All buttonhole synonyms
butΒ·tonΒ·hole
B b verb buttonhole
- jail β a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
- accost β If someone accosts another person, especially a stranger, they stop them or go up to them and speak to them in a way that seems rude or threatening.
- urge β to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
- sue β to institute a process in law against; bring a civil action against: to sue someone for damages.
- force β physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- worry β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- demand β If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
- push β to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- assail β If someone assails you, they criticize you strongly.
- squeeze β to press forcibly together; compress.
- petition β a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit: a petition for clemency; a petition for the repeal of an unfair law.
- confront β If you are confronted with a problem, task, or difficulty, you have to deal with it.
- annoy β If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- harass β to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- hound β Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- plague β French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
- pester β to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- beleaguer β to trouble persistently; harass
- apprehend β If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
- delay β If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
- confine β To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
- decelerate β When a vehicle or machine decelerates or when someone in a vehicle decelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
- hinder β to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- retard β to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
- nab β to arrest or capture.
- pinch β to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
- inhibit β to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
- bust β a raid, search, or arrest by the police
- withhold β to hold back; restrain or check.
- intern β to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
- restrain β to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- ice β the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- mire β a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- impede β to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- constrain β To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- reserve β to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
- declaim β If you declaim, you speak dramatically, as if you were acting in a theatre.
- orate β Make a speech, especially pompously or at length.
- stump β the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- spout β to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet.
- spiel β a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- rant β to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.
- perorate β to speak at length; make a long, usually grandiloquent speech.
- rave β to talk wildly, as in delirium.
- soapbox β Also, soap box. an improvised platform, as one on a street, from which a speaker delivers an informal speech, an appeal, or political harangue.
noun buttonhole
- pot β a deep hole; pit.
- wreath β a circular band of flowers, foliage, or any ornamental work, for adorning the head or for any decorative purpose; a garland or chaplet.
- garland β Hamlin [ham-lin] /ΛhΓ¦m lΙͺn/ (Show IPA), 1860β1940, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and poet.
- vase β a vessel, as of glass, porcelain, earthenware, or metal, usually higher than it is wide, used chiefly to hold cut flowers or for decoration.