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aim has 23 distinct synonyms spread across 9 of its 11 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
direct (a remark) toward an intended goal
“She wanted to aim a pun”
have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
the action of directing something at an object
“he took aim and fired”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for aim come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.