Rhymes for DEFAST

• earlier than the present time; no longer current

• the time that has elapsed

• a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)

• a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

• so as to pass a given point

• of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office

• message that is transmitted by radio or television

• a radio or television show

• broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television

• sow over a wide area, especially by hand

• cause to become widely known

• unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

• any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship

• coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads

• an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings

• a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)

• an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps

• make steady with a ballast

• a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

• directed downward

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop

• predict in advance

• judge to be probable

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen

• an athlete who is skilled in gymnastics

• a vertical spar for supporting sails

• nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground

• nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine

• any sturdy upright pole

• a broadcast of news or commentary on the news

• a person who is rejected (from society or home)

• excluded from a society

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• firm and dependable especially in loyalty

• To possess, own.

• To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

• Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.

• To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).

• To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.

• To experience, go through, undergo.

• To be afflicted with, suffer from.

• (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.

• Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)

• (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.

• To give birth to.

• To engage in sexual intercourse with.

• To accept as a romantic partner.

• (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.

• (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.

• (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)

• (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.

• To defeat in a fight; take.

• (obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).

• To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.

• To trick, to deceive.

• (often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.

• (often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.

• To host someone; to take in as a guest.

• To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.

• (of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.

• To make an observation of (a bird species).

• The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.

• A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist.

• The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps).

• The middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft.

• That part of the upper deck of a ship between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.

• The middle part of anything.

• the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds

• gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover

• a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling

• a cast that falls beyond the intended spot

• filled or abounding with clouds

• make overcast or cloudy

• sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches

• sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next

• a television broadcast

• broadcast via television

• struck with fear, dread, or consternation

• cat- or lion-headed Egyptian goddess; represents life-giving power of the sun

• strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants

• (botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

• pompous or pretentious talk or writing

• the mast nearest the bow in vessels with two or more masts

• the chief mast of a sailing vessel with two or more masts

• cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role

• live longer than

• cast again, in a different role

• cast again

• cast or model anew

• the food served and eaten at one time

• a broadcast of sports news or commentary

• broadcast a sports event

• cast repeatedly in the same kind of role

• identify as belonging to a certain type

• Hold fast!; desist!; stay!.

• (in imitation of pirates) listen!; pay attention!

• having color that is resistant to fading or running

• a cell from which connective tissue develops

• a destroyer of images used in religious worship

• someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions

• third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy

• a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner

• a broadcast that repeated at a later time

• broadcast again, as of a film

• confined to bed (by illness)

• well in the past; former

• (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock

• deciduous European oak valued for its tough elastic wood

• a hereditary ruler

• someone who predicts the future

• a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground

• restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place

• beat with a cane

• censure severely or angrily

• of structural members especially of concrete; cast into form before being transported to the site of installation

• a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls

• a rough preliminary model

• shape roughly

• apply roughcast to

• hew roughly, without finishing the surface

• a blast of wind laden with sand

• grind with a sandblast

• the mast next above a lower mast and topmost in a fore-and-aft rig

• air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine