Words that rhyme with ait

v 1: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" [syn: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce] [ant: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate] 2: shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"

v 1: give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee" [syn: abdicate, renounce]

v 1: deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure; "She denied herself wine and spirits" [syn: deny, abnegate] 2: surrender (power or a position); "The King abnegated his power to the ministers" 3: deny or renounce; "They abnegated their gods"

v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats" [syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]

v 1: revoke formally

v 1: move faster; "The car accelerated" [syn: accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken] [ant: decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up] 2: cause to move faster; "He accelerated the car" [syn: accelerate, speed, speed up] [ant: decelerate, slow down]

v 1: to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet" [syn: stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate] 2: put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word" [syn: stress, accent, accentuate]

v 1: get used to a certain climate; "They never acclimatized in Egypt" [syn: acclimatize, acclimatise, acclimate]

v 1: be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn: suit, accommodate, fit] 2: make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" [syn: adapt, accommodate] 3: provide with something desired or needed; "Can you accommodate me with a rental car?" 4: have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people" [syn: accommodate, hold, admit] 5: provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester" [syn: lodge, accommodate] 6: provide a service or favor for someone; "We had to oblige him" [syn: oblige, accommodate] [ant: disoblige] 7: make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" [syn: accommodate, reconcile, conciliate]

v 1: assimilate culturally

v 1: get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" [syn: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard] 2: collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass]

v 1: cause to be bitter or resentful; "These injustices embittered her even more" [syn: embitter, envenom, acerbate] 2: make sour or bitter

n 1: a salt or ester of acetic acid [syn: acetate, ethanoate] 2: a fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate [syn: acetate rayon, acetate]

v 1: make sour or more sour [syn: sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify] [ant: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten]

v 1: put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits" [syn: trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off] 2: make active or more active; "activate an old file" [ant: deactivate, inactivate] 3: make more adsorptive; "activate a metal" 4: aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter [syn: activate, aerate] 5: make (substances) radioactive

v 1: put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits" [syn: trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off] 2: give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" [syn: motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite]

adj 1: (of a leaf shape) narrowing to a slender point v 1: make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point

adj 1: having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "she had adequate training"; "her training was adequate"; "she was adequate to the job"; "he was equal to the task" [syn: adequate, equal] [ant: inadequate, unequal] 2: sufficient for the purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough" [syn: adequate, decent, enough] 3: about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary" [syn: adequate, passable, fair to middling, tolerable]

v 1: put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials" [syn: judge, adjudicate, try] 2: bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance" [syn: decide, settle, resolve, adjudicate]

v 1: work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of; "administer a program"; "she administers the funds" [syn: administer, administrate]

v 1: flatter in an obsequious manner

adj 1: mixed with impurities [syn: adulterate, adulterated, debased] v 1: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase]

v 1: describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas" [syn: sketch, outline, adumbrate] 2: give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife" [syn: intimate, adumbrate, insinuate]

n 1: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea [syn: advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent] 2: a lawyer who pleads cases in court [syn: advocate, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader] v 1: push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" [syn: recommend, urge, advocate] 2: speak, plead, or argue in favor of; "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house" [syn: preach, advocate]

v 1: expose to fresh air; "aerate your old sneakers" [syn: air out, air, aerate] 2: aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter [syn: activate, aerate] 3: impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen; "oxygenate blood" [syn: oxygenate, oxygenize, oxygenise, aerate]

v 1: sleep during summer; "certain animals estivate" [syn: estivate, aestivate] [ant: hibernate, hole up]

n 1: a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization 2: a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization; "network affiliates" v 1: keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" [syn: consort, associate, affiliate, assort] 2: join in an affiliation; "The two colleges affiliated"; "They affiliated with a national group"

adj 1: clustered together but not coherent; "an agglomerated flower head" [syn: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative, clustered] n 1: volcanic rock consisting of large fragments fused together 2: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus] v 1: form into one cluster

adj 1: united as if by glue [syn: agglutinate, agglutinative] v 1: string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) 2: clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.

v 1: make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain" [syn: worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate] [ant: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate] 2: exasperate or irritate [syn: exacerbate, exasperate, aggravate]

adj 1: formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" [syn: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass] 2: composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets; "raspberries are aggregate fruits" n 1: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate] 2: material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster 3: a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn: aggregate, congeries, conglomeration] v 1: amount in the aggregate to 2: gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: aggregate, combine]

v 1: try to stir up public opinion [syn: agitate, foment, stir up] 2: cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" [syn: agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up] [ant: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize] 3: exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate" [syn: crusade, fight, press, campaign, push, agitate] 4: move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: stir, shift, budge, agitate] 5: move or cause to move back and forth; "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking" [syn: shake, agitate] 6: change the arrangement or position of [syn: agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up]

adj 1: related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt" [syn: agnate, agnatic, paternal] n 1: one related on the father's side [syn: agnate, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrisib, patrilineal sib]

v 1: transport (cargo) by air [syn: air-ship, airfreight, air-freight]

v 1: arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious" [syn: estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect] 2: transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs" [syn: alien, alienate] 3: make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated; "the boring work alienated his employees"

v 1: provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" [syn: relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage] 2: make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge" [syn: facilitate, ease, alleviate]

v 1: use alliteration as a form of poetry

v 1: distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of bread to everyone on a daily basis"; "I'm allocating the rations for the camping trip" [syn: allocate, apportion]

v 1: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]

adj 1: every second one of a series; "the cleaning lady comes on alternate Wednesdays"; "jam every other day"- the White Queen 2: serving or used in place of another; "an alternative plan" [syn: alternate, alternative, substitute] 3: occurring by turns; first one and then the other; "alternating feelings of love and hate" [syn: alternate(a), alternating(a)] 4: of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired; "stems with alternate leaves" [ant: opposite, paired] n 1: someone who takes the place of another person [syn: surrogate, alternate, replacement] v 1: go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions [syn: alternate, jump] 2: exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions 3: be an understudy or alternate for a role [syn: understudy, alternate] 4: reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) [syn: interchange, tack, switch, alternate, flip, flip- flop] 5: do something in turns; "We take turns on the night shift" [syn: alternate, take turns]

adj 1: joined together into a whole; "United Industries"; "the amalgamated colleges constituted a university"; "a consolidated school" [syn: amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused] v 1: to bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance" [syn: mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate]

v 1: walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking

v 1: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" [syn: better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen] 2: get better; "The weather improved toward evening" [syn: better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: decline, worsen]

v 1: treat with ammonia

v 1: remove surgically; "amputate limbs" [syn: amputate, cut off]

adj 1: belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate" [ant: inanimate] 2: endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings" [ant: inanimate, non-living, nonliving] 3: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: sentient, animate] [ant: insensate, insentient] v 1: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt] 2: give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons" [syn: animize, animise, animate] 3: make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn: enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate] [ant: blunt, deaden] 4: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]

v 1: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off]

v 1: add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments; "The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel" [syn: annotate, footnote] 2: provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written" [syn: gloss, comment, annotate]

v 1: foreshadow or presage [syn: announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald]

v 1: be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools" [syn: predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate] [ant: follow, postdate] 2: establish something as being earlier relative to something else [syn: predate, antedate, foredate] [ant: postdate]

v 1: regard something as probable or likely; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow" [syn: expect, anticipate] 2: act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn: anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter] 3: realize beforehand [syn: anticipate, previse, foreknow, foresee] 4: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" [syn: predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise] 5: be excited or anxious about [syn: anticipate, look for, look to] 6: be a forerunner of or occur earlier than; "This composition anticipates Impressionism"

v 1: make obsolete or old-fashioned 2: give an antique appearance to; "antique furniture" [syn: antique, antiquate]

n 1: a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa

adj 1: not faithful to religion or party or cause n 1: a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. [syn: deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter]

adj 1: of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals); "appellate court" [syn: appellate, appellant]

v 1: recognize with gratitude; be grateful for 2: be fully aware of; realize fully; "Do you appreciate the full meaning of this letter?" [syn: appreciate, take account] 3: hold dear; "I prize these old photographs" [syn: prize, value, treasure, appreciate] 4: gain in value; "The yen appreciated again!" [syn: appreciate, apprize, apprise, revalue] [ant: depreciate, devaluate, devalue, undervalue] 5: increase the value of; "The Germans want to appreciate the Deutsche Mark" [syn: appreciate, apprize, apprise] [ant: depreciate]

v 1: approve or sanction officially 2: accept (documents) as valid [ant: reprobate]

adj 1: suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc; "a book not appropriate for children"; "a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity"; "it seems that an apology is appropriate" [ant: inappropriate] v 1: give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day" [syn: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve] 2: take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"; "The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle" [syn: appropriate, capture, seize, conquer]

adj 1: not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate" [syn: approximate, approximative, rough] 2: very close in resemblance; "sketched in an approximate likeness"; "a near likeness" [syn: approximate, near] 3: located close together; "with heads close together"; "approximate leaves grow together but are not united" [syn: approximate, close together(p)] v 1: be close or similar; "Her results approximate my own" [syn: approximate, come close] 2: judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds" [syn: estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge]

v 1: act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement" [syn: intercede, mediate, intermediate, liaise, arbitrate]

v 1: demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to; "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident" [syn: claim, lay claim, arrogate] [ant: forego, forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive] 2: make undue claims to having [syn: arrogate, assign] 3: seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died" [syn: assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogate]

n 1: a salt or ester of arsenic acid

adj 1: expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings" [ant: inarticulate, unarticulate] 2: consisting of segments held together by joints [syn: articulated, articulate] [ant: unarticulated] v 1: provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood" [syn: joint, articulate] 2: put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" [syn: give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate] 3: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say] 4: unite by forming a joint or joints; "the ankle bone articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle bones" 5: express or state clearly [syn: articulate, enunciate, vocalize, vocalise]

v 1: deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor" [syn: smother, asphyxiate, suffocate] 2: impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" [syn: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke] 3: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow" [syn: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate]

n 1: a consonant pronounced with aspiration v 1: remove as if by suction; "aspirate the wound" [syn: aspirate, draw out, suck out] 2: pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds 3: suck in (air)

v 1: murder; especially of socially prominent persons; "Anwar Sadat was assassinated because many people did not like his peace politics with Israel" 2: destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation; "He assassinated his enemy's character"

v 1: state categorically [syn: assert, asseverate, maintain]

v 1: insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) 2: change into a sibilant; "In the syllable /si/, the /s/ sibilates in Japanese"

v 1: take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe" [syn: absorb, assimilate, ingest, take in] 2: become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" [ant: dissimilate] 3: make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly" [ant: dissimilate] 4: take (gas, light or heat) into a solution [syn: assimilate, imbibe] 5: become similar in sound; "The nasal assimilates to the following consonant" [ant: dissimilate]

adj 1: having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status; "an associate member"; "an associate professor" n 1: a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor; "he had to consult his associate before continuing" 2: a friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" [syn: companion, comrade, fellow, familiar, associate] 3: a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise; "associates in the law firm bill at a lower rate than do partners" 4: any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another; "first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate" 5: a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies [syn: associate degree, associate] v 1: make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" [syn: associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect] [ant: decouple, dissociate] 2: keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" [syn: consort, associate, affiliate, assort] 3: bring or come into association or action; "The churches consociated to fight their dissolution" [syn: consociate, associate]

n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

adj 1: reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording" [syn: attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakened] v 1: weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) [syn: rarefy, attenuate] 2: become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude

v 1: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict] 2: commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck; "They auspicated the trip with a bottle of champagne"

v 1: establish the authenticity of something

v 1: make automatic or control or operate automatically; "automatize the production"; "automate the movement of the robot" [syn: automatize, automatise, automate]

v 1: look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted" [syn: expect, look, await, wait]

v 1: make effective from an earlier date; "The increase in tax was backdated to January"

n 1: anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come- on, hook, lure, sweetener] 2: something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed [syn: bait, decoy, lure] v 1: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride] 2: lure, entice, or entrap with bait 3: attack with dogs or set dogs upon

n 1: a person whose head is bald [syn: baldhead, baldpate, baldy] 2: a widgeon the male of which has a white crown [syn: American widgeon, baldpate, Anas americana]

n 1: weighs 115-126 pounds 2: an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds

adj 1: having hair on the cheeks and chin [syn: bearded, barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery]

n 1: organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal

v 1: moderate or restrain; lessen the force of; "He bated his breath when talking about this affair"; "capable of bating his enthusiasm" 2: flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons 3: soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins"

v 1: process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction

n 1: any salt or ester of benzoic acid

v 1: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]

n 1: a cap with no brim or bill; made of soft cloth

adj 1: having two flagella; "a biflagellate zoospore"

adj 1: resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots" [syn: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy] v 1: split or divide into two 2: divide into two branches; "The road bifurcated"

adj 1: growing in two parts or in pairs; "binate leaves"

n 1: an algebraic equation of the fourth degree [syn: biquadrate, biquadratic, quartic, fourth power]

n 1: standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories 2: thick plate iron used in the production of boilers

n 1: a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted [syn: bookplate, ex libris]

n 1: a salt or ester of boric acid

n 1: armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass [syn: breastplate, aegis, egis]

v 1: form into breccia; "brecciated rock" 2: break into breccia; "brecciate rock"

n 1: someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself

v 1: laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way

v 1: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure] 2: judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast] 3: keep an account of [syn: account, calculate] 4: predict in advance [syn: forecast, calculate] 5: specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public [syn: calculate, aim, direct] 6: have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn: count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon]

v 1: make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder" [syn: calibrate, graduate, fine-tune] 2: mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units; "he calibrated the thermometer for the Celsius scale" 3: measure the caliber of; "calibrate a gun"