Words that rhyme with smoot

adj 1: having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients" [ant: chronic] 2: extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning" [syn: acute, intense] 3: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp] 4: of an angle; less than 90 degrees [ant: obtuse] 5: ending in a sharp point [syn: acuate, acute, sharp, needlelike] 6: of critical importance and consequence; "an acute (or critical) lack of research funds" n 1: a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation [syn: acute accent, acute, ague]

adj 1: marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow" [syn: astute, sharp, shrewd]

n 1: footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg 2: British term for the luggage compartment in a car 3: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick] 4: protective casing for something that resembles a leg 5: an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg [syn: boot, the boot, iron boot, iron heel] 6: a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed 7: the act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent" [syn: kick, boot, kicking] v 1: kick; give a boot to 2: cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes; "boot your computer" [syn: boot, reboot, bring up]

v 1: tell or spread rumors; "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman" [syn: rumor, rumour, bruit]

adj 1: (of champagne) extremely dry

adj 1: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal] n 1: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat] 2: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna]

n 1: a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides 2: a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper

n 1: rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall [syn: parachute, chute] 2: sloping channel through which things can descend [syn: chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough] v 1: jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute [syn: chute, parachute, jump]

n 1: a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work; "there is standing room only on the high-speed commute" v 1: exchange positions without a change in value; "These operators commute with each other" [syn: commute, transpose] 2: travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home 3: change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word" [syn: permute, commute, transpose] 4: exchange a penalty for a less severe one [syn: commute, convert, exchange] 5: exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares" [syn: change, exchange, commute, convert]

v 1: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure]

n 1: slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks

adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn: cunning, cute] 2: obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms" [syn: cute, precious]

adj 1: reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid" [syn: diluted, dilute] [ant: undiluted] v 1: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" [syn: dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut] 2: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase]

n 1: a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats" [syn: dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict] 2: coming into conflict with [syn: dispute, contravention] v 1: take exception to; "She challenged his claims" [syn: challenge, dispute, gainsay] 2: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]

n 1: the state of being held in low esteem; "your actions will bring discredit to your name"; "because of the scandal the school has fallen into disrepute" [syn: disrepute, discredit] [ant: reputation, repute]

n 1: a recently enlisted soldier [syn: recruit, military recruit] 2: any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) [syn: recruit, enlistee] v 1: register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members" [syn: enroll, inscribe, enter, enrol, recruit] 2: seek to employ; "The lab director recruited an able crew of assistants" 3: cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers" [syn: recruit, levy, raise]

n 1: a blast of a horn 2: revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn: carouse, carousal, bender, toot, booze-up] v 1: make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared" [syn: honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot]

v 1: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn: uproot, deracinate] 2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" [syn: uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate] 3: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" [syn: uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out]

n 1: capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean [syn: Bayrut, Beirut, capital of Lebanon]

n 1: collusion; "in cahoots with"

adj 1: less than acute; relating to a disease present in a person with no symptoms of it