Ambiguous Words
Here's a bunch of words that, free of any other context, have a LOT of meanings. Because of this flexibility, they can be instrumental in titles for your songs, poems, stories, and jokes.
Click on each word to delve deeper into these words' meanings. The most flexible words are at the top of the list.
In other words, we cut you a break by breaking the breaks on "break" and a bunch of other ambiguous words, without taking a break!
75 meanings
break
70 meanings
cut
57 meanings
run
52 meanings
play
51 meanings
make
48 meanings
light
45 meanings
clear, draw, give, hold, set
44 meanings
fall, take
42 meanings
head, pass
41 meanings
call, carry
40 meanings
charge, point
39 meanings
catch
38 meanings
check, turn
37 meanings
close, get, right
36 meanings
cover, lift, line, open
35 meanings
go
34 meanings
beat, drive, work
33 meanings
roll
32 meanings
drop, place
31 meanings
clean, lead, raise
30 meanings
base, blow, heavy, mark
29 meanings
return
28 meanings
back, block, strike
27 meanings
good, rise, stock, touch
26 meanings
down, slip, snap
25 meanings
keep, round, see, sound, square, stick, white
24 meanings
crack, direct, flat, follow, order, pull, stand
23 meanings
center, dip, form, ground, hit, pitch, post, press, settle, shift, short, spread, twist
22 meanings
black, case, come, deal, face, free, hard, pack, pound, release, shoot, start, stop, support, swing, top, well
21 meanings
dead, deep, develop, double, dress, field, fire, hot, jump, key, last, move, pick, step, straight, wash
20 meanings
advance, burn, cast, change, control, discharge, fly, have, hook, reduce, sign, soft, spot, strain, stretch, tap, throw
19 meanings
bar, break up, dry, dull, flash, level, live, part, pop, rule, separate, strip
18 meanings
address, bank, crash, end, figure, find, flip, flush, force, frame, hang, high, kill, land, loose, match, number, piece, position, present, quarter, rack, rest, rough, scale, score, service, shell, shot, solid, split, stamp, still, tender, tie
17 meanings
active, bad, big, bound, drag, drift, exchange, extend, fair, feel, fix, home, job, leave, out, puff, range, register, regular, scratch, shock, slack, spike, squeeze, string, take in, train, trim, upset, walk, wild, yield
16 meanings
balance, blast, blue, bolt, choke, cold, cross, crown, do, first, fit, float, foul, fret, hack, hand, issue, low, mean, model, offer, pick up, plate, ride, rush, seat, serve, show, smash, stay, stone, stroke, study, sweet, tight, track, waste
15 meanings
act, air, answer, attack, band, bear, book, brush, bull, dark, easy, escape, fast, finish, flare, grain, grant, gray, hunt, lock, loop, master, name, pin, push, rail, represent, review, ring, root, screen, seal, second, section, set up, shake, sharp, sweep, time, tone, transfer, true, wind
14 meanings
account, approach, away, bag, be, bond, bow, chip, cloud, color, colour, corner, court, design, die, draft, even, firm, flow, foot, freeze, game, green, guard, heave, house, hurt, jack, kick, life, load, look, march, mold, nose, opening, outside, pit, plug, port, project, raw, render, reverse, secret, shade, shaft, side, stall, stuff, subject, switch, take out, think, tip, trace, up, wave, young
13 meanings
ball, bare, beam, bed, better, bill, bite, board, box, brace, broken, c, card, condition, counter, course, credit, cutting, dig, dirty, express, fresh, front, full, gain, grade, grey, hall, joint, link, major, man, mate, measure, medium, meet, mind, mount, natural, note, patch, pole, positive, process, quiet, rank, reach, real, receive, report, rich, sack, seed, sink, small, spare, spin, splash, superior, take up, taste, test, thick, thin, thrust, tumble, union, use, view, visit, voice, watch, way, wrong
12 meanings
action, average, bang, bend, bitter, bob, body, bottom, bowl, bridge, build, burst, butt, camp, chain, collar, come up, command, commission, contract, convert, cool, correct, count, crop, crush, cry, dash, date, defense, deliver, deposit, dissolve, division, dock, extension, feed, flag, flick, flight, floor, focus, fold, forward, give up, glass, glow, help, hitch, horn, just, know, long, minor, miss, negative, net, passing, pay, picture, pinch, prime, proof, puddle, queen, read, recall, record, ruffle, ruin, save, say, shadow, silver, skin, smack, smooth, star, style, tack, tease, thing, title, tough, trade, trap, trip, trust, turn out, warm, weak, wear, wing, withdraw
11 meanings
accept, ace, aim, begin, bell, bind, bit, bright, bring, cap, capital, capture, care, carrier, centre, channel, chop, circle, claim, click, clinch, clip, club, collapse, come out, compound, concentrate, connect, contact, core, crab, cup, cycle, decline, defence, demand, exercise, fail, false, fill, flap, flux, gather, gauge, get off, grass, grind, guide, heat, heel, hood, host, ice, image, intimate, irregular, jackson, jam, jerk, knock, lap, large, late, like, liquid, mass, mat, material, mature, mould, mouth, movement, new, notice, obscure, offset, operation, opposite, pad, pall, pile, plain, plaster, pocket, pool, power, prick, print, pump, question, radical, rag, rat, rear, reference, relief, relieve, reserve, resistance, resolution, retire, retreat, ridge, rig, running, secure, shape, shine, shower, slick, slow, so, soak, sour, source, spoil, spring, standard, state, stiff, stir, suffer, swallow, swell, tail, talk, transport, troll, trouble, upgrade, value, variation, wheel, whip, whistle, wide, wilson, word
10 meanings
allow, alternate, apply, around, badly, bat, bay, belt, bid, blaze, blind, boom, border, bounce, brand, bust, canvass, cat, character, clap, clutch, combine, common, compact, company, complete, concord, content, continue, cradle, crank, curve, day, depression, digest, dim, distribute, divine, drink, dump, edge, edward, empty, engage, explode, expose, exposure, extract, factor, far, fine, flood, fox, function, general, gentle, grace, grand, grip, gross, grow, gum, hammer, heart, hole, idle, inactive, indifferent, inside, interest, introduce, james, king, knot, labor, lean, left, lie, little, living, lodge, lose, lost, love, maintain, make out, mantle, moderate, nail, narrow, pace, paddle, panel, passage, pattern, peg, perch, plant, plunge, poke, pot, practice, program, projection, purge, put, put on, put out, race, radiate, rally, rap, ray, regard, regenerate, representation, romance, runner, scene, school, scrape, screw, share, sheet, single, sit, skim, slice, slide, slug, smell, smith, smoke, softness, space, spat, special, speed, spell, spill, spiral, spur, stage, stake, steady, stem, sting, stream, strong, submit, suit, sure, surface, tag, tongue, tramp, translate, tread, treat, try, under, undercut, vote, water, waver, weight, west, wish, yoke, zero
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