The List of Homonyms

This is The List of Homonyms which contains all the Homonyms.

Rain:

1. The condensed moisture of the atmosphere falling visibly to earth in separate drops

2. A large quantity of things falling or descending

Rein:

1. A long, narrow strap attached at one end to a horse’s bit, typically used in pairs to guide or check a horse in riding or driving

2. To check or guide a horse by tugging on its reins

3. (Reins)The power to direct and control

Reign:

1. To rule as a monarch or a king

2. The period of rule of monarch

3. The period during which someone or something is predominant or pre-eminent


Raise:

1. Lift or move to a higher position or level

2. Construct or build(a structure)

3. Increase the amount, level or strength of

4. Promote to higher level

5. Cause to be heard or felt, considered

6. Generate (a bill, invoice)

7. Collect or levy(money or resources)

8. Bring up a child

9. Breed or grow(animals or plants)

10. Wake up from sleep or bring back from death

11. Abandon or force to abandon (a blockade, embargo, siege etc…)

Raze: Tear down and destroy (a building, town, village etc…)

Rise: Get up, stand up, come up, come out etc…


Rap: A sharp knock, to strike with a series of rapid audible blows

Wrap:

1. Cover or enclose in paper or soft material

2. (Informal) Finish or conclude something


Read: To look at and comprehend the meaning of written or printed matter by interpreting the character or symbols of which it is composed, speak aloud (the written or printed matter)

Reed: A tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family that grows in water or on marshy ground


Roe:

1. The mass of eggs contained in the ovaries of a female fish or shellfish, especially when ripe and used as food

2. A small deer with a reddish summer coat that turns grayish in water

Row:

1. A number of people or things in a more or less straight line

2. Propel a boat with oars

3. (Informal) A heated quarrel

4. A loud noise or uproar


Root: A temporary stop in action or in speech

Route: A way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination, a path of travel


Rot:

1. Decompose by action of bacteria and fungi, decay

2. The process of decaying

3. Gradually deteriorate or decline

Wrought: (Of metal) beaten out or shaped by hammering


Rote: Mechanical or habitual repetition

Wrote: Has written, past tense of write


Rude: Impolite, without manners and a sense of etiquette

Rued: Regretted, to have felt sorry about

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