Synonyms of the word

bat

• n. Any of the small, nocturnal, flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, which navigate by means of echolocation.
• n. (offensive) An old woman.
• n. (archaic) (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) A prostitute…
• n. A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
• n. A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
• n. (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
• n. (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
• n. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
• n. A part of a brick with one whole end.
• n. A stroke; a sharp blow.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
• n. (informal) Rate of motion; speed.
• n. (US, slang, dated) A spree; a jollification.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
• v. (transitive) to hit with a bat.
• v. (intransitive) to take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball,…
• v. (intransitive) to strike or swipe as though with a bat.
• v. (transitive) to flutter: bat one's eyelashes.
• v. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
• v. (US, Britain, dialect) To wink.
• n. (obsolete) packsaddle.
• n. Dated form of baht. (Thai currency).

at-bat

• n. (baseball) An opportunity to hit.
• n. (baseball) official at-bats. Batting opportunities minus walks, hit by pitches, and sacrifices.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

blink

• v. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
• v. To flash on and off at regular intervals.
• v. (hyperbolic) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
• v. To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
• v. (Scotland) To trick; to deceive.
• v. To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
• v. (video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.
• n. The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
• n. (figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
• n. (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
• n. A glimpse or glance.
• n. (Britain, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
• n. (nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice…
• n. (sports, in the plural) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
• n. (video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances.

chiropteran

• n. (zoology) Any mammal, of the order Chiroptera, that has forelimbs modified to form wings.

clobber

• v. (transitive, slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally…
• n. (Britain, Australia, slang) Clothing.
• n. (Britain, slang) Equipment.

club

• n. A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything^Wp.
• n. An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
• n. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
• n. An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
• n. A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
• n. (humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
• n. The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
• v. (transitive) to hit with a club.
• v. (intransitive) To join together to form a group.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
• v. (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
• v. (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
• v. (transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
• v. (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
• v. (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
• v. (transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
• v. (transitive, military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

cream

• n. The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
• n. A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
• n. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped…
• n. (figuratively) The best part of something.
• n. (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to…
• n. (vulgar, slang) Semen.
• n. (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
• adj. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
• v. To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
• v. To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
• v. (slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
• v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
• v. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing).
• v. (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
• v. (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To take off the best or choicest part of.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

drub

• n. (dialectal, Northern England) carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
• v. to beat (someone or something) with a stick.
• v. to defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
• v. to forcefully teach something.
• v. to criticize harshly; to excoriate.

eutherian

• adj. belonging or pertaining to the group Eutheria, comprising the mammals more closely related to animals…
• n. a eutherian animal.

flutter

• v. (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
• v. (intransitive, of a winged animal) To flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the…
• v. (transitive) To cause something to flap.
• v. (transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
• n. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
• n. A state of agitation.
• n. An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
• n. (Britain) A small bet or risky investment.
• n. (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

lick

• n. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
• n. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
• n. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts…
• n. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
• n. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
• n. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
• n. (colloquial) A bit.
• n. (music) A short motif.
• n. Speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.).
• v. To stroke with the tongue.
• v. (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
• v. (colloquial) To overcome.
• v. (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
• v. (colloquial) To do anything partially.
• v. (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
• v. To lap; to take in with the tongue.

nictate

• v. To wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane.

nictitate

• v. (transitive) to wink or blink.

placental

• adj. Of or pertaining to the placenta, or to the Placentalia.
• adj. Having a placenta.
• n. Any animal that is a member of the Placentalia.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

racket

• n. (countable) A racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew,…
• n. (Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
• n. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
• v. To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
• n. A loud noise.
• n. A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.
• n. (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
• n. (dated, slang) Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

racquet

• n. An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used…
• v. To hit with a racquet.
• v. To play a game that involves using a racquet.
• v. To dart about in a manner reminiscent of a ball hit by a racquet.
• v. To exchange back and forth, similar to the way a tennis ball volleys back and forth.

shell

• n. A hard external covering of an animal.
• n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
• n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
• n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
• n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
• n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
• n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
• n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
• n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
• n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
• n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
• n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
• n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
• n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
• n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
• n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
• n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
• n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
• n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
• n. An emaciated person.
• n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
• n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
• n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
• n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
• v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
• v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
• v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
• v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
• v. (topology) To form a shelling.

thrash

• v. To beat mercilessly.
• v. To defeat utterly.
• v. To thresh.
• v. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
• v. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior…
• v. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
• n. A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
• n. (music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical…

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

vanquish

• v. To defeat, to overcome.

wink

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To turn a blind eye.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion. (When transitive,…
• v. (intransitive) To twinkle.
• v. (intransitive) To be dim and flicker.
• n. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
• n. A brief time; an instant.
• n. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
• n. A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.