Words that rhyme with revictual

n 1: a judgment of not guilty [ant: condemnation, conviction, judgment of conviction, sentence]

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]

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: a health facility where patients receive treatment [syn: hospital, infirmary] 2: a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care

adv 1: not much; "he talked little about his family" adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group" [syn: small, little] [ant: big, large] 2: (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work" [syn: little(a), slight] [ant: much(a)] 3: (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" [syn: little, small] 4: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial] 5: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" [syn: little, small] 6: low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" [syn: short, little] [ant: tall] 7: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" [syn: little, minuscule, small] 8: small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context); "a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation" n 1: a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him"

adj 1: refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action or view or the like; "her boyfriend was noncommittal about their future together"

n 1: a payment of money sent to a person in another place [syn: remittance, remittal, remission, remitment] 2: an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission" [syn: remission, remittal, subsidence] 3: the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance [syn: absolution, remission, remittal, remission of sin]

n 1: a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles [syn: ninepin, skittle, skittle pin] v 1: play skittles

n 1: a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches [syn: saliva, spit, spittle]

n 1: the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted [syn: transmission, transmittal, transmitting]

n 1: any substance that can be used as food [syn: comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals] v 1: supply with food; "The population was victualed during the war" 2: lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long voyage" 3: take in nourishment

n 1: English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996) [syn: Whittle, Frank Whittle, Sir Frank Whittle] v 1: cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood" [syn: whittle, pare]

n 1: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge]

n 1: United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993) [syn: Doolittle, Jimmy Doolittle, James Harold Doolittle]

v 1: make brittle