (noun) three people considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, trinity, trio |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
threnody | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, dirge, lament, requiem |
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threonine | (noun) a colorless crystalline amino acid found in protein; occurs in the hydrolysates of certain proteins; an essential component of human nutrition | - |
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thresh | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, lam, thrash |
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(verb) beat the seeds out of a grain | Synonyms: thrash |
(verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh about, toss |
(verb) move like a flail; thresh about | Synonyms: flail |
thresher | (noun) large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed | Synonyms: Alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thrasher, thresher shark |
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(noun) a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw | Synonyms: thrasher, threshing machine |
threshing | (noun) the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw | - |
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threshold | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorsill, doorstep |
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(noun) the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close | Synonyms: door, doorway, room access |
(noun) the smallest detectable sensation | Synonyms: limen |
(noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: brink, verge |
(noun) the starting point for a new state or experience | - |
thrice | (adverb) three times | - |
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thrift | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching |
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(noun) any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers | - |
thriftily | (adverb) in a thrifty manner | - |
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thriftiness | (noun) frugality in the expenditure of money or resources | Synonyms: economy |
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thriftless | (adjective) careless of the future | - |
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thriftlessly | (adverb) in a thriftless manner | - |
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thriftlessness | (noun) the trait of wasting resources | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
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thriftshop | (noun) a shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices | Synonyms: second-hand store |
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thrifty | (adjective) careful and diligent in the use of resources | - |
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(adjective) mindful of the future in spending money | Synonyms: careful |
thrill | (noun) something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation | - |
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(noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, rush |
(noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, tingle |
(verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, tickle pink |
(verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: tickle, vibrate |
(verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, shudder, throb |
(verb) cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input | - |
thrilled | (adjective) feeling intense pleasurable excitement | - |
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thriller | (noun) a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie | - |
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thrillful | (adjective) full of excitement; thrilled | - |
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thrilling | (adjective) causing a surge of emotion or excitement | Synonyms: electrifying |
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(adjective) causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock | - |
thrip | (noun) any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | Synonyms: thripid, thrips |
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thripid | (noun) any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | Synonyms: thrip, thrips |
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thrips | (noun) any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | Synonyms: thrip, thripid |
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thrive | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, flourish |
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(verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: flourish, fly high, prosper |
thriving | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring |
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throat | (noun) the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat | - |
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(noun) a passage resembling a throat in shape or function | - |
(noun) an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep | - |
(noun) the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone | Synonyms: pharynx |
throated | (adjective) having a throat as specified | - |
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throatwort | (noun) European bellflower with blue-purple to lilac flowers formerly used to treat sore throat | Synonyms: Campanula trachelium, nettle-leaved bellflower |
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throaty | (adjective) sounding as if pronounced low in the throat | - |
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throb | (noun) an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) | Synonyms: pounding, throbbing |
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(noun) a deep pulsating type of pain | - |
(verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, shudder, thrill |
(verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulsate, pulse |
(verb) pulsate or pound with abnormal force | - |
throbbing | (adjective) pounding or beating strongly or violently | - |
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(noun) an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) | Synonyms: pounding, throb |
(noun) a sound with a strong rhythmic beat | - |
throe | (noun) severe spasm of pain | - |
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(noun) hard or painful trouble or struggle | - |
throes | (noun) violent pangs of suffering | - |
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thrombasthenia | (noun) a rare autosomal recessive disease in which the platelets do not produce clots in the normal way and hemorrhage results | - |
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thrombectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a blood clot (thrombus) from a blood vessel | - |
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thrombin | (noun) an enzyme that acts on fibrinogen in blood causing it to clot | - |
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thrombocyte | (noun) tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting | Synonyms: blood platelet, platelet |
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thrombocytopenia | (noun) a blood disease characterized by an abnormally small number of platelets in the blood | Synonyms: thrombopenia |
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thrombocytosis | (noun) increase in the number of platelets in the blood which tends to cause clots to form; associated with many neoplasms and chronic infections and other diseases | - |
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thromboembolism | (noun) occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus that has broken away from a thrombus | - |
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thrombokinase | (noun) an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot | Synonyms: factor III, thromboplastin |
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thrombolysis | (noun) the process of breaking up and dissolving blood clots | - |
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thrombolytic | (noun) a kind of pharmaceutical that can break up clots blocking the flow of blood to the heart muscle | Synonyms: clot buster, thrombolytic agent |
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thrombopenia | (noun) a blood disease characterized by an abnormally small number of platelets in the blood | Synonyms: thrombocytopenia |
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thrombophlebitis | (noun) phlebitis in conjunction with the formation of a blood clot (thrombus) | - |
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thromboplastin | (noun) an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot | Synonyms: factor III, thrombokinase |
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thrombose | (verb) become blocked by a thrombus | - |
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thrombosed | (adjective) affected with or obstructed by a clot of coagulated blood | - |
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thrombosis | (noun) the formation or presence of a thrombus (a clot of coagulated blood attached at the site of its formation) in a blood vessel | - |
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thrombus | (noun) a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin | - |
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throne | (noun) the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions | - |
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(noun) the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc. | - |
(noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, toilet |
(verb) put a monarch on the throne | Synonyms: enthrone |
(verb) sit on the throne as a ruler | - |
throng | (noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: concourse, multitude |
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(verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: jam, mob, pack, pile |
thronged | (adjective) filled with great numbers crowded together | - |
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throstle | (noun) common Old World thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: mavis, song thrush, Turdus philomelos |
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(noun) a spinning machine formerly used to twist and wind fibers of cotton or wool continuously | - |
throttle | (noun) a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine | Synonyms: accelerator, throttle valve |
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(noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, gun |
(verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: choke |
(verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrict, trammel |
(verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, strangulate |
throttlehold | (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, stranglehold |
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throttler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, strangler |
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throttling | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangling, strangulation |
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through | (adjective) (of a route or journey etc.) continuing without requiring stops or changes | - |
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(adjective) having finished or arrived at completion | Synonyms: done, through with |
(adverb) over the whole distance | - |
(adverb) in diameter | - |
(adverb) from beginning to end | - |
(adverb) to completion | - |
(adverb) throughout the entire extent | Synonyms: through and through |
throughout | (adverb) from first to last | Synonyms: end-to-end |
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(adverb) used to refer to cited works | Synonyms: passim |
throughput | (noun) output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time) | - |
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throughway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, thruway |
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throw | (noun) the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist) | - |
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(noun) casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly | - |
(noun) bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something | - |
(noun) the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam | Synonyms: cam stroke, stroke |
(noun) a single chance or instance | - |
(verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle |
(verb) convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture | Synonyms: give |
(verb) utter with force; utter vehemently | Synonyms: hurl |
(verb) propel through the air | - |
(verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: flip, switch |
(verb) place or put with great energy | Synonyms: thrust |
(verb) cause to fall off | - |
(verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, drop, shake off, shed, throw away, throw off |
(verb) throw (a die) out onto a flat surface | - |
(verb) make on a potter's wheel | - |
(verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, contrive, project |
(verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, have, hold, make |
(verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, bewilder, discombobulate |
(verb) move violently, energetically, or carelessly | - |
(verb) to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly | - |
throwaway | (adjective) intended to be thrown away after use | - |
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(adjective) thrown away | Synonyms: cast-off, discarded, thrown-away |
(noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill |
(noun) words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis | - |
(noun) (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets | Synonyms: gamin, street arab |
throwback | (adjective) characteristic of an atavist | Synonyms: atavistic |
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(noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: atavism, reversion |
(noun) an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism | Synonyms: atavist |
thrower | (noun) someone who projects something (especially by a rapid motion of the arm) | - |
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(noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, ceramist, potter |
(noun) a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn | Synonyms: throwster |
thrown | (adjective) caused to fall to the ground | - |
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(adjective) twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread | Synonyms: thrown and twisted |
throwster | (noun) a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn | Synonyms: thrower |
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thrum | (noun) a thrumming sound | - |
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(verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: beat, drum |
(verb) sound with a monotonous hum | Synonyms: hum |
(verb) sound the strings of (a stringed instrument) | Synonyms: strum |
thrush | (noun) songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast | - |
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(noun) a woman who sings popular songs | - |
(noun) candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults | - |
thrust | (noun) the act of applying force to propel something | Synonyms: drive, driving force |
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(noun) a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument | Synonyms: knife thrust, stab |
(noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrusting |
(noun) verbal criticism | - |
(noun) the force used in pushing | Synonyms: push |
(verb) impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably | Synonyms: force |
(verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: pierce |
(verb) place or put with great energy | Synonyms: throw |
(verb) push forcefully | - |
(verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, lunge |
(verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, squeeze, stuff |
(verb) push violently in a specified direction | Synonyms: push up |
(verb) force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock | - |
thruster | (noun) a small rocket engine that provides the thrust needed to maneuver a spacecraft | - |
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(noun) one who intrudes or pushes himself forward | Synonyms: pusher |
thrusting | (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrust |
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thruway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway |
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thud | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, clunk, thump, thumping |
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(verb) strike with a dull sound | - |
(verb) make a dull sound | Synonyms: thump |
(verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, scrunch |
thudding | (adjective) not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft | Synonyms: dull |
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