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Keel over. (Colloq.) overturn, capsize, tip over.
keen, a. sharp, acute, trenchant; penetrating, shrewd, astute, discerning; piercing, poignant, excruciating, a crimonious, mordacious, bitter, intense, severe; eager, ardent, ravenous, vehement.
keep, n. custody, charge; maintenance, support; stronghold, donjon; condition, case.
keep, v. detain, restrain, hold, retain, repress, withhold; preserve, conserve; maintain, continue; guard, shield, defend, protect, screen, preserve; entertain, harbor; observe, adhere to, fulfill; commemorate, celebrate, solemnize; support, sustain, provide for.
keep back. reserve, withhold; restrain, repress, check.
keep company with. associate with, accompany, go with.
keep down. hold in subjection, restrain, hinder, subdue.
keeper, n. warden; superintendent, curator, custodian, guardian, attendant, defender, overseer.
keep from. abstain from, refrain from.
keeping, n. holding, restraint, custody, guard, guardianship, protection, tutelage; detention, retention; maintenance support, subsistence, board; conformity, congruity, harmony, consistency, correspondence; observance; celebration, commemoration, fulfillment.
keeping back. reservation, reserving, withholding; restraint, repression, checking.
keep on. proceed, continue, persist.
keepsake, n. memento, souvenir.
keep to. adhere to.
keep under. hold in subjection, subdue, mortify.
keep up. maintain, continue.
kelter, n. (Colloq.) condition, order.
kernel, n. seed, grain; nucleus; gist, core, pith, substance, essence, marrow. Associated words: enucleate, enucleation, exacinate, exacination.
kerosene, n. coal oil, petroleum.
kettle, n. caldron (a large kettle).
kettledrum, n. tympano; pl. tympani.
key, n. Associated words: claviger, clavigerous, cleidomancy, escutcheon, lock.
key, n. clew, solution, guide, explanation, elucidation, clavis; wharf, quay; forelock, cotter, bar, pin; samara.
keyboard, n. clavier.
kick, v. spurn, calcitrate, recalcitrate, winch; resist, oppose; recoil.
kick, n. kicking, opposition.
kicking, n. spurning, recalcitration, calcitration, winch; opposition, resistance.
kicking, a. recalcitrant, calcitrant, resistant.
kiddy, v. (Slang) deceive, outwit, hoax.
kidnapper, n. abductor, man-stealer.
kidnapping, n. abduction.
kidney, n. Associated words: nephrology, nephrotomy, nephritis, renal, emunctory, nephritic, loins, reins.
kidney, n. sort, kind, variety, disposition.
kidney-shaped, a. reniform.
kidney stone. nephrite, jade.
kill, v. slay, slaughter, murder, assassinate, butcher, despatch, execute, lynch, massacre, burke, immolate, guillotine, decimate, destroy, blast; counteract, neutralize; quell, extinguish.
killer, n. slayer, murderer, butcher, assassin, assassinator, executor, destroyer.
killing, n. slaying, slaughter, butchering, butchery, assassination, massacre, strangulation, immolation, holocaust, execution, fusillade, carnage, murder, manslaughter, chaud-medley, lynching, guillotine, burkism, garrote, chance-medley, decimation, assideration, destruction, blasting; counteraction, neutralization.
killing, a. fatal, mortal, deadly, destructive; captivating, charming, fascinating.
kilter, n. (Colloq.) condition, order.
kin, n. relationship; relatives, relations, kindred, kinsfolk, kinsmen.
kin, a. kindred.
kind, a. indulgent, compassionate, merciful, lenient, clement, benignant, gracious, benevolent, kind-hearted, forbearing, benign, beneficent, humane, obliging.
kind, n. variety, genus, species, strain, breed, nature, genre, sort, style, character, description, kidney.
kind-hearted, a. compassionate, lenient, clement, kind.
kindle, v. enkindle, fire, ignite, incite, inflame, rouse.
kindling, n. enkindling, incitement, accension.
kindly, a. kind.
kindness, n. compassion, benignity, benevolence, kindliness, graciousness, clemency, compassionateness; favor, service, good turn.
kindred, n. relationship; relatives, relations, kinsfolk, kin, kinsmen.
kindred, a. related, congenial, allied, similar.
kine, n. pl. cows, cattle.
king, n. monarch, sovereign, potentate, regulus. Associated words: regicide royalty, regnal, regnant, regnancy, regalia, viceroy, camarilla, dynastic, dynasty.
kingdom, n. empire, dominion, sovereignty, monarchy, realm.
kingly, a. royal, regal, monarchical; sovereign, august, majestic, grand. Antonyms: servile, mean, abject, slavish, unkingly.
king’s evil. scrofula.
kink, v. snarl, become entangled.
kink, n. snarl, knot, entanglement, twist; crotchet, whim, caprice, eccentricity.
kinky, a. snarled, tangled, knotted; crotchety, eccentric, capricious.
kinsman, n. relative.
kiss, n. osculation, buss, smack; pax (kiss of peace).
kissing, n. osculation.—a. osculant, oscillatory.
kitchen, n. cookroom, cuisine, scullery (back kitchen); galley (Nautical). Associated words: scullion, culinary, olitory.
kith, n. acquaintance.
knack, n. gimcrack, trinket, toy, plaything, knickknack, kickshaws, gewgaw, bauble; skill, readiness, aptitude, proficiency, dexterity, adroitness; trick, device.
knarl, n. knot, gnarl, knag, knurl, node.
knarled, a. knotted, gnarled, knurly, gnarly, knotty, knurled, knarred.
knave, n. villain, rascal, scamp. See scoundrel.
knavery, n. villainy, rascality, scoundrelism, chicanery, knavishness, roguery.
knavish, a. unprincipled, rascally, villainous.
knee, n. Associated words: genuflect, genuflection, ham, hock, gonitis, stifle, geniculate, dib, quadriceps.
knee breeches. smallclothes, knickerbockers.
kneecap, n. patella, kneepan.
kneeling desk. priedieu.
knickerbockers, n. pl. knee breeches, smallclothes.
knickknack, n. gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, knack, curio, bric-a-brac.
knife, n. dagger, stiletto, dirk, poniard, bowie-knife, misericorde, anlace, yataghan, machete, bolo, handjar, skean, creese, barong, sword, billhook, saber; scalpel, lancet, bistoury; jackknife, pen-knife, pocket-knife. Associated words: cutler, cutlery, sheath, sheathe, unsheathe, scabbard, cultrivorous, cultrate, cultriform, tang, scale, spring, blade, kick, spatula.
knight, n. man-at-arms; champion, partisan, lover, gallant.
knighthood, n. chivalry. Associated word: accolade.
knightly, a. chivalrous, gallant.
knob, n. excrescence, boss, lump, tubercle, knop, stud, hard swelling; finial, knosp.
knock, v. rap; clash, bump; strike, beat.—n. blow, stroke; rap.
knock about. (Colloq.) wander about, saunter, stroll.
knock down. fell, floor, prostrate.
knockknee, n. inknee.
knock under. yield, submit, give in.
knoll, n. hillock, mound.
knot, n. entanglement, snarl, intricacy, complication; cluster, group, band, bevy, gang, company; joint, node, knag, burl, gnarl, knob, nodule, nodosity; tuft, bunch.
knot, v. entangle, tie, snarl. Antonyms: disentangle, unravel, untie.
knotted, a. knurled, knaggy, gnarled, gnarly; snarled, entangled, interwoven.
knotty, a. knotted, gnarled, crossgrained; intricate, difficult, complicated.
knowable, a. ascertainable, cognizable, cognoscible, intelligible, recognizable. Antonyms: unknowable, unascertainable, incognoscible, unrecognizable.
knowall, n. (Colloq.) wiseacre, quidnunc.
knowing, a. intelligent, sagacious, wise, clever; expressive, significant; (Colloq.) artful, sharp, cunning.
knowingly, adv. consciously, intelligently, wittingly, designedly, sagely, purposely, sapiently, significantly, expressively.
knowledge, n. learning, lore, erudition, culture, enlightenment, attainments, information; cognizance, apprehension, cognition, understanding, ken; omniscience (universal knowledge); prescience (foreknowledge); polymathy. Antonyms: sciolism, ignorance, inerudition, dilettanteism pedantry, unfamiliarity.
knuckle bones. dibs.
knuckle to. (Colloq.) submit to, yield, cringe, obey.
kodak, n. camera (portable).