Words that rhyme with kniess

adv 1: to or from every one of two or more (considered individually); "they received $10 each" [syn: each, to each one, for each one, from each one, apiece]

n 1: a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse" [syn: caprice, impulse, whim]

n 1: (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end 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: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" [syn: end, stop, finish, terminate, cease] [ant: begin, start]

adj 1: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet] n 1: a red the color of ripe cherries [syn: cerise, cherry, cherry red]

n 1: a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk 2: erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States [syn: tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, cheeseflower, Malva sylvestris] v 1: used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); "Cheese it!" 2: wind onto a cheese; "cheese the yarn"

n 1: an angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow" [syn: fold, crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bend] 2: a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" [syn: wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line] 3: a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade [syn: kris, creese, crease] v 1: make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" [syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp] 2: make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" [syn: furrow, wrinkle, crease] 3: scrape gently; "graze the skin" [syn: graze, crease, rake] 4: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle]

n 1: the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren" [syn: death, decease, expiry] [ant: birth, nascence, nascency, nativity] v 1: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born]

n 1: a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales" [syn: decrease, lessening, drop-off] [ant: increase] 2: a process of becoming smaller or shorter [syn: decrease, decrement] [ant: growth, increase, increment] 3: the amount by which something decreases [syn: decrease, decrement] [ant: increase, increment] 4: the act of decreasing or reducing something [syn: decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down] [ant: increase, step-up] v 1: decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" [syn: decrease, diminish, lessen, fall] [ant: increase] 2: make smaller; "He decreased his staff" [syn: decrease, lessen, minify] [ant: increase]

adj 1: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund]

n 1: the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him" [syn: police, police force, constabulary, law] v 1: maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol [syn: patrol, police]

n 1: merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film); "a new release from the London Symphony Orchestra" 2: the act of liberating someone or something [syn: liberation, release, freeing] 3: a process that liberates or discharges something; "there was a sudden release of oxygen"; "the release of iodine from the thyroid gland" 4: an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation [syn: handout, press release, release] 5: the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking] 6: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release] 7: a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation [syn: acquittance, release] 8: a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism [syn: release, button] 9: activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion; "she had no other outlet for her feelings"; "he gave vent to his anger" [syn: release, outlet, vent] 10: the act of allowing a fluid to escape [syn: spill, spillage, release] 11: a formal written statement of relinquishment [syn: release, waiver, discharge] 12: (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone [syn: release, tone ending] v 1: release, as from one's grip; "Let go of the door handle, please!"; "relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall" [syn: let go of, let go, release, relinquish] [ant: hold, take hold] 2: grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose] [ant: confine, detain] 3: let (something) fall or spill from a container; "turn the flour onto a plate" [syn: turn, release] 4: prepare and issue for public distribution or sale; "publish a magazine or newspaper" [syn: publish, bring out, put out, issue, release] 5: eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas" [syn: exhaust, discharge, expel, eject, release] 6: generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream" [syn: secrete, release] 7: make (information) available for publication; "release the list with the names of the prisoners" [syn: free, release] 8: part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne" [syn: release, relinquish, resign, free, give up] 9: release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition [syn: release, free, liberate] 10: make (assets) available; "release the holdings in the dictator's bank account" [syn: unblock, unfreeze, free, release] [ant: block, freeze, immobilise, immobilize]

n 1: a landlocked federal republic in central Europe [syn: Switzerland, Swiss Confederation, Suisse, Schweiz, Svizzera]

n 1: Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935) [syn: deVries, De Vries, Hugo deVries, Hugo De Vries]

n 1: the capital and principal port of Tunisia [syn: Tunis, capital of Tunisia]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Vietnam or its people or its language ; "the Vietnamese countryside"; the Vietnamese tones"; "Vietnamese boat people" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Vietnam [syn: Vietnamese, Annamese] 2: the Mon-Khmer language spoken in Vietnam [syn: Vietnamese, Annamese, Annamite]