Synonyms of the word

gas

• n. (uncountable, chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained…
• n. (countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
• n. (uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane)…
• n. (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
• n. (US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
• n. (slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
• n. (baseball) A fastball.
• v. (transitive) To kill with poisonous gas.
• v. (intransitive) To talk, chat.
• v. (intransitive) To emit gas.
• v. (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
• v. (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
• n. (uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
• n. (US) Gas pedal.
• v. (US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
• v. (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
• adj. (Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany; fun, amusing.

accelerator

• n. One who, or that which, accelerates.
• n. A device for causing acceleration.
• n. (chemistry) A substance which speeds up chemical reactions.
• n. (vehicles) An accelerator pedal.
• n. (photography) A chemical that reduces development time.
• n. (physics) A device that accelerates charged subatomic particles.
• n. (physiology, medicine) A muscle or nerve that speed the performance of an action.
• n. (computing) accelerator key.

amplify

• v. (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers,…
• v. (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars,…
• v. (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

assail

• v. To attack violently using words or force.

attack

• n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
• n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
• n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
• n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
• n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
• n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
• n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
• n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
• n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
• n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
• v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
• v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
• v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
• v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

bluster

• n. Pompous, officious talk.
• n. A gust of wind.
• n. Fitful noise and violence.
• v. To speak or protest loudly.
• v. To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
• v. To blow in strong or sudden gusts.

boast

• n. A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
• n. (squash (sport)) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
• v. (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
• v. (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
• v. (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
• v. (squash (sport)) To play a boast shot.
• v. (ergative) To possess something special.
• v. (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
• v. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form…

brag

• adj. First-rate.
• adj. (archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
• adv. (obsolete) proudly; boastfully.
• n. A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
• n. The thing which is boasted of.
• n. (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
• v. (intransitive) To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done.
• v. (transitive) To boast of.

exaggerate

• v. To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

flatulence

• n. The state of having gas, often malodorous, trapped (and often released, frequently with noise) in the…
• n. The release of such gas; breaking wind.

flatulency

• n. (chiefly dated) flatulence.

fluid

• n. Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys…
• adj. (not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.
• adj. In a state of flux; subject to change.
• adj. Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
• adj. (of an asset) Convertible into cash.

fuel

• n. Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
• n. Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
• n. (figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
• v. To provide with fuel.
• v. To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.

gasconade

• n. Boastful talk.
• adj. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to exaggeration or extravagant boasting; bombastic.
• v. (obsolete, derogatory) To talk boastfully.

gasolene

• n. Alternative spelling of gasoline.

gasoline

• n. (uncountable, Canada, US) A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons,…
• n. (countable) Any specific kind of gasoline.
• adj. Made from or using gasoline.

gun

• n. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
• n. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
• n. (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed…
• n. (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
• n. (colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
• n. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
• v. (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.
• v. To speed something up.
• v. To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.
• v. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.
• v. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
• v. Nonstandard spelling of going to.

hydrocarbon

• n. (organic chemistry) A compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms.

hyperbolize

• v. (intransitive, now rare) To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To represent or talk about with hyperbole.

magnify

• v. (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
• v. (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify,…
• v. (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
• v. (intransitive, slang, obsolete) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.

overdraw

• v. To withdraw more money from an account than there is credit; to make an overdraft.
• v. (archery) To use a device for shooting arrows shorter than the draw of the bow.
• n. Commonly described in graphics technical terms as the process by which during the rendering of a scene,…
• n. A value determining/describing “Overdraw” or “Overdraw factor” is commonly the number of times each pixel…

overstate

• v. To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.

pedal

• n. A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano.
• n. (medicine) a foot or footlike part.
• n. (music) An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on.
• n. (equestrian, humorous) A stirrup.
• n. (music) The ranks of pipes played from the pedal-board of an organ.
• v. To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
• v. To operate a bicycle.
• adj. Of or relating to the foot.

petrol

• n. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Petroleum, a fluid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum…

state

• n. A polity.
• n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
• n. High social standing or circumstance.
• n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random…
• v. (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
• v. (transitive) To make known.
• adj. (obsolete) stately.

swash

• n. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
• n. (typography) a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
• n. A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or…
• n. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
• n. (obsolete) A blustering noise.
• n. (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
• n. (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
• n. (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
• v. (intransitive) To swagger; to bluster and brag.
• v. (intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
• v. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
• adj. Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.

throttle

• n. A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls…
• n. The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
• n. The windpipe or trachea.
• v. (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
• v. (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
• v. (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

tout

• n. Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
• n. A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
• v. (transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
• v. (obsolete) To look upon or watch.
• v. (Britain, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc…
• v. (US, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation…
• v. (Britain, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or…
• v. (US, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
• v. "tout for": to look for, try to obtain.
• n. (card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

treadle

• n. A foot-operated pedal or lever that generates circular motion.
• n. (biology) Chalaza.
• v. (intransitive) To use a treadle.

vaunt

• v. (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
• v. (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
• v. (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
• n. A boast; an instance of vaunting.
• n. (obsolete) The first part.