barrels

The word “barrels” has 2 syllables: bar-rels

It's pronounced as /ˈbæɹəlz/

What is synonym and antonym for barrels?

In the thesaurus, “barrels” has 213 synonyms and 97 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for barrels along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for barrels

abundances
accelerates
armies
arrows
bags
basketfuls
basketsful
beats it
beelines
beetles
belts
bevies
blasts
blazes
blows
boatloads
bolts
bombs
bonanzas
bowls
breezes
buckets
bunches
bundles
bushels
bustles
butts
buzzes
canisters
cannikins
cannisters
cannonballs
cans
careens
careers
carloads
casks
catches up
chases
chunks
cisterns
courses
crams
crowds
crushes
darts
dashes
deals
deluges
dozen
dozens
drives
droves
drums
embarrassments
epidemics
excesses
fast-forwards
firkins
fistfuls
flies
flits
flocks
floods
gallops
gazillions
gets a move on
gobs
good deals
hares
hastens
heaps
herds
hies
highballs
hogsheads
hordes
hosts
humps
hundred
hundreds
hurls
hurries
hurtles
hustles
jets
jillion
jillions
jogs
jumps
kazillions
kegs
kilderkins
large number
lashings
lashins
legions
loads
lots
makes tracks
many and then some
masses
messes
million
millions
mobs
motors
mountains
much
multiplicities
multitudes
myriads
nips
oodles
outpaces
outruns
outstrips
overabundances
overages
overflows
overkills
overmuch
oversupplies
overtakes
packs
pails
passels
pecks
pelts
piles
pipes
plagues
platefuls
plenitudes
plenties
plentitudes
plenty
plethoras
potfuls
pots
presses
profusions
puncheons
quantities
quickens
quite a bit
races
rafts
rams
rashes
reams
redundancies
rips
rockets
rundlets
runlets
runs
rushes
rustles
scads
scampers
scoots
scores
scuds
scuffles
scurries
scuttlebutt
scuttles
seas
shakes a leg
sheaves
shiploads
shoots
sights
slews
spates
speeds
sprints
stacks
stampedes
steps
steps on it
steps out
stores
streaks
superabundances
superfluities
surfeits
surpluses
swarms
tears
thousands
throngs
tin cans
tins
tons
travels
trillions
trots
truckloads
tubs
tuns
vats
volumes
wads
wealths
whirls
whisks
whizzes
yards
zillions
zips
zooms

Antonyms for barrels

absences
aces
ambles
atoms
bits
crawls
creeps
crumbs
dabs
dallies
dashes
dawdles
dearths
decelerates
deficiencies
deficits
dillydallies
dots
drags
drams
driblets
drops
famines
flecks
flyspecks
fragments
glimmers
grains
granules
handfuls
handsful
hints
inadequacies
insufficiencies
iotas
jots
lacks
lags
licks
lingers
little
loiters
lumbers
mites
modicums
molecules
morsels
motes
mouthfuls
nips
nubbins
ounces
particles
paucities
peanuts
pieces
pinches
pittances
plods
pokes
portions
poverties
rays
saunters
scarcities
scintillas
scraps
scruples
sections
shades
shadows
shortages
shots
shreds
shuffles
smatterings
smatters
smidgens
smidgeons
smidges
smidgins
specks
spots
sprinkles
sprinklings
strains
streaks
strolls
suspicions
tarries
tastes
tittles
touches
traces
undersupplies
wants
whits

Meanings of barrels

noun
1. A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
2. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case.
4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
5. A tube.
6. The hollow basal part of a feather.
7. The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
8. A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
9. A waste receptacle.
10. The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
11. A jar.
12. Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
13. A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
verb
1. To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
2. To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.

Example Sentences

The winery stores its best wine in oak barrels.
Several barrels of oil were delivered to the refinery.
He rolled the heavy barrels into the storage room.
The artist used old barrels as the base for her sculptures.
They found ancient barrels buried beneath the ruins.

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