Words that rhyme with dowd

adv 1: using the voice; not silently; "please read the passage aloud"; "he laughed out loud" [syn: aloud, out loud] 2: with relatively high volume; "the band played loudly"; "she spoke loudly and angrily"; "he spoke loud enough for those at the back of the room to hear him"; "cried aloud for help" [syn: loudly, loud, aloud] [ant: quietly, softly]

adj 1: openly declared as such; "an avowed enemy"; "her professed love of everything about that country"; "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist" [syn: avowed(a), professed(a)]

adj 1: of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow [ant: plucked] 2: forming or resembling an arch; "an arched ceiling" [syn: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed] 3: have legs that curve outward at the knees [syn: bandy, bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged] 4: showing an excessively deferential manner [syn: bowed, bowing]

n 1: any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible 2: a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude 3: out of touch with reality; "his head was in the clouds" 4: a cause of worry or gloom or trouble; "the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French" 5: suspicion affecting your reputation; "after that mistake he was under a cloud" 6: a group of many things in the air or on the ground; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores" [syn: swarm, cloud] v 1: make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches" [syn: overcast, cloud] [ant: brighten, clear, clear up, light up] 2: make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley" [syn: obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist] 3: billow up in the form of a cloud; "The smoke clouded above the houses" 4: make gloomy or depressed; "Their faces were clouded with sadness" 5: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation" [syn: defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud] 6: make less clear; "the stroke clouded memories of her youth" 7: colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: mottle, dapple, cloud] 8: make milky or dull; "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"

n 1: a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" 2: an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd" [syn: crowd, crew, gang, bunch] v 1: cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom" [syn: herd, crowd] 2: fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students crowded the auditorium" 3: to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" [syn: crowd, crowd together] 4: approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty" [syn: push, crowd]

adj 1: provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature); "a well-endowed college"; "endowed with good eyesight"; "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights" [ant: unendowed]

v 1: cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery" [syn: shroud, enshroud, hide, cover]

adv 1: with relatively high volume; "the band played loudly"; "she spoke loudly and angrily"; "he spoke loud enough for those at the back of the room to hear him"; "cried aloud for help" [syn: loudly, loud, aloud] [ant: quietly, softly] adj 1: characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity; "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder"; "her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones" [ant: soft] 2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy] 3: used chiefly as a direction or description in music; "the forte passages in the composition" [syn: forte, loud] [ant: piano, soft]

v 1: cause to crowd together too much; "The students overcrowded the cafeteria" 2: crowd together too much

adj 1: (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow; "plowed fields" [syn: plowed, ploughed] [ant: unbroken, unploughed, unplowed]

adj 1: feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride; "proud parents"; "proud of his accomplishments"; "a proud moment"; "proud to serve his country"; "a proud name"; "proud princes" [ant: humble] 2: having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks" [syn: gallant, lofty, majestic, proud]

n 1: a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute 2: (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] 3: burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes] v 1: cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery" [syn: shroud, enshroud, hide, cover] 2: form a cover like a shroud; "Mist shrouded the castle" 3: wrap in a shroud; "shroud the corpses"

adj 1: erect in posture; "sit straight"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back" [syn: straight, unbent, unbowed] 2: not forced to bow down to a conqueror

adj 1: (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow; "plowed fields" [syn: plowed, ploughed] [ant: unbroken, unploughed, unplowed]

n 1: Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935) [syn: Macleod, John Macleod, John James Rickard Macleod]