Words that rhyme with meave

v 1: to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks" [syn: achieve, accomplish, attain, reach]

v 1: infringe on the rights of 2: cause to feel sorrow; "his behavior grieves his mother" [syn: grieve, aggrieve]

v 1: accept as true; take to be true; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits" [ant: disbelieve, discredit] 2: judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior" [syn: think, believe, consider, conceive] 3: be confident about something; "I believe that he will come back from the war" [syn: believe, trust] 4: follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer; "When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too" 5: credit with veracity; "You cannot believe this man"; "Should we believe a publication like the National Enquirer?"

v 1: deprive through death

v 1: separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone" [syn: cleave, split, rive] 2: make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock" 3: come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere" [syn: cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere]

v 1: have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived" [syn: gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise] 2: judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior" [syn: think, believe, consider, conceive] 3: become pregnant; undergo conception; "She cannot conceive"; "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day"

v 1: be false to; be dishonest with [syn: deceive, lead on, delude, cozen] 2: cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house" [syn: deceive, betray, lead astray] [ant: undeceive]

v 1: reject as false; refuse to accept [syn: disbelieve, discredit] [ant: believe]

v 1: interpret in the wrong way; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks" [syn: misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, misunderstand, misapprehend, be amiss]

v 1: perceive incorrectly

adj 1: marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances" [syn: naive, naif] [ant: sophisticated] 2: of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking" [syn: primitive, naive] 3: inexperienced 4: lacking information or instruction; "lamentably unenlightened as to the laws" [syn: uninstructed, unenlightened, naive] 5: not initiated; deficient in relevant experience; "it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes"; "he took part in the experiment as a naive subject" [syn: uninitiate, uninitiated, naive]

v 1: to become aware of through the senses; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon" [syn: perceive, comprehend] 2: become conscious of; "She finally perceived the futility of her protest"

v 1: conceive beforehand; "a preconceived notion"

v 1: get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front" [syn: receive, have] 2: receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" [syn: receive, get, find, obtain, incur] 3: register (perceptual input); "pick up a signal" [syn: pick up, receive] 4: go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn: experience, receive, have, get] 5: express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees" [syn: receive, take in, invite] 6: accept as true or valid; "He received Christ" 7: bid welcome to; greet upon arrival [syn: welcome, receive] [ant: say farewell] 8: convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals" 9: experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition" [syn: meet, encounter, receive] 10: have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning" 11: receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison" [syn: get, receive] 12: partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament 13: regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received"

v 1: provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" [syn: relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage] 2: free someone temporarily from his or her obligations [syn: take over, relieve] 3: grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam" [syn: exempt, relieve, free] [ant: apply, enforce, implement] 4: lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears" [syn: still, allay, relieve, ease] 5: save from ruin, destruction, or harm [syn: salvage, salve, relieve, save] 6: relieve oneself of troubling information [syn: unbosom, relieve] 7: provide relief for; "remedy his illness" [syn: remedy, relieve] 8: free from a burden, evil, or distress 9: take by stealing; "The thief relieved me of $100" 10: grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class" [syn: excuse, relieve, let off, exempt] 11: alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive; "relieve the pressure and the stress"; "lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents" [syn: relieve, lighten]

n 1: a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort [syn: reprieve, respite] 2: an interruption in the intensity or amount of something [syn: suspension, respite, reprieve, hiatus, abatement] 3: a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence) 4: the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment [syn: reprieve, respite] v 1: postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution [syn: reprieve, respite] 2: relieve temporarily

v 1: get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" [syn: recover, retrieve, find, regain] 2: go for and bring back; "retrieve the car from the parking garage" 3: run after, pick up, and bring to the master; "train the dog to retrieve" 4: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories" [syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think] [ant: blank out, block, draw a blank, forget]

n 1: the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm [syn: sleeve, arm] 2: small case into which an object fits

v 1: take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom]

n 1: pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric v 1: interlace by or as if by weaving [syn: weave, interweave] [ant: unweave] 2: create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles" [syn: weave, tissue] 3: sway to and fro [syn: waver, weave] 4: to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body" [syn: weave, wind, thread, meander, wander]

n 1: the upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice

n 1: a city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva; it is the headquarters of various international organizations [syn: Geneva, Geneve, Genf]

n 1: a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen) that fights pain and inflammation [syn: naproxen sodium, Aleve, Anaprox, Aflaxen]

n 1: a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound