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  • announce
    v 1: make known; make an announcement; "She denoted her feelings clearly" [syn: announce, denote] 2: announce publicly or officially; "The President declared war" [syn: announce, declare] 3: give the names of; "He announced the winners of the spelling bee" 4: foreshadow or presage [syn: announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald]
  • bounce
    n 1: the quality of a substance that is able to rebound [syn: bounce, bounciness] 2: a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards [syn: leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce] 3: rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn: bounce, bouncing] v 1: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet] 2: hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball" 3: move up and down repeatedly [syn: bounce, jounce] 4: come back after being refused; "the check bounced" [ant: clear] 5: leap suddenly; "He bounced to his feet" 6: refuse to accept and send back; "bounce a check" 7: eject from the premises; "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club"
  • denounce
    v 1: speak out against; "He denounced the Nazis" 2: to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock" [syn: stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, denounce, mark] 3: announce the termination of, as of treaties 4: give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag]
  • enounce
    v 1: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say]
  • flounce
    n 1: a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim [syn: frill, flounce, ruffle, furbelow] 2: the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions v 1: walk emphatically
  • jounce
    n 1: a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers" [syn: jolt, jar, jounce, shock] v 1: move up and down repeatedly [syn: bounce, jounce]
  • mispronounce
    v 1: pronounce a word incorrectly; "She mispronounces many Latinate words" [syn: mispronounce, misspeak]
  • ounce
    n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound [syn: ounce, troy ounce, apothecaries' ounce] 2: a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams [syn: ounce, oz.] 3: large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur [syn: snow leopard, ounce, Panthera uncia]
  • pounce
    n 1: the act of pouncing v 1: move down on as if in an attack; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students" [syn: pounce, swoop]
  • renounce
    v 1: give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee" [syn: abdicate, renounce] 2: leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds" [syn: vacate, resign, renounce, give up] 3: turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever" [syn: foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish] 4: cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son" [syn: disown, renounce, repudiate]
  • trounce
    v 1: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" [syn: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce] 2: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" [syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish] 3: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
  • counce
  • crounse
  • mounce
  • younce

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