All goose synonyms
goose
G g verb goose
- egg on β to incite or urge; encourage (usually followed by on).
- ascend β If you ascend a hill or staircase, you go up it.
- remind β to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something): Remind me to phone him tomorrow. That woman reminds me of my mother.
- speed β rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- heighten β to increase the height of; make higher.
- obtain β to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- jump β to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
- collect β If you collect a number of things, you bring them together from several places or from several people.
- tease β to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- total β constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
- eclipse β Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- outstrip β to outdo; surpass; excel.
- activate β If a device or process is activated, something causes it to start working.
- coax β If you coax someone into doing something, you gently try to persuade them to do it.
- bring about β To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- breed β A breed of a pet animal or farm animal is a particular type of it. For example, terriers are a breed of dog.
- promote β to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- produce β to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- convince β If someone or something convinces you of something, they make you believe that it is true or that it exists.
- cause β a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- generate β to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- rise β to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- pick up β to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- climb β If you climb something such as a tree, mountain, or ladder, or climb up it, you move towards the top of it. If you climb down it, you move towards the bottom of it.
- boost β If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
- disappear β to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
- soar β to fly upward, as a bird.
- galvanize β to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- incline β to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.
noun goose
- incitement β the act of inciting.
- ambition β If you have an ambition to do or achieve something, you want very much to do it or achieve it.
- believe β If you believe that something is true, you think that it is true, but you are not sure.
- fowl β the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken. Compare domestic fowl.
- duck β any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
- chicken β Chickens are birds which are kept on a farm for their eggs and for their meat.
- geese β a plural of goose.
- pigeon β (not in technical use) pidgin; pidgin English.
- pheasant β any of numerous large, usually long-tailed, Old World gallinaceous birds of the family Phasianidae, widely introduced.
- desire β A desire is a strong wish to do or have something.
- aid β Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
- impetus β a moving force; impulse; stimulus: The grant for building the opera house gave impetus to the city's cultural life.
- support β to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- interest β the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something: She has a great interest in the poetry of Donne.
- lift β to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- wish β to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- assistance β If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- incentive β something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.
- improvement β an act of improving or the state of being improved.
- motive β something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
- reason β a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.