Words that rhyme with deblum

adj 1: of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny] n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git] 2: a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" [syn: tramp, hobo, bum] 3: person who does no work; "a lazy bum" [syn: idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum] 4: 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] v 1: ask for and get free; be a parasite [syn: mooch, bum, cadge, grub, sponge] 2: be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" [syn: bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about]

n 1: a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities [syn: buddy, brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekick] 2: bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish 3: a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish [syn: chum salmon, chum, Oncorhynchus keta]

n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come] v 1: move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room" [syn: come, come up] [ant: depart, go, go away] 2: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" [syn: arrive, get, come] [ant: go away, go forth, leave] 3: come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June" 4: reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position; "The water came to a boil"; "We came to understand the true meaning of life"; "Their anger came to a boil"; "I came to realize the true meaning of life"; "The shoes came untied"; "come into contact with a terrorist group"; "his face went red"; "your wish will come true" 5: to be the product or result; "Melons come from a vine"; "Understanding comes from experience" [syn: come, follow] 6: be found or available; "These shoes come in three colors; The furniture comes unassembled" 7: come forth; "A scream came from the woman's mouth"; "His breath came hard" [syn: issue forth, come] 8: be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo" [syn: hail, come] 9: extend or reach; "The water came up to my waist"; "The sleeves come to your knuckles" 10: exist or occur in a certain point in a series; "Next came the student from France" 11: cover a certain distance; "She came a long way" 12: come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading" [syn: fall, come] 13: happen as a result; "Nothing good will come of this" 14: add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: total, number, add up, come, amount] 15: develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans" [syn: come, add up, amount] 16: be received; "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda" [syn: come, come in] 17: come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her" [syn: occur, come] 18: come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins" [syn: derive, come, descend] 19: proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a long way" [syn: do, fare, make out, come, get along] 20: experience orgasm; "she could not come because she was too upset" 21: have a certain priority; "My family comes first"

n 1: a very small quantity of something; "he gave only a crumb of information about his plans"; "there were few crumbs of comfort in the report" 2: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git] 3: small piece of e.g. bread or cake v 1: coat with bread crumbs; "crumb a cutlet" 2: break into crumbs 3: remove crumbs from; "crumb the table"

n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come]

n 1: an unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world" [syn: doom, doomsday, day of reckoning, end of the world] v 1: decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [syn: destine, fate, doom, designate] 2: pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison" [syn: sentence, condemn, doom] 3: make certain of the failure or destruction of; "This decision will doom me to lose my position"

n 1: a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end [syn: drum, membranophone, tympan] 2: the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes" 3: a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends [syn: barrel, drum] 4: a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids [syn: drum, metal drum] 5: a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes [syn: brake drum, drum] 6: small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise [syn: drum, drumfish] v 1: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: drum, beat, thrum] 2: play a percussion instrument 3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone]

adj 1: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow] 2: temporarily incapable of speaking; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock" [syn: speechless, dumb] 3: lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals" 4: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb, mute, silent]

v 1: place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" [syn: bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest]

v 1: dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies [syn: disinter, exhume]

n 1: a narrow gorge with a stream running through it [syn: gulch, flume] 2: watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs

n 1: a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas [syn: smoke, fume] v 1: be mad, angry, or furious 2: emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming" [syn: fume, smoke] 3: treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests [syn: fumigate, fume] 4: be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face [syn: reek, fume]

n 1: a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispel the gloom" [syn: gloom, somberness, sombreness] 2: a feeling of melancholy apprehension [syn: gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness] 3: an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office" [syn: gloom, gloominess, glumness]

adj 1: moody and melancholic 2: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]

n 1: a man participant in his own marriage ceremony [syn: groom, bridegroom] 2: someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses [syn: stableman, stableboy, groom, hostler, ostler] 3: a man who has recently been married [syn: groom, bridegroom] v 1: educate for a future role or function; "He is grooming his son to become his successor"; "The prince was prepared to become King one day"; "They trained him to be a warrior" [syn: prepare, groom, train] 2: give a neat appearance to; "groom the dogs"; "dress the horses" [syn: dress, groom, curry] 3: care for one's external appearance; "He is always well- groomed" [syn: groom, neaten]

n 1: a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing [syn: chewing gum, gum] 2: the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth [syn: gingiva, gum] 3: any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying 4: cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive [syn: glue, gum, mucilage] 5: wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum [syn: gumwood, gum] 6: any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum [syn: gum tree, gum] v 1: cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum; "if you gum the tape it is stronger" 2: grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food" [syn: mumble, gum] 3: become sticky 4: exude or form gum; "these trees gum in the Spring"

n 1: the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity; "they manifested all the busyness of a pack of beavers"; "there is a constant hum of military preparation" [syn: busyness, hum] 2: an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan [syn: Harkat-ul-Mujahidin, HUM, Harkat ul-Ansar, HUA, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, Al Faran, Movement of Holy Warriors] 3: a humming noise; "the hum of distant traffic" [syn: hum, humming] v 1: sing with closed lips; "She hummed a melody" 2: be noisy with activity; "This office is buzzing with activity" [syn: hum, buzz, seethe] 3: sound with a monotonous hum [syn: hum, thrum] 4: make a low continuous sound; "The refrigerator is humming"

n 1: a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile v 1: come into view indistinctly, often threateningly; "Another air plane loomed into the sky" 2: appear very large or occupy a commanding position; "The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"; "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall" [syn: loom, tower, predominate, hulk] 3: hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" [syn: brood, hover, loom, bulk large] 4: weave on a loom; "materials loomed in Egypt"

adj 1: failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent" [syn: mum, silent] n 1: of China [syn: florist's chrysanthemum, florists' chrysanthemum, mum, Dendranthema grandifloruom, Chrysanthemum morifolium] 2: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy] 3: secrecy; "mum's the word"

adj 1: lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold" [syn: asleep(p), benumbed, numb] 2: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)] 3: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified; "too numb with fear to move" v 1: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull]

n 1: a distinctive odor that is pleasant [syn: aroma, fragrance, perfume, scent] 2: a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor [syn: perfume, essence] v 1: fill or impregnate with an odor; "orange blossoms perfumed the air in the garden" [syn: perfume, aromatize, aromatise] 2: apply perfume to; "She perfumes herself every day" [syn: perfume, scent]

adv 1: exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" [syn: plumb, plum] 2: completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn: clean, plumb, plum] n 1: any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone [syn: plum, plum tree] 2: any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit 3: a highly desirable position or assignment; "a political plum"

adv 1: completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn: clean, plumb, plum] 2: conforming to the direction of a plumb line 3: exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" [syn: plumb, plum] adj 1: exactly vertical; "the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb" n 1: the metal bob of a plumb line [syn: plumb bob, plumb, plummet] v 1: measure the depth of something 2: weight with lead 3: examine thoroughly and in great depth 4: adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical

n 1: anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness; "a plume of smoke"; "grass with large plumes" 2: a feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament 3: the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds [syn: feather, plume, plumage] v 1: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook] [ant: undercharge] 2: be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school" [syn: pride, plume, congratulate] 3: deck with a plume; "a plumed helmet" 4: clean with one's bill; "The birds preened" [syn: preen, plume] 5: form a plume; "The chimneys were pluming the sky"; "The engine was pluming black smoke" 6: dress or groom with elaborate care; "She likes to dress when going to the opera" [syn: preen, primp, plume, dress]

v 1: take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; "I assume his train was late" [syn: assume, presume, take for granted] 2: take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission; "How dare you call my lawyer?" [syn: make bold, dare, presume] 3: constitute reasonable evidence for; "A restaurant bill presumes the consumption of food" 4: take liberties or act with too much confidence

n 1: short descriptive summary (of events) [syn: sketch, survey, resume] 2: a summary of your academic and work history [syn: curriculum vitae, CV, resume] v 1: take up or begin anew; "We resumed the negotiations" [syn: resume, restart, re-start] 2: return to a previous location or condition; "The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it" [syn: resume, take up] 3: assume anew; "resume a title"; "resume an office"; "resume one's duties" 4: give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize" [syn: sum up, summarize, summarise, resume]

n 1: a watery discharge from the mucous membranes (especially from the eyes or nose) 2: rhubarb [syn: Rheum, genus Rheum]

n 1: a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction [syn: rhumb line, rhumb, loxodrome]

n 1: an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view" 2: space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" [syn: room, way, elbow room] 3: opportunity for; "room for improvement" 4: the people who are present in a room; "the whole room was cheering" v 1: live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old boarding house" [syn: board, room]

adj 1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular] n 1: liquor distilled from fermented molasses 2: a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards [syn: rummy, rum]

n 1: (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession [syn: scrum, scrummage]

n 1: worthless people [syn: trash, scum] 2: a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid v 1: remove the scum from

n 1: a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions [syn: slum, slum area] v 1: spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive; "attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century"

adv 1: (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party" [syn: approximately, about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or so] adj 1: quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity; "have some milk"; "some roses were still blooming"; "having some friends over"; "some apples"; "some paper" [ant: all(a), no(a)] 2: relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent; "we talked for some time"; "he was still some distance away" 3: relatively many but unspecified in number; "they were here for some weeks"; "we did not meet again for some years" 4: remarkable; "that was some party"; "she is some skier"

n 1: foam or froth on the sea v 1: make froth or foam and become bubbly; "The river foamed" [syn: froth, spume, suds]

n 1: sound of strumming; "the strum of a guitar" v 1: sound the strings of (a string instrument); "strum a guitar" [syn: strum, thrum]

v 1: consent reluctantly [syn: yield, give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under] 2: be fatally overwhelmed [syn: succumb, yield] [ant: come through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive]

n 1: a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient" [syn: sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money] 2: a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers [syn: sum, amount, total] 3: the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" [syn: sum, summation, sum total] 4: 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] 5: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate] 6: a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B" [syn: union, sum, join] v 1: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" [syn: summarize, summarise, sum, sum up] 2: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up]

n 1: a thrumming sound; "he could hear the thrum of a banjo" v 1: sound with a monotonous hum [syn: hum, thrum] 2: sound the strings of (a string instrument); "strum a guitar" [syn: strum, thrum] 3: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: drum, beat, thrum]

n 1: the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb [syn: thumb, pollex] 2: the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb 3: a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse [syn: ovolo, thumb, quarter round] v 1: travel by getting free rides from motorists [syn: hitchhike, hitch, thumb] 2: look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume" [syn: flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff] 3: feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the book" [syn: finger, thumb]

n 1: a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave" [syn: grave, tomb]

n 1: a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus [syn: uterus, womb]

n 1: a rapid rise [syn: rapid climb, rapid growth, zoom] 2: the act of rising upward into the air [syn: soar, zoom] v 1: move along very quickly [syn: zoom, zoom along, whizz, whizz along] 2: move with a low humming noise 3: rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yen" [syn: soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom]

n 1: small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae

n 1: Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776) [syn: Hume, David Hume]

n 1: the capital of Sudan located at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile [syn: Khartoum, capital of Sudan]