Words that rhyme with knippel

v 1: cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don't belittle his influence" [syn: minimize, belittle, denigrate, derogate] 2: express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student's efforts" [syn: disparage, belittle, pick at] [ant: blandish, flatter] 3: lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; "don't belittle your colleagues" [syn: diminish, belittle]

adj 1: having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal" [syn: brittle, brickle, brickly] 2: lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman" 3: (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured [syn: brittle, unannealed] n 1: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets [syn: brittle, toffee, toffy]

adj 1: of a color similar to that of wood or earth [syn: brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown] 2: (of skin) deeply suntanned [syn: brown, browned] n 1: an orange of low brightness and saturation [syn: brown, brownness] 2: Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858) [syn: Brown, Robert Brown] 3: abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859) [syn: Brown, John Brown] 4: a university in Rhode Island [syn: Brown University, Brown] v 1: fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan" 2: make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard" [syn: embrown, brown]

n 1: a rude or vulgar fool [syn: clown, buffoon] 2: a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior [syn: clown, buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew] v 1: act as or like a clown [syn: clown, clown around, antic]

n 1: the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) [syn: commitment, committal, consignment] 2: the act of committing a crime [syn: perpetration, commission, committal]

n 1: someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back v 1: deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" [syn: cripple, stultify] 2: deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life" [syn: cripple, lame]

n 1: the Crown (or the reigning monarch) as the symbol of the power and authority of a monarchy; "the colonies revolted against the Crown" 2: the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel 3: a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory 4: an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty [syn: crown, diadem] 5: the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head 6: an English coin worth 5 shillings 7: the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant [syn: crown, treetop] 8: 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] 9: the award given to the champion [syn: pennant, crown] 10: the top of the head [syn: pate, poll, crown] 11: (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth; "tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown" [syn: crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown, cap] 12: the center of a cambered road [syn: crown, crest] v 1: invest with regal power; enthrone; "The prince was crowned in Westminster Abbey" [syn: crown, coronate] 2: be the culminating event; "The speech crowned the meeting" [syn: crown, top] 3: form the topmost part of; "A weather vane crowns the building" 4: put an enamel cover on; "crown my teeth"

adv 1: spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward" [syn: down, downwards, downward, downwardly] [ant: up, upward, upwardly, upwards] 2: away from a more central or a more northerly place; "was sent down to work at the regional office"; "worked down on the farm"; "came down for the wedding"; "flew down to Florida" [ant: up] 3: paid in cash at time of purchase; "put ten dollars down on the necklace" 4: from an earlier time; "the story was passed down from father to son" 5: to a lower intensity; "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black" [ant: up] 6: in an inactive or inoperative state; "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again" adj 1: being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today" [ant: up] 2: extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream" [syn: down(a), downward(a)] 3: becoming progressively lower; "the down trend in the real estate market" 4: being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth" 5: understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down" [syn: down, down pat(p), mastered] 6: lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down" [syn: depressed, down(p)] 7: shut; "the shades were down" 8: not functioning (temporarily or permanently); "we can't work because the computer is down" 9: filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited] n 1: soft fine feathers [syn: down, down feather] 2: (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards" 3: English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896) [syn: Down, John L. H. Down] 4: (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil 5: fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) [syn: down, pile] v 1: drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work" [syn: toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink down, kill] 2: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" [syn: devour, down, consume, go through] 3: bring down or defeat (an opponent) 4: shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft" [syn: down, shoot down, land] 5: cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet" [syn: down, knock down, cut down, push down, pull down] 6: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" [syn: polish, refine, fine-tune, down]

v 1: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" [syn: submerge, drown, overwhelm] 2: get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol" 3: die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake" 4: kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens" 5: be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy" [syn: swim, drown]

n 1: a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder)

n 1: a facial expression of dislike or displeasure [syn: frown, scowl] v 1: look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval [syn: frown, glower, lour, lower]

n 1: the small projection of a mammary gland [syn: nipple, mammilla, mamilla, pap, teat, tit] 2: a flexible cap on a baby's feeding bottle or pacifier

n 1: a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action 2: the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition

n 1: a small wave on the surface of a liquid [syn: ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet] 2: (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value v 1: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate] 2: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle]

v 1: engrave by means of dots and flicks 2: make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink 3: apply (paint) in small dots or strokes 4: produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees" [syn: stipple, speckle]

n 1: a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg; "they served beer on draft" [syn: draft, draught, potation, tipple] v 1: drink moderately but regularly; "We tippled the cognac" [syn: tipple, bib]

adj 1: having three units or components or elements; "a ternary operation"; "a treble row of red beads"; "overcrowding made triple sessions necessary"; "triple time has three beats per measure"; "triplex windows" [syn: ternary, treble, triple, triplex] 2: three times as great or many; "a claim for treble (or triple) damages"; "a threefold increase" [syn: treble, threefold, three-fold, triple] n 1: a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base [syn: triple, three-base hit, three-bagger] 2: a set of three similar things considered as a unit [syn: trio, triad, triplet, triple] 3: a quantity that is three times as great as another v 1: increase threefold; "Triple your income!" [syn: triple, treble] 2: hit a three-base hit

n 1: gum-like substance from the sapodilla [syn: chicle, chicle gum]

n 1: the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945) [syn: Braun, Eva Braun] 2: United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977) [syn: Braun, von Braun, Wernher von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun]

n 1: English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882) [syn: Browne, Hablot Knight Browne, Phiz] 2: United States writer of humorous tales of an itinerant showman (1834-1867) [syn: Browne, Charles Farrar Browne, Artemus Ward]