SNEAK Synonyms

• German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)

• narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

• a police informer who implicates many people

• bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

• street names for marijuana

• shoot down, of birds

• cover with grass

• spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach

• feed with grass

• give away information about somebody

• lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner

• avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill

• move furtively

• someone who plays practical jokes on others

• someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

• a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts

• a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim

• existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment

• a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance

• a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory

• not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature

• dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention

• consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically

• make off with belongings of others

• consider apart from a particular case or instance

• give an abstract (of)

• any of various types of cabbage

• informal terms for money

• any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers

• make off with belongings of others

• someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

• a female singer

• a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge

• any of several small Old World finches

• having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow

• someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

• a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

• a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

• a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

• move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

• to go stealthily or furtively

• grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)

• show submission or fear

• make off with belongings of others

• someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

• take the place of work of someone on strike

• confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure

• marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed

• secret and sly or sordid

• a catch for locking a door

• a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

• anything that serves as an enticement

• a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

• a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something

• a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer

• a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent

• a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket

• fasten with a hook

• rip off; ask an unreasonable price

• make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle

• hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left

• take by theft

• make off with belongings of others

• hit with a hook

• catch with a hook

• to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

• secure with the foot

• entice and trap

• approach with an offer of sexual favors

• the act of giving temporary assistance

• the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity

• the event of something being raised upward

• a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

• a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill

• a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg

• one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot

• lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building

• plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised

• transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)

• a ride in a car

• the act of raising something

• raise from a lower to a higher position

• take hold of something and move it to a different location

• move upwards

• move upward

• make audible

• cancel officially

• make off with belongings of others

• raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help

• invigorate or heighten

• raise in rank or condition

• take off or away by decreasing

• rise up

• pay off (a mortgage)

• take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

• take illegally

• fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means

• take (root crops) out of the ground

• call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs

• rise upward, as from pressure or moisture

• put an end to

• remove (hair) by scalping

• remove from a seedbed or from a nursery

• remove from a surface

• perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face

• any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails

• a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye

• person who is quiet or timid

• a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad

• to go stealthily or furtively

• manipulate the mouse of a computer

• deprive of by deceit

• make off with belongings of others

• take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

• disable by drugging

• make off with belongings of others

• a painful or straitened circumstance

• an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed

• a slight but appreciable amount

• a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action

• a small sharp bite or snip

• a squeeze with the fingers

• the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

• squeeze tightly between the fingers

• make ridges into by pinching together

• make off with belongings of others

• cut the top off

• irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear

• someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions

• make off with belongings of others