Synonyms of the word

convulse

• v. (transitive) To violently shake or agitate.
• v. (transitive) To create great laughter.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contraction of the muscles, producing contortions of the…

agitate

• v. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
• v. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
• v. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.
• v. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.

amuse

• v. (transitive) To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions.
• v. To cause laughter, to be funny.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also,…

compact

• n. An agreement or contract.
• adj. Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
• adj. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
• adj. (mathematics, not comparable, of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.
• adj. (topology, not comparable, of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
• adj. Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
• adj. (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
• adj. (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
• n. A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's…
• n. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
• v. (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
• v. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

compress

• v. (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space…
• v. (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
• v. (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
• v. (transitive) To abridge.
• v. (technology, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
• v. (obsolete) To embrace sexually.
• n. A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing…
• n. A machine for compressing.

constrict

• v. To narrow, especially by applying pressure.

contract

• n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or…
• n. (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at…
• n. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
• n. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
• n. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
• adj. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
• adj. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
• v. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to…
• v. (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
• v. (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
• v. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
• v. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
• v. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
• v. To betroth; to affiance.

jactitate

• v. (rare, intransitive) To move about restlessly.

laugh

• n. An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
• n. Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
• n. (Britain) A fun person.
• v. (intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face,…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete, figuratively) To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant;…
• v. (intransitive, followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride;…
• v. (transitive) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
• v. (transitive) To express by, or utter with, laughter.

press

• n. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
• n. (countable) A printing machine.
• n. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
• n. (countable) A publisher.
• n. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
• n. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the…
• n. (countable, wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager…
• n. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
• n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
• n. (obsolete) A crowd.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.
• v. (transitive) to compress, squeeze.
• v. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug.
• v. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
• v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding,…
• v. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
• v. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel.
• v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
• v. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward.
• v. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat.
• v. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to print.
• v. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

shake

• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
• v. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
• v. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
• v. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
• v. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To move from side to side.
• v. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
• v. (intransitive) To dance.
• v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
• n. The act of shaking something.
• n. A milkshake.
• n. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
• n. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
• n. (building material) A thin shingle.
• n. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
• n. A fissure in rock or earth.
• n. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
• n. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.).
• n. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
• n. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff…
• n. A shook of staves and headings.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

slash

• n. A slashing action or motion, particularly.
• n. A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly.
• n. Something resembling such a mark, particularly.
• n. (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left…
• n. Clipping of slash fiction: fan fiction focused upon shipping characters.
• v. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly.
• v. To strike violently and randomly, particularly.
• v. To move quickly and violently.
• v. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
• v. (US and Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires…
• v. (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
• adv. Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
• conj. (US and Canada) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
• conj. (US and Canada) Used to list alternatives.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
• n. (Britain, slang) A piss: an act of urination.
• v. (Britain, slang, intransitive) To piss, to urinate.
• n. (US) A swampy area; a swamp.
• n. (Britain) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical…

squeeze

• v. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
• v. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
• v. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
• n. A close or tight fit.
• n. (figuratively) A difficult position.
• n. A hug or other affectionate grasp.
• n. (slang) A romantic partner.
• n. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the…
• n. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
• n. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
• n. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
• n. (epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling…
• n. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
• n. (dated) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe…

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…

thresh

• v. (transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating,…
• v. (transitive, literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

toss

• n. A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
• n. (cricket, soccer) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before…
• n. (Britain, slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
• v. To throw with an initial upward direction.
• v. To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
• v. To agitate; to make restless.
• v. To subject to trials; to harass.
• v. To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
• v. (informal) To discard: to toss out.
• v. To stir or mix (a salad).
• v. (Britain, slang) To masturbate.
• v. (transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables…
• v. (intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
• v. (intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
• v. (obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
• v. (rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle…