Words that rhyme with brieant

adj 1: not being in a specified place [ant: present] 2: nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking" [syn: lacking, absent, missing, wanting] 3: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" [syn: absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty] v 1: go away or leave; "He absented himself" [syn: absent, remove]

n 1: distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern" [syn: accent, speech pattern] 2: special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents" [syn: emphasis, accent] 3: the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy" [syn: dialect, idiom, accent] 4: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable" [syn: stress, emphasis, accent] 5: a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation [syn: accent, accent mark] 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]

n 1: arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); "the advent of the computer" [syn: advent, coming] 2: the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas 3: (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment [syn: Second Coming, Second Coming of Christ, Second Advent, Advent, Parousia]

n 1: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade] [ant: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall] 2: a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" [syn: rise, rising, ascent, ascension] [ant: fall] 3: the act of changing location in an upward direction [syn: rise, ascent, ascension, ascending]

n 1: agreement with a statement or proposal to do something; "he gave his assent eagerly"; "a murmur of acquiescence from the assembly" [syn: assent, acquiescence] v 1: to agree or express agreement; "The Maestro assented to the request for an encore" [syn: assent, accede, acquiesce] [ant: dissent]

v 1: enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East" 2: grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented"

adj 1: fixed in your purpose; "bent on going to the theater"; "dead set against intervening"; "out to win every event" [syn: bent, bent on(p), dead set(p), out to(p)] 2: used of the back and knees; stooped; "on bended knee"; "with bent (or bended) back" [syn: bended, bent] 3: of metal e.g.; "bent nails"; "a car with a crumpled front end"; "dented fenders" [syn: bent, crumpled, dented] n 1: a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way; "the set of his mind was obvious" [syn: bent, set] 2: grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens [syn: bent, bent grass, bent-grass] 3: an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges 4: a special way of doing something; "he had a bent for it"; "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he couldn't get the hang of it" [syn: bent, knack, hang]

n 1: concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement; "they stood on the grey cement beside the pool" 2: a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar 3: something that hardens to act as adhesive material 4: any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth 5: a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth [syn: cementum, cement] v 1: make fast as if with cement; "We cemented our friendship" 2: cover or coat with cement 3: bind or join with or as if with cement

n 1: a fractional monetary unit of several countries 2: a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit [syn: penny, cent, centime]

v 1: surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna" [syn: besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent] 2: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" [syn: outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent] 3: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep]

n 1: a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information; "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account" [syn: remark, comment, input] 2: a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal" [syn: comment, commentary] 3: a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip" [syn: gossip, comment, scuttlebutt] v 1: make or write a comment on; "he commented the paper of his colleague" [syn: comment, notice, remark, point out] 2: explain or interpret something 3: provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written" [syn: gloss, comment, annotate]

n 1: permission to do something; "he indicated his consent" v 1: give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution" [syn: accept, consent, go for] [ant: decline, refuse]

adj 1: satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are; "a contented smile" [syn: contented, content] [ant: discontent, discontented] n 1: everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something; "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content" 2: what a communication that is about something is about [syn: message, content, subject matter, substance] 3: the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc. 4: the amount that can be contained; "the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons" [syn: capacity, content] 5: the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned [syn: content, cognitive content, mental object] 6: the state of being contented with your situation in life; "he relaxed in sleepy contentedness"; "they could read to their heart's content" [syn: contentedness, content] 7: something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation; "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject" [syn: subject, content, depicted object] v 1: satisfy in a limited way; "He contented himself with one glass of beer per day" 2: make content; "I am contented" [ant: discontent]

n 1: an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening); "it made a dent in my bank account" 2: a depression scratched or carved into a surface [syn: incision, scratch, prick, slit, dent] 3: an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) [syn: dent, ding, gouge, nick] v 1: make a depression into; "The bicycle dented my car" [syn: indent, dent]

n 1: a movement downward 2: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" [syn: origin, descent, extraction] 3: the act of changing your location in a downward direction 4: the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors [syn: descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation] 5: a downward slope or bend [syn: descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope] [ant: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade] 6: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock]

adj 1: showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing; "saw many discontent faces in the room"; "was discontented with his position" [syn: discontented, discontent] [ant: content, contented] n 1: a longing for something better than the present situation [syn: discontentment, discontent, discontentedness] [ant: contentment] v 1: make dissatisfied [ant: content]

v 1: cause to be lost or disoriented [syn: disorient, disorientate] [ant: orient, orientate]

n 1: a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent; "alcohol (or drink) ruined him" [syn: alcohol, alcoholic drink, alcoholic beverage, intoxicant, inebriant]

v 1: give in, as to influence or pressure [syn: yield, relent, soften] [ant: remain firm, stand]

v 1: turn away from sin or do penitence [syn: repent, atone] 2: feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about [syn: repent, regret, rue]

v 1: take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to; "Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in Greek stands for an 's' in Latin" [syn: represent, stand for, correspond] 2: express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol; "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?" [syn: typify, symbolize, symbolise, stand for, represent] 3: be representative or typical for; "This period is represented by Beethoven" 4: be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute; "I represent the silent majority" 5: serve as a means of expressing something; "The flower represents a young girl" 6: be characteristic of; "This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue" [syn: exemplify, represent] 7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be] 8: be the defense counsel for someone in a trial; "Ms. Smith will represent the defendant" [syn: defend, represent] [ant: prosecute] 9: create an image or likeness of; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl" [syn: represent, interpret] 10: play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master" [syn: act, play, represent] 11: perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'" [syn: stage, present, represent] 12: describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality; "He represented this book as an example of the Russian 19th century novel" 13: point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance; "our parents represented to us the need for more caution" 14: bring forward and present to the mind; "We presented the arguments to him"; "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason" [syn: present, represent, lay out] 15: to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) [syn: map, represent]

v 1: feel bitter or indignant about; "She resents being paid less than her co-workers" 2: wish ill or allow unwillingly [syn: begrudge, resent] [ant: wish, wish well]

n 1: a distinctive odor that is pleasant [syn: aroma, fragrance, perfume, scent] 2: an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced 3: any property detected by the olfactory system [syn: olfactory property, smell, aroma, odor, odour, scent] v 1: cause to smell or be smelly [syn: odorize, odourise, scent] [ant: deodorise, deodorize, deodourise] 2: catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs" [syn: scent, nose, wind] 3: apply perfume to; "She perfumes herself every day" [syn: perfume, scent]

n 1: one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road" [syn: section, segment] 2: one of the parts into which something naturally divides; "a segment of an orange" v 1: divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word" [syn: segment, section] 2: divide or split up; "The cells segmented"

adj 1: caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted [ant: unsent] n 1: 100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia

adj 1: depleted of energy, force, or strength; "impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil"; "the exhausted food sources"; "exhausted oil wells" [syn: exhausted, spent] [ant: unexhausted] 2: drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out" [syn: exhausted, dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn- out(a), worn out(p)]

n 1: textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end [syn: addendum, supplement, postscript] 2: a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency) [syn: supplement, supplementation] 3: a supplementary component that improves capability [syn: accessory, appurtenance, supplement, add-on] v 1: add as a supplement to what seems insufficient; "supplement your diet" 2: serve as a supplement to; "Vitamins supplemented his meager diet" 3: add to the very end; "He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language" [syn: append, add on, supplement, affix]

n 1: unbearable physical pain [syn: torture, torment] 2: extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torment, torture] 3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn: agony, torment, torture] 4: a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors" [syn: harassment, torment] 5: a severe affliction [syn: curse, torment] 6: the act of harassing someone [syn: badgering, worrying, torment, bedevilment] v 1: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, torture, excruciate, rack] 2: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate] 3: subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" [syn: torture, excruciate, torment]