Unscramble mates

Definition of mates

noun:

• a pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago". Synonyms: couple, match.
• the officer below the master on a commercial ship. Synonyms: first mate, mate.
• a fellow member of a team; "it was his first start against his former teammates". Synonyms: mate, teammate.
• the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner); "he loved the mare and all her mates", "camels hate leaving their mates". Synonyms: mate.
• a person's partner in marriage. Synonyms: better half, married person, mate, partner, spouse.
• an exact duplicate; "when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook". Synonyms: match, mate.
• one of a pair; "he lost the mate to his shoe", "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown". Synonyms: fellow, mate.
• South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea. Synonyms: Ilex paraguariensis, Paraguay tea, mate.
• informal term for a friend of the same sex. Synonyms: mate.
• South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate. Synonyms: mate.
• a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king. Synonyms: checkmate, mate.

verb:

• engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring". Synonyms: copulate, couple, mate, pair.
• bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one", "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?", "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project". Synonyms: couple, match, mate, pair, twin.
• place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves". Synonyms: checkmate, mate.
• twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord". Synonyms: entangle, mat, snarl, tangle. Antonyms: disentangle, unsnarl.
• change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The fabric felted up after several washes". Synonyms: felt, felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up.

Related words

bang, bed, bigamist, bonk, breed, bugger, consort, cover, deflower, eff, enmesh, ensnarl, felt, fuck, helpmate, helpmeet, honeymooner, hubby, hump, husband, jazz, know, love, mesh, mismatch, mismate, monogamist, monogynist, mount, newlywed, nick, polygamist, ride, ruin, screw, serve, service, sodomise, sodomize, tread, wife.

Words nearby

gates, lates, manes, martes, mate, mated, mater, matey, maths, nates, oates, rates.

Rhymes with

gates, rates, straits, yeats.