Synonyms of the word

croak

• n. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
• n. The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit).
• n. The cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
• v. (intransitive) To make a croak.
• v. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
• v. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry.
• v. (slang) To die.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
• v. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

choke

• v. (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other…
• v. (transitive) To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.
• v. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
• v. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
• v. (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) to reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at…
• v. (intransitive) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially…
• v. To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
• v. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
• v. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
• v. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
• n. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
• n. (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
• n. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
• n. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
• n. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
• n. (electronics) choking coil.
• n. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.

complain

• v. (intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
• v. (intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
• v. To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

conk

• n. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom…
• n. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
• n. Alternative spelling of conch.
• v. (slang) To hit, especially on the head.
• n. (US, dated) A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
• v. (US, dated) To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.

croaking

• v. present participle of croak.
• n. The sound of something that croaks.

cronk

• v. To honk like a goose.
• n. (Isle of Man) A hill or barrow.

decease

• n. (formal) Death, departure from life.
• v. (now rare) To die.

die

• v. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
• v. (transitive) To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
• v. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
• v. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
• v. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
• v. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
• v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
• v. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
• v. (transitive, video games) To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition.
• v. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved…
• v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
• v. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
• n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
• n. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
• n. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.).
• n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
• n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
• n. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
• n. Any small cubical or square body.
• n. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
• n. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
• n. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
• n. Obsolete spelling of dye.
• v. Obsolete spelling of dye.

emit

• v. (transitive) To send out or give off.

exit

• n. A way out.
• n. A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
• n. The action of leaving.
• n. Death.
• v. To go out.
• v. To leave.
• v. To die.

expire

• v. (intransitive) to die.
• v. (intransitive) to become invalid.
• v. (intransitive) to exhale; to breathe (out).
• v. (transitive) to exhale (something).
• v. (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
• v. (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.

gnarl

• n. A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
• n. Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
• n. (mathematics) The average value of the magnitude squared of the curl of a vector field over a continuous…
• v. (transitive) To knot or twist something.
• v. (intransitive) To snarl or growl; to gnar.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

grumble

• n. (onomatopoeia) A low thundering, rumbling or growling sound.
• n. The sound made by a hungry stomach.
• n. A complaint.
• v. (intransitive) To make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To complain; to murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low…
• v. (transitive) To utter in a grumbling fashion.

kick

• v. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
• v. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
• v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
• v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
• v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
• v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
• v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
• v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from…
• n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
• n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
• n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
• n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…
• n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
• n. (uncountable and countable) piquancy.
• n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
• n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
• n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
• n. a recoil of a gun.
• n. (informal) pocket.
• n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
• v. To die.

kvetch

• v. To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
• n. Person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
• n. An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.

murmur

• n. (countable) Low or indistinct sounds or speech.
• n. (medicine) The sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the…
• n. A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression…
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To grumble; to complain in a low, muttering voice, or express discontent at or…
• v. (intransitive) To speak or make low, indistinguishable noise; to mumble, mutter.
• v. (transitive) To say (something) indistinctly, to mutter.

mutter

• n. A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.
• v. To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips…
• v. To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
• v. To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.
• n. (Indian cuisine) Peas.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

perish

• v. (intransitive) To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.
• v. (intransitive) To die; to cease to live.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to perish.

plain

• adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
• adj. Simple.
• adj. Obvious.
• adj. Open.
• adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
• adv. (colloquial) Simply.
• n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
• n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
• n. A battlefield.
• n. (obsolete) A plane.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

quetch

• v. Alternative form of quitch.

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.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

utterance

• n. An act of uttering.
• n. Something spoken.
• n. The ability to speak.
• n. Manner of speaking.
• n. (obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
• n. (obsolete) Putting in circulation.
• n. (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).

vocalization

• n. The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance.
• n. Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation.
• n. The use of speech to express an idea.
• n. (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise.
• n. (orthography) The vowel diacritics in Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are…
• n. (phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds…