Synonyms for boot
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1. bootnoun

   footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg

   Synonyms:
   iron boot, charge, kicking, rush, bang, flush, kick, iron heel, thrill, the boot

2. bootnoun

   British term for the luggage compartment in a car

   Synonyms:
   iron boot, charge, kicking, rush, bang, flush, kick, iron heel, thrill, the boot

3. bang, 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, kick, bloom, gripe, heraldic bearing, billing, cathexis, clap, the boot, tutelage, hot flash, eruption, 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, beef

4. bootnoun

   protective casing for something that resembles a leg

   Synonyms:
   iron boot, charge, kicking, rush, bang, flush, kick, iron heel, thrill, the boot

5. boot, the boot, iron boot, iron heelnoun

   an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg

   Synonyms:
   iron boot, charge, kicking, rush, bang, flush, kick, iron heel, thrill, the boot

6. bootnoun

   a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed

   Synonyms:
   iron boot, charge, kicking, rush, bang, flush, kick, iron heel, thrill, the boot

7. kick, boot, kickingverb

   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, kick, iron heel, thrill, flush, bitch

8. bootverb

   kick; give a boot to

   Synonyms:
   reboot, bring up

9. boot, reboot, bring upverb

   cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes

   "boot your computer"

   Synonyms:
   raise, get up, cite, rear, nurture, elevate, parent, name, reboot, advert, stir, put forward, call down, arouse, conjure, evoke, call forth, lift, mention, bring up, refer, invoke, conjure up

Matched Categories

1. • Excitement
   • Footwear
   • Instrument Of Torture
   • Kick
   • Revive
   • Shell
   • Torture

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1. bootverb

   Synonyms:
   [Generally used impersonally.] profit, benefit, advantage

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1. bootnoun

   Synonyms:
   premium, bonus, buskin, gamashes

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1. List of paraphrases for "boot":

   bootable, initialization, start, startup, booting, starter, boots, cranking, bootup, grubbing-up, boot-up, restart, starting, init, landing, initializer, boat, reboot, bootstrapping, start-up, initializing, home, beginning, launch, crank, initialize, initiate, initialisation, commencement, trunk, dust, reset, hopper, bale

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How to use boot in a sentence?

1. Dennis Crow:

   A [ rattlesnake ] popped out and grabs me on the side of the boot, i jumped a little bit and turned to my side, and saw that both of his fangs were stuck in my boot.

2. Matthew Haines:

   I will not boot people who are trying to do the right thing.

3. Dan McCready:

   We understand that we need to work together, that we need to work across the aisle and serve the people and boot some of these politicians out who are in Washington for all the wrong reasons.

4. Michael Gove:

   If we vote to stay, we are not settling for the status quo ... we are voting to be a hostage locked in the boot of a car driven by others to a place and at a pace that we have no control over.

5. Christen Kuikoua:

   I am not in a competition to dominate, We all here have different strength and the only way to succeed is to give your best, be the best and stay at best. We are family now no matter we like it or not. It not the army boot camp that defines us it's our unity that do.