Words that rhyme with overage

• abridge 0
  v 1: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" [syn: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce] [ant: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate] 2: lessen, diminish, or curtail; "the new law might abridge our freedom of expression"
• acreage 0
  n 1: an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming); "he wanted some acreage to build on" [syn: acreage, land area]
• age 0
  n 1: how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of its age" 2: an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age" [syn: historic period, age] 3: a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld" [syn: age, eld] 4: a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years" [syn: long time, age, years] 5: a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood" [syn: old age, years, age, eld, geezerhood] v 1: begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast" 2: grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day-- what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" [syn: senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate] 3: make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously" [ant: rejuvenate]
• amperage 0
  n 1: the strength of an electrical current measured in amperes
• anchorage 0
  n 1: the condition of being secured to a base; "the plant needs a firm anchorage"; "the mother provides emotional anchorage for the entire family" 2: a fee for anchoring 3: a city in south central Alaska; "Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska" 4: place for vessels to anchor [syn: anchorage, anchorage ground] 5: the act of anchoring
• average 0
  adj 1: approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall" [syn: average, mean(a)] 2: lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street" [syn: average, ordinary] 3: lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" [syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling] 4: around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers" [syn: average, intermediate, medium] 5: relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30" [syn: modal(a), average] 6: relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" [syn: median(a), average] n 1: a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes" [syn: average, norm] 2: (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities 3: an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual; "he is about average in height"; "the snowfall this month is below average" v 1: amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40" [syn: average, average out] 2: achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C" 3: compute the average of [syn: average, average out]
• beverage 0
  n 1: any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage order?" [syn: beverage, drink, drinkable, potable]
• borage 0
  n 1: hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach [syn: borage, tailwort, Borago officinalis] 2: an herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked
• brokerage 0
  n 1: a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller [syn: brokerage, brokerage firm, securities firm] 2: the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties 3: place where a broker conducts his business [syn: brokerage house, brokerage]
• cage 0
  n 1: an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept [syn: cage, coop] 2: something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement 3: United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992) [syn: Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.] 4: the net that is the goal in ice hockey 5: a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice [syn: batting cage, cage] v 1: confine in a cage; "The animal was caged" [syn: cage, cage in]
• carriage 0
  n 1: a railcar where passengers ride [syn: passenger car, coach, carriage] 2: a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses [syn: carriage, equipage, rig] 3: characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture" [syn: carriage, bearing, posture] 4: a machine part that carries something else 5: a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around [syn: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair, pusher]
• cartridge 0
  n 1: ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun 2: a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required [syn: magazine, cartridge] 3: a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment; "he loaded a cartridge of fresh tape into the tape deck" 4: an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable [syn: cartridge, pickup]
• cellarage 0
  n 1: a charge for storing goods in a cellar 2: a storage area in a cellar
• courage 0
  n 1: a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear [syn: courage, courageousness, bravery, braveness] [ant: cowardice, cowardliness]
• coverage 0
  n 1: the total amount and type of insurance carried [syn: coverage, insurance coverage] 2: the extent to which something is covered; "the dictionary's coverage of standard English is excellent" 3: the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television; "they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations" [syn: coverage, reporting, reportage]
• demurrage 0
  n 1: a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure 2: detention of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure
• discourage 0
  v 1: try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage this practice among our youth" [syn: deter, discourage] 2: deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged [ant: encourage] 3: admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; "I warned him not to go too far"; "I warn you against false assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet" [syn: warn, discourage, admonish, monish]
• disparage 0
  v 1: express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student's efforts" [syn: disparage, belittle, pick at] [ant: blandish, flatter]
• drawbridge 0
  n 1: a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it [syn: drawbridge, lift bridge]
• encourage 0
  v 1: contribute to the progress or growth of; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom" [syn: promote, advance, boost, further, encourage] 2: inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to [ant: discourage] 3: spur on; "His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife"
• footbridge 0
  n 1: a bridge designed for pedestrians [syn: footbridge, overcrossing, pedestrian bridge]
• forage 0
  n 1: bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle [syn: eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grass] 2: the act of searching for food and provisions [syn: foraging, forage] v 1: collect or look around for (food) [syn: scrounge, forage] 2: wander and feed; "The animals forage in the woods"
• fosterage 0
  n 1: encouragement; aiding the development of something [syn: fostering, fosterage] 2: helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" [syn: breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing]
• gage 0
  n 1: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane] 2: a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. [syn: gauge, gage] v 1: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt]
• garage 0
  n 1: an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles 2: a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired [syn: garage, service department] v 1: keep or store in a garage; "we don't garage our car"
• gauge 0
  n 1: a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. [syn: gauge, gage] 2: accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared [syn: gauge, standard of measurement] 3: the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train 4: the thickness of wire 5: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge, caliber, calibre] v 1: judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds" [syn: estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge] 2: rub to a uniform size; "gauge bricks" 3: determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation; "gauge the wine barrels" 4: measure precisely and against a standard; "the wire is gauged" 5: adapt to a specified measurement; "gauge the instruments" 6: mix in specific proportions; "gauge plaster"
• haemorrhage 0
  n 1: the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel [syn: bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhage]
• harbourage 0
  n 1: (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) [syn: harborage, harbourage]
• intermarriage 0
  n 1: marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law [syn: exogamy, intermarriage] [ant: endogamy, inmarriage, intermarriage] 2: marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law [syn: endogamy, intermarriage, inmarriage] [ant: exogamy, intermarriage]
• leverage 0
  n 1: the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever [syn: leverage, purchase] 2: strategic advantage; power to act effectively; "relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage" 3: investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) [syn: leverage, leveraging] v 1: supplement with leverage; "leverage the money that is already available" 2: provide with leverage; "We need to leverage this company"
• marriage 0
  n 1: the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" [syn: marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock] 2: two people who are married to each other; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love" [syn: marriage, married couple, man and wife] 3: the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; "their marriage was conducted in the chapel" [syn: marriage, wedding, marriage ceremony] 4: a close and intimate union; "the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas"
• miscarriage 0
  n 1: failure of a plan [syn: miscarriage, abortion] 2: a natural loss of the products of conception [syn: spontaneous abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth] [ant: live birth]
• moorage 0
  n 1: a fee for mooring 2: a place where a craft can be made fast [syn: mooring, moorage, berth, slip] 3: the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes [syn: docking, moorage, dockage, tying up]
• offstage 0
  adv 1: behind the scenes; not on stage; "the actors were waiting offstage" [ant: onstage] 2: not in public; "the deal was done offstage" adj 1: situated or taking place in the area of a stage not visible to the audience; "offstage noises" [ant: onstage] 2: concealed from public view or attention; "offstage political meetings" [syn: offstage, backstage] n 1: a stage area out of sight of the audience [syn: wing, offstage, backstage]
• ostrich 0
  n 1: a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand) 2: fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird [syn: ostrich, Struthio camelus]
• page 0
  n 1: one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains 2: English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962) [syn: Page, Sir Frederick Handley Page] 3: United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922) [syn: Page, Thomas Nelson Page] 4: a boy who is employed to run errands [syn: page, pageboy] 5: a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings 6: in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood [syn: page, varlet] v 1: contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system 2: work as a page; "He is paging in Congress this summer" 3: number the pages of a book or manuscript [syn: foliate, paginate, page]
• partridge 0
  n 1: flesh of either quail or grouse 2: heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds [syn: tinamou, partridge] 3: small Old World gallinaceous game birds 4: a popular North American game bird; named for its call [syn: bobwhite, bobwhite quail, partridge] 5: valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada [syn: ruffed grouse, partridge, Bonasa umbellus]
• pasturage 0
  n 1: succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land [syn: herbage, pasturage] 2: bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle [syn: eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grass]
• peerage 0
  n 1: the peers of a kingdom considered as a group [syn: peerage, baronage]
• phage 0
  n 1: a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria; "phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria" [syn: bacteriophage, phage]
• pilferage 0
  n 1: the act of stealing small amounts or small articles
• porridge 0
  n 1: soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick
• rage 0
  n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury, rage, madness] 2: a state of extreme anger; "she fell into a rage and refused to answer" 3: something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame destroyed him" [syn: rage, passion] 4: violent state of the elements; "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks" 5: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" [syn: fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rage] v 1: behave violently, as if in state of a great anger [syn: ramp, rage, storm] 2: be violent; as of fires and storms 3: feel intense anger; "Rage against the dying of the light!"
• remarriage 0
  n 1: the act of marrying again
• sage 0
  adj 1: having wisdom that comes with age and experience 2: of the grey-green color of sage leaves [syn: sage, sage- green] n 1: a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom 2: aromatic fresh or dried grey-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc 3: any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb [syn: sage, salvia]
• sewerage 0
  n 1: waste matter carried away in sewers or drains [syn: sewage, sewerage] 2: a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water [syn: sewer, sewerage, cloaca]
• stage 0
  n 1: any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected" [syn: phase, stage] 2: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: degree, level, stage, point] 3: a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box" 4: the theater as a profession (usually `the stage'); "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage" 5: a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles" [syn: stagecoach, stage] 6: a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise" [syn: stage, leg] 7: any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; "All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare; "it set the stage for peaceful negotiations" 8: a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination [syn: stage, microscope stage] v 1: perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'" [syn: stage, present, represent] 2: plan, organize, and carry out (an event); "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion" [syn: stage, arrange]
• steerage 0
  n 1: the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship 2: the act of steering a ship [syn: steering, steerage]
• storage 0
  n 1: the act of storing something 2: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks" [syn: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store] 3: the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials 4: (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk 5: an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" [syn: memory, computer memory, storage, computer storage, store, memory board] 6: depositing in a warehouse; "they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn"; "my car is in storage"; "publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing" [syn: repositing, reposition, storage, warehousing]
• suffrage 0
  n 1: a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920" [syn: right to vote, vote, suffrage]
• swage 0
  n 1: a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging [syn: upset, swage] v 1: form metals with a swage [syn: swage, upset]
• tire 0
  n 1: hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air" [syn: tire, tyre] v 1: lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" [syn: tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade] 2: exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue] [ant: freshen, refresh, refreshen] 3: deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength" [syn: run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire] 4: cause to be bored [syn: bore, tire] [ant: interest]
• umbrage 0
  n 1: a feeling of anger caused by being offended; "he took offence at my question" [syn: umbrage, offense, offence]
• undercarriage 0
  n 1: framework that serves as a support for the body of a vehicle
• vicarage 0
  n 1: an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector [syn: parsonage, vicarage, rectory]
• wage 0
  n 1: something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" [syn: wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary] v 1: carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns); "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe" [syn: engage, wage]
• weighbridge 0
  n 1: platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc
• paige 0
  n 1: United States baseball player; a black pitcher noted for his longevity (1906-1982) [syn: Paige, Satchel Paige, Leroy Robert Paige]
• cambridge 0
  n 1: a university in England [syn: Cambridge University, Cambridge] 2: a city in Massachusetts just to the north of Boston; site of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3: a city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University
• oxbridge 0
  n 1: general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University)
• beveridge 0
  n 1: British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963) [syn: Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, First Baron Beveridge]
• coleridge 0
  n 1: English romantic poet (1772-1834) [syn: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge]
• harborage 0
  n 1: (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) [syn: harborage, harbourage]
• seigniorage 0
  n 1: charged by a government for coining bullion
• arrearage 0
• cooperage 0
• mage 0
• stockbrokerage 0
• tutorage 0
• bainbridge 0
• coatbridge 0
• kingsbridge 0
• lethbridge 0
• loveridge 0
• newbridge 0
• woodbridge 0
• breckenridge 0
• etheridge 0
• muggeridge 0
• berridge 0
• norwich 0
• corbridge 0
• delbridge 0
• stockbridge 0
• trowbridge 0
• mismarriage 0

See also overage definition and overage synonyms