All featherbed synonyms

verb featherbed

• wane — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
• goldbrick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
• ease off — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
• lay back — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• slack off — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
• slow down — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
• tyre — to furnish with tires.
• coast — The coast is an area of land that is next to the sea.
• diddle — If someone diddles you, they take money from you dishonestly or unfairly.
• doodle — a small pile of hay; haystack.
• fool around — a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
• hang around — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• horse around — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
• mess around — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
• shirk — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
• slack — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
• bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
• dog it — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
• hang out — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• lollygag — lallygag.
• monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
• screw off — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
• take it easy — relax
• drag one's feet — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
• abate — If something bad or undesirable abates, it becomes much less strong or severe.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• drop off — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• dwindle — to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
• ease — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
• flag — flagstone (def 1).
• goof off — to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
• idle — not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
• lax — not strict or severe; careless or negligent: lax morals; a lax attitude toward discipline.
• lessen — to become less.
• let up — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
• loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
• moderate — kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• relax — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
• release — to lease again.
• taper — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
• tire — Archaic. to dress (the head or hair), especially with a headdress.