Synonyms of the word

rat

• n. (zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
• n. (informal) A term indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles…
• n. (informal) A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
• n. (informal) An informant or snitch.
• n. (slang) A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
• n. Scab.
• n. (north-west London, slang) Vagina.
• n. A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
• v. (usually with “on” or “out”) To betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn…
• v. (of a dog, etc.) To kill rats.
• n. (regional) A scratch or a score.
• n. (nautical, regional) A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn…
• v. (regional) To scratch or score.
• v. (regional, rare, obsolete) To tear, rip, rend.

betray

• v. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously…
• v. To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
• v. To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make…
• v. To disclose or discover, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
• v. To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
• v. To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
• v. To show or to indicate something not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.

betrayer

• n. Someone who betrays, or reveals confidential information; a squealer or informer.
• n. A double-crosser.

blabber

• v. To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.
• v. To blab; to let out a secret.
• v. (Britain, obsolete) To stick out one's tongue.
• n. A person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale.

blackleg

• n. (uncountable) Fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacteria Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic…
• n. (countable) A person who takes the place of striking workers. A scab.
• n. (countable) A person who cheats in a game, a cheater.
• n. (colloquial) A notorious gambler.
• adj. Relating to a scab worker.

bum

• n. The buttocks.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.
• n. (by metonymy, informal) A person.
• v. (Britain, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
• interj. (Britain) An expression of annoyance.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A homeless person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory) a hobo.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
• n. (colloquial) A drinking spree.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, pejorative) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
• v. (transitive, slang, Britain) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
• adj. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
• adj. Unfair.
• adj. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
• adj. Unpleasant.
• v. To depress; to make unhappy.
• n. (dated) A humming noise.
• v. (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
• n. (obsolete) A bumbailiff.

capture

• n. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
• n. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
• n. Something that has been captured; a captive.
• n. The recording or storage of something for later playback.
• n. (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
• v. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
• v. To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
• v. To reproduce convincingly.
• v. To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

catch

• n. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
• n. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
• n. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
• n. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
• n. (countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
• n. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
• n. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
• n. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
• n. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
• n. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
• n. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
• n. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
• n. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
• n. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
• n. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually…
• n. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
• n. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting…
• n. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
• n. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
• n. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
• n. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
• n. A slight remembrance; a trace.
• v. (heading) To capture, overtake.
• v. (heading) To seize hold of.
• v. (heading) To intercept.
• v. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
• v. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
• v. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
• v. (heading) To obtain or experience.

crumb

• n. A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
• n. (figuratively) A bit, small amount.
• n. The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
• n. A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
• n. (slang) A nobody, worthless person.
• n. (slang) A body louse.
• v. To cover with crumbs.
• v. To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to crumble.

defect

• n. A fault or malfunction.
• n. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
• n. (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
• v. (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military…
• v. (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
• v. (military) To join the enemy army.
• v. (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.

denounce

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
• v. (transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension,…
• v. (transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression;…
• v. (transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.

desert

• n. (usually in the plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward.
• n. A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.
• n. (figuratively) Any barren place or situation.
• adj. Abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited; usually of a place.
• v. To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary…
• v. To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission.

employ

• n. The state of being an employee; employment.
• v. To hire (somebody for work or a job).
• v. To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
• v. To make busy.

engage

• v. (heading, transitive) To interact socially.
• v. (heading) To interact antagonistically.
• v. (heading) To interact contractually.
• v. (heading) To interact mechanically.
• v. (intransitive) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).

fink

• n. (chiefly US, slang) A contemptible person; an informer; a strikebreaker.
• v. (chiefly US, slang) To betray a trust; to inform on.

git

• n. (Britain, slang, pejorative) A contemptible person.
• n. (Britain, slang, pejorative) A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, or childish person (usually a man).
• v. (Appalachia, Southern US, African American Vernacular) To get.
• v. (Appalachia, Southern US, African American Vernacular) To leave.
• n. Alternative form of geat (channel in metal casting).

gnawer

• n. A rodent or other similar type of animal that gnaws.

grass

• n. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes…
• n. (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
• n. (uncountable) A lawn.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
• n. (countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
• n. (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced…
• n. (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
• n. The season of fresh grass; spring.
• n. (obsolete, figuratively) That which is transitory.
• v. (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
• v. (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals…
• v. (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
• v. (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
• v. (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

hire

• n. Payment for the temporary use of something.
• n. (obsolete) Reward, payment.
• n. The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
• n. A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
• v. (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
• v. (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone…
• v. (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
• v. (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
• v. (intransitive) To accept employment.

inform

• v. (archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
• v. (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.
• v. (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.
• v. To act as an informer; denounce.
• v. (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To direct, guide.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
• adj. Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

informant

• n. One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
• n. (linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant…

informer

• n. One who informs someone else about something.
• n. A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
• n. One who informs, animates, or inspires.

lowlife

• n. (derogatory) An untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person, especially one suspected of being a…

pad

• n. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
• n. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
• n. A soft, or small, cushion.
• n. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
• n. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
• n. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
• n. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
• n. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
• n. A sanitary napkin.
• n. (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
• n. (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
• n. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing…
• n. A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
• n. A keypad.
• n. A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
• n. An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord".
• n. The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
• n. A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
• n. (US, slang) A bed.
• n. (colloquial) A place of residence.
• n. (Britain, slang) A prison cell.
• n. (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
• n. A mousepad.
• n. (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
• n. (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
• v. (transitive) To stuff.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
• v. (transitive) To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A toad.
• n. (Britain, dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road…
• n. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
• n. The act of highway robbery.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
• v. (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To travel on foot.
• v. (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
• v. (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.
• interj. Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
• n. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

puke

• n. (colloquial, uncountable) vomit.
• n. (colloquial, countable) A drug that induces vomiting.
• n. (colloquial, countable) A worthless, despicable person.
• v. (colloquial, transitive, intransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
• v. (intransitive, finance, slang) To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure,…
• adj. A fine grade of woolen cloth.
• adj. A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.

rodent

• n. A mammal of the order Rodentia, characterized by long incisors that grow continuously and are worn down…
• n. (dated, bulletin board system slang, leetspeak, pejorative) A person lacking in maturity, social skills,…
• adj. Gnawing; biting; corroding; applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.

rotter

• n. A worthless, despicable person.
• n. (Britain, slang) A scoundrel.

scab

• n. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
• n. (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
• n. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
• n. Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused…
• n. Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
• n. (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants,…
• n. (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking…
• n. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
• n. (offensive, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
• v. (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
• v. (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
• v. (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
• v. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.

shit

• n. (countable, uncountable, colloquial, vulgar) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
• n. (countable, colloquial, vulgar, in the plural, definite) (the shits) diarrhea.
• n. (countable, colloquial, vulgar) An instance of defecation.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Stuff, things.
• n. (uncountable, colloquial, vulgar, definite) (the shit) The best of its kind.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Nonsense; bullshit.
• n. (countable, vulgar, colloquial) A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) (in negations) Anything.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) A problem or difficult situation.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) A strong rebuke.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) any recreational drug, usually cannabis.
• adj. (vulgar, colloquial) Of poor quality; worthless.
• adj. (vulgar, colloquial) Nasty; despicable.
• adv. (vulgar, colloquial, sometimes by extension) Resembling the color of feces.
• v. (intransitive, vulgar, colloquial) To defecate.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To excrete (something) through the anus.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial, Australia) To annoy.
• interj. (vulgar) Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered…
• interj. (vulgar) To show displeasure or surprise.

shop

• n. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but…
• n. A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
• n. A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
• n. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
• n. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
• n. An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
• n. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
• n. (figuratively, uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
• v. (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention…
• v. (transitive) To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).
• v. (transitive, slang, chiefly Britain) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an…
• v. (transitive, Internet slang) Shorthand for photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
• interj. (dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant.

skunk

• n. Any of various small mammals, of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a…
• n. (slang) A despicable person.
• n. (slang) A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score. Compare…
• n. (cribbage) A win by 30 or more points.
• v. To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points.
• v. (cribbage) To win by 30 or more points.
• v. (intransitive, of beer) to go bad, to spoil.
• n. A member of a hybrid skinhead and punk subculture.
• n. (slang) Clipping of skunkweed (marijuana).
• n. Any of the strains of hybrids of Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica that may have THC levels exceeding…

snitch

• v. (transitive) To steal, quickly and quietly.
• v. (transitive) To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.
• v. (slang, transitive) To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.
• n. A thief.
• n. An informer, usually one who betrays his group.
• n. (Britain) A nose.
• n. A tiny morsel.

so-and-so

• n. A placeholder name for a person or thing, used when a name is not known; a generic name.
• n. Some thing or things.
• n. (euphemistic, derogatory) Used for epithets such as SOB, bastard, etc.

source

• n. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
• n. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which…
• n. A reporter's informant.
• n. (computing) Source code.
• n. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
• v. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
• v. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation…

squealer

• n. An animal that, or a person who squeals; especially a pig.
• n. (slang) an informant.
• n. The European swift.
• n. The harlequin duck.
• n. The American golden plover.

stag

• n. An adult male deer.
• n. A colt, or filly.
• n. (by extension, obsolete) A romping girl.
• n. An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
• n. An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
• n. One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium,…
• n. The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
• n. (usually attributive) An unmarried male, a bachelor; a male not accompanying a female at a social event.
• n. A social event for males held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends…
• n. A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
• v. (intransitive, Britain) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
• v. (transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
• adv. Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.

stinker

• n. A person who stinks.
• n. (slang) A contemptible person.
• n. (slang) Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).
• n. (slang) Something of poor quality.
• n. Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive…
• n. (slang) A chemist.

stinkpot

• n. An annoying, bad or undesirable person.
• n. The common musk turtle, a species of turtle from southeastern Canada, Sternotherus odoratus.
• n. The southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus.
• n. (slang) A motorboat (usually used by sailors).

strikebreaker

• n. A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

worker

• n. A person who performs labor for a living, especially manual labor.
• n. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite or wasp.
• n. (computing) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.