Synonyms for trunk
trʌŋktrunk

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1. trunknoun

   Pertaining to a main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.

   Synonyms:
   tree trunk

2. trunknoun

   The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.

   Synonyms:
   boot

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. trunk

   Body denotes the entire physical structure, considered as a whole, of man or animal; form looks upon it as a thing of shape and outline, perhaps of beauty; frame regards it as supported by its bony framework; system views it as an assemblage of many related and harmonious organs. Body, form, frame, and system may be either dead or living; clay and dust are sometimes so used in religious or poetic style, tho ordinarily these words are used only of the dead. Corpse and remains are used only of the dead. Corpse is the plain technical word for a dead body still retaining its unity; remains may be used after any lapse of time; the latter is also the more refined and less ghastly term; as, friends are invited to view the remains. Carcass applies only to the body of an animal, or of a human being regarded with contempt and loathing. Compare COMPANY.

   Synonyms:
   ashes, body, carcass, clay, corpse, dust, form, frame, remains, system

   Antonyms:
   intellect, intelligence, mind, soul, spirit

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1. trunk

   Synonyms:
   stem, stock, body, shaft

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1. trunk, tree trunk, bolenoun

   the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber

   Synonyms:
   luggage compartment, automobile trunk, proboscis, bole, body, torso, tree trunk

2. trunknoun

   luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage

   Synonyms:
   body, tree trunk, bole, automobile trunk, luggage compartment, torso, proboscis

3. torso, trunk, bodynoun

   the body excluding the head and neck and limbs

   "they moved their arms and legs and bodies"

   Synonyms:
   dead body, consistence, organic structure, physical structure, luggage compartment, automobile trunk, proboscis, eubstance, soundbox, consistency, bole, body, torso, tree trunk

4. luggage compartment, automobile trunk, trunknoun

   compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools

   "he put his golf bag in the trunk"

   Synonyms:
   luggage compartment, automobile trunk, proboscis, bole, body, torso, tree trunk

5. proboscis, trunknoun

   a long flexible snout as of an elephant

   Synonyms:
   luggage compartment, automobile trunk, proboscis, bole, body, torso, tree trunk

Matched Categories

1. • Body Part
   • Compartment
   • Luggage
   • Snout
   • Stem

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1. container

   Submitted by anonymous on December 7, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trunknoun

   Synonyms:
   stem, stock, stalk

2. trunknoun

   Synonyms:
   body (without the limbs)

3. trunknoun

   Synonyms:
   proboscis, snout

4. trunknoun

   Synonyms:
   leat, watercourse

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1. trunknoun

   Synonyms:
   body, bole, stock, proboscis, chest, coffer

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1. List of paraphrases for "trunk":

   trunking, vault, trunks, bole, chest, safe, hatchback, luggage, backbone, trunked, stem, torso, footlocker, boot, suitcase

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How to use trunk in a sentence?

1. Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill:

   The shocking discovery of 2,411 medically preserved fetal remains in Illinois, left in a garage and in the trunk of a car, was horrifying to anyone with normal sensibilities.

2. Tom Robbins:

   When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.

3. Pat Stayton:

   Both of the dogs reacted to the trunk of the silver Nissan that the defendant had driven and that the blue laundry basket was recovered from, indicating that the dogs were responding to the scent of human decomposition in the vehicle.

4. Karen Crawford:

   I have never seen anything like it before. The squirrel had its paw raised and the bird had its beak wide open, it was like they were going to have a fight. Karen Crawford, 59, captured the face-off as the pair appeared to be having a row over a handful of nuts on a tree trunk. In the shot, the red squirrel is perched vertically on a tree stump with its paw in the air, as the bird sits on the other side with its beak wide open. (Credit: SWNS) Perhaps even more remarkable, Crawford admitted she did not even realize she took the photos until she got home. I thought wow when I got home and saw the picture and the reaction I have had to it has been really strong.

5. Enric Puga:

   The openings have shown re-openings and subsequent alterations, which means that we do not always find the person identified with the tomb, this is the case of the tomb of Francesca Saportella, second abbess of the monastery, where at least nine individuals of late chronologies have been found, some with edge weapon wounds, as well as a female trunk mummified with fetal remains.