Words that rhyme with benedikt

n 1: someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie" [syn: addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky] 2: someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms v 1: to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) [syn: addict, hook]

v 1: cause great unhappiness for; distress; "she was afflicted by the death of her parents" 2: cause physical pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague" [syn: afflict, smite]

n 1: an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"-- Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs" [syn: conflict, struggle, battle] 2: opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; "he was immobilized by conflict and indecision" 3: a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement" [syn: battle, conflict, fight, engagement] 4: a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; "his conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post"; "a conflict of loyalties" 5: an incompatibility of dates or events; "he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings" 6: opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); "this form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing" 7: a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats" [syn: dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict] v 1: be in conflict; "The two proposals conflict!" 2: go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afoul of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules" [syn: conflict, run afoul, infringe, contravene]

v 1: squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" [syn: compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press] 2: become tight or as if tight; "Her throat constricted" [syn: constrict, constringe, narrow]

n 1: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn: convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird] 2: a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense v 1: find or declare guilty; "The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced" [ant: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate, exonerate]

n 1: United States anthropologist (1887-1948) [syn: Benedict, Ruth Benedict, Ruth Fulton] 2: Italian monk who founded the Benedictine order about 540 (480-547) [syn: Benedict, Saint Benedict, St. Benedict] 3: a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) [syn: benedick, benedict]