Rut

//ɹʌt//

Synonyms for "rut" (319 found)

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Closest matches (64)

estrus furrow alameda be in heat beat beaten path beaten track berm bezel bicycle path boardwalk bridle path bump bureaucracy bureaucratism canal canalize carve catwalk chamfer

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channel chase

Noun(2 words)

groove heat

Verb(40 words)

hump bang bauf boff boink bone bonk eff expletive deleted frack frak frick frig fuck know know someone in the biblical sense penetrate pound roger root

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screw shag shelve any of thesaurus:copulate + "with"approach ball be with beat bed beep blissom boom-boom bop bounce breed brim bull bump nasties bump uglies catch a dick

Strong matches (96)

chink chinoiserie chisel chuckhole come in corrugate corrugation crack cranny crimp cut dado daily grind desire dike ditch engrave engraving esplanade estral cycle

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estruate estruation estrum fastwalk fever fever heat fever of excitement fire flute fluting foot pavement footpath footway fury of lust garden path gash goffer gouge grind

Verb(55 words)

cohabit coit coitize company copulate copulate with couple dance dick diddle dig out dight dip one's pen in someone's inkwell discuss uganda do do it do the deed do the nasty doink drill

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Noun(2 words)

estrus furrow

Related words (159)

groove gully heat hiking trail incise incision itch for jog trot lust lust after mall microgroove mudhole pace parade path pathway pitchhole pleat plow

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Verb(95 words)

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Noun(4 words)

grunt oestrus roar routine

Related word relations

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9 relation types

More general

13 entries

channel cut into delve dig experience feel groove modus operandi physical condition physiological condition physiological state routine turn over

Synonyms

2 entries

estrus furrow

Related terms

2 entries

heat rut roh

derived

7 entries

in a rut rutless ruttish rutty rutway snowrut stuck in a rut

etymologically related_to

1 entries

rutter

has context

1 entries

zoology

is a

2 entries

groove routine

manner of

1 entries

related to

14 entries

deer elk furrow groove life cycle mammal mating oestrus roaring rote routine sexual intercourse track white tailed deer

Translations

169 translations across 40 languages.

Armenian

1 entries

անվակոս noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

Bulgarian

4 entries

коловоз noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
разгоненост noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
рутина noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)
набраздявам verb (make a furrow)

Catalan

1 entries

zel noun (sexual desire or oestrus)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

發情 /发情 noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
轍 /辙 noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

Czech

4 entries

(vyjetá) kolej noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
rutina noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)
stereotyp noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)
stopa noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

Danish

4 entries

brunst noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
trummerum noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)
vane noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)
være i brunst verb (to be in the annual rut)

Dutch

4 entries

bronst noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
geul noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
groef noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
spoor noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

Esperanto

2 entries

radsulko noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
vojsulko noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

Finnish

4 entries

ajoura noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
kiima noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
kiima-aika noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
ura noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

French

4 entries

ornière noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
ornière noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)
rut noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
voie de garage noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)

Galician

3 entries

rilleira noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
rodal noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
rodeira noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

German

4 entries

Brunft noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
Brunst noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
Furche noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
Spur noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

Hungarian

4 entries

bőgés noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
dürgés noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
rigyetés noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
üzekedés noun (sexual desire or oestrus)

Ingrian

1 entries

uurran noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

Italian

3 entries

estro noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
foia noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
fregola noun (sexual desire or oestrus)

Japanese

3 entries

発情 noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
轍 noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
盛りがつく verb (to be in the annual rut)

Korean

1 entries

발정 noun (sexual desire or oestrus)

Latgalian

1 entries

rūja noun (sexual desire or oestrus)

Latin

3 entries

orbita noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
orbita noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)
salebra noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

Latvian

1 entries

riests noun (sexual desire or oestrus)

Lithuanian

2 entries

ruja noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
rujoti verb (to be in the annual rut)

Macedonian

4 entries

бра́зда noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
ко́ловоз noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
разго́нетост noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
ру́тина noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)

Occitan

4 entries

calor noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
carral noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
carral noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)
gèst noun (sexual desire or oestrus)

Ottoman Turkish

3 entries

قیزغینلق noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
چیغیر noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
سیمك verb (to be in the annual rut)

Persian

1 entries

رد noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

Polish

2 entries

koleina noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
ruja noun (sexual desire or oestrus)

Portuguese

4 entries

cio noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
marasmo noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)
ramerrão noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)
rodeira noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

Romanian

4 entries

făgaș noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
obicei noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)
rutină noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
rutină noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)

Russian

4 entries

борозда́ noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
гон noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
колея́ noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
полова́я охо́та noun (sexual desire or oestrus)

Scottish Gaelic

3 entries

clais noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
clais noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)
dàmhair noun (sexual desire or oestrus)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

estrus noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
kolotrag noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
goniti se verb (to be in the annual rut)
tjerati se verb (to be in the annual rut)

Sindhi

1 entries

وَڙْجَڻُ verb (to be in the annual rut)

Slovak

1 entries

ruja noun (sexual desire or oestrus)

Slovene

2 entries

gonitev noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
gonjenje noun (sexual desire or oestrus)

Spanish

4 entries

berrea noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
brama noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
cachondez noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
calamina noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

Swedish

2 entries

brunst noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
löpa verb (to be in the annual rut)

Tagalog

2 entries

bal-ak noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
lubyak noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

Turkish

3 entries

kızışma noun (sexual desire or oestrus)
boğasamak verb (to be in the annual rut)
kızışmak verb (to be in the annual rut)

Ukrainian

4 entries

борозна noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
вибоїна noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
звичка noun (fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling)
колія noun (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)

Welsh

1 entries

rhidiad noun (sexual desire or oestrus)

Sample sentences

21 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I'm stuck in a rut in my boring job and need to do something new.

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She has a boyfriend she's been going out with since high school, but she feels their relationship is in a rut, so she's become discontented.

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What I dread most is to get into a rut.

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I'm stuck in a rut.

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