Word Meanings - PIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To peen.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PIN)
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PIN)
- Drop
- betray
- surrender
- abandon
- discontinue
- oppose
- discourage
- weaken
- exhaust
- thwart
- discountenance
- disfavor
- subvert
- suppress
Related words: (words related to PIN)
- BUTTONHOLE
The hole or loop in which a button is caught. - STRUTTING
from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - SHORER
One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore. - SHOREWARD
Toward the shore. - NOTHINGNESS
1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value. - STRAW-CUTTER
An instrument to cut straw for fodder. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - BUTTONY
Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." Thackeray. "My coat so blue and buttony." W. S. Gilbert. - SUPPORTFUL
Abounding with support. Chapman. - EXHAUSTION
An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications - STRUT
1. To swell; to bulge out. The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden. 2. To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity. Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait Shak. - SUPPORTLESS
Having no support. Milton. - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - DISCOURAGEMENT
1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; - CIPHER
1. To write in occult characters. His notes he ciphered with Greek characters. Hayward. 2. To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer. 3. To decipher. Shak. 4. To designate by characters. Shak. - BETRAYAL
The act or the result of betraying. - EXHAUSTIVE
Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv. - EXHAUSTURE
Exhaustion. Wraxall. - JACKSTRAW
1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together - MONOTHALAMAN
A foraminifer having but one chamber. - MONOTHALMIC
Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown. - TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - SEASHORE
All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean. - AGONOTHETE
An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece. - OVERTHWARTLY
In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham. - DISCONTINUE
To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school - KNOW-NOTHING
A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The