All corked synonyms

verb corked

• intercept — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
• debar — If you are debarred from doing something, you are prevented from doing it by a law or regulation.
• anticipate — If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
• obviate — to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
• baffle — If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• foil — to cover or back with foil.
• interdict — Civil Law. any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
• interrupt — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
• counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
• frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
• chill — When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze.
• forfend — to defend, secure, or protect.
• stymie — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
• veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
• nix — nothing.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• spike — an ear, as of wheat or other grain.
• taboo — proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable: Taboo language is usually bleeped on TV. Synonyms: prohibited, banned, forbidden, proscribed. Antonyms: allowed, permitted, permissible; sanctioned.
• chasten — If you are chastened by something, it makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly.
• overpower — to overcome, master, or subdue by superior force: to overpower a maniac.
• overcome — to get the better of in a struggle or conflict; conquer; defeat: to overcome the enemy.
• bottle — A bottle is a glass or plastic container in which drinks and other liquids are kept. Bottles are usually round with straight sides and a narrow top.
• master — botmaster
• swallow — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
• fetter — a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
• direct — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
• manacle — a shackle for the hand; handcuff.
• impound — to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
• handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• gag — to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• guide — to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
• pinion — the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
• plaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
• gum — Often, gums. Also called gingiva. the firm, fleshy tissue covering the alveolar parts of either jaw and enveloping the necks of the teeth.
• segregate — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
• paste — copy and paste
• quarantine — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
• waterproof — impervious to water.
• asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
• inundate — to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
• quench — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
• shower — a person or thing that shows.
• shroud — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
• heap — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• stultify — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.