Synonyms of the word

crock

• n. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
• n. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
• n. (Britain) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
• n. (Britain) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse).
• n. (slang, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
• n. A low stool.
• n. (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor…
• v. To break something or injure someone.
• v. (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
• v. (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure…
• v. (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
• n. The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
• n. Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
• v. (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.

begrime

• v. (transitive) To make something dirty; to soil.

bemire

• v. To soil (or be soiled) with mud.

bleed

• v. (intransitive, of an animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
• v. (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
• v. (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
• v. (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
• v. (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth…
• v. (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody.
• v. (intransitive, copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
• v. To lose sap, gum, or juice.
• v. To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
• v. (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological…
• n. An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
• n. (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for…
• n. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that…

bunk

• n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
• n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
• n. (military) A cot.
• n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
• n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
• v. To occupy a bunk.
• v. To provide a bunk.
• n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
• adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
• v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
• v. (dated) To expel from a school.

carbon

• n. (uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6.
• n. (countable) An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.
• n. (countable, informal) A sheet of carbon paper.
• n. (countable, informal) A carbon copy.
• n. A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
• n. (ecology, uncountable) Carbon dioxide, in the context of global warming and climate change.
• n. A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.
• n. A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.

colly

• adj. (Britain, dialect) black as coal.
• v. (transitive, archaic) to make black, as with coal.
• n. (Britain, dialect) Soot.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A blackbird.
• n. (dated) Alternative spelling of collie.

dirty

• adj. Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
• adj. That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
• adj. Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
• adj. Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
• adj. Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
• adj. Out of tune.
• adj. Of color, discolored by impurities.
• adj. (computing) Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.
• adj. (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
• adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
• adj. Sleety; gusty; stormy.
• adv. In a dirty manner.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) dirty.
• v. (transitive) To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
• v. (transitive) To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become soiled.

grime

• n. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
• n. (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development…
• v. To begrime; to cake with dirt.

hokum

• n. Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.

jar

• n. A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of glass or clay, for holding fruit, preserves,…
• n. A shake.
• n. A sense of alarm or dismay.
• n. (now rare) Discord, contention; quarrelling.
• v. (transitive) To knock or strike sharply.
• v. (transitive) To shock or surprise.
• v. (of the form, style, appearance, etc. of people and things) To look strangely different; to stand out…
• v. To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly.
• v. To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute; to be at odds with.

lampblack

• n. An amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks.
• v. (transitive) To blacken using this form of carbon.

meaninglessness

• n. The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
• n. Anything that is meaningless.

nonsense

• n. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
• n. An untrue statement.
• n. Something foolish.
• n. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by…
• n. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
• v. To make nonsense of.
• v. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
• v. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
• adj. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become…
• adj. nonsensical.

nonsensicality

• n. (uncountable) The state or condition of being nonsensical.
• n. (countable) A nonsensical belief, remark, etc.

run

• v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
• v. (fluids) To flow.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• v. (social) To carry out an activity.
• v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
• v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
• v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
• v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
• v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
• v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• v. To have growth or development.
• v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
• v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
• n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
• n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
• n. A pleasure trip.
• n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
• n. Migration (of fish).
• n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
• n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
• n. A (regular) trip or route.
• n. The route taken while running or skiing.
• n. The distance sailed by a ship.
• n. A voyage.
• n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
• n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
• n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
• n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
• n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
• n. A trial.
• n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
• n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
• n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
• n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
• n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
• n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
• n. Any sudden large demand for something.
• n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
• n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
• n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
• n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
• n. (cricket) A point scored.
• n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
• n. Unrestricted use of.
• n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
• n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
• n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
• n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
• n. A pair or set of millstones.
• n. (video games) A playthrough.
• n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
• n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
• n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
• n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
• adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
• adj. Cast in a mould.
• adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
• adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

smut

• n. (uncountable) Soot.
• n. (countable) A flake of ash or soot.
• n. (uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
• n. (uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
• n. (derogatory) A promiscuous woman.
• n. Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal…
• n. (mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
• v. To stain (or be stained) with soot etc.
• v. (intransitive) To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.
• v. To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
• v. To clear of the smut fungus.

soil

• n. (uncountable) A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
• n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that…
• n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected…
• n. Country or territory.
• n. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
• n. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract…
• n. Dung; compost; manure.
• v. (transitive) To make dirty.
• v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
• v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
• v. To make invalid, to ruin.
• v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
• n. (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
• n. (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
• n. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
• v. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them,…

soot

• n. Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion…
• v. (transitive) To cover or dress with soot.