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noun
- The violent spasms of a dying whale.
- A snack consisting of soft ice cream mixed with small pieces of fruit, cookie crumbs, etc.
- A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.
- A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze.
- An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time.
- (figurative) Any sudden activity; a stir.
- A light, brief snowfall; a shower of snow.
- a rapid active commotion
- a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that)
verb
- (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
- (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
- (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
- (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- subject to prolonged examination, discussion, or deliberation
- change the arrangement or position of
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress
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adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.
- (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- disturb the smoothness of
- pleat or gather into a ruffle
- mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
- erect or fluff up
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- twitch or flutter
- trouble or vex
- discompose
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
noun
- Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
- Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
- (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
- (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
- a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
- a noisy fight
- a high tight collar
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- (intransitive) To become hotter.
- provide with heat
- gain heat or get hot
- make hot or hotter
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
noun
- (uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- (countable) A hot spell.
- (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- (countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- (countable, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
- (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
- (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
- (uncountable, slang) Stylish and valuable sneakers.
- (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
- (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- (slang, endearing) The arousal or horniness of a person, likened to that of a mammal.
- (uncountable) Thermal energy.
- (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- (uncountable, slang) The police.
- (professional wrestling slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.
- (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
- (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
- a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- the presence of heat
- the sensation caused by heat energy
- a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
- utility to warm a building
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
verb
- (transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
- (transitive, figurative) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
- (transitive) To make aware of something.
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
- stop sleeping
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noun
verb
- (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
- (transitive, of a device) To produce a warning of approaching danger or necessary action; to emit a signal intended to rouse a recipient to vigilance or put them on the alert.
- (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger or necessary action; to rouse to vigilance; to put on the alert.
- (transitive) To call to arms for defense.
- (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
- warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
- fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
noun
- A sudden attack; a disturbance.
- A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
- Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
- A device intended to warn or give notice of approaching danger.
- A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
- Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
- An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
- a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
- a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
- fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
verb
- (transitive) To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
- (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
- To participate in political agitation (sense 3).
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- try to stir up public opinion
- move very slightly
- move or cause to move back and forth
- change the arrangement or position of
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
verb
- (transitive) To make uneasy, restless.
- (intransitive) To persist in staying or visiting.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To practise; to devote oneself to.
- (transitive) To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
- (transitive) To stalk; to follow.
- be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place
- haunt like a ghost; pursue
- follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to
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- (transitive, formal) To perplex mentally; confuse, disconcert; catch off guard.
- (transitive) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.
- (transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash.
- (transitive) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious
verb
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
adj
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
adv
noun
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
verb
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move or cause to move back and forth
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- undermine or cause to waver
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- move back and forth or sideways
- get rid of
noun
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- A shock or disturbance.
- (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- A milkshake.
- (historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- building material used as siding or roofing
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
verb
- (transitive) To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
- (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
- (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
- To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.
- arouse or elicit a feeling
- to evoke sexual feelings
- produce a magnetic field in
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- stir feelings in
- raise to a higher energy level
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- act as a stimulant
verb
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
noun
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
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verb
- (transitive, figurative) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
- (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
- (intransitive, figurative) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
- (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
- (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading
- feel extreme irritation or anger
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- cause friction
- warm by rubbing, as with the hands
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verb
- (transitive) To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.
- (transitive) To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.
- (transitive) To introduce or add (something that is different or foreign).
- (transitive, computing) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.
- (intransitive) To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.
- (transitive) To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
- take by injection
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- feed intravenously
- to insert between other elements
- give an injection to
- to introduce (a new aspect or element)
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- (transitive) To give an impression of, to exude.
- (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
- (transitive) To exercise; to tire by brisk exercise.
- (transitive) To whisper quietly.
- (transitive) To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.
- (intransitive, figurative) To live.
- (transitive, figurative) To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.).
- (intransitive) To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
- (transitive) To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath.
- (chiefly Evangelical and Charismatic Christianity, with God as agent) To inspire (scripture).
- To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
- (intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
- (transitive) To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.
- (intransitive) Of a material etc., to allow gases to pass through.
- (transitive) To draw something into the lungs.
- (intransitive) To exchange gases with the environment.
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- impart as if by breathing
- be alive
- reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked
- expel (gases or odors)
- manifest or evince
- draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
- utter or tell
- allow the passage of air through
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause to swing about.
- (figurative, by extension) To insinuate.
- (intransitive) To swing about in the wind; to flare (as a candle)
- Pronunciation spelling of freeze.
- (intransitive) To frighten, put into a state of alarm.
- (transitive) To beat; to chastise.
- (transitive, also with off, on, up) To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw.
- (transitive, intransitive) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a thread or rope.
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- (uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
- (uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
- (mathematics) A Sperner family.
- (countable) Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”).
- a confused multitude of things
- unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen
verb
- (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
- (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
- (transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
- (transitive) To press onward or forward.
- (transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
- (transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.
- (transitive) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
- push for something
- force or impel in an indicated direction
- spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
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verb
- (transitive, slang, by extension) To bring to a state of excitement.
- (transitive) To make something fluffy.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
- (informal, transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one's lines.
- (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
- (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
- (informal, transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
- (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To break wind, to fart.
- erect or fluff up
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
noun
- (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, euphemistic) A fart.
- (New England) Marshmallow creme.
- (informal, slang) A cloth diaper.
- Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
- (fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.
- Anything inconsequential or superficial.
- (informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
- (UK, roleplaying games) A form of roleplaying which is inconsequential and not related to the plot; often used in the context of (but not limited to) filling time.
- (LGBTQ) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
- something of little value or significance
- any light downy material
- a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
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- (transitive) To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To begin one's menstrual cycle.
- To set in motion.
- To begin.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
- (intransitive) To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise.
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (ergative, of an object) To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- play in the starting lineup
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- get off the ground
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- bulge outward
- begin or set in motion
- depart for someplace
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- get going or set in motion
- bring into being
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
noun
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- An instance of starting.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the beginning of anything
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
verb
- (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
- (beekeeping, of a worker honey bee) To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.
- (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
- (figurative, euphemistic) To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged.
- (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
- (figurative, euphemistic) To make love or have sex.
- (transitive) To perform the steps to.
- move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance
- move in a graceful and rhythmical way
- skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways
noun
- A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
- (figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
- A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
- (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
- A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of electronic dance music.
- (beekeeping) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.
- (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
- an artistic form of nonverbal communication
- taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
- a party of people assembled for dancing
- a party for social dancing
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) To increase something suddenly.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To figuratively collide with something; to come into conflict over something.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To promote a person to a higher grade.
- (transitive, television) To transfer (recorded footage) from a narrower to a wider tape format.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To bump into something; to collide with something.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To give a more prominent place to; to advance position in queue.
- increase or raise
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive, slang) To inject tension into (a situation, etc.) for one's own amusement; to stir things up.
- (intransitive, slang) To drink caffeinated beverages in order to increase one's energy or wakefulness or to enhance physical or mental performance.
- (transitive, slang) To provoke (a person) for one's own amusement.
- (transitive) To add caffeine to something.
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To excite a person or group to a frenzy.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to increase in intensity, salience or other traits beyond what is reasonable.
- (intransitive, transitive, bodybuilding) To cause one's muscles to swell by means of focused weightlifting.
- (transitive) To increase the volume of (something).
- (transitive) To inflate by means of a pump.
- (transitive) To do so with a pumping action.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- walk with great difficulty
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- to arrange in a systematic order
noun
- (UK) One who attends a stag night.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- an unsteady uneven gait
verb
- (transitive, slang) To stimulate; to spur.
- (transitive, slang) To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks, of (a person).
- (transitive, slang) To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
- (slang, UK) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
- (transitive, slang) To gently accelerate (a vehicle); to give repeated, small taps on the accelerator of (a vehicle); to feather the throttle of (a vehicle).
- give a spurt of fuel to
- pinch in the buttocks
- prod into action
noun
- (uncountable, historical) An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.
- The flesh of the goose used as food.
- (strictly) A female goose.
- Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are generally bigger than ducks.
- (slang, plural geese or gooses) A silly person.
- web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
- a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
- flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
- To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
- (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
- cause to become awake or conscious
- be awake, be alert, be there
- to alert someone to something
- stop sleeping
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
noun
- (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
- (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
- The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.
- (physics) The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.
- (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
- (figuratively) The area behind a moving person or object.
- A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
- The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- (collective) A number of vultures assembled together.
- a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
verb
- (figurative, transitive) To raise the intensity, excitement, tension, etc., of.
- (architecture, transitive) To raise (the whole ring of an arch) off its centering, by driving in the keystone forcibly.
- (music, transitive) To raise the pitch of.
- (figurative, transitive) To produce nervous tension in (someone).
verb
- (transitive) To ruffle with a rippling action.
- (transitive) To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.
- (transitive) To shuffle playing cards by separating the deck in two and sliding the thumbs along the edges of the cards to mix the two parts.
- (intransitive) To skim or flick through the pages of a book.
- (transitive) To leaf through rapidly.
- (transitive) To prepare samples of material using a riffler.
- (intransitive) To flow over a swift, shallow part of a stream.
- look through a book or other written material
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- twitch or flutter
- shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
noun
- In seal engraving, a small metal disc at the end of a tool.
- A swift, shallow part of a stream causing broken water.
- The sound made while shuffling cards.
- (mining) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed. Also one of the cleats, grooves or steps in such trough.
- A quick skim through the pages of a book.
- A succession of small waves.
- Synonym of riffle shuffle
- shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
- a small wave on the surface of a liquid
verb
- (transitive) To cause (something) to make such a sound.
- To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound.
- (intransitive) To make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound.
- (intransitive) (of a panther) To make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented, much like the domestic cat’s purr.
- make a soft swishing sound
- make a vibrant sound, as of some birds
noun
verb
- (transitive) To agitate by shaking.
- (transitive) To restore to its original shape by shaking.
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To upset or distress (a person).
- (transitive, informal) To reorganize, to make reforms in.
- organize anew
- shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)
- make fuller by shaking
- change the arrangement or position of
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- shock physically
verb
noun
- (uncountable, attributive, film) A genre of gory horror.
- An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
- (uncountable, radio) Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal.
- a small quantity of something moist or liquid
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
verb
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To excite.
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To tighten (someone or something) by winding or twisting.
- (intransitive, copulative) To end up; to arrive or result.
- (intransitive) To increase (in some aspect).
- (transitive) To put (a clock, watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion by winding the spring or other energy-storage mechanism.
- (transitive) To conclude, complete, or finish (something).
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To upset; to anger or distress.
- (literally, transitive) To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking).
- (literally, transitive) To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
- (British, transitive) To play a prank (on); to take the mickey (out of) or mock.
- (transitive) To dissolve (a partnership or corporation) and liquidate its assets.
- (baseball, intransitive) To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch.
- to evoke sexual feelings
- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- finally be or do something
- give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching
noun
verb
- (transitive) To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
- (transitive) To blurt out.
- (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.
- (intransitive) To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.
- (intransitive) To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- behave carelessly or indifferently
adj
noun
- (with "the") Russula vesca, an edible woodland mushroom.
- A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.
- An act of flirting.
- Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.
- A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion
- (dialectal) A brief shower (of rain or snow).
- playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest
- a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
verb
- (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
- (transitive or intransitive, university slang) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.
- (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
- (intransitive, music) To play at a faster tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually increase tempo while one is playing.
- (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
- (video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.
- (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
- (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
- (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
- (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
- (transitive, military) To swiftly attack without warning.
- (intransitive, military, video games) To make a swift or sudden attack.
- act at high speed
- move hurridly
- run with the ball, in football
- cause to occur rapidly
- attack suddenly
- urge to an unnatural speed
- cause to move fast or to rush or race
adj
noun
- (university slang) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
- (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
- (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
- A rapid, noisy flow.
- General haste.
- Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
- (military, video games) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
- A wick.
- The merest trifle; a straw.
- The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
- A surge.
- A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
- A sudden forward motion.
- (university slang) A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.
- (video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
- grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems
- a sudden forceful flow
- a sudden burst of activity
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
verb
- (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
- (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
- (martial arts) To lift or unbalance one’s opponent and then bring him back down to the ground, especially into a position behind the thrower.
- (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
- (transitive, figuratively) To send hastily or desperately.
- (transitive) To imprison.
- (transitive, ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- (transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).
- (American football) Synonym of pass.
- (transitive) To project or send forth.
- (transitive) To organize an event, especially a party.
- (transitive) To change (one’s voice) in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else, or coming from a different place.
- (transitive) To install (a bridge).
- (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
- (transitive, cricket, of a bowler) To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- (ambitransitive) To roll (a die or dice).
- (transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
- (transitive, bridge) To discard.
- (sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.
- (sports, transitive) (of a game where one’s role is throwing something) To perform in a specified way in (a match).
- (transitive, of a punch or boxing combination) To deliver.
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly
- make on a potter's wheel
- throw (a die) out onto a flat surface
- place or put with great energy
- move violently, energetically, or carelessly
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- utter with force; utter vehemently
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- put or send forth
- cause to be confused emotionally
- to remove
- cause to fall off
- organize or be responsible for
- propel through the air
noun
- (informal) A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
- One’s ability to throw.
- The act of throwing something.
- (historical) A hand-operated lathe, especially a small lathe used by clockmakers.
- The flight of a thrown object.
- A distance travelled in general; displacement.
- Any of the projections integral to a crankshaft that receive or impart cranking motion from a connecting rod or similar component.
- (martial arts) A move in which one lifts or unbalances one’s opponent and then brings him down to the ground.
- A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
- The distance travelled by something thrown.
- the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
- the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- a single chance or instance
- casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly
- bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something
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verb
noun
- The violent spasms of a dying whale.
- A snack consisting of soft ice cream mixed with small pieces of fruit, cookie crumbs, etc.
- A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.
- A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze.
- An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time.
- (figurative) Any sudden activity; a stir.
- A light, brief snowfall; a shower of snow.
- a rapid active commotion
- a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that)
verb
- (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
- (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
- (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
- (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- subject to prolonged examination, discussion, or deliberation
- change the arrangement or position of
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.
- (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- disturb the smoothness of
- pleat or gather into a ruffle
- mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
- erect or fluff up
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- twitch or flutter
- trouble or vex
- discompose
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
noun
- Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
- Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
- (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
- (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
- a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
- a noisy fight
- a high tight collar
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- (intransitive) To become hotter.
- provide with heat
- gain heat or get hot
- make hot or hotter
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
noun
- (uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- (countable) A hot spell.
- (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- (countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- (countable, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
- (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
- (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
- (uncountable, slang) Stylish and valuable sneakers.
- (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
- (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- (slang, endearing) The arousal or horniness of a person, likened to that of a mammal.
- (uncountable) Thermal energy.
- (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- (uncountable, slang) The police.
- (professional wrestling slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.
- (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
- (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
- a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- the presence of heat
- the sensation caused by heat energy
- a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
- utility to warm a building
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
verb
- (transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
- (transitive, figurative) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
- (transitive) To make aware of something.
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
- stop sleeping
adj
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
- (transitive, of a device) To produce a warning of approaching danger or necessary action; to emit a signal intended to rouse a recipient to vigilance or put them on the alert.
- (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger or necessary action; to rouse to vigilance; to put on the alert.
- (transitive) To call to arms for defense.
- (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
- warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
- fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
noun
- A sudden attack; a disturbance.
- A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
- Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
- A device intended to warn or give notice of approaching danger.
- A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
- Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
- An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
- a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
- a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
- fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
verb
- (transitive) To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
- (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
- To participate in political agitation (sense 3).
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- try to stir up public opinion
- move very slightly
- move or cause to move back and forth
- change the arrangement or position of
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
verb
- (transitive) To make uneasy, restless.
- (intransitive) To persist in staying or visiting.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To practise; to devote oneself to.
- (transitive) To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
- (transitive) To stalk; to follow.
- be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place
- haunt like a ghost; pursue
- follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to
noun
verb
- (transitive, formal) To perplex mentally; confuse, disconcert; catch off guard.
- (transitive) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.
- (transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash.
- (transitive) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious
verb
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
adj
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
adv
noun
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
verb
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move or cause to move back and forth
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- undermine or cause to waver
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- move back and forth or sideways
- get rid of
noun
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- A shock or disturbance.
- (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- A milkshake.
- (historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- building material used as siding or roofing
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
verb
- (transitive) To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
- (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
- (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
- To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.
- arouse or elicit a feeling
- to evoke sexual feelings
- produce a magnetic field in
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- stir feelings in
- raise to a higher energy level
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- act as a stimulant
verb
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
noun
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
- (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
- (intransitive, figurative) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
- (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
- (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading
- feel extreme irritation or anger
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- cause friction
- warm by rubbing, as with the hands
noun
verb
- (transitive) To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.
- (transitive) To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.
- (transitive) To introduce or add (something that is different or foreign).
- (transitive, computing) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.
- (intransitive) To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.
- (transitive) To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
- take by injection
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- feed intravenously
- to insert between other elements
- give an injection to
- to introduce (a new aspect or element)
verb
adj
adv
noun
verb
- (transitive) To give an impression of, to exude.
- (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
- (transitive) To exercise; to tire by brisk exercise.
- (transitive) To whisper quietly.
- (transitive) To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.
- (intransitive, figurative) To live.
- (transitive, figurative) To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.).
- (intransitive) To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
- (transitive) To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath.
- (chiefly Evangelical and Charismatic Christianity, with God as agent) To inspire (scripture).
- To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
- (intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
- (transitive) To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.
- (intransitive) Of a material etc., to allow gases to pass through.
- (transitive) To draw something into the lungs.
- (intransitive) To exchange gases with the environment.
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- impart as if by breathing
- be alive
- reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked
- expel (gases or odors)
- manifest or evince
- draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
- utter or tell
- allow the passage of air through
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause to swing about.
- (figurative, by extension) To insinuate.
- (intransitive) To swing about in the wind; to flare (as a candle)
- Pronunciation spelling of freeze.
- (intransitive) To frighten, put into a state of alarm.
- (transitive) To beat; to chastise.
- (transitive, also with off, on, up) To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw.
- (transitive, intransitive) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a thread or rope.
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
- (uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
- (mathematics) A Sperner family.
- (countable) Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”).
- a confused multitude of things
- unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen
verb
- (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
- (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
- (transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
- (transitive) To press onward or forward.
- (transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
- (transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.
- (transitive) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
- push for something
- force or impel in an indicated direction
- spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
noun
verb
- (transitive, slang, by extension) To bring to a state of excitement.
- (transitive) To make something fluffy.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
- (informal, transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one's lines.
- (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
- (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
- (informal, transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
- (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To break wind, to fart.
- erect or fluff up
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
noun
- (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, euphemistic) A fart.
- (New England) Marshmallow creme.
- (informal, slang) A cloth diaper.
- Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
- (fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.
- Anything inconsequential or superficial.
- (informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
- (UK, roleplaying games) A form of roleplaying which is inconsequential and not related to the plot; often used in the context of (but not limited to) filling time.
- (LGBTQ) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
- something of little value or significance
- any light downy material
- a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To begin one's menstrual cycle.
- To set in motion.
- To begin.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
- (intransitive) To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise.
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (ergative, of an object) To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- play in the starting lineup
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- get off the ground
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- bulge outward
- begin or set in motion
- depart for someplace
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- get going or set in motion
- bring into being
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
noun
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- An instance of starting.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the beginning of anything
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
verb
- (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
- (beekeeping, of a worker honey bee) To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.
- (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
- (figurative, euphemistic) To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged.
- (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
- (figurative, euphemistic) To make love or have sex.
- (transitive) To perform the steps to.
- move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance
- move in a graceful and rhythmical way
- skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways
noun
- A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
- (figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
- A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
- (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
- A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of electronic dance music.
- (beekeeping) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.
- (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
- an artistic form of nonverbal communication
- taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
- a party of people assembled for dancing
- a party for social dancing
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) To increase something suddenly.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To figuratively collide with something; to come into conflict over something.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To promote a person to a higher grade.
- (transitive, television) To transfer (recorded footage) from a narrower to a wider tape format.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To bump into something; to collide with something.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To give a more prominent place to; to advance position in queue.
- increase or raise
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive, slang) To inject tension into (a situation, etc.) for one's own amusement; to stir things up.
- (intransitive, slang) To drink caffeinated beverages in order to increase one's energy or wakefulness or to enhance physical or mental performance.
- (transitive, slang) To provoke (a person) for one's own amusement.
- (transitive) To add caffeine to something.
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To excite a person or group to a frenzy.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to increase in intensity, salience or other traits beyond what is reasonable.
- (intransitive, transitive, bodybuilding) To cause one's muscles to swell by means of focused weightlifting.
- (transitive) To increase the volume of (something).
- (transitive) To inflate by means of a pump.
- (transitive) To do so with a pumping action.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- walk with great difficulty
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- to arrange in a systematic order
noun
- (UK) One who attends a stag night.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- an unsteady uneven gait
verb
- (transitive, slang) To stimulate; to spur.
- (transitive, slang) To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks, of (a person).
- (transitive, slang) To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
- (slang, UK) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
- (transitive, slang) To gently accelerate (a vehicle); to give repeated, small taps on the accelerator of (a vehicle); to feather the throttle of (a vehicle).
- give a spurt of fuel to
- pinch in the buttocks
- prod into action
noun
- (uncountable, historical) An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.
- The flesh of the goose used as food.
- (strictly) A female goose.
- Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are generally bigger than ducks.
- (slang, plural geese or gooses) A silly person.
- web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
- a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
- flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
- To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
- (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
- cause to become awake or conscious
- be awake, be alert, be there
- to alert someone to something
- stop sleeping
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
noun
- (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
- (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
- The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.
- (physics) The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.
- (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
- (figuratively) The area behind a moving person or object.
- A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
- The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- (collective) A number of vultures assembled together.
- a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
verb
- (figurative, transitive) To raise the intensity, excitement, tension, etc., of.
- (architecture, transitive) To raise (the whole ring of an arch) off its centering, by driving in the keystone forcibly.
- (music, transitive) To raise the pitch of.
- (figurative, transitive) To produce nervous tension in (someone).
verb
- (transitive) To ruffle with a rippling action.
- (transitive) To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.
- (transitive) To shuffle playing cards by separating the deck in two and sliding the thumbs along the edges of the cards to mix the two parts.
- (intransitive) To skim or flick through the pages of a book.
- (transitive) To leaf through rapidly.
- (transitive) To prepare samples of material using a riffler.
- (intransitive) To flow over a swift, shallow part of a stream.
- look through a book or other written material
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- twitch or flutter
- shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
noun
- In seal engraving, a small metal disc at the end of a tool.
- A swift, shallow part of a stream causing broken water.
- The sound made while shuffling cards.
- (mining) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed. Also one of the cleats, grooves or steps in such trough.
- A quick skim through the pages of a book.
- A succession of small waves.
- Synonym of riffle shuffle
- shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
- a small wave on the surface of a liquid
verb
- (transitive) To cause (something) to make such a sound.
- To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound.
- (intransitive) To make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound.
- (intransitive) (of a panther) To make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented, much like the domestic cat’s purr.
- make a soft swishing sound
- make a vibrant sound, as of some birds
noun
verb
- (transitive) To agitate by shaking.
- (transitive) To restore to its original shape by shaking.
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To upset or distress (a person).
- (transitive, informal) To reorganize, to make reforms in.
- organize anew
- shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)
- make fuller by shaking
- change the arrangement or position of
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- shock physically
verb
noun
- (uncountable, attributive, film) A genre of gory horror.
- An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
- (uncountable, radio) Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal.
- a small quantity of something moist or liquid
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
verb
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To excite.
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To tighten (someone or something) by winding or twisting.
- (intransitive, copulative) To end up; to arrive or result.
- (intransitive) To increase (in some aspect).
- (transitive) To put (a clock, watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion by winding the spring or other energy-storage mechanism.
- (transitive) To conclude, complete, or finish (something).
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To upset; to anger or distress.
- (literally, transitive) To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking).
- (literally, transitive) To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
- (British, transitive) To play a prank (on); to take the mickey (out of) or mock.
- (transitive) To dissolve (a partnership or corporation) and liquidate its assets.
- (baseball, intransitive) To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch.
- to evoke sexual feelings
- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- finally be or do something
- give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching
noun
verb
- (transitive) To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
- (transitive) To blurt out.
- (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.
- (intransitive) To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.
- (intransitive) To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- behave carelessly or indifferently
adj
noun
- (with "the") Russula vesca, an edible woodland mushroom.
- A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.
- An act of flirting.
- Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.
- A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion
- (dialectal) A brief shower (of rain or snow).
- playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest
- a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
verb
- (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
- (transitive or intransitive, university slang) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.
- (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
- (intransitive, music) To play at a faster tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually increase tempo while one is playing.
- (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
- (video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.
- (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
- (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
- (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
- (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
- (transitive, military) To swiftly attack without warning.
- (intransitive, military, video games) To make a swift or sudden attack.
- act at high speed
- move hurridly
- run with the ball, in football
- cause to occur rapidly
- attack suddenly
- urge to an unnatural speed
- cause to move fast or to rush or race
adj
noun
- (university slang) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
- (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
- (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
- A rapid, noisy flow.
- General haste.
- Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
- (military, video games) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
- A wick.
- The merest trifle; a straw.
- The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
- A surge.
- A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
- A sudden forward motion.
- (university slang) A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.
- (video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
- grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems
- a sudden forceful flow
- a sudden burst of activity
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
verb
- (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
- (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
- (martial arts) To lift or unbalance one’s opponent and then bring him back down to the ground, especially into a position behind the thrower.
- (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
- (transitive, figuratively) To send hastily or desperately.
- (transitive) To imprison.
- (transitive, ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- (transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).
- (American football) Synonym of pass.
- (transitive) To project or send forth.
- (transitive) To organize an event, especially a party.
- (transitive) To change (one’s voice) in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else, or coming from a different place.
- (transitive) To install (a bridge).
- (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
- (transitive, cricket, of a bowler) To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- (ambitransitive) To roll (a die or dice).
- (transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
- (transitive, bridge) To discard.
- (sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.
- (sports, transitive) (of a game where one’s role is throwing something) To perform in a specified way in (a match).
- (transitive, of a punch or boxing combination) To deliver.
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly
- make on a potter's wheel
- throw (a die) out onto a flat surface
- place or put with great energy
- move violently, energetically, or carelessly
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- utter with force; utter vehemently
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- put or send forth
- cause to be confused emotionally
- to remove
- cause to fall off
- organize or be responsible for
- propel through the air
noun
- (informal) A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
- One’s ability to throw.
- The act of throwing something.
- (historical) A hand-operated lathe, especially a small lathe used by clockmakers.
- The flight of a thrown object.
- A distance travelled in general; displacement.
- Any of the projections integral to a crankshaft that receive or impart cranking motion from a connecting rod or similar component.
- (martial arts) A move in which one lifts or unbalances one’s opponent and then brings him down to the ground.
- A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
- The distance travelled by something thrown.
- the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
- the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- a single chance or instance
- casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly
- bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something
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