quarry

The word “quarry” has 2 syllables: quar-ry

It's pronounced as /ˈkwɒr.i/


What is synonym and antonym for quarry?

In the thesaurus, “quarry” has 27 synonyms and 7 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for quarry

  • aim
  • beast
  • brute
  • burrow
  • chase
  • claw
  • creature
  • critter
  • delve
  • dig
  • dig in
  • dredge
  • excavate
  • game
  • grub
  • kill
  • mine
  • objective
  • prey
  • prize
  • quest
  • ravin
  • scoop
  • shovel
  • spade
  • target
  • victim

Antonyms for quarry

  • carnivore
  • chaser
  • hunter
  • killer
  • murderer
  • predator
  • pursuer

Meanings of quarry

  • noun
    1. A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
    2. A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
    3. An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
    4. An object of search or pursuit.
    5. A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
  • verb
    1. To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
    2. To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
    3. To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

Example Sentences

  • The workers carefully extracted blocks of marble from the quarry for the construction project.
  • Environmentalists raised concerns about the impact of the quarry on the local wildlife habitat.
  • The geologists conducted surveys to assess the geological composition of the quarry.
  • Heavy machinery echoed through the hills as it operated in the depths of the limestone quarry.
  • The architectural plans specified the use of granite from a reputable quarry for the new monument.

On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to quarry, such as: aim, beast, brute, burrow, carnivore, chase, chaser.

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Related Words

target

  • address
  • aim
  • aim at
  • ambition
  • ape
  • aspiration
  • attack
  • bad-mouth
  • bait
  • barrack
  • belittle
  • bourn
  • bourne
  • bug
  • burlesque
  • butt
  • byword
  • caricature
  • catcall
  • chaff
  • chump
  • decry
  • deride
  • derision
  • design
  • desire
  • destination
  • discriminate against
  • disparage
  • dream
  • dupe
  • duty
  • end
  • fall guy
  • fire at
  • focus on
  • fool
  • game
  • gibe
  • goal
  • goat
  • grail
  • ground zero
  • gull
  • harass
  • harry
  • hassle
  • heckle
  • hit
  • holy grail
  • home in on
  • hope
  • idea
  • ideal
  • imitate
  • intent
  • intention
  • jeer
  • jest
  • jibe
  • jive
  • joke
  • josh
  • kid
  • lampoon
  • laughingstock
  • lightning rod
  • mark
  • meaning
  • mimic
  • mind
  • mock
  • mockery
  • monkey
  • name of the game
  • needle
  • nirvana
  • object
  • objective
  • oppress
  • parody
  • parrot
  • persecute
  • pester
  • pick on
  • pigeon
  • pilgarlic
  • pillory
  • pitch to
  • plan
  • plot
  • point
  • pooh
  • pooh-pooh
  • pretension
  • prey
  • prey on
  • project
  • purpose
  • put down
  • quarry
  • quiz
  • rag
  • rally
  • razz
  • rib
  • ride
  • ridicule
  • sap
  • satirize
  • scapegoat
  • scheme
  • scorn
  • scout
  • shoot down
  • single out
  • sitting duck
  • skewer
  • sport
  • spot
  • sucker
  • taunt
  • tease
  • terminus
  • thing
  • torment
  • travesty
  • tweak
  • twit
  • victim
  • victimize
  • whipping boy
  • wish
  • zero in on

game

  • accommodating
  • adventure
  • agreeable
  • aim
  • ambit
  • amenable
  • amplitude
  • amusement
  • appointment
  • area
  • arena
  • arrangement
  • art
  • assignment
  • athletics
  • bad
  • bailiwick
  • barony
  • battle
  • berth
  • biathlon
  • billet
  • blueprint
  • bold
  • bout
  • breadth
  • business
  • butt
  • call
  • calling
  • championship
  • chase
  • circle
  • classic
  • collusion
  • compass
  • competition
  • compliant
  • conception
  • confine
  • conflict
  • conspiracy
  • contest
  • contrivance
  • cooperative
  • counterplan
  • counterstrategy
  • courageous
  • craft
  • dauntless
  • dead heat
  • decathlon
  • deformed
  • demesne
  • department
  • derby
  • derision
  • design
  • desirous
  • device
  • diagram
  • disabled
  • discipline
  • disposed
  • distraction
  • diversion
  • dogged
  • domain
  • duty
  • eager
  • element
  • employment
  • engagement
  • enterprise
  • enthused
  • enthusiastic
  • event
  • excited
  • extent
  • facetiousness
  • fain
  • favorable
  • fearless
  • festivity
  • fief
  • fiefdom
  • field
  • field day
  • final
  • firmament
  • fish
  • flightiness
  • flippancy
  • formula
  • fowl
  • frivolity
  • frivolousness
  • frolic
  • front
  • frontier
  • frothiness
  • fun
  • function
  • gallant
  • gambit
  • game plan
  • gig
  • glad
  • ground plan
  • gymkhana
  • handcraft
  • handicraft
  • hardy
  • heat
  • heptathlon
  • heroic
  • hoax
  • idea
  • incapacitated
  • inclined
  • injured
  • intent
  • intention
  • interested
  • intrepid
  • jest
  • job
  • joke
  • ken
  • kill
  • kingdom
  • lame
  • lark
  • lay
  • layout
  • levity
  • lifework
  • light-mindedness
  • line
  • livelihood
  • living
  • load
  • maimed
  • maneuver
  • map
  • marathon
  • master plan
  • match
  • matchup
  • means
  • meat
  • meet
  • merriment
  • merrymaking
  • metier
  • minded
  • mission
  • nervy
  • nightcap
  • obedient
  • object of ridicule
  • obliging
  • occupation
  • office
  • open
  • outing
  • pastime
  • pattern
  • pentathlon
  • persevering
  • persistent
  • photo finish
  • place
  • plan
  • platform
  • play
  • play-off
  • plot
  • ploy
  • plucky
  • policy
  • position
  • post
  • practical joke
  • prank
  • precinct
  • predisposed
  • prepared
  • prey
  • procedure
  • proceeding
  • profession
  • program
  • project
  • projet
  • prompt
  • prone
  • proposal
  • protocol
  • province
  • purpose
  • pursuit
  • quarry
  • quick
  • race
  • racket
  • rally
  • raven
  • ravin
  • reach
  • ready
  • realm
  • receptive
  • recipe
  • recreation
  • resolute
  • responsive
  • road map
  • romp
  • round
  • round-robin
  • rubber
  • run
  • runoff
  • ruse
  • scheme
  • scope
  • scrimmage
  • seesaw
  • semifinal
  • set
  • setup
  • silliness
  • situation
  • skirmish
  • specialty
  • sphere
  • spirited
  • sport
  • sports
  • spunky
  • stratagem
  • strategy
  • struggle
  • study
  • subfield
  • subject
  • submissive
  • subspecialty
  • subterfuge
  • sudden death
  • sweep
  • sweep-stake
  • sweepstakes
  • swift
  • system
  • tactic
  • task
  • technique
  • terrain
  • territory
  • tournament
  • tourney
  • trade
  • triathlon
  • trick
  • tug-of-war
  • turf
  • tussle
  • ultramarathon
  • unafraid
  • undertaking
  • unflinching
  • up for
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • vocation
  • volley
  • walk
  • way
  • weak
  • weakened
  • width
  • wild animals
  • willing
  • work
  • workload

kill

  • X out
  • abbreviate
  • affluent
  • allure
  • annihilate
  • annul
  • arrest
  • arroyo
  • asphyxiate
  • assassinate
  • bayou
  • beast
  • beck
  • beckon
  • beguile
  • bewitch
  • billabong
  • black out
  • blackball
  • blacklist
  • bleep
  • blip
  • blot out
  • blue-pencil
  • bourn
  • bourne
  • bowdlerize
  • brake
  • branch
  • break
  • brook
  • brooklet
  • brute
  • bump off
  • burn
  • burn out
  • bust
  • butcher
  • canal
  • cancel
  • captivate
  • carry off
  • cease
  • censor
  • channel
  • charm
  • chase
  • chock
  • claim
  • clip
  • confluent
  • coulee
  • counteract
  • court
  • creature
  • creek
  • critter
  • croak
  • crop
  • crucify
  • cut
  • cut down
  • cut off
  • cutoff
  • deactivate
  • deaden
  • debilitate
  • decimate
  • decline
  • defeat
  • dele
  • delete
  • delight
  • destroy
  • disallow
  • disapprove
  • disarm
  • dismantle
  • dismiss
  • dispatch
  • distributary
  • do away with
  • do for
  • do in
  • do up
  • down
  • drain
  • draw
  • draw up
  • drown
  • dump
  • efface
  • electrocute
  • elide
  • enchant
  • enervate
  • enfeeble
  • enrapture
  • enthral
  • enthrall
  • entice
  • entrance
  • eradicate
  • erase
  • euthanatize
  • euthanize
  • excise
  • execute
  • exhaust
  • expunge
  • expurgate
  • exterminate
  • extinguish
  • extirpate
  • fag
  • fascinate
  • fatigue
  • fell
  • finish
  • forbid
  • frazzle
  • fresh
  • freshet
  • game
  • garrote
  • get
  • gill
  • gratify
  • guillotine
  • gut
  • halt
  • hang
  • harass
  • hit
  • ice
  • immolate
  • influent
  • interest
  • intrigue
  • invite
  • jam
  • kill off
  • knock off
  • knock out
  • launder
  • liquidate
  • lure
  • lynch
  • magnetize
  • make away with
  • martyr
  • massacre
  • millrace
  • millstream
  • mothball
  • mow
  • murder
  • negative
  • neutralize
  • nix
  • nullify
  • obliterate
  • off
  • outwear
  • phase out
  • please
  • poison
  • polish off
  • prey
  • prohibit
  • pull
  • put away
  • put down
  • put to death
  • quarry
  • quash
  • quell
  • race
  • recant
  • red-pencil
  • redact
  • refuse
  • remove
  • repress
  • revoke
  • rill
  • rivulet
  • rub out
  • ruin
  • run
  • runlet
  • runnel
  • runoff
  • sacrifice
  • sap
  • scrag
  • seduce
  • shoot down
  • shorten
  • shut off
  • silence
  • slaughter
  • slay
  • slew
  • slough
  • slue
  • smite
  • smother
  • snuff
  • solicit
  • stall
  • stick
  • stifle
  • still
  • stop
  • strangle
  • stream
  • streamlet
  • suffocate
  • suicide
  • suppress
  • take
  • take out
  • target
  • tempt
  • terminate
  • tire
  • tributary
  • turn off
  • turn out
  • veto
  • victim
  • wash
  • wash out
  • waste
  • watercourse
  • waterway
  • weaken
  • wear
  • wear out
  • wear to a frazzle
  • weary
  • whack
  • wile
  • wipe out
  • witch
  • woo
  • zap

targets

quest

  • adventure
  • ask
  • badger
  • bespeak
  • canvas
  • canvass
  • chase
  • claim
  • command
  • crusade
  • delving
  • demand
  • desire
  • dun
  • enjoin
  • enterprise
  • exact
  • examination
  • expedition
  • exploration
  • forage
  • harass
  • hound
  • hunt
  • importune
  • impose
  • inquest
  • inquiry
  • inquisition
  • investigation
  • invite
  • invoke
  • journey
  • look for
  • look up
  • mission
  • necessitate
  • need
  • pilgrimage
  • probe
  • pursual
  • pursue
  • pursuit
  • quarry
  • recon
  • reconnaissance
  • request
  • require
  • requisition
  • research
  • scout
  • search
  • seek
  • seeking
  • shakedown
  • solicit
  • survey
  • sweep
  • take
  • urge
  • voyage
  • want
  • warrant

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