Words that rhyme with demit

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: allow to enter; grant entry to; "We cannot admit non-members into our club building"; "This pipe admits air" [syn: admit, allow in, let in, intromit] [ant: refuse, reject, turn away, turn down] 3: allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar" [syn: admit, let in, include] [ant: exclude, keep out, shut, shut out] 4: admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member" [syn: accept, admit, take, take on] 5: afford possibility; "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations" [syn: admit, allow] 6: give access or entrance to; "The French doors admit onto the yard" 7: have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people" [syn: accommodate, hold, admit] 8: serve as a means of entrance; "This ticket will admit one adult to the show"

n 1: (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit

v 1: perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery" [syn: perpetrate, commit, pull] 2: give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church" [syn: give, dedicate, consecrate, commit, devote] 3: cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" [syn: commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge] 4: confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God" [syn: entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commit] 5: make an investment; "Put money into bonds" [syn: invest, put, commit, place] [ant: disinvest, divest] 6: engage in or perform; "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness" [syn: commit, practice]

v 1: expel (gases or odors) [syn: emit, breathe, pass off] 2: give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.; "The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits" [syn: emit, give out, give off] [ant: absorb, take in] 3: express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand" [syn: utter, emit, let out, let loose]

adj 1: meeting adequate standards for a purpose; "a fit subject for discussion"; "it is fit and proper that you be there"; "water fit to drink"; "fit for duty"; "do as you see fit to" [ant: unfit] 2: (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed; "in no fit state to continue"; "fit to drop"; "laughing fit to burst"; "she was fit to scream"; "primed for a fight"; "we are set to go at any time" [syn: fit(p), primed(p), set(p)] 3: physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise" [ant: unfit] n 1: a display of bad temper; "he had a fit"; "she threw a tantrum"; "he made a scene" [syn: fit, tantrum, scene, conniption] 2: a sudden uncontrollable attack; "a paroxysm of giggling"; "a fit of coughing"; "convulsions of laughter" [syn: paroxysm, fit, convulsion] 3: the manner in which something fits; "I admired the fit of her coat" 4: a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason); "a burst of applause"; "a fit of housecleaning" [syn: burst, fit] v 1: be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn: suit, accommodate, fit] 2: be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired; "This piece won't fit into the puzzle" [syn: fit, go] 3: satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" [syn: meet, fit, conform to] 4: make fit; "fit a dress"; "He fitted other pieces of paper to his cut-out" 5: insert or adjust several objects or people; "Can you fit the toy into the box?"; "This man can't fit himself into our work environment" 6: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree, discord] 7: conform to some shape or size; "How does this shirt fit?" 8: provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose; "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities" [syn: equip, fit, fit out, outfit] 9: make correspond or harmonize; "Match my sweater" [syn: match, fit]

n 1: a sudden quick movement [syn: flit, dart] 2: a secret move (to avoid paying debts); "they did a moonlight flit" v 1: move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; "The hummingbird flitted among the branches" [syn: flit, flutter, fleet, dart]

n 1: a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone [syn: grit, gritrock, gritstone] 2: fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it" [syn: backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumption] v 1: cover with a grit; "grit roads" 2: clench together; "grit one's teeth"

n 1: one retired from society for religious reasons [syn: anchorite, hermit] 2: one who lives in solitude [syn: hermit, recluse, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte]

n 1: (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit" 2: the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" [syn: hit, hitting, striking] 3: a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang" [syn: hit, smash, smasher, strike, bang] 4: (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together; "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction" [syn: collision, hit] 5: a dose of a narcotic drug 6: a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit" 7: a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide" v 1: cause to move by striking; "hit a ball" 2: hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow" [syn: hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with] [ant: miss] 3: deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face" 4: reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" [syn: reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain] 5: affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight" [syn: hit, strike] 6: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit, pip] 7: encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" [syn: stumble, hit] 8: gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" [syn: score, hit, tally, rack up] 9: cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me"; "The thought struck terror in our minds"; "They were struck with fear" [syn: hit, strike, come to] 10: make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target; "The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939"; "We must strike the enemy's oil fields"; "in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2" [syn: strike, hit] 11: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove] 12: drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling" [syn: hit, strike] 13: reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour" [syn: reach, hit, attain] 14: produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically; "The pianist strikes a middle C"; "strike `z' on the keyboard"; "her comments struck a sour note" [syn: strike, hit] 15: consume to excess; "hit the bottle" 16: hit the intended target or goal 17: pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"

n 1: the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information [syn: information technology, IT]

n 1: a case for containing a set of articles 2: gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose [syn: kit, outfit] 3: young of any of various fur-bearing animals; "a fox kit" v 1: supply with a set of articles or tools [syn: kit out, kit up, kit]

n 1: the greatest possible degree of something; "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability" [syn: limit, bound, boundary] 2: final or latest limiting point [syn: terminus ad quem, terminal point, limit] 3: as far as something can go 4: the boundary of a specific area [syn: limit, demarcation, demarcation line] 5: the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity [syn: limit, limit point, point of accumulation] 6: the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed; "there are limits on the amount you can bet"; "it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight" [syn: limit, limitation] v 1: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle] 2: restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day" [syn: limit, circumscribe, confine] 3: decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters" [syn: specify, set, determine, define, fix, limit]

adj 1: provided with artificial light; "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell" [syn: illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted] 2: set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted cigarette"; "a lit firecracker" [syn: lighted, lit] [ant: unlighted, unlit] n 1: the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit" [syn: literature, lit]

n 1: the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb; "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt" [syn: hand, manus, mitt, paw] 2: the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball [syn: baseball glove, glove, baseball mitt, mitt]

n 1: a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source 2: egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing

v 1: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out] [ant: include] 2: leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn: neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to, take to heart]

n 1: a legal document giving official permission to do something [syn: license, licence, permit] 2: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization [syn: license, permission, permit] 3: large game fish; found in waters of the West Indies [syn: permit, Trachinotus falcatus] v 1: consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" [syn: permit, allow, let, countenance] [ant: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto] 2: make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off" [syn: let, allow, permit] [ant: keep, prevent] 3: allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital" [syn: allow, permit, tolerate]

n 1: a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body" [syn: pit, cavity] 2: a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) [syn: pit, fossa] 3: the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking" [syn: stone, pit, endocarp] 4: (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"; "Hell is paved with good intentions"-Dr. Johnson [syn: Hell, perdition, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, pit] [ant: Heaven] 5: an enclosure in which animals are made to fight 6: (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on 7: (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled 8: a trap in the form of a concealed hole [syn: pit, pitfall] 9: a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" [syn: pit, quarry, stone pit] 10: lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers [syn: orchestra pit, pit] 11: a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it [syn: colliery, pit] v 1: set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other" [syn: pit, oppose, match, play off] 2: mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently" [syn: scar, mark, pock, pit] 3: remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" [syn: pit, stone]

n 1: the metal bob of a plumb line [syn: plumb bob, plumb, plummet] v 1: drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted" [syn: plummet, plump]

v 1: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" [syn: discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off] [ant: bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, uphold] 2: give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal" [syn: leave office, quit, step down, resign] [ant: take office] 3: go away or leave [syn: depart, take leave, quit] [ant: stay] 4: turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever" [syn: foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish] 5: give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up" [syn: drop out, give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, quit, chuck up the sponge] [ant: enter, participate]

n 1: outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts) v 1: fit out again

n 1: the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with; "they set up a group with a remit to suggest ways for strengthening family life" 2: (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) [syn: remission, remitment, remit] v 1: send (money) in payment; "remit $25" 2: hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" [syn: postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off] 3: release from (claims, debts, or taxes); "The taxes were remitted" 4: refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision [syn: remit, remand, send back] 5: forgive; "God will remit their sins" 6: make slack as by lessening tension or firmness [syn: slacken, remit] 7: diminish or abate; "The pain finally remitted"

v 1: be seated [syn: sit, sit down] [ant: lie, stand, stand up] 2: be around, often idly or without specific purpose; "The object sat in the corner"; "We sat around chatting for another hour" [syn: sit, sit around] 3: take a seat [syn: sit down, sit] [ant: arise, get up, rise, stand up, uprise] 4: be in session; "When does the court of law sit?" 5: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" [syn: model, pose, sit, posture] 6: sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions; "She never sat a horse!"; "Did you ever ride a camel?"; "The girl liked to drive the young mare" [syn: ride, sit] 7: be located or situated somewhere; "The White House sits on Pennsylvania Avenue" 8: work or act as a baby-sitter; "I cannot baby-sit tonight; I have too much homework to do" [syn: baby-sit, sit] 9: show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith" [syn: seat, sit, sit down] 10: serve in a specific professional capacity; "the priest sat for confession"; "she sat on the jury"

n 1: a short theatrical episode

n 1: a long narrow opening 2: obscene terms for female genitals [syn: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, snatch, twat] 3: a depression scratched or carved into a surface [syn: incision, scratch, prick, slit, dent] 4: a narrow fissure v 1: make a clean cut through; "slit her throat" [syn: slit, slice] 2: cut a slit into; "slit the throat of the victim"

n 1: a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea [syn: spit, tongue] 2: a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches [syn: saliva, spit, spittle] 3: a skewer for holding meat over a fire 4: the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) [syn: spit, spitting, expectoration] v 1: expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer" [syn: spit, ptyalize, ptyalise, spew, spue] 2: utter with anger or contempt [syn: spit, spit out] 3: rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick" [syn: sprinkle, spit, spatter, patter, pitter- patter] 4: drive a skewer through; "skewer the meat for the BBQ" [syn: skewer, spit]

adj 1: having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group" [syn: disconnected, disunited, fragmented, split] 2: (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain; "we bought split logs for the fireplace" n 1: extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back) 2: a bottle containing half the usual amount 3: a promised or claimed share of loot or money; "he demanded his split before they disbanded" 4: a lengthwise crack in wood; "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log" 5: an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn: rip, rent, snag, split, tear] 6: an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea 7: a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts 8: (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl; "he was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame" 9: an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity; "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock" [syn: split, stock split, split up] 10: the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" [syn: rent, rip, split] 11: division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy" [syn: schism, split] v 1: separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" [syn: divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up] [ant: unify, unite] 2: separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone" [syn: cleave, split, rive] 3: discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" [syn: separate, part, split up, split, break, break up] 4: go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" [syn: separate, part, split] 5: come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure; "The bubble burst" [syn: burst, split, break open]

v 1: refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court" [syn: submit, subject] 2: put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" [syn: submit, state, put forward, posit] 3: yield to the control of another 4: hand over formally [syn: present, submit] 5: refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues" [syn: relegate, pass on, submit] 6: yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure" [syn: submit, bow, defer, accede, give in] 7: accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut" [syn: take, submit] 8: make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a grant to the NSF" [syn: put in, submit] 9: make over as a return; "They had to render the estate" [syn: render, submit] 10: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn: resign, reconcile, submit]

n 1: the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession" [syn: acme, height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, meridian, tiptop, top] 2: the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill); "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few molecules wide at the summit" [syn: peak, crown, crest, top, tip, summit] 3: a meeting of heads of governments [syn: summit, summit meeting] v 1: reach the summit (of a mountain); "They breasted the mountain"; "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit" [syn: summit, breast]

v 1: transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: convey, transmit, communicate] 2: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel] 3: broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: air, send, broadcast, beam, transmit] 4: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise]

adj 1: below the required standards for a purpose; "an unfit parent"; "unfit for human consumption" [ant: fit] 2: not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service" [ant: fit] 3: physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth" [syn: bad, unfit, unsound] v 1: make unfit or unsuitable; "Your income disqualifies you" [syn: disqualify, unfit, indispose] [ant: dispose, qualify]

n 1: the matter ejected in vomiting [syn: vomit, vomitus, puke, barf] 2: a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting [syn: emetic, vomit, vomitive, nauseant] 3: the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth [syn: vomit, vomiting, emesis, regurgitation, disgorgement, puking] v 1: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]

n 1: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge]

n 1: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter [syn: wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness] 2: mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense" [syn: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit] 3: a witty amusing person who makes jokes [syn: wag, wit, card]

n 1: (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer [syn: writ, judicial writ]

n 1: a native or inhabitant of Great Britain [syn: Britisher, Briton, Brit] 2: the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish [syn: brit, britt] 3: minute crustaceans forming food for right whales [syn: brit, britt]

v 1: admit anew; "The refugee was readmitted into his home country" 2: admit again or anew; "After paying a penalty, the player was readmitted"