Word Meanings - DUCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A pet; a darling. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DUCK)
- Immerse
- Dip
- plunge
- sink
- soak
- steep
- macerate
- duck
- submerge
- drown
- inundate
- douse
- overwhelm
- Plunge
- dive
- immerse
- precipitate
- thrust under
- pitch headlong
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DUCK)
Related words: (words related to DUCK)
- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - PRECIPITATELY
In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - UNDERNIME
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman. - UNDERPROP
To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton. - ARIDITY
1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - VENTILATE
brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a - PITCHINESS
Blackness, as of pitch; darkness. - UNDERDELVE
To delve under. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - DUNDERHEAD
A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl. - TEN-POUNDER
A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.