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Antonyms for kick
kɪkkick
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kick, boot, kickingnoun
the act of delivering a blow with the foot
"he gave the ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent"
Synonyms:
iron boot, charge, squawk, beef, kicking, rush, bang, recoil, the boot, gripe, iron heel, boot, thrill, flush, bitchbang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kicknoun
the swift release of a store of affective force
"they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
Synonyms:
iron boot, peak, recoil, strike, haste, accusation, thrill, shudder, blossom, commission, electric charge, prime, squawk, belt, explosive charge, blush, fringe, smash, care, hit, knock, bam, complaint, bloom, gripe, heraldic bearing, billing, cathexis, clap, the boot, tutelage, hot flash, eruption, boot, efflorescence, outpouring, bursting charge, smasher, armorial bearing, guardianship, direction, rosiness, kicking, quiver, chill, charge, upsurge, heyday, rushing, frisson, bearing, spate, hurry, tingle, flower, flush, bitch, bang, bash, blast, rush, shiver, burster, iron heel, mission, gush, surge, beefrecoil, kicknoun
the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
Synonyms:
charge, rebound, repercussion, kicking, squawk, rush, bang, recoil, gripe, backlash, boot, thrill, flush, bitch, beefgripe, kick, beef, bitch, squawknoun
informal terms for objecting
"I have a gripe about the service here"
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charge, squawk, beef, kicking, cunt, rush, beef cattle, bang, recoil, boeuf, gripe, boot, thrill, flush, bitchkicknoun
the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs)
"a sidecar is a smooth drink but it has a powerful kick"
Synonyms:
charge, squawk, beef, kicking, rush, bang, recoil, gripe, boot, thrill, flush, bitchkick, kickingverb
a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics
"the kick must be synchronized with the arm movements"; "the swimmer's kicking left a wake behind him"
Synonyms:
charge, squawk, beef, kicking, rush, bang, recoil, gripe, boot, thrill, flush, bitchkickverb
drive or propel with the foot
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recoil, plain, kvetch, quetch, give up, complain, kick back, sound offkickverb
thrash about or strike out with the feet
Synonyms:
recoil, plain, kvetch, quetch, give up, complain, kick back, sound offkickverb
strike with the foot
"The boy kicked the dog"; "Kick the door down"
Synonyms:
recoil, plain, kvetch, quetch, give up, complain, kick back, sound offkickverb
kick a leg up
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recoil, plain, kvetch, quetch, give up, complain, kick back, sound offkick back, recoil, kickverb
spring back, as from a forceful thrust
"The gun kicked back into my shoulder"
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rebound, sound off, kick back, quail, spring, flinch, funk, plain, squinch, ricochet, cringe, give up, bounce, backlash, kvetch, wince, quetch, recoil, backfire, resile, complain, reverberate, take a hop, shrink, boundkick, give upverb
stop consuming
"kick a habit"; "give up alcohol"
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spare, allow, abandon, forfeit, vacate, release, resign, forgo, throw in, kvetch, surrender, part with, fall by the wayside, lay off, waive, throw overboard, quetch, dispense with, recoil, give up, stop, sound off, relinquish, throw in the towel, plain, deliver, renounce, cease, chuck up the sponge, complain, discontinue, kick back, drop out, free, drop by the wayside, forego, quit, cedekickverb
make a goal
"He kicked the extra point after touchdown"
Synonyms:
recoil, plain, kvetch, quetch, give up, complain, kick back, sound offcomplain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetchverb
express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
"My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"
Synonyms:
recoil, plain, kvetch, quetch, give up, strike up, kick back, animadvert, complain, speak out, sound off, opine, speak up
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
kicknoun
Synonyms:
kicking, oppositionkickverb
Synonyms:
spurn, calcitrate, recalcitrate, winch, resist, oppose, recoil
How to use kick in a sentence?
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
I think New Orleans kind of set the stage for everybody, and everybody’s been looking for that type, ... Taysom’s the only guy that I’ve seen that truly can play multiple spots. ... We’ll continue to kind of kick the tires on it, see if it gives us anything, but it’s credit to Feleipe because Feleipe’s worked really hard about trying to become a professional quarterback.
I dunno...it looks pretty fucked......maybe if we kick it?" extract from conversation between fudge and myself,caught on tape sometime in 2006
…Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
It was nice to make a couple of birdies coming in, granted missed a little kick-in on 14, i thought I might give Tiger Woods a chance at the 10-under mark starting the turn. Evidently I would have had to shoot 24 on the back nine to have a chance.
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