Words that rhyme with kludge

  • adjudge
    v 1: declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent" [syn: declare, adjudge, hold]
  • begrudge
    v 1: be envious of; set one's heart on [syn: envy, begrudge] 2: wish ill or allow unwillingly [syn: begrudge, resent] [ant: wish, wish well]
  • budge
    n 1: United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000) [syn: Budge, Don Budge, John Donald Budge] v 1: move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: stir, shift, budge, agitate]
  • centrifuge
    n 1: an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension [syn: centrifuge, extractor, separator] v 1: rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids [syn: centrifuge, centrifugate]
  • deluge
    n 1: an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent] 2: a heavy rain [syn: downpour, cloudburst, deluge, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker] 3: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion] v 1: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" [syn: deluge, flood, inundate, swamp] 2: charge someone with too many tasks [syn: overwhelm, deluge, flood out] 3: fill or cover completely, usually with water [syn: inundate, deluge, submerge]
  • drudge
    n 1: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: hack, drudge, hacker] 2: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: drudge, peon, navvy, galley slave] v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil]
  • febrifuge
    n 1: any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever [syn: antipyretic, febrifuge]
  • fudge
    n 1: soft creamy candy v 1: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent] 2: 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]
  • grudge
    n 1: a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score" [syn: grudge, score, grievance] v 1: bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings [syn: stew, grudge] 2: accept or admit unwillingly
  • huge
    adj 1: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian]
  • judge
    n 1: a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice [syn: judge, justice, jurist] 2: an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality [syn: evaluator, judge] v 1: determine the result of (a competition) 2: form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" [syn: evaluate, pass judgment, judge] 3: judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds" [syn: estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge] 4: pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here" [syn: pronounce, label, judge] 5: put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials" [syn: judge, adjudicate, try]
  • luge
    n 1: a racing sled for one or two people v 1: move along on a luge or toboggan [syn: toboggan, luge]
  • misjudge
    v 1: judge incorrectly
  • nudge
    n 1: a slight push or shake [syn: nudge, jog] v 1: to push against gently; "She nudged my elbow when she saw her friend enter the restaurant" [syn: nudge, poke at, prod] 2: push into action by pestering or annoying gently
  • prejudge
    v 1: judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence
  • refuge
    n 1: a safe place; "He ran to safety" [syn: safety, refuge] 2: something or someone turned to for assistance or security; "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying" [syn: recourse, refuge, resort] 3: a shelter from danger or hardship [syn: refuge, sanctuary, asylum] 4: act of turning to for assistance; "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort" [syn: recourse, resort, refuge]
  • scrooge
    n 1: a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn: niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl]
  • sludge
    n 1: the precipitate produced by sewage treatment 2: any thick, viscous matter [syn: sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze]
  • smudge
    n 1: a smoky fire to drive away insects 2: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur] v 1: make a smudge on; soil by smudging [syn: smear, blur, smudge, smutch]
  • stooge
    n 1: a person of unquestioning obedience [syn: flunky, flunkey, stooge, yes-man] 2: a victim of ridicule or pranks [syn: butt, goat, laughingstock, stooge] v 1: cruise in slow or routine flights 2: act as the stooge; "His role was to stooge for the popular comedian" 3: act as a stooge, in a compliant or subordinate manner; "He stooged for the flamboyant Senator"
  • subterfuge
    n 1: something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind" [syn: subterfuge, blind]
  • trudge
    n 1: a long difficult walk v 1: walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" [syn: slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp]
  • vermifuge
    n 1: a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms [syn: vermifuge, anthelmintic, anthelminthic, helminthic]
  • pudge
    n 1: a short fat person
  • forejudge
  • mudge
  • rudge
  • bludge
  • smoodge
  • calcifuge

See also kludge definition