Synonyms of the word

rock

• n. Some formations of minerals.
• n. A large hill or island having no vegetation.
• n. (figuratively) Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support…
• n. A lump or cube of ice.
• n. (Britain, uncountable) A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally…
• n. (US, slang) A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
• n. Some people.
• n. Some fish.
• n. (basketball, slang) A basketball.
• n. (rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to…
• v. (transitive and intransitive) To move gently back and forth.
• v. (transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently.
• v. (intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
• v. (transitive and intransitive, of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
• v. (transitive) To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
• v. (intransitive) To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
• v. (euphemistic) to make love to or have sex with someone.
• n. An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
• n. A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar,…
• v. (intransitive) To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
• v. (transitive) to thrill or excite, especially with rock music.
• v. (transitive) to do something with excitement yet skillfully.
• v. (transitive) To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular…
• n. (countable) distaff.
• n. (uncountable) The flax or wool on a distaff.
• n. Archaic form of roc (mythical bird).

candy

• n. (uncountable, chiefly Canada, US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial…
• n. (countable, chiefly Canada, US) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
• v. (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
• v. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
• v. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
• n. (obsolete) a unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds…

careen

• v. (nautical) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles…
• v. (nautical) To tilt on one side.
• v. To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
• v. To tilt or lean while in motion.
• v. To career, to move rapidly straight ahead.

confect

• v. To make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients…
• v. (obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
• n. (obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection,…

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

gynaecologist

• n. (British spelling, Canadian, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive…

gynecologist

• n. (American) A physician specializing in diseases of the female reproductive system.

lurch

• n. A sudden or unsteady movement.
• v. To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
• v. (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
• n. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
• n. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has been left in the lurch.
• v. (obsolete) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
• v. (obsolete) To steal; to rob.

material

• adj. Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
• adj. Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
• adj. (law, accounting) Significant.
• n. Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
• n. Text written for a specific purpose.
• n. A sample or specimens for study.
• n. Cloth to be made into a garment.
• n. A person who is qualified for a certain position or activity.
• n. Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
• n. The substance that something is made or composed of.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

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.

pitching

• v. present participle of pitch.
• n. The act of throwing or casting.
• n. The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
• n. (engineering) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.

rock-and-roll

• n. Alternative spelling of rock and roll.

shake

• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
• v. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
• v. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
• v. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
• v. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To move from side to side.
• v. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
• v. (intransitive) To dance.
• v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
• n. The act of shaking something.
• n. A milkshake.
• n. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
• n. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
• n. (building material) A thin shingle.
• n. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
• n. A fissure in rock or earth.
• n. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
• n. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.).
• n. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
• n. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff…
• n. A shook of staves and headings.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

stone

• n. (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
• n. A small piece of stone, a pebble.
• n. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
• n. (Britain, plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals,…
• n. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp…
• n. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
• n. (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon,…
• n. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
• n. (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the…
• n. A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
• n. (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
• n. (obsolete) A testicle.
• n. (dated, printing) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange…
• v. (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
• v. (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
• v. (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive).
• v. (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when…
• adj. Constructed of stone.
• adj. Having the appearance of stone.
• adj. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
• adj. (African American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
• adj. (LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
• adv. As a stone (used with following adjective).
• adv. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).

stuff

• n. Miscellaneous items; things; (with possessive) personal effects.
• n. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
• n. A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
• n. Abstract substance or character.
• n. (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
• n. (slang, informal) Substitution for trivial details.
• n. (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
• n. (obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
• n. (obsolete) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
• n. (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship…
• n. Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
• v. (transitive) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
• v. (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
• v. (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
• v. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
• v. (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing…
• v. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
• v. (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense…
• v. (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
• v. (transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or…
• v. (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
• v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, idiomatic) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
• interj. (slang) A filler term used to dismiss explanation.

sway

• n. The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
• n. A rocking or swinging motion.
• n. Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side.
• n. Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
• n. Rule; dominion; control.
• n. A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
• n. The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.
• v. To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
• v. To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.
• v. To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide…
• v. To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp.
• v. (nautical) To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.
• v. To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
• v. To have weight or influence.
• v. To bear sway; to rule; to govern.

tilt

• v. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
• v. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
• v. (intransitive) To be at an angle.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
• v. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
• v. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
• v. (poker) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck).
• v. (photography) To move a camera vertically in a controlled way.
• n. A slope or inclination. (uncountable).
• n. A jousting contest. (countable).
• n. A thrust, as with a lance.
• n. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
• n. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
• n. A tilt hammer.
• n. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
• n. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
• n. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
• v. (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.