Words that rhyme with snowflake

  • ache
    n 1: a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain [syn: ache, aching] v 1: feel physical pain; "Were you hurting after the accident?" [syn: hurt, ache, suffer] 2: have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" [syn: ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish] 3: be the source of pain [syn: ache, smart, hurt]
  • awake
    adj 1: not in a state of sleep; completely conscious; "lay awake thinking about his new job"; "still not fully awake" [ant: asleep(p)] 2: mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament" [syn: alert, alive(p), awake(p)] v 1: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off]
  • bake
    v 1: cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; "bake the potatoes" 2: prepare with dry heat in an oven; "bake a cake" 3: heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the summer" [syn: broil, bake] 4: be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun; "The town was broiling in the sun"; "the tourists were baking in the heat" [syn: bake, broil]
  • brake
    n 1: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle 2: any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants 3: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan [syn: bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum] 4: an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant 5: anything that slows or hinders a process; "she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage"; "new legislation will put the brakes on spending" v 1: stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road" 2: cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"
  • break
    n 1: some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity; "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt" [syn: interruption, break] 2: an unexpected piece of good luck; "he finally got his big break" [syn: break, good luck, happy chance] 3: (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust" [syn: fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break] 4: a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" [syn: rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out] 5: a pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate" [syn: respite, recess, break, time out] 6: the act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable" [syn: breakage, break, breaking] 7: a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something [syn: pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension] 8: breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall" [syn: fracture, break] 9: the occurrence of breaking; "the break in the dam threatened the valley" 10: an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion); "then there was a break in her voice" 11: the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool 12: (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving; "he was up two breaks in the second set" [syn: break, break of serve] 13: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account" [syn: break, interruption, disruption, gap] 14: a sudden dash; "he made a break for the open door" 15: any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare; "the break in the eighth frame cost him the match" [syn: open frame, break] 16: an escape from jail; "the breakout was carefully planned" [syn: break, breakout, jailbreak, gaolbreak, prisonbreak, prison-breaking] v 1: terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" [syn: interrupt, break] 2: become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" [syn: break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart] 3: render inoperable or ineffective; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!" 4: ruin completely; "He busted my radio!" [syn: break, bust] [ant: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on] 5: destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match" 6: act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise" [syn: transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break] [ant: keep, observe] 7: move away or escape suddenly; "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out-- this prison is high security" [syn: break, break out, break away] 8: scatter or part; "The clouds broke after the heavy downpour" 9: force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger" [syn: break, burst, erupt] 10: prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" [syn: break, break off, discontinue, stop] 11: enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act; "Someone broke in while I was on vacation"; "They broke into my car and stole my radio!"; "who broke into my account last night?" [syn: break in, break] 12: make submissive, obedient, or useful; "The horse was tough to break"; "I broke in the new intern" [syn: break in, break] 13: fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "This sentence violates the rules of syntax" [syn: violate, go against, break] [ant: conform to] 14: surpass in excellence; "She bettered her own record"; "break a record" [syn: better, break] 15: make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" [syn: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out] 16: come into being; "light broke over the horizon"; "Voices broke in the air" 17: stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" [syn: fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down] 18: interrupt a continued activity; "She had broken with the traditional patterns" [syn: break, break away] 19: make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing; "The ranks broke" 20: curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves; "The surf broke" 21: lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall" [syn: dampen, damp, soften, weaken, break] 22: be broken in; "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress" 23: come to an end; "The heat wave finally broke yesterday" 24: vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity; "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas" 25: cause to give up a habit; "She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes" 26: give up; "break cigarette smoking" 27: come forth or begin from a state of latency; "The first winter storm broke over New York" 28: happen or take place; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months" 29: cause the failure or ruin of; "His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage"; "This play will either make or break the playwright" [ant: make] 30: invalidate by judicial action; "The will was broken" 31: discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" [syn: separate, part, split up, split, break, break up] 32: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" [syn: demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs] [ant: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade] 33: reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him" [syn: bankrupt, ruin, break, smash] 34: change directions suddenly 35: emerge from the surface of a body of water; "The whales broke" 36: break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" [syn: collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder] 37: do a break dance; "Kids were break-dancing at the street corner" [syn: break dance, break-dance, break] 38: exchange for smaller units of money; "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy" 39: destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set" [syn: break, break up] 40: make the opening shot that scatters the balls 41: separate from a clinch, in boxing; "The referee broke the boxers" 42: go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely" [syn: break, wear, wear out, bust, fall apart] 43: break a piece from a whole; "break a branch from a tree" [syn: break, break off, snap off] 44: become punctured or penetrated; "The skin broke" 45: pierce or penetrate; "The blade broke her skin" 46: be released or become known; of news; "News of her death broke in the morning" [syn: break, get out, get around] 47: cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" [syn: pause, intermit, break] 48: interrupt the flow of current in; "break a circuit" 49: undergo breaking; "The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages" 50: find a flaw in; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof" 51: find the solution or key to; "break the code" 52: change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another; "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children" 53: happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time" [syn: break, recrudesce, develop] 54: become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated" [syn: crack, check, break] 55: crack; of the male voice in puberty; "his voice is breaking --he should no longer sing in the choir" 56: fall sharply; "stock prices broke" 57: fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey" [syn: fracture, break] 58: diminish or discontinue abruptly; "The patient's fever broke last night" 59: weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near- death"
  • cake
    n 1: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" [syn: cake, bar] 2: small flat mass of chopped food [syn: patty, cake] 3: baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat v 1: form a coat over; "Dirt had coated her face" [syn: coat, cake]
  • betake
  • ake
  • hoylake
  • timberlake
  • cornflake

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