All promote synonyms
proΒ·mote
P p verb promote
- hit up β to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- disciplining β Present participle of discipline.
- make over β to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- blueprinting β a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
- come around β If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- cheesing β the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.
- copped β to catch; nab.
- develop β When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- four-flush β to bluff.
- fast track β a racetrack dry and hard enough for optimum speed.
- help β to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- optate β (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
- lasted β to go on or continue in time: The festival lasted three weeks.
- hawked β a noisy effort to clear the throat.
- levering β Mechanics. a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third. Compare machine (def 4b).
- disciplined β having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
- frame up β a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
- enroot β (usually, of a plant) To take root.
- overdrawn β Past participle of overdraw.
- get a move on β to pass from one place or position to another.
- circularise β (British) alternative spelling of circularize.
- anaesthetise β anesthetize.
- give rise to 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.
- bulled β the male of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction.
- buy out β If you buy someone out, you buy their share of something such as a company or piece of property that you previously owned together.
- lay hands on β the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- be-have β to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
- careering β an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework: He sought a career as a lawyer.
- barrelling β a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- machinate β Engage in plots and intrigues; scheme.
- operate β to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
- liven β to put life into; rouse; enliven; cheer (often followed by up): What can we do to liven up the party?
- induce β to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- deal in β to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
- humored β a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- gear up β Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- anaesthetized β anesthetize.
- anesthetizing β Present participle of anesthetize.
- lie β Jonas, 1880β1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
- look after β to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- in flames β to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- build up β If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
- nourish β to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- innervated β to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
- falsify β to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- anesthetize β to cause anesthesia in; give an anesthetic to
noun promote
- cajolery β persuasion by flattery or promises; wheedling; coaxing.