Synonyms of the word

dun

• n. A brownish grey colour.
• adj. Of a brownish grey colour.
• n. (countable) A collector of debts.
• n. An urgent request or demand of payment.
• v. (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
• v. (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
• n. (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
• n. (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
• n. An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
• n. (archeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded…
• v. (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.
• v. (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of don't: Contraction of do + not.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered…
• n. A mound or small hill.
• interj. (humorous) Imitating suspenseful music.

bedevil

• v. To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
• v. To perplex or bewilder.

beset

• v. (transitive) To surround or hem in.
• v. (transitive) To attack, especially from all sides.
• v. (transitive) To decorate something with jewels etc.
• v. (nautical) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.

chevy

• n. A hunt or pursuit.
• n. A cry used in hunting.
• n. The game of prisoners' bars.
• v. to hunt or chase.

chivvy

• v. To subject to harassment or verbal abuse.
• v. To coerce, as by persistent request.
• v. To sneak up on or rapidly approach.
• v. To pursue as in a hunt.
• n. A goad.

chivy

• n. A hunt or chase.
• n. A hunting cry.
• v. (transitive) To vex or harass with petty attacks.
• v. (transitive) To maneuver or secure gradually.
• v. (intransitive) To scurry.

chromatic

• adj. Relating to or characterised by hue.
• adj. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
• adj. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is…

crucify

• v. To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
• v. To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
• v. (informal) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.

cure

• n. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
• n. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
• n. A solution to a problem.
• n. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
• n. A process of solidification or gelling.
• n. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure…
• n. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
• n. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
• n. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
• v. (transitive) To restore to health.
• v. (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
• v. (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
• v. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
• v. (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
• v. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

darken

• v. (transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light.
• v. (intransitive) To become dark or darker (having less light).
• v. (transitive) To make dark or darker in colour.
• v. (intransitive) To become dark or darker in colour.
• v. (transitive) To render gloomy, darker in mood.
• v. (intransitive) To become gloomy, darker in mood.
• v. (transitive) To blind, impair eyesight.
• v. (intransitive) To be blinded, loose clear vision.
• v. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
• v. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

demand

• n. The desire to purchase goods and services.
• n. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
• n. A need.
• n. A claim for something.
• n. A requirement.
• n. An urgent request.
• n. An order.
• n. (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a…
• v. To request forcefully.
• v. To claim a right to something.
• v. To ask forcefully for information.
• v. To require of someone.
• v. (law) To issue a summons to court.

fawn

• n. A young deer.
• n. A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
• n. (obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.
• adj. Of the fawn colour.
• v. (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
• v. (intransitive) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).
• v. (intransitive, of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.

frustrate

• v. (transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
• v. (transitive) To hinder or thwart.
• v. (transitive) To cause stress or panic.
• adj. vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.

harass

• v. To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
• v. To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest.
• v. To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.
• n. (obsolete) devastation; waste.
• n. (obsolete) worry; harassment.

harry

• v. (transitive) To harass, stress, badger, bother; to distress, trouble, or tire with demands, threats, or…
• v. To strip; to lay waste.

hassle

• n. Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.
• n. A fight or argument.
• n. An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.
• v. To trouble, to bother, to annoy.
• v. To pick a fight or start an argument.

molest

• v. To annoy intentionally.
• v. To disturb or tamper with.
• v. To sexually abuse, especially a minor.

mount

• n. A mountain.
• n. (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences…
• n. (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
• n. (obsolete) A bank; a fund.
• n. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse.
• n. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
• v. (heading, physical) To move upwards.
• v. (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support.
• v. (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
• v. (obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).
• v. (transitive) To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
• v. (transitive) To begin (a military assault, etc.); to launch.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To deploy (cannon) for use in or around it.
• v. (transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).

plague

• n. (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused…
• n. (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
• n. A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
• n. A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
• v. (transitive) To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
• v. (transitive) To afflict with a disease or other calamity.

provoke

• v. (transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
• v. (transitive) To bring about a reaction.
• v. (obsolete) To appeal.

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

torment

• n. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
• n. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
• n. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
• v. (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.).