Word Meanings - CONVEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

conviare, fr. L. con- + via way. See Viaduct, Voyage, and cf. 1. To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport. I will convey them by sea in fleats. 1 Kings v. 9. Convey me to my bed, then to my grave. Shak. 2. To cause to pass from

Additional info about word: CONVEY

conviare, fr. L. con- + via way. See Viaduct, Voyage, and cf. 1. To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport. I will convey them by sea in fleats. 1 Kings v. 9. Convey me to my bed, then to my grave. Shak. 2. To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas. 3. To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly , to transfer or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing. The Earl of Desmond . . . secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust. Spenser. 4. To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information. Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts. Locke. 5. To manage with privacy; to carry out. I . . . will convey the business as I shall find means. Shak. 6. To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve. 7. To accompany; to convoy. Chaucer. Syn. -- To carry; transport; bear; transmit; trnsfer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONVEY)

• Alienate
• Estrange
• abalienate
• transfer
• wean
• disaffect
• convey
• Assign
• Attribute
• apportion
• allege
• refer
• specify
• consign
• intrust
• commit
• point out
• allot to
• adduce
• advance
• appoint
• Bear
• Carry
• lift
• transport
• maintain
• uphold
• suffer
• undergo
• support
• tolerate
• waft
• yield
• sustain
• hold
• harbor
• entertain
• fill
• enact
• endure
• admit
• produce
• generate
• Bring
• Fetch
• procure
• carry
• bear
• import
• cause
• induce
• Grant
• Give
• allot
• bestow
• confer
• allow
• concede
• impart
• cede

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONVEY)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Divorce
• disconnect
• dissociate
• dissever
• Eject
• expel
• discard
• discourage
• stifle
• exclude
• banish
• dismiss
• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert

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• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
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  Having a cause.
• BRAZIL NUT
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• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• BRAST
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• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
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  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• ESTRANGE
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  To braid. Chaucer.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• BREATHE
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• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
• DEJECTION
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• TECTIBRANCHIA
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