KITE Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈkīt

Definition of kite

as in vampire

a person who habitually preys upon others characterized the financial advisors as kites who took advantage of their customers

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prey

kite

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verb

as in to sport

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Recent Examples of kite

Noun

Ainsdale Beach, Southport Take the train for less than 40 minutes from Liverpool to watch kitesurfers and kite buggy riders zoom across Ainsdale Beach, another Blue Flag site. — Lila Harron Battis, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2026 This World Cup has seen the transformation of streets with murals and graffiti, as well as this kite below of Argentina’s jersey that hovers over the streets. — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 19 July 2026

Verb

The game then becomes a matter of kiting those enemies into the open one by one to take them out safely. — ArsTechnica, 27 Mar. 2026 First, an evening flirt session in the library, complete with setting the seeds for a charming afternoon of kiting. — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for kite

Recent Examples of Synonyms for kite

Noun

Bedbugs are sometimes called the vampires of the insect world — hiding during the day and coming out at night to feast on human blood.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
Critics and audiences alike went gaga over Sam Reid’s glammed-out turn as a bloodthirsty vampire gone rock star in AMC’s The Vampire Lestat.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of vampire

Verb

The company also said to expect more changes to its food and will continue to remodel its restaurants, since only about half of its roughly 6,600 US locations sport a new look.

— Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
For well over a century now, families have sported rows of rictus grins for the camera, but the subgenre of family portraiture (and, later, video clips) dedicated to conception, gestation, and birth is very much a product of the social media age.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of sport

Noun

But the speedy predators have been unable to outrun a wasting disease that's killed billions of sea stars.

— John Ryan, NPR, 16 Aug. 2026
Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor star in the movie about a family in the early 1980s whose suburban neighborhood has landed in a place teeming with prehistoric predators.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of predator

Verb

The Reting Rinpoche dispatched a search team of high lamas, who soon heard about a precocious 2-year-old who enjoyed larking inside chicken coops but also frequently spoke yearningly about making a long journey to Lhasa.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026
And it was discovered by accident, when Delap and a few team-mates were larking about in training.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 22 May 2025

Definition of lark

Noun

But the mayor of a New Jersey beach town is worried a social media trend could be setting up a potential shark attack.

— Tom Hanson, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Seth Willingham, of San Juan Capistrano, won second place in the professional category, after capturing a group of leopard sharks in his photo.

— Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of shark

Verb

Her father drank apple juice, romped in the garden, and remembers his time in Madras fondly.

— Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
That said, to ensure your pooch gets to romp around in the summer sun, too, add the Town of Falmouth Dog Park to your list for off-leash fun, and The Knob for leashed, shoreline strolls.

— Rebecca R. Norris, USA Today, 29 July 2026

Definition of romp

Noun

Indeed, the team most vulnerable to the vultures now were once the ones doing most of the preying.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
In June, staff said goodbye to Indy, a 46-year-old Egyptian vulture believed to be among the oldest of her species in human care.

— Kelly Werthmann, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of vulture

Verb

Ellie the Elephant continued to bring the energy and embrace the theme, changing from her tunnel look into a basketball uniform and another set of Air Jordans to dance through the night.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 14 Aug. 2026
The sound of the title track is reminiscent of kicking a pebble on a road or watching dust particles dancing in a shaft of light.

— Vogue, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2026

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