Words that rhyme with fished

adv 1: floating freely; not anchored; "the boat wasset adrift" 2: off course, wandering aimlessly; "there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift" adj 1: aimlessly drifting [syn: adrift(p), afloat(p), aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected] 2: afloat on the surface of a body of water; "after the storm the boats were adrift"

n 1: the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "he gave me an assist with the housework"; "could not walk without assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered his help in unloading" [syn: aid, assist, assistance, help] 2: (sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good play v 1: give help or assistance; be of service; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?"; "She never helps around the house" [syn: help, assist, aid] 2: act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function 3: work for or be a servant to; "May I serve you?"; "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair"; "Can you wait on our table, please?"; "Is a salesperson assisting you?"; "The minister served the King for many years" [syn: serve, attend to, wait on, attend, assist]

adj 1: filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock; "an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation"; "I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses" [syn: amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned]

adj 1: characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for; "a cherished friend"; "children are precious"; "a treasured heirloom"; "so good to feel wanted" [syn: cherished, precious, treasured, wanted]

v 1: coexist peacefully, as of nations 2: exist together

v 1: originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country" [syn: dwell, consist, lie, lie in] 2: have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in; "The payment consists in food"; "What does love consist in?" 3: be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous; "Desires are to be satisfied only so far as consists with an approved end" 4: be composed of; "The land he conquered comprised several provinces"; "What does this dish consist of?" [syn: consist, comprise]

v 1: choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol" [syn: abstain, refrain, desist] [ant: consume, have, ingest, take, take in]

adj 1: impaired by diminution [syn: diminished, lessened, vitiated, weakened] 2: (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm" [syn: atrophied, wasted, diminished] [ant: enlarged, hypertrophied] 3: (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval; "a diminished fifth" 4: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small" [syn: belittled, diminished, small]

adj 1: shaped like a dish or pan [syn: dished, dish-shaped, patelliform]

adj 1: having lost your job [syn: discharged, dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped]

n 1: a force that moves something along [syn: drift, impetus, impulsion] 2: the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) 3: a process of linguistic change over a period of time 4: a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents 5: a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right" [syn: drift, trend, movement] 6: the pervading meaning or tenor; "caught the general drift of the conversation" [syn: drift, purport] 7: a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" [syn: drift, heading, gallery] v 1: be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore" [syn: float, drift, be adrift, blow] 2: wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" [syn: stray, err, drift] 3: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond] 4: vary or move from a fixed point or course; "stock prices are drifting higher" 5: live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school" [syn: freewheel, drift] 6: move in an unhurried fashion; "The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests" 7: cause to be carried by a current; "drift the boats downstream" 8: drive slowly and far afield for grazing; "drift the cattle herds westwards" 9: be subject to fluctuation; "The stock market drifted upward" 10: be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"

v 1: join the military 2: hire for work or assistance; "engage aid, help, services, or support" [syn: engage, enlist] 3: engage somebody to enter the army [syn: enlist, draft, muster in] [ant: discharge, muster out]

v 1: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn: exist, be] 2: support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" [syn: exist, survive, live, subsist]

adj 1: extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy" [syn: famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved, esurient]

adj 1: (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state; "a finished product" [ant: unfinished] 2: ended or brought to an end; "are you finished?"; "gave me the finished manuscript" [ant: unfinished] 3: (of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected; "a dazzling and finished piece of writing"; "a finished violinist" 4: having a surface coating or finish applied; "the finished bookcase costs much more than the unfinished ones" 5: brought to ruin; "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically" [syn: finished, ruined]

adj 1: provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority); "a furnished apartment"; "a completely furnished toolbox" [syn: furnished, equipped] [ant: unfurnished]

n 1: something acquired without compensation 2: natural abilities or qualities [syn: endowment, gift, talent, natural endowment] 3: the act of giving [syn: giving, gift] v 1: give qualities or abilities to [syn: endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue] 2: give as a present; make a gift of; "What will you give her for her birthday?" [syn: give, gift, present]

n 1: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist] 2: 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]

n 1: grain intended to be or that has been ground

v 1: be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge; "I must insist!" [syn: insist, take a firm stand] 2: beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help them" [syn: importune, insist] 3: assert to be true; "The letter asserts a free society" [syn: insist, assert]

n 1: the act of giving temporary assistance 2: the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity [syn: aerodynamic lift, lift] 3: the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity" [syn: elevation, lift, raising] 4: a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground [syn: lift, rise] 5: a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill [syn: ski tow, ski lift, lift] 6: a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg 7: one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot 8: lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building [syn: elevator, lift] 9: plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; "some actresses have more than one face lift" [syn: face lift, facelift, lift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck] 10: transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) [syn: airlift, lift] 11: a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home" 12: the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" [syn: lift, raise, heave] v 1: raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" [syn: raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up] [ant: bring down, get down, let down, lower, take down] 2: take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table" 3: move upwards; "lift one's eyes" [syn: lift, raise] 4: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise] [ant: come down, descend, fall, go down] 5: make audible; "He lifted a war whoop" 6: cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate] 7: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift] 8: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" [syn: hoist, lift, wind] 9: invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego" [syn: raise, lift] 10: raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty" [syn: lift, raise, elevate] 11: take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure" 12: rise up; "The building rose before them" [syn: rise, lift, rear] 13: pay off (a mortgage) 14: take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property [syn: plagiarize, plagiarise, lift] 15: take illegally; "rustle cattle" [syn: rustle, lift] 16: fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" [syn: airlift, lift] 17: take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes" 18: call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs 19: rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly" 20: put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" [syn: lift, raise] 21: remove (hair) by scalping 22: remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs" 23: remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table" 24: perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face [syn: face- lift, lift]

n 1: a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) [syn: list, listing] 2: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right" [syn: tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaning] v 1: give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of; "List the states west of the Mississippi" [syn: list, name] 2: include in a list; "Am I listed in your register?" 3: cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree" [syn: list, lean] 4: tilt to one side; "The balloon heeled over"; "the wind made the vessel heel"; "The ship listed to starboard" [syn: list, heel] 5: enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians" [syn: number, list]

adj 1: not being provided with adequate nourishment [ant: nourished]

n 1: the location of something surrounded by other things; "in the midst of the crowd" [syn: midst, thick]

adj 1: not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din" [syn: lost, missed]

n 1: a thin fog with condensation near the ground v 1: become covered with mist; "The windshield misted over" [syn: mist, mist over] 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: spray finely or cover with mist

adj 1: being provided with adequate nourishment [ant: malnourished]

v 1: continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures" [syn: prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure] 2: be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions" [syn: persevere, persist, hang in, hang on, hold on] 3: stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up" [syn: persist, remain, stay]

adj 1: aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay" [syn: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung] 2: very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet]

adj 1: perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver" [ant: unpolished] 2: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters" [syn: polished, refined, svelte, urbane] 3: (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed; "polished rice" [syn: milled, polished] 4: (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth [syn: dressed, polished]

adj 1: subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience) [ant: unpunished]

v 1: elude, especially in a baffling way; "This behavior defies explanation" [syn: defy, resist, refuse] [ant: apply, lend oneself] 2: stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something [syn: resist, hold out, withstand, stand firm] [ant: give up, surrender] 3: express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country" [syn: protest, resist, dissent] 4: withstand the force of something; "The trees resisted her"; "stand the test of time"; "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow" [syn: resist, stand, fend] 5: resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor" [syn: resist, reject, refuse] 6: refuse to comply [syn: resist, balk, baulk, jib]

n 1: a gap between cloud masses; "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds" 2: a narrow fissure in rock 3: a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" [syn: rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out]

n 1: the act of being shriven

v 1: support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" [syn: exist, survive, live, subsist]

adj 1: moving very fast; "fleet of foot"; "the fleet scurrying of squirrels"; "a swift current"; "swift flight of an arrow"; "a swift runner" [syn: fleet, swift] n 1: United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903) [syn: Swift, Gustavus Franklin Swift] 2: an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745) [syn: Swift, Jonathan Swift, Dean Swift] 3: a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight 4: common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks [syn: western fence lizard, swift, blue-belly, Sceloporus occidentalis]

n 1: any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers 2: extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily [syn: parsimony, parsimoniousness, thrift, penny-pinching]

n 1: a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex [syn: tryst, rendezvous] 2: a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) [syn: assignation, tryst]

n 1: an unforeseen development; "events suddenly took an awkward turn" [syn: turn, turn of events, twist] 2: an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct" [syn: construction, twist] 3: any clever maneuver; "he would stoop to any device to win a point"; "it was a great sales gimmick"; "a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen" [syn: device, gimmick, twist] 4: the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting" [syn: spin, twirl, twist, twisting, whirl] 5: a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments; "the wrench to his knee occurred as he fell"; "he was sidelined with a hamstring pull" [syn: wrench, twist, pull] 6: a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight [syn: kink, twist, twirl] 7: a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path" [syn: bend, crook, twist, turn] 8: a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself [syn: eddy, twist] 9: a jerky pulling movement [syn: twist, wrench] 10: a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair [syn: braid, plait, tress, twist] 11: social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s; "they liked to dance the twist" 12: the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind" [syn: wind, winding, twist] 13: turning or twisting around (in place); "with a quick twist of his head he surveyed the room" [syn: twist, turn] v 1: to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace" [syn: writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist] 2: cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar" [syn: flex, bend, deform, twist, turn] [ant: unbend] 3: turn in the opposite direction; "twist one's head" 4: form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted" [syn: twist, twine, distort] [ant: untwist] 5: form into twists; "Twist the strips of dough" 6: extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest" [syn: wind, twist, curve] 7: do the twist 8: twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates; "wrench a window off its hinges"; "wrench oneself free from somebody's grip"; "a deep sigh was wrenched from his chest" [syn: wrench, twist] 9: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words" [syn: twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate] 10: twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days" [syn: twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rick]

adj 1: not brought to the desired final state [ant: finished] 2: not brought to an end or conclusion; "unfinished business"; "the building is still unfinished" [ant: finished] 3: lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture" [syn: bare, unfinished]

adj 1: not welcome; "unwelcome publicity" [syn: unwelcome, unwished, unwished-for]

adj 1: having passed out of existence; "vanished civilizations"

n 1: a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones [syn: wrist, carpus, wrist joint, radiocarpal joint, articulatio radiocarpea]

n 1: Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886) [syn: Liszt, Franz Liszt]

n 1: an agency in the Technology Administration that makes measurements and sets standards as needed by industry or government programs [syn: National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST]

v 1: remove (a security) from listing at a stock exchange

v 1: exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time; "Did this condition pre-exist?"