Words that rhyme with cumberledge

v 1: declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten" [syn: admit, acknowledge] [ant: deny] 2: report the receipt of; "The program committee acknowledged the submission of the authors of the paper" [syn: acknowledge, receipt] 3: express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with; "He never acknowledges his colleagues when they run into him in the hallway"; "She acknowledged his complement with a smile"; "it is important to acknowledge the work of others in one's own writing" [syn: notice, acknowledge] 4: express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for; "We must acknowledge the kindness she showed towards us" [syn: acknowledge, recognize, recognise] 5: accept as legally binding and valid; "acknowledge the deed" 6: accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods" [syn: acknowledge, recognize, recognise, know]

v 1: report or maintain; "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money" [syn: allege, aver, say]

n 1: tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults [syn: cartilage, gristle]

n 1: the body of faculty and students of a college 2: an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university 3: a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed

n 1: a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed v 1: cover before cooking; "dredge the chicken in flour before frying it" 2: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost [syn: dredge, drag] 3: remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

n 1: the boundary of a surface [syn: edge, border] 2: a line determining the limits of an area [syn: boundary, edge, bound] 3: a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object; "he rounded the edges of the box" 4: the attribute of urgency in tone of voice; "his voice had an edge to it" [syn: edge, sharpness] 5: a slight competitive advantage; "he had an edge on the competition" 6: the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something; "the edge of the leaf is wavy"; "she sat on the edge of the bed"; "the water's edge" v 1: advance slowly, as if by inches; "He edged towards the car" [syn: edge, inch] 2: provide with a border or edge; "edge the tablecloth with embroidery" [syn: border, edge] 3: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on] 4: provide with an edge; "edge a blade"

n 1: fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo [syn: silage, ensilage]

v 1: feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight 2: decorate with feathers; "fledge an arrow" [syn: fledge, flight] 3: grow feathers; "The young sparrows are fledging already" [syn: fledge, feather]

n 1: knowledge of an event before it occurs [syn: precognition, foreknowledge]

n 1: the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo)

n 1: the act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the hill went very slowly" [syn: draw, haul, haulage]

n 1: a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes [syn: hedge, hedgerow] 2: any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change [syn: hedge, hedging] 3: an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; "when you say `maybe' you are just hedging" [syn: hedge, hedging] v 1: 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] 2: hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge; "The animals were hedged in" 3: enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; "hedge the property" [syn: hedge, hedge in] 4: minimize loss or risk; "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"

n 1: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning [syn: cognition, knowledge, noesis]

n 1: a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water [syn: ledge, shelf]

n 1: distance measured in miles [syn: mileage, milage] 2: the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned [syn: mileage, fuel consumption rate, gasoline mileage, gas mileage] 3: a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled

n 1: a gelatinous substance secreted by plants 2: cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive [syn: glue, gum, mucilage]

n 1: growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal [syn: coat, pelage]

n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] 2: the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors" [syn: plundering, pillage, pillaging] v 1: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]

n 1: a deposit of personal property as security for a debt; "his saxophone was in pledge" 2: someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group 3: a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event [syn: pledge, toast] 4: a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something; "an assurance of help when needed"; "signed a pledge never to reveal the secret" [syn: assurance, pledge] v 1: promise solemnly and formally; "I pledge that I will honor my wife" [syn: pledge, plight] 2: pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals; "I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station" [syn: pledge, subscribe] 3: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail] 4: give as a guarantee; "I pledge my honor" 5: bind or secure by a pledge; "I was pledged to silence"

n 1: a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all 2: a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males" [syn: prerogative, privilege, perquisite, exclusive right] 3: (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship v 1: bestow a privilege upon [syn: privilege, favor, favour]

n 1: blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath" [syn: profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege]

n 1: grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers

n 1: fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo [syn: silage, ensilage]

n 1: a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow [syn: sled, sledge, sleigh] 2: a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges [syn: maul, sledge, sledgehammer] v 1: transport in a sleigh 2: ride in or travel with a sledge; "the antarctic expedition sledged along the coastline"; "The children sledged all day by the lake" 3: beat with a sledgehammer [syn: sledgehammer, sledge]

n 1: the amount that has spilled 2: the act of allowing a fluid to escape [syn: spill, spillage, release]

n 1: the amount that has spoiled 2: the process of becoming spoiled [syn: spoilage, spoiling] 3: the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate" [syn: spoil, spoiling, spoilage]

n 1: hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness)

n 1: arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops [syn: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth] 2: the cultivation of soil for raising crops

n 1: teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) [syn: tutelage, tuition, tutorship] 2: attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard" [syn: care, charge, tutelage, guardianship]

n 1: the state of a serf [syn: serfdom, serfhood, vassalage]

n 1: a community of people smaller than a town [syn: village, small town, settlement] 2: a settlement smaller than a town [syn: village, hamlet] 3: a mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century [syn: Greenwich Village, Village]

n 1: any shape that is triangular in cross section [syn: wedge, wedge shape, cuneus] 2: a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States [syn: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep] 3: a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation [syn: hacek, wedge] 4: a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe [syn: wedge heel, wedge] 5: (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole 6: something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them 7: a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object [syn: chock, wedge] v 1: put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack" [syn: lodge, wedge, stick, deposit] [ant: dislodge, free] 2: squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner" [syn: wedge, squeeze, force]

n 1: edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant [syn: vegetable, veggie, veg]

n 1: United States jurist and second chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; he was appointed by George Washington and briefly served as chief justice but was ultimately rejected by the United States Senate (1739-1800) [syn: Rutledge, John Rutledge]