Words that rhyme with compleat

n 1: a person trained to compete in sports [syn: athlete, jock]

adj 1: having every necessary or normal part or component or step; "a complete meal"; "a complete wardrobe"; "a complete set of the Britannica"; "a complete set of china"; "a complete defeat"; "a complete accounting" [ant: incomplete, uncomplete] 2: perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities; "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness"; "a consummate performance" [syn: complete, consummate] 3: highly skilled; "an accomplished pianist"; "a complete musician" [syn: accomplished, complete] 4: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated] 5: having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview" [syn: complete, concluded, ended, over(p), all over, terminated] v 1: come or bring to a finish or an end; "He finished the dishes"; "She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours" [syn: complete, finish] 2: bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements; "A child would complete the family" 3: complete or carry out; "discharge one's duties" [syn: dispatch, discharge, complete] 4: complete a pass [syn: complete, nail] 5: write all the required information onto a form; "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form" [syn: complete, fill out, fill in, make out]

n 1: an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support [syn: corps, army corps] 2: a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps"

v 1: remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list" [syn: delete, cancel] 2: wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?" [syn: erase, delete] [ant: record, tape] 3: cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: edit, blue-pencil, delete]

v 1: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]

adj 1: selected as the best; "an elect circle of artists"; "elite colleges" [syn: elect, elite] n 1: a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status [syn: elite, elite group]

n 1: a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes

v 1: express greetings upon meeting someone [syn: greet, recognize, recognise] 2: send greetings to 3: react to in a certain way; "The President was greeted with catcalls" 4: be perceived by; "Loud music greeted him when he entered the apartment"

n 1: a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature [syn: heat, heat energy] 2: the presence of heat [syn: hotness, heat, high temperature] [ant: cold, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature] 3: the sensation caused by heat energy [syn: heat, warmth] 4: the trait of being intensely emotional [syn: heat, warmth, passion] 5: applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity [syn: estrus, oestrus, heat, rut] [ant: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrum, anoestrus] 6: a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race 7: utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn't working"; "they have radiant heating" [syn: heating system, heating plant, heating, heat] v 1: make hot or hotter; "the sun heats the oceans"; "heat the water on the stove" [syn: heat, heat up] [ant: chill, cool, cool down] 2: provide with heat; "heat the house" 3: arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" [syn: inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up] 4: gain heat or get hot; "The room heated up quickly" [syn: heat, hot up, heat up] [ant: chill, cool, cool down]

adj 1: not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass" [syn: incomplete, uncomplete] [ant: complete] 2: not yet finished; "his thesis is still incomplete"; "an uncompleted play" [syn: incomplete, uncompleted]

n 1: the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food 2: the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone; "black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell" [syn: kernel, meat] 3: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty- gritty]

adj 1: being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first" [syn: fitting, meet] n 1: a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held [syn: meet, sports meeting] v 1: come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" [syn: meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see] 2: get together socially or for a specific purpose [syn: meet, get together] 3: be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point" [syn: converge, meet] [ant: diverge] 4: fill or meet a want or need [syn: meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil] 5: satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" [syn: meet, fit, conform to] 6: satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match my dreams" [syn: meet, match, cope with] 7: collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" [syn: meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather] 8: get to know; get acquainted with; "I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore" 9: meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet me at the train station?" 10: contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary" [syn: meet, encounter, play, take on] 11: experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition" [syn: meet, encounter, receive] 12: undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate" [syn: suffer, meet] 13: be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point" [syn: touch, adjoin, meet, contact]

v 1: treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead" [syn: mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat]

adj 1: no longer in use; "obsolete words" [syn: disused, obsolete]

adj 1: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck] n 1: a garment size for short or slender women

n 1: any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape [syn: pleat, plait] v 1: pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric" [syn: ruffle, pleat] 2: fold into pleats, "Pleat the cloth" [syn: pleat, plicate]

n 1: the act of receiving [syn: reception, receipt] 2: an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made v 1: report the receipt of; "The program committee acknowledged the submission of the authors of the paper" [syn: acknowledge, receipt] 2: mark or stamp as paid

n 1: an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's" [syn: repeat, repetition] v 1: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell] 2: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate] 3: happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story" [syn: recur, repeat] 4: to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders" [syn: repeat, echo] 5: do over; "They would like to take it over again" [syn: repeat, take over] 6: repeat an earlier theme of a composition [syn: reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate]

adj 1: filled to satisfaction with food or drink; "a full stomach" [syn: full, replete(p)] 2: (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated; "imbued with the spirit of the Reformation"; "words instinct with love"; "it is replete with misery" [syn: instinct(p), replete(p)] v 1: fill to satisfaction; "I am sated" [syn: satiate, sate, replete, fill]

n 1: (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat; "the disorderly retreat of French troops" 2: a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet 3: (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position 4: (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset 5: an area where you can be alone [syn: hideaway, retreat] 6: withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation; "the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity" [syn: retirement, retreat] 7: the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant) [ant: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression] v 1: pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back] [ant: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress] 2: move away, as for privacy; "The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer" 3: move back; "The glacier retrogrades" [syn: retrograde, retreat] 4: make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" [syn: retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw]

n 1: a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane); "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place" [syn: seat, place] 2: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] 3: furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not enough seats for all the guests" 4: any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit); "he dusted off the seat before sitting down" 5: a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised) 6: the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based; "the brain is said to be the seat of reason" 7: the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body; "he was elected to a seat in the Senate" 8: a part of a machine that supports or guides another part 9: the cloth covering for the buttocks; "the seat of his pants was worn through" v 1: show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith" [syn: seat, sit, sit down] 2: be able to seat; "The theater seats 2,000" 3: place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy" [syn: induct, invest, seat] 4: put a seat on a chair 5: provide with seats; "seat a concert hall" 6: place or attach firmly in or on a base; "seat the camera on the tripod" 7: place in or on a seat; "the mother seated the toddler on the high chair"

v 1: generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream" [syn: secrete, release] 2: place out of sight; keep secret; "The money was secreted from his children"

n 1: any broad thin expanse or surface; "a sheet of ice" 2: paper used for writing or printing [syn: sheet, piece of paper, sheet of paper] 3: bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs [syn: sheet, bed sheet] 4: (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane" [syn: plane, sheet] 5: newspaper with half-size pages [syn: tabloid, rag, sheet] 6: a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width [syn: sheet, flat solid] 7: (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind [syn: sheet, tack, mainsheet, weather sheet, shroud] 8: a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel [syn: sail, canvas, canvass, sheet] v 1: come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon" 2: cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping; "sheet the body"

n 1: the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird [syn: skeet, skeet shooting, trapshooting]

n 1: partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow) v 1: precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow; "If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet"

n 1: a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings; "they walked the streets of the small town"; "he lives on Nassau Street" 2: the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel; "be careful crossing the street" 3: the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction; "she tried to keep her children off the street" 4: a situation offering opportunities; "he worked both sides of the street"; "cooperation is a two-way street" 5: people living or working on the same street; "the whole street protested the absence of street lights"

n 1: a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected 2: apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel) [syn: suite, rooms] 3: the group following and attending to some important person [syn: cortege, retinue, suite, entourage] 4: a matching set of furniture

adv 1: in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'); "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each other" [syn: sweetly, sweet] adj 1: having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar [ant: sour] 2: having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition" [syn: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet] 3: pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet] 4: pleasing to the senses; "the sweet song of the lark"; "the sweet face of a child" 5: pleasing to the mind or feeling; "sweet revenge" [syn: gratifying, sweet] 6: having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous spices"; "the odorous air of the orchard"; "the perfumed air of June"; "scented flowers" [syn: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling] 7: (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content; "sweet dessert wines" [ant: dry] 8: not containing or composed of salt water; "fresh water" [syn: fresh, sweet] [ant: salty] 9: not soured or preserved; "sweet milk" [syn: fresh, sweet, unfermented] 10: with sweetening added [syn: sugared, sweetened, sweet, sweet-flavored] n 1: English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912) [syn: Sweet, Henry Sweet] 2: a dish served as the last course of a meal [syn: dessert, sweet, afters] 3: a food rich in sugar [syn: sweet, confection] 4: the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth [syn: sweet, sweetness, sugariness] 5: the property of tasting as if it contains sugar [syn: sweetness, sweet]

n 1: the small projection of a mammary gland [syn: nipple, mammilla, mamilla, pap, teat, tit]

n 1: something considered choice to eat [syn: dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat] 2: an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight v 1: interact in a certain way; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently" [syn: treat, handle, do by] 2: subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill" [syn: process, treat] 3: provide treatment for; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics" [syn: treat, care for] 4: act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China" [syn: cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, address] 5: provide with a gift or entertainment; "Grandmother always treated us to the circus"; "I like to treat myself to a day at a spa when I am depressed" 6: provide with choice or abundant food or drink; "Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated her houseguests with good food every night" [syn: regale, treat] 7: engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement; "they had to treat with the King" 8: regard or consider in a specific way; "I treated his advances as a joke"

n 1: a weak chirping sound as of a small bird v 1: make a weak, chirping sound; "the small bird was tweeting in the tree" [syn: tweet, twirp] 2: squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle" [syn: pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch]

v 1: remove from political office; "The Republicans are trying to unseat the liberal Democrat" 2: dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse

adj 1: not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass" [syn: incomplete, uncomplete] [ant: complete]

n 1: the third person in the Trinity; Jesus promised the Apostles that he would send the Holy Spirit after his Crucifixion and Resurrection; it came on Pentecost [syn: Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Paraclete]