Synonyms for reef
rifreef

Princeton's WordNet

1. reefnoun

   a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water

2. Witwatersrand, Rand, Reefnoun

   a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese

3. reefverb

   one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind

4. reefverb

   lower and bring partially inboard

   "reef the sailboat's mast"

5. reefverb

   roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area

6. reefverb

   reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef

Matched Categories

1. • Transvaal
   • Furl
   • Lower
   • Reduce
   • Region
   • Ridge

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1. reefverb

   Synonyms:
   take in (sail)

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1. List of paraphrases for "reef":

   reefs, coral, reeve

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1. Adam Markham:

   I was disappointed that the final product ultimately omitted case studies on the Australian sites—the Great Barrier Reef, Tasmanian wilderness and Kakadu National Park.

2. Terry Hughes:

   Normal recovery rates for the reef are being impinged by the scale of the loss of the adult root stock -- that's the grown up corals that make the babies.

3. Gavin Naylor:

   They are archetypal, typical looking sharks like a great reef or bull shark. They sort of look like that but they have tiny little eyes and big broad fins, these are adaption for living in very turbid water. If you have a look where these things live, the visibility is about an inch. It’s completely muddy water.

4. Collin Koh:

   The Balabac site allows for intelligence collection and staging of peacetime air and naval activities in the area, which can put Mischief Reef under closer scrutiny.

5. Peter Gash:

   I have no doubt that they (UNESCO delegates) had a perception that the barrier reef was dead. That it was doomed, it was down, it was in a bad place. And that's not the case at all, it's my belief, and it's the belief of many people, that the barrier reef has turned the corner and it's slowly improving.