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adj
- involved in difficulties
- deeply involved especially in something complicated
- twisted together in a tangled mass
- Tangled or twisted together.
- (quantum mechanics, of two quantum states) Correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable.
- (figurative) Confused or complicated.
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noun
- (Canada, US) Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
- A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.
- A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus).
- flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
- any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
adj
- Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
- full of hardship or trials
- Like a rock; rigid, solid.
- In the style of rock music.
- Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
- (originally US) Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
- Easily rocked; unstable.
- (Of an animal or plant) Having a habitat around or on rocks.
- liable to rock
- causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- abounding in rocks or stones
noun
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
verb
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
noun
- A difficult situation.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A group of people or things.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- (nautical) A nautical mile.
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- (slang) The bulbus glandis.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
- a tight cluster of people or things
- something twisted and tight and swollen
verb
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
- tie or fasten into a knot
- make into knots; make knots out of
- tangle or complicate
noun
- A difficult situation.
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- A parking space.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (physics) An autosoliton.
- A location or area.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a small contrasting part of something
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a slight attack of illness
- an outstanding characteristic
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
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- (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- (dialectal) To rain slightly, in scattered, infrequent drops, for example when first beginning to rain.
- (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
- (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
- (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
- (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
- (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- catch sight of
- mar or impair with a flaw
- mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition
- detect with the senses
- become spotted
- make a spot or mark onto
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noun
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
- a light-colored marking
- a strong flame that burns brightly
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- (hiking) A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.
verb
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly
- move rapidly and as if blazing
- burn brightly and intensely
- shine brightly and intensively
- indicate by marking trees with blazes
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
- (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet.
- (slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- (transitive) To mark off or stake a claim to land.
- (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (transitive, heraldry) To blazon.
- (figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
noun
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- any place of pain and turmoil
- (figuratively) An extremely hot place.
- (countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- (countable) A place for gambling.
- In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- (sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
- (colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
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- a painful or straitened circumstance
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- (slang) An arrest.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
verb
- irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
- cut the top off
- make ridges into by pinching together
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- make off with belongings of others
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
verb
- To have difficulty with something.
- To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
- To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- to exert strenuous effort against opposition
- make a strenuous or labored effort
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- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- the causal agent resulting in death
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
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- Suffering, hardship.
- (countable) A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.
- Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
- intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
- something that causes great unhappiness
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- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- a source of difficulty
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
- an unwanted pregnancy
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
verb
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
noun
- a thwarting and distressing situation
- a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole
- (golf) A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).
- (by extension) An obstacle or obstruction.
verb
noun
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- the performance of a piece of work
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- the responsibility to do something
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a damaging piece of work
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- (UK, slang, law enforcement, uncountable) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (in noun compounds) A sex act.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- A task.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- (informal) A robbery or heist.
verb
- work occasionally
- invest at a risk
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- profit privately from public office and official business
- (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
noun
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- a source of difficulty
- a question raised for consideration or solution
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
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- resulting in suffering or adversity
- distressing
- presaging ill fortune
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- indicating hostility or enmity
- (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.
- (slang, chiefly hip-hop) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
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- Trouble; distress; tweag.
- A slight adjustment or modification.
- A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
- (cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.
- (slang) Methamphetamine.
- (slang) A single inhalation of cocaine.
- a squeeze with the fingers
verb
- (intransitive, slang, by extension) To be extremely confused; to have no clue what is happening.
- (transitive) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
- (transitive) To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).
- (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse.
- (military, weaponry, uncommon) From a catapult, to strike a target with a missile.
- (transitive, informal) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
- pull or pull out sharply
- pinch or squeeze sharply
- to be under the influence of methamphetamine
- adjust finely
adj
- full of hardship or trials
- not perfected
- unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
- unkind or cruel or uncivil
- causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- having or caused by an irregular surface
- unpleasantly stern
- not quite exact or correct
- ready and able to resort to force or violence
- (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
- of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
- violently agitated and turbulent
- not carefully or expertly made
- not shaped by cutting or trimming
- Violent; not careful or subtle.
- Harsh-tasting.
- (of a place) Having socio-economic problems, hence possibly dangerous.
- Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
- Not smooth; uneven.
- (of a gem) Not polished; uncut.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, colloquial, slang) Unwell due to alcohol; hungover.
- Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
- Difficult; trying.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, colloquial, slang) Somewhat ill; sick; in poor condition.
- Crude; unrefined.
- Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.
- Turbulent.
- Of or relating to the rough breathing in the Greek language.
noun
- the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
- The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
- A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
- (cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
- A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
- The unmowed part of a golf course.
- A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
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- prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
- (transitive) To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
- To render rough; to roughen.
- (ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
- To endure primitive conditions.
- (boxing, wrestling, intransitive) To break the rules by being excessively violent.
- To create in an approximate form.
- To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
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- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- (slang) An outfit, garment, or look.
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- (US, film industry) An individual movie theater.
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- (UK) A position of employment; a post.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
- a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
- a job in an organization
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
- physical position in relation to the surroundings
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- a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
- extreme physical pain
- psychological suffering
- the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
- (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- A cause of such discomfort.
- Serious danger.
- (medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
- (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
noun
- where problems or difficulties are likely to occur
- any of several points on the body where the pulse can be felt and where pressure on an underlying artery will control bleeding from that artery at a more distal point
- an area on the skin that is highly sensitive to pressure
- (therapy) A specific small area of the body sensitive to and suitable for therapeutic pressure.
- (martial arts) A specific small area of the body targeted, due to a cluster of nerves being close to the skin, usually not protected by bone.
- (figurative) A situation that, when addressed, can cause a change to occur.
adj
- (figuratively) In difficulty, especially financially.
- (finance) Of an option, having a strike price higher (call options) or lower (put options) than the current market price of the underlying asset or financial product; for example, an option to buy shares at $20 when the current market price is $15.
- (nautical) Beneath the water line of a vessel.
- (finance) Having negative equity; owing more on an asset than its market value.
- (not comparable) Beneath the surface of the water; of or pertaining to the region beneath the water surface.
- growing or remaining under water
- beneath the surface of the water
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- A predicament or difficult situation.
- A sudden or unsteady movement.
- (dialectal) A lift or heave.
- A double score in cribbage for the winner when their adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.
- An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
- an unsteady uneven gait
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)
- the act of moving forward suddenly
verb
- To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
- (transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
- (dialectal, intransitive) To take by surprise; to unexpectedly detain.
- (dialectal, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk; lie in wait; go about in a sneaking way.
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- loiter about, with no apparent aim
- defeat by a lurch
- move slowly and unsteadily
- move abruptly
noun
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- Any difficult circumstance or problem.
- A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
- (rhetoric) Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.
- (logic) A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
- state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options
noun
- a severe or trying experience
- a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
- The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean.
- (figuratively) A painful or trying experience.
- (historical) A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.
adj
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- Cynical and resentful.
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
noun
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
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- any affliction that causes great suffering
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species
- a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A line across or through another line.
- (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- (Christianity) Any representation of the crucifix, as in religious architecture, burial markers, jewelry, etc.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the cross.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Cross (“the Crucifix, the cross on which Christ was crucified”).
- (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
- (slang) Crossfire.
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- (soccer) A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
adj
- extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
- annoyed and irritable
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
- (chiefly British, Ottawa Valley) (of someone) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed; (of words) tinged with anger.
- (nautical) Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
verb
- meet at a point
- fold so as to resemble a cross
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
- trace a line through or across
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- meet and pass
- travel across or pass over
- (transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- (transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- (soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
- (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To mark with an X.
- (law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- (transitive) To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
prep
noun
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- a mock crown made of thorn branches that Roman soldiers placed on Jesus before the Crucifixion
- somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts
- A woodworking technique, used in tramp art, in which interlocking pieces are notched to intersect at right angles and form joints and self-supporting objects.
- The plant Koeberlinia spinosa.
- A spiny Mediterranean tree, Ziziphus spina-christi.
- Ellipsis of crown-of-thorns starfish
- (Christianity) The crown made of a thorny plant that Christ was forced to wear before his Crucifixion, in mocking reference to his alleged status as ‘king of the Jews’, or a representation of this.
- A spiny spurge, Euphorbia milii, native to Madagascar.
noun
- Distress.
- (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
- Urgency.
- A contrasting force or impulse of any kind.
- A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
- the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)
- an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress
- the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
- the pressure exerted by the atmosphere
- a force that compels
- the state of demanding notice or attention
verb
noun
- A difficulty or problem.
- A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
- In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- An act of rubbing.
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- (UK, naval slang) A loan.
- the act of rubbing or wiping
- an unforeseen obstacle
verb
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
- (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
- (transitive, bowls) To touch the jack with the bowl.
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- move over something with pressure
- cause friction
adj
- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- generalized feeling of distress
- suffering severe physical strain or distress
- (of a property) Offered for sale after foreclosure.
- (finance, of securities) Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.
- (of furniture, etc.) Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
- Anxious or uneasy.
- (of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.
verb
noun
- an unpleasant difficulty
- a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked
- informal terms for objecting
- female of any member of the dog family
- (vulgar, offensive, slang) A woman.
- (dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
- (vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation
- (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
- (vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
- (slang, vulgar, offensive, often sexist) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
- (slang, vulgar, idiomatic, derogatory, misogynistic) A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
- (humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
- (chess, slang, vulgar, offensive) A queen.
- (LGBTQ slang, idiomatic, vulgar, chiefly humorous) a sexual partner
- (colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
- (colloquial, vulgar) A difficult or confounding problem.
- (LGBTQ slang, derogatory) An obviously gay man.
- (vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- (vulgar, offensive) A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
verb
noun
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
verb
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
noun
- A difficult situation.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A group of people or things.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- (nautical) A nautical mile.
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- (slang) The bulbus glandis.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
- a tight cluster of people or things
- something twisted and tight and swollen
verb
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
- tie or fasten into a knot
- make into knots; make knots out of
- tangle or complicate
noun
- A difficult situation.
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- A parking space.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (physics) An autosoliton.
- A location or area.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a small contrasting part of something
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a slight attack of illness
- an outstanding characteristic
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
adj
verb
- (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- (dialectal) To rain slightly, in scattered, infrequent drops, for example when first beginning to rain.
- (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
- (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
- (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
- (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
- (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- catch sight of
- mar or impair with a flaw
- mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition
- detect with the senses
- become spotted
- make a spot or mark onto
noun
verb
noun
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
- a light-colored marking
- a strong flame that burns brightly
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- (hiking) A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.
verb
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly
- move rapidly and as if blazing
- burn brightly and intensely
- shine brightly and intensively
- indicate by marking trees with blazes
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
- (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet.
- (slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- (transitive) To mark off or stake a claim to land.
- (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (transitive, heraldry) To blazon.
- (figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
noun
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- any place of pain and turmoil
- (figuratively) An extremely hot place.
- (countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- (countable) A place for gambling.
- In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- (sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
- (colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
adv
intj
name
verb
noun
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- (slang) An arrest.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
verb
- irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
- cut the top off
- make ridges into by pinching together
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- make off with belongings of others
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
noun
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- the causal agent resulting in death
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
adj
noun
adj
adv
verb
noun
- Suffering, hardship.
- (countable) A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.
- Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
- intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
- something that causes great unhappiness
verb
noun
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- a source of difficulty
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
- an unwanted pregnancy
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
verb
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
noun
- a thwarting and distressing situation
- a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole
- (golf) A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).
- (by extension) An obstacle or obstruction.
verb
noun
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- the performance of a piece of work
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- the responsibility to do something
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a damaging piece of work
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- (UK, slang, law enforcement, uncountable) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (in noun compounds) A sex act.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- A task.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- (informal) A robbery or heist.
verb
- work occasionally
- invest at a risk
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- profit privately from public office and official business
- (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
noun
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- a source of difficulty
- a question raised for consideration or solution
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
adj
noun
- Trouble; distress; tweag.
- A slight adjustment or modification.
- A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
- (cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.
- (slang) Methamphetamine.
- (slang) A single inhalation of cocaine.
- a squeeze with the fingers
verb
- (intransitive, slang, by extension) To be extremely confused; to have no clue what is happening.
- (transitive) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
- (transitive) To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).
- (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse.
- (military, weaponry, uncommon) From a catapult, to strike a target with a missile.
- (transitive, informal) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
- pull or pull out sharply
- pinch or squeeze sharply
- to be under the influence of methamphetamine
- adjust finely
noun
- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- (slang) An outfit, garment, or look.
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- (US, film industry) An individual movie theater.
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- (UK) A position of employment; a post.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
- a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
- a job in an organization
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
- physical position in relation to the surroundings
noun
- where problems or difficulties are likely to occur
- any of several points on the body where the pulse can be felt and where pressure on an underlying artery will control bleeding from that artery at a more distal point
- an area on the skin that is highly sensitive to pressure
- (therapy) A specific small area of the body sensitive to and suitable for therapeutic pressure.
- (martial arts) A specific small area of the body targeted, due to a cluster of nerves being close to the skin, usually not protected by bone.
- (figurative) A situation that, when addressed, can cause a change to occur.
verb
noun
- a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
- extreme physical pain
- psychological suffering
- the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
- (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- A cause of such discomfort.
- Serious danger.
- (medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
- (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
noun
verb
noun
- A predicament or difficult situation.
- A sudden or unsteady movement.
- (dialectal) A lift or heave.
- A double score in cribbage for the winner when their adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.
- An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
- an unsteady uneven gait
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)
- the act of moving forward suddenly
verb
- To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
- (transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
- (dialectal, intransitive) To take by surprise; to unexpectedly detain.
- (dialectal, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk; lie in wait; go about in a sneaking way.
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- loiter about, with no apparent aim
- defeat by a lurch
- move slowly and unsteadily
- move abruptly
noun
noun
- Any difficult circumstance or problem.
- A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
- (rhetoric) Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.
- (logic) A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
- state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options
noun
- a severe or trying experience
- a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
- The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean.
- (figuratively) A painful or trying experience.
- (historical) A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species
- a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A line across or through another line.
- (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- (Christianity) Any representation of the crucifix, as in religious architecture, burial markers, jewelry, etc.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the cross.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Cross (“the Crucifix, the cross on which Christ was crucified”).
- (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
- (slang) Crossfire.
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- (soccer) A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
adj
- extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
- annoyed and irritable
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
- (chiefly British, Ottawa Valley) (of someone) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed; (of words) tinged with anger.
- (nautical) Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
verb
- meet at a point
- fold so as to resemble a cross
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
- trace a line through or across
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- meet and pass
- travel across or pass over
- (transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- (transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- (soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
- (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To mark with an X.
- (law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- (transitive) To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
prep
noun
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- a mock crown made of thorn branches that Roman soldiers placed on Jesus before the Crucifixion
- somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts
- A woodworking technique, used in tramp art, in which interlocking pieces are notched to intersect at right angles and form joints and self-supporting objects.
- The plant Koeberlinia spinosa.
- A spiny Mediterranean tree, Ziziphus spina-christi.
- Ellipsis of crown-of-thorns starfish
- (Christianity) The crown made of a thorny plant that Christ was forced to wear before his Crucifixion, in mocking reference to his alleged status as ‘king of the Jews’, or a representation of this.
- A spiny spurge, Euphorbia milii, native to Madagascar.
noun
- Distress.
- (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
- Urgency.
- A contrasting force or impulse of any kind.
- A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
- the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)
- an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress
- the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
- the pressure exerted by the atmosphere
- a force that compels
- the state of demanding notice or attention
verb
noun
- A difficulty or problem.
- A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
- In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- An act of rubbing.
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- (UK, naval slang) A loan.
- the act of rubbing or wiping
- an unforeseen obstacle
verb
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
- (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
- (transitive, bowls) To touch the jack with the bowl.
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- move over something with pressure
- cause friction
noun
- an unpleasant difficulty
- a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked
- informal terms for objecting
- female of any member of the dog family
- (vulgar, offensive, slang) A woman.
- (dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
- (vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation
- (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
- (vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
- (slang, vulgar, offensive, often sexist) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
- (slang, vulgar, idiomatic, derogatory, misogynistic) A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
- (humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
- (chess, slang, vulgar, offensive) A queen.
- (LGBTQ slang, idiomatic, vulgar, chiefly humorous) a sexual partner
- (colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
- (colloquial, vulgar) A difficult or confounding problem.
- (LGBTQ slang, derogatory) An obviously gay man.
- (vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- (vulgar, offensive) A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
verb
verb
noun
- (Canada, US) Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
- A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.
- A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus).
- flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
- any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
verb
- To have difficulty with something.
- To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
- To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- to exert strenuous effort against opposition
- make a strenuous or labored effort
noun
verb
noun
- a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
- extreme physical pain
- psychological suffering
- the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
- (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- A cause of such discomfort.
- Serious danger.
- (medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
- (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
adv
adj
noun
verb
adj
- involved in difficulties
- deeply involved especially in something complicated
- twisted together in a tangled mass
- Tangled or twisted together.
- (quantum mechanics, of two quantum states) Correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable.
- (figurative) Confused or complicated.
verb
adj
- Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
- full of hardship or trials
- Like a rock; rigid, solid.
- In the style of rock music.
- Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
- (originally US) Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
- Easily rocked; unstable.
- (Of an animal or plant) Having a habitat around or on rocks.
- liable to rock
- causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- abounding in rocks or stones
adj
- resulting in suffering or adversity
- distressing
- presaging ill fortune
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- indicating hostility or enmity
- (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.
- (slang, chiefly hip-hop) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
noun
adv
adj
- full of hardship or trials
- not perfected
- unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
- unkind or cruel or uncivil
- causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- having or caused by an irregular surface
- unpleasantly stern
- not quite exact or correct
- ready and able to resort to force or violence
- (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
- of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
- violently agitated and turbulent
- not carefully or expertly made
- not shaped by cutting or trimming
- Violent; not careful or subtle.
- Harsh-tasting.
- (of a place) Having socio-economic problems, hence possibly dangerous.
- Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
- Not smooth; uneven.
- (of a gem) Not polished; uncut.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, colloquial, slang) Unwell due to alcohol; hungover.
- Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
- Difficult; trying.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, colloquial, slang) Somewhat ill; sick; in poor condition.
- Crude; unrefined.
- Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.
- Turbulent.
- Of or relating to the rough breathing in the Greek language.
noun
- the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
- The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
- A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
- (cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
- A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
- The unmowed part of a golf course.
- A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
adv
verb
- prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
- (transitive) To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
- To render rough; to roughen.
- (ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
- To endure primitive conditions.
- (boxing, wrestling, intransitive) To break the rules by being excessively violent.
- To create in an approximate form.
- To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
adj
- (figuratively) In difficulty, especially financially.
- (finance) Of an option, having a strike price higher (call options) or lower (put options) than the current market price of the underlying asset or financial product; for example, an option to buy shares at $20 when the current market price is $15.
- (nautical) Beneath the water line of a vessel.
- (finance) Having negative equity; owing more on an asset than its market value.
- (not comparable) Beneath the surface of the water; of or pertaining to the region beneath the water surface.
- growing or remaining under water
- beneath the surface of the water
adv
noun
verb
adj
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- Cynical and resentful.
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
noun
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
adv
verb
adj
- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- generalized feeling of distress
- suffering severe physical strain or distress
- (of a property) Offered for sale after foreclosure.
- (finance, of securities) Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.
- (of furniture, etc.) Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
- Anxious or uneasy.
- (of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.