Words that rhyme with widthwise

n 1: the alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter of the United Nations in 1945 2: in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers 3: an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy

adv 1: in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move; "please move counterclockwise in a circle!" [syn: counterclockwise, anticlockwise] [ant: clockwise] adj 1: in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock [syn: counterclockwise, anticlockwise, contraclockwise] [ant: clockwise]

v 1: inform (somebody) of something; "I advised him that the rent was due" [syn: advise, notify, give notice, send word, apprise, apprize] 2: make aware of; "Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?" [syn: instruct, apprise, apprize] 3: gain in value; "The yen appreciated again!" [syn: appreciate, apprize, apprise, revalue] [ant: depreciate, devaluate, devalue, undervalue] 4: increase the value of; "The Germans want to appreciate the Deutsche Mark" [syn: appreciate, apprize, apprise] [ant: depreciate]

v 1: come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow] 2: originate or come into being; "a question arose" [syn: arise, come up, bob up] 3: rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded" [syn: arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up] [ant: lie, lie down, sit, sit down] 4: result or issue; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion" [syn: arise, come up] 5: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise] [ant: come down, descend, fall, go down] 6: take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance [syn: rebel, arise, rise, rise up] 7: get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise] [ant: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in]

v 1: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct]

adv 1: in the direction that the hands of a clock move; "please move clockwise in a circle" [ant: anticlockwise, counterclockwise] adj 1: in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock [ant: anticlockwise, contraclockwise, counterclockwise]

adv 1: by way of, or along the coast; "we were travelling coastwise" adj 1: along or following a coast; "coastal shipping"; "coastwise winds contributed to the storm"

v 1: be composed of; "The land he conquered comprised several provinces"; "What does this dish consist of?" [syn: consist, comprise] 2: include or contain; have as a component; "A totally new idea is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's" [syn: incorporate, contain, comprise] 3: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be]

adv 1: in a contrary disobedient manner [syn: perversely, contrarily, contrariwise] 2: with the order reversed; "she hates him and vice versa" [syn: vice versa, the other way around, contrariwise] 3: contrary to expectations; "he didn't stay home; on the contrary, he went out with his friends" [syn: contrarily, to the contrary, contrariwise, on the contrary]

adj 1: (of movement) at an angle [syn: crabwise, sideways]

adv 1: not in the intended manner; "things are going crosswise" 2: transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across" [syn: across, crosswise, crossways] adj 1: lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction; "a crosswise street"; "the crosswise dimension" [ant: lengthways, lengthwise] 2: in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross

n 1: the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: death, dying, demise] [ant: birth] v 1: transfer by a lease or by a will

v 1: look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately" [syn: contemn, despise, scorn, disdain]

n 1: an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something; "the theatrical notion of disguise is always associated with catastrophe in his stories" [syn: disguise, camouflage] 2: any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity 3: the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance; "he is a master of disguise" [syn: disguise, camouflage] v 1: make unrecognizable; "The herb masks the garlic taste"; "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank" [syn: disguise, mask]

adv 1: with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge; "he sawed the board edgeways"; "held it edgewise" [syn: edgeways, edgewise] 2: as if by an edge; barely; "I could not get a word in edgewise" [syn: edgewise, edgeways]

adv 1: on end or upright; "sticks leaning against the wall endways" [syn: endways, endwise] 2: in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise; "endways pressure" [syn: endways, endwise] 3: with the end forward or toward the observer; "houses built endways" [syn: endways, endwise, end on]

n 1: (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)

n 1: strips of potato fried in deep fat [syn: french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries, chips]

n 1: an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" [syn: guise, pretense, pretence, pretext]

v 1: perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding" [syn: improvise, improvize, ad-lib, extemporize, extemporise] 2: manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand; "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks" [syn: improvise, extemporize]

v 1: make an incision into by carving or cutting

adv 1: if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial); "at least he survived"; "they felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary"; "the influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching" [syn: at least, leastways, leastwise, at any rate]

adv 1: in the direction of the length; "He cut the paper lengthwise" [syn: lengthways, lengthwise, longwise, longways, longitudinally] adj 1: running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing; "the lengthwise dimension" [syn: lengthwise, lengthways] [ant: crosswise]

adv 1: in like or similar manner; "He was similarly affected"; "some people have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil"- Samuel Johnson [syn: similarly, likewise] 2: in addition; "he has a Mercedes, too" [syn: besides, too, also, likewise, as well] 3: equally; "parents and teachers alike demanded reforms" [syn: alike, likewise]

adv 1: in no manner; "they are nowise different" [syn: nowise, to no degree]

adv 1: in other respects or ways; "he is otherwise normal"; "the funds are not otherwise available"; "an otherwise hopeless situation" 2: in another and different manner; "very soon you will know differently"; "she thought otherwise"; "there is no way out other than the fire escape"; [syn: differently, otherwise, other than] adj 1: other than as supposed or expected; "the outcome was otherwise"

adj 1: larger than normal for its kind [syn: outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized]

adj 1: of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches" [syn: choice, prime(a), prize, quality, select] n 1: something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery; "the prize was a free trip to Europe" [syn: prize, award] 2: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] 3: something given as a token of victory [syn: trophy, prize] v 1: hold dear; "I prize these old photographs" [syn: prize, value, treasure, appreciate] 2: to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" [syn: pry, prise, prize, lever, jimmy] 3: regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity" [syn: respect, esteem, value, prize, prise] [ant: disesteem, disrespect]

n 1: the act of rewriting something [syn: revision, revisal, revise, rescript] v 1: make revisions in; "revise a thesis" 2: revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving; "We must retool the town's economy" [syn: retool, revise]

n 1: a growth in strength or number or importance [ant: downfall, fall] 2: the act of changing location in an upward direction [syn: rise, ascent, ascension, ascending] 3: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade] [ant: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall] 4: a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" [syn: rise, rising, ascent, ascension] [ant: fall] 5: the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike" [syn: raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase] 6: the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises [syn: upgrade, rise, rising slope] 7: a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground [syn: lift, rise] 8: (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; "the emanation of the Holy Spirit"; "the rising of the Holy Ghost"; "the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son" [syn: emanation, rise, procession] 9: an increase in cost; "they asked for a 10% rise in rates" [syn: rise, boost, hike, cost increase] 10: increase in price or value; "the news caused a general advance on the stock market" [syn: advance, rise] v 1: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise] [ant: come down, descend, fall, go down] 2: increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year" [syn: rise, go up, climb] 3: rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded" [syn: arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up] [ant: lie, lie down, sit, sit down] 4: rise up; "The building rose before them" [syn: rise, lift, rear] 5: come to the surface [syn: surface, come up, rise up, rise] 6: come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow] 7: move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great [syn: ascend, move up, rise] 8: go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered" [syn: wax, mount, climb, rise] [ant: wane] 9: become more extreme; "The tension heightened" [syn: heighten, rise] 10: get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise] [ant: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in] 11: rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list" [syn: rise, jump, climb up] 12: become heartened or elated; "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news" 13: exert oneself to meet a challenge; "rise to a challenge"; "rise to the occasion" 14: take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance [syn: rebel, arise, rise, rise up] 15: increase in volume; "the dough rose slowly in the warm room" [syn: rise, prove] 16: come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" [syn: rise, come up, uprise, ascend] [ant: go down, go under, set] 17: return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise" [syn: resurrect, rise, uprise]

adv 1: toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows" [syn: sideways, sideway, sidewise] 2: with one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise" [syn: sideways, sideway, sidewise] 3: from the side; obliquely; "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes viewed sidewise" [syn: sideway, sideways, sidewise]

adj 1: (used in combination) sized; "the economy-size package"; "average-size house" n 1: the physical magnitude of something (how big it is); "a wolf is about the size of a large dog" 2: the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing); "he wears a size 13 shoe" 3: any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics; "size gives body to a fabric" [syn: size, sizing] 4: the actual state of affairs; "that's the size of the situation"; "she hates me, that's about the size of it" [syn: size, size of it] 5: a large magnitude; "he blanched when he saw the size of the bill"; "the only city of any size in that area" v 1: cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance) 2: sort according to size 3: make to a size; bring to a suitable size

adv 1: at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction [syn: slantwise, slantways]

adv 1: proceeding in steps; "the voltage was increased stepwise" [syn: stepwise, step by step] adj 1: one thing at a time [syn: bit-by-bit, in small stages, piecemeal, step-by-step, stepwise]

n 1: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence [syn: guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis] v 1: infer from incomplete evidence 2: imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it" [syn: suspect, surmise]

n 1: the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you 2: a sudden unexpected event 3: the act of surprising someone [syn: surprise, surprisal] v 1: cause to be surprised; "The news really surprised me" 2: come upon or take unawares; "She surprised the couple"; "He surprised an interesting scene" 3: attack by storm; attack suddenly [syn: storm, surprise]

adj 1: showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom; "an unwise investor is soon impoverished" 2: not appropriate to the purpose [syn: inexpedient, unwise]

adv 1: in the direction of the breadth; "cut the cloth breadthwise" [syn: breadthwise, breadthways, broadwise]

adv 1: in the direction of the length; "He cut the paper lengthwise" [syn: lengthways, lengthwise, longwise, longways, longitudinally]

adj 1: having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment [syn: streetwise, street smart, with-it]

v 1: talk to oneself [syn: monologuize, monologuise, soliloquize, soliloquise]