Synonyms of the word

season

• n. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter.
• n. A part of a year when something particular happens.
• n. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
• n. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
• n. (Canada, US, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals…
• n. (obsolete) An extended, undefined period of time.
• v. (transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
• v. (transitive) To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure.
• v. (transitive) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
• v. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
• v. (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with…
• v. (obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.

flavor

• n. American standard spelling of flavour.
• v. American standard spelling of flavour.

flavour

• n. The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
• n. A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring.
• n. A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
• n. The characteristic quality of something.
• n. (informal) A kind or type.
• n. (physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types…
• n. (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
• v. (transitive) To add flavouring to something.

harden

• v. (intransitive) To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).
• v. (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
• v. (transitive, dated) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
• v. (phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis.

mollify

• v. To ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort.
• v. To appease (anger), pacify, gain the good will of.
• v. To soften; to make tender.

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

temper

• n. A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.
• n. State of mind.
• n. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture…
• n. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler,…
• n. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone…
• n. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
• n. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating…
• n. Middle state or course; mean; medium.
• n. (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used…
• v. To moderate or control.
• v. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
• v. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
• v. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
• v. (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.
• v. (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
• v. (archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element;…
• v. (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

toughen

• v. (transitive) To make tough.
• v. (intransitive) To become tough.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.