BUCKLE Synonyms

• cause to be attached

• be attached; be in contact with

• become attached

• create social or emotional ties

• take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority

• a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun

• an instance or single occasion for some event

• any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together

• an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress

• the act of clipping or snipping

• a sharp slanting blow

• sever or remove by pinching or snipping

• run at a moderately swift pace

• attach with a clip

• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

• terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent

• cause to be firmly attached

• become fixed or fastened

• attach to

• make tight or tighter

• spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key

• catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove

• fasten with a latch

• free from fear or doubt; easy in mind

• free from danger or risk

• not likely to fail or give way

• immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with

• financially safe

• get by special effort

• cause to be firmly attached

• assure payment of

• make certain of

• fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug

• furnish with battens

• a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting

• a shape distorted by twisting or folding

• a moral or mental distortion

• yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof

• make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

• bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat

• fall apart

• fold or collapse

• to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

• become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

• an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)

• (geology) a horizontal dislocation

• the act of lifting something with great effort

• an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting

• the act of raising something

• throwing something heavy (with great effort)

• utter a sound, as with obvious effort

• throw with great effort

• rise and move, as in waves or billows

• lift or elevate

• move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position

• breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted

• bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat

• make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit