Synonyms of the word hawk


HAWKBOARD - COUGH - DEAL - HUCKSTER - HUNT - MILITARIST - MONGER - MORTARBOARD - PEDDLE - PITCH - RAPTOR - RUN - SELL - TRADE - VEND - WARMONGER

hawk

  • n. A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
  • n. Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such…
  • n. (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions; a warmonger.
  • n. (game theory) An uncooperative or purely-selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting,…
  • v. (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
  • v. (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
  • n. A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior…
  • v. (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place…
  • n. An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To cough up something from one's throat.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.

board

  • n. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction…
  • n. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control…
  • n. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
  • n. Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
  • n. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
  • n. (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
  • n. (nautical) The side of a ship.
  • n. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
  • n. (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
  • n. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
  • n. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
  • n. (video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.
  • n. (duplicate bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players…
  • v. (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
  • v. (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
  • v. (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her…
  • v. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
  • v. To cover with boards or boarding.
  • v. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
  • v. (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
  • n. (basketball, informal) A rebound.

cough

  • v. (intransitive) To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
  • v. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a noise like a cough.
  • n. A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.
  • n. A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.
  • n. Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame.

deal

  • n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
  • n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
  • v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
  • v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
  • v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
  • v. (baseball) To pitch.
  • v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
  • v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
  • v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
  • v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
  • v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
  • n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
  • n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
  • n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
  • n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
  • n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
  • n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
  • n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
  • n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
  • n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
  • n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
  • adj. Made of deal.

huckster

  • n. A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.
  • n. Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
  • n. One who deceptively sells fraudulent products.
  • n. Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
  • n. A mean, deceptive person.
  • v. (intransitive) To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
  • v. (transitive) To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.
  • v. (transitive) To promote or sell goods in an aggressive, showy manner.

hunt

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
  • v. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
  • v. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
  • v. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
  • v. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
  • v. (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor…
  • n. The act of hunting.
  • n. A hunting expedition.
  • n. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the…

militarist

  • n. One who believes in the use of military force.

monger

  • n. (chiefly in combination) A dealer in a specific commodity.
  • n. (in combination) A person promoting something undesirable.
  • n. A small merchant vessel.
  • n. Clipping of whoremonger.
  • v. (transitive, Britain) To sell or peddle something.

mortarboard

  • n. A square board, with a handle, on which mortar or plaster is carried: a hawk.
  • n. An academic cap that has a flat square top with a tassel.

peddle

  • v. To sell things, especially door to door.
  • v. To sell illegal narcotics.
  • v. (derogatory, figuratively) To spread or cause to spread.

pitch

  • n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
  • n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
  • n. (geology) Pitchstone.
  • v. To cover or smear with pitch.
  • v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
  • n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
  • n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
  • n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
  • n. An effort to sell or promote something.
  • n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
  • n. The angle at which an object sits.
  • n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
  • n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
  • n. The place where a busker performs.
  • n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
  • n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
  • n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
  • n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
  • n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
  • n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
  • n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
  • n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
  • n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
  • v. (transitive) To throw.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
  • v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
  • v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
  • v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
  • v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
  • v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
  • v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
  • v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
  • v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
  • v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
  • v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
  • v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
  • n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
  • n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

raptor

  • n. A bird of prey.
  • n. (obsolete) One who ravishes or plunders.
  • n. (informal, paleontology) One of the dromaeosaurs, a family of carnivorous dinosaurs having tearing claws…

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.

sell

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
  • v. (ergative) To be sold.
  • v. To promote a product or service.
  • v. To promote a particular viewpoint.
  • v. (slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
  • v. (professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate…
  • n. An act of selling.
  • n. An easy task.
  • n. (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax.
  • n. (obsolete) A seat or stool.
  • n. (archaic) A saddle.
  • n. (regional, obsolete) A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).

trade

  • n. (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
  • n. (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
  • n. (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
  • n. (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
  • n. (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
  • n. (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
  • n. (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector; as opposed to an agricultural, professional…
  • n. (uncountable, Britain) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
  • n. (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
  • n. (uncountable, LGBT, slang) A brief sexual encounter.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
  • n. (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
  • n. (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
  • n. (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
  • v. (intransitive) To engage in trade.
  • v. (intransitive) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
  • v. (transitive) To give (something) in exchange for.
  • v. (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
  • v. (intransitive or transitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
  • v. (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).

vend

  • v. to hawk or to peddle merchandise.
  • v. to sell wares through a vending machine.
  • n. The act of vending or selling; a sale.
  • n. (Britain, Australia, dated) The total sales of coal from a colliery.

warmonger

  • n. (pejorative) a bellicist, someone who advocates war; a militarist.
  • v. (pejorative, intransitive) To advocate war.

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