Words that rhyme with surpassed

adj 1: struck with fear, dread, or consternation [syn: aghast(p), appalled, dismayed, shocked]

n 1: a very long fly ball 2: a sudden very loud noise [syn: bang, clap, eruption, blast, bam] 3: a strong current of air; "the tree was bent almost double by the gust" [syn: gust, blast, blow] 4: an explosion (as of dynamite) 5: a highly pleasurable or exciting experience; "we had a good time at the party"; "celebrating after the game was a blast" [syn: good time, blast] 6: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak, flack, blast] v 1: make a strident sound; "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone" [syn: blast, blare] 2: hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer" [syn: smash, nail, boom, blast] 3: use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day" [syn: blast, shell] 4: apply a draft or strong wind to to; "the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us" 5: create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain" [syn: blast, shell] 6: make with or as if with an explosion; "blast a tunnel through the Alps" 7: fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" [syn: blast, shoot] 8: criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage" [syn: savage, blast, pillory, crucify] 9: shatter as if by explosion [syn: blast, knock down] 10: shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly

n 1: the actors in a play [syn: cast, cast of characters, dramatis personae] 2: container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens [syn: mold, mould, cast] 3: the distinctive form in which a thing is made; "pottery of this cast was found throughout the region" [syn: cast, mold, mould, stamp] 4: the visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate cast of his features" [syn: form, shape, cast] 5: bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal [syn: cast, plaster cast, plaster bandage] 6: object formed by a mold [syn: cast, casting] 7: the act of throwing dice [syn: cast, roll] 8: the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel [syn: casting, cast] 9: a violent throw [syn: hurl, cast] v 1: put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light" [syn: project, cast, contrive, throw] 2: deposit; "cast a vote"; "cast a ballot" 3: select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet; "He cast a young woman in the role of Desdemona" 4: throw forcefully [syn: hurl, hurtle, cast] 5: assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors; "Who cast this beautiful movie?" 6: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond] 7: form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold; "cast a bronze sculpture" [syn: cast, mold, mould] 8: get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes" [syn: shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop] 9: choose at random; "draw a card"; "cast lots" [syn: draw, cast] 10: formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language" [syn: frame, redact, cast, put, couch] 11: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]

n 1: social status or position conferred by a system based on class; "lose caste by doing work beneath one's station" 2: (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity 3: a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth 4: in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony

n 1: the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared; "in contrast to", "by contrast" [syn: contrast, direct contrast] 2: the act of distinguishing by comparing differences 3: a conceptual separation or distinction; "there is a narrow line between sanity and insanity" [syn: line, dividing line, demarcation, contrast] 4: the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors 5: the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness) v 1: put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student" 2: to show differences when compared; be different; "the students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities" [syn: contrast, counterpoint]

adj 1: fitted or covered with glass; "four glazed walls" [syn: glazed, glassed] [ant: glassless, unglazed]

adj 1: troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager" [syn: annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered, vexed]

v 1: beat with a cane [syn: cane, flog, lambaste, lambast] 2: 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]

n 1: a vertical spar for supporting sails 2: nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground 3: nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine 4: any sturdy upright pole

v 1: cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role

v 1: live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years" [syn: outlive, outlast, survive]

adv 1: so as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past" [syn: by, past] adj 1: earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" [ant: future, present(a)] 2: of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board" [syn: past(a), preceding(a), retiring(a)] n 1: the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" [syn: past, past times, yesteryear] [ant: future, futurity, hereafter, time to come] 2: a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past" 3: a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past [syn: past, past tense]

adj 1: of structural members especially of concrete; cast into form before being transported to the site of installation

v 1: cast again, in a different role; "He was recast as Iago" 2: cast again; "The bell cracked and had to be recast" [syn: recast, remold, remould] 3: cast or model anew; "She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home state" [syn: recast, reforge, remodel]

adj 1: not capable of being improved on [syn: unexcelled, unexceeded, unsurpassed]

adj 1: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian]

n 1: strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants [syn: bast, bast fiber] 2: (botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes [syn: phloem, bast] 3: cat- or lion-headed Egyptian goddess; represents life-giving power of the sun

n 1: United States political cartoonist (1840-1902) [syn: Nast, Thomas Nast]

n 1: an immature lymphocyte