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  • nounfold
  • nouncommonalty
  • nouncrowd

synonyms for ruck

  • bend
  • circumvolution
  • cockle
  • convolution
  • corrugation
  • crease
  • crimp
  • crinkle
  • crumple
  • double
  • flection
  • flexure
  • furrow
  • gather
  • gathering
  • groove
  • knife-edge
  • lap
  • lapel
  • layer
  • loop
  • overlap
  • plait
  • pleat
  • plica
  • plication
  • ply
  • pucker
  • ridge
  • ruffle
  • rumple
  • shirring
  • smocking
  • tuck
  • turn
  • wrinkle
  • dog's ear
  • plicature
  • rimple
  • rivel
  • ruche

antonyms for ruck

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  • line
  • smoothness
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    How to use ruck in a sentence

    Frank joined the ruck of the demonstrators and passed through the portals of the magnificent gate.
    THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
    He's stuck up and citified, and wears gloves, and takes his meals private in his room, and all that sort of ruck.
    GALLEGHER AND OTHER STORIESRICHARD HARDING DAVIS
    He shoved the doctor forward, and followed him, kicking to right and left a ruck of weapons and dbris.
    CURSEDGEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND
    There were so much ruck and stuff under his feet that Mayo gave up searching after a time.
    BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAY
    In that riot of tempest and ruck of sea he was straining his eyes, trying to get a glimpse of the hulk on Razee.
    BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAY
    Let out a notch there, but take it calm enough up to the half not to break, and hard enough not to fall back into the ruck.
    LETTERS FROM A SELF-MADE MERCHANT TO HIS SONGEORGE HORACE LORIMER
    Spires rose from the ruck of low buildings like dead trees denuded of their branches.
    ISLE O' DREAMSFREDERICK F. MOORE
    One thinks of mothers like Mrs. Ruck, whose best-loved sons are in Afghanistan.
    GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. III (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOT
    I daresay old Ruck still stands between the sheep at his door, grinning with all his teeth, and Marbel, silly beggar!
    TONO BUNGAYH. G. WELLS
    This vast ruck of life that had sprung suddenly into existence upon the dank marshes of a lake shore.
    THE "GENIUS"THEODORE DREISER
    SYNONYM OF THE DAY
    OCTOBER 26, 1985
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    WORDS RELATED TO RUCK

    • boarders
    • callers
    • companionship
    • corteges
    • parties
    • presences
    • retinues
    • societies
    • visitors
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