All corked synonyms

verb corked

• deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
• drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
• impel — to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
• ban — To ban something means to state officially that it must not be done, shown, or used.
• concuss — to injure (the brain) by a violent blow, fall, etc
• pressurize — to raise the internal atmospheric pressure of to the required or desired level: to pressurize an astronaut's spacesuit before a walk in space.
• compose — The things that something is composed of are its parts or members. The separate things that compose something are the parts or members that form it.
• smother — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
• harness — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
• rein — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
• obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
• shy — bashful; retiring.
• throttle — Also called throttle lever. a lever, pedal, handle, etc., for controlling or manipulating a throttle valve.
• muffle — to wrap with something to deaden or prevent sound: to muffle drums.
• balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
• quiet — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
• demur — If you demur, you say that you do not agree with something or will not do something that you have been asked to do.
• squash — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
• deaden — If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
• still — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
• stumble — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
• garrote — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
• tongue-tie — impeded motion of the tongue caused especially by shortness of the frenum, which binds it to the floor of the mouth.
• appoint — If you appoint someone to a job or official position, you formally choose them for it.
• cap — A cap is a soft, flat hat with a curved part at the front which is called a peak. Caps are usually worn by men and boys.
• delimit — If you delimit something, you fix or establish its limits.
• prescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
• fix — to repair; mend.
• ration — a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
• bound — Bound is the past tense and past participle of bind.
• contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
• assign — If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
• circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
• demarcate — If you demarcate something, you establish its boundaries or limits.
• delimitate — delimit.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• shush — to order (someone or something) to be silent; hush.
• hush — to become or be silent or quiet: They hushed as the judge walked in.
• trammel — Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
• quieten — to become quiet (often followed by down).
• silence — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
• ice — the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• ram — random-access memory; computer memory available to the user for creating, loading, or running programs and for the temporary storage and manipulation of data, in which time of access to each item is independent of the storage sequence. As a storage medium, RAM is volatile, so its contents are lost when the power fails or is turned off.
• close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
• bung — A bung is a round piece of wood, cork, or rubber which you use to close the hole in a container such as a barrel or flask.
• stopple — a stopper, especially for a bottle.
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.