Words that rhyme with smead

v 1: yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure" [syn: submit, bow, defer, accede, give in] 2: take on duties or office; "accede to the throne" [syn: accede, enter] 3: to agree or express agreement; "The Maestro assented to the request for an encore" [syn: assent, accede, acquiesce] [ant: dissent]

adj 1: united by being of the same opinion; "agreed in their distrust of authority" [syn: agreed, in agreement(p)]

n 1: a small ball with a hole through the middle 2: a shape that is spherical and small; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead" [syn: drop, bead, pearl] 3: a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture [syn: beading, bead, beadwork, astragal] v 1: form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example 2: decorate by sewing beads onto; "bead the wedding gown" 3: string together like beads

v 1: lose blood from one's body [syn: shed blood, bleed, hemorrhage] 2: draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment" [syn: bleed, leech, phlebotomize, phlebotomise] 3: get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone; "They bled me dry--I have nothing left!" 4: be diffused; "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run" [syn: run, bleed] 5: drain of liquid or steam; "bleed the radiators"; "the mechanic bled the engine"

n 1: a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep" [syn: breed, strain, stock] 2: a special type; "Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs" v 1: call forth [syn: engender, breed, spawn] 2: copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare" [syn: breed, cover] 3: cause to procreate (animals); "She breeds dogs" 4: have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"; "These bacteria reproduce" [syn: breed, multiply]

v 1: give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another [syn: concede, yield, cede, grant] 2: relinquish possession or control over; "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in" [syn: surrender, cede, deliver, give up]

v 1: admit (to a wrongdoing); "She confessed that she had taken the money" [syn: concede, profess, confess] 2: be willing to concede; "I grant you this much" [syn: concede, yield, grant] 3: give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another [syn: concede, yield, cede, grant] 4: acknowledge defeat; "The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose"

n 1: any system of principles or beliefs [syn: creed, credo] 2: the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group [syn: religious doctrine, church doctrine, gospel, creed]

adj 1: fixed or established especially by order or command; "at the time appointed (or the appointed time") [syn: appointed, decreed, ordained, prescribed]

v 1: be greater in scope or size than some standard; "Their loyalty exceeds their national bonds" [syn: exceed, transcend, surpass] 2: be superior or better than some standard; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year" [syn: exceed, transcend, overstep, pass, go past, top] 3: be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class" [syn: surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform]

n 1: food for domestic livestock [syn: feed, provender] v 1: provide as food; "Feed the guests the nuts" 2: give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" [syn: feed, give] [ant: famish, starve] 3: feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity" 4: introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor" [syn: feed, feed in] 5: support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity" 6: take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" [syn: feed, eat] 7: serve as food for; be the food for; "This dish feeds six" 8: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: run, flow, feed, course] 9: profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity" [syn: prey, feed] 10: gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view" [syn: feed, feast] 11: provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" [syn: fertilize, fertilise, feed]

n 1: excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves 2: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia]

adv 1: in truth (often tends to intensify); "they said the car would break down and indeed it did"; "it is very cold indeed"; "was indeed grateful"; "indeed, the rain may still come"; "he did so do it!" [syn: indeed, so] 2: (used as an interjection) an expression of surprise or skepticism or irony etc.; "Wants to marry the butler? Indeed!"

v 1: act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement" [syn: intercede, mediate, intermediate, liaise, arbitrate]

n 1: a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs" [syn: need, demand] 2: anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants" [syn: need, want] 3: the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives" [syn: motivation, motive, need] 4: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" [syn: indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization] v 1: require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of] 2: have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" [syn: want, need, require] 3: have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money"

v 1: be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools" [syn: predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate] [ant: follow, postdate] 2: come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify" [syn: precede, predate] 3: be the predecessor of; "Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands" [syn: precede, come before] [ant: come after, follow, succeed] 4: move ahead (of others) in time or space [syn: precede, lead] [ant: follow] 5: furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution" [syn: precede, preface, premise, introduce]

v 1: continue talking; "I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on--pretend we are not in the room" [syn: continue, go on, carry on, proceed] 2: move ahead; travel onward in time or space; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now" [syn: proceed, go forward, continue] 3: follow a procedure or take a course; "We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels" [syn: go, proceed, move] 4: follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?" [syn: proceed, go] 5: continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight" [syn: continue, go on, proceed, go along, keep] [ant: discontinue]

v 1: pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back] [ant: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress] 2: retreat [syn: fall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recede] [ant: advance, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win] 3: become faint or more distant; "the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older"

v 1: seed again or anew 2: maintain by seeding without human intervention; "Some plants reseed themselves indefinitely"

v 1: withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away" [syn: secede, splinter, break away]

n 1: a small hard fruit 2: a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa 3: one of the outstanding players in a tournament [syn: seeded player, seed] 4: anything that provides inspiration for later work [syn: source, seed, germ] 5: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come] v 1: go to seed; shed seeds; "The dandelions went to seed" 2: help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money 3: bear seeds 4: place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; "She sowed sunflower seeds" [syn: sow, seed] 5: distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds 6: sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain; "seed clouds" 7: inoculate with microorganisms 8: remove the seeds from; "seed grapes"

n 1: distance travelled per unit time [syn: speed, velocity] 2: a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; "the project advanced with gratifying speed" [syn: speed, swiftness, fastness] 3: changing location rapidly [syn: speed, speeding, hurrying] 4: the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera) lens system [syn: focal ratio, f number, stop number, speed] 5: a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression [syn: amphetamine, pep pill, upper, speed] v 1: move fast; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street" [syn: rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it] [ant: dawdle, linger] 2: move faster; "The car accelerated" [syn: accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken] [ant: decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up] 3: move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed" [syn: travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip] 4: travel at an excessive or illegal velocity; "I got a ticket for speeding" 5: cause to move faster; "He accelerated the car" [syn: accelerate, speed, speed up] [ant: decelerate, slow down]

n 1: a headlong rush of people on a common impulse; "when he shouted `fire' there was a stampede to the exits" 2: a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle) v 1: cause to run in panic; "Thunderbolts can stampede animals" 2: cause a group or mass of people to act on an impulse or hurriedly and impulsively; "The tavern owners stampeded us into overeating" 3: act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse; "Companies will now stampede to release their latest software" 4: run away in a stampede

v 1: attain success or reach a desired goal; "The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"; "she struggled to overcome her handicap and won" [syn: succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods] [ant: fail, go wrong, miscarry] 2: be the successor (of); "Carter followed Ford"; "Will Charles succeed to the throne?" [syn: succeed, come after, follow] [ant: come before, precede]

v 1: take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school" [syn: supplant, replace, supersede, supervene upon, supercede]

adj 1: forced to turn and face attackers; "a stag at bay"; "she had me cornered between the porch and her car"; "like a trapped animal" [syn: at bay(p), cornered, trapped, treed]

n 1: thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland 2: (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth [syn: flannel, gabardine, tweed, white]

n 1: any plant that crowds out cultivated plants [ant: cultivated plant] 2: a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning [syn: weed, mourning band] 3: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane] v 1: clear of weeds; "weed the garden"

n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735) [syn: Bede, Saint Bede, St. Bede, Baeda, Saint Baeda, St. Baeda, Beda, Saint Beda, St. Beda, the Venerable Bede]