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noun
- (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression
- (chiefly UK, Australia) Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.
- (gaming) Hostile attention from an enemy.
- Aggravation; bother.
- (gaming) A measure of a player's level of belligerence.
adj
- (colloquial) Aggressive; inclined to attack (including, in video games, without having first been attacked).
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Angry.
- (TCGs) Of a player, favoring such decks.
- (British, US, slang) Hardcore, aggressive.
- (TCGs) Of a deck, designed for aggressive play that seeks to defeat the opponent in the early stages of the game.
verb
adj
- Aggressive; antagonistic.
- (not comparable) Being or relating to a hostile takeover.
- Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
- Unwilling.
- very unfavorable to life or growth
- impossible to bring into friendly accord
- unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)
- characterized by enmity or ill will
- not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally
noun
adj
- (grammar) Being in the passive voice.
- Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
- (in "passive provision") Where allowance is made for a possible future event.
- Taking no action.
- (electronics) Of a component: that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
- (psychology) Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
- (aviation) Without motive power.
- (finance) Not participating in management.
- lacking in energy or will
- expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb
- peacefully resistant in response to injustice
noun
- (marketing) A customer who is satisfied with a product or service, but not keen enough to promote it by word of mouth.
- (grammar) The passive voice of verbs.
- (electronics) Any component that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
- A thing whose worth decreases with time.
- (grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.
- (gaming) Ellipsis of passive attack.
- the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb
verb
- (transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
- (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
- (transitive or intransitive) To obviously lack or be in need of something.
- (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
- (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
- (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
- call upon in supplication; entreat
- make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
- ask to obtain free
- dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted
noun
verb
- (transitive) To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate.
- (transitive) To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on someone or something.
- destroy property or hinder normal operations
- oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
- oppose or check by a counteraction
- act in opposition to
noun
verb
name
noun
verb
- (now often passive voice) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
- (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
- (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
- To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- do physical exercise
- put to use
- give a workout to
- learn by repetition
noun
- The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
- the act of using
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
verb
- (informal, intransitive) To show anger (about something).
- (informal, figuratively, transitive) To stir up (trouble), to cause (a disturbance).
- (transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, up.
- (machinery) To move sharply upward.
- (transitive, colloquial) To make more exciting.
- (of a horse) To rear back; to become more active or restless; to speed up.
- (informal, intransitive, US) To function improperly; to show signs of disorder; (of an illness) to flare up.
- (informal, figuratively, by extension, transitive, US) To raise, to increase (a price).
- (slang) To pass (something, such as a proposal or a share of a bribe) up a hierarchy or chain of command.
- evoke or provoke to appear or occur
- cause to rise by kicking
noun
verb
- (intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
- (intransitive) To thunder or make a loud noise.
- (transitive, figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
- (figurative) to act as lightning, appearing quickly and destructively
- cause to explode violently and with loud noise
- criticize severely
- come on suddenly and intensely
noun
prep
- Following a passive verb.
- Following a noun.
- (horse breeding) Designates a horse's sire (“male parent”).
- Invokes an authority in an oath.
- (chiefly Yeshivish) At; with; among.
- Per; with or in proportion to each.
- Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
- Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
- Indicates a means of classification or organisation.
- Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
- Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).
- [with the] Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)
- (not in common modern use) Following an adjective.
- Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.
- Near or next to.
- In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
- Indicates a referenced source: According to.
- (mathematics) multiplied by or (chiefly South Asia) divided by
- Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy
- From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.
- (nautical) in a windward direction, sailing near to the direction from which the wind is blowing
adj
adv
- (uncommon outside the phrase 'put by') Aside, away.
- In the vicinity, near.
- Along a path which runs past someone or something.
- (uncommon except in set phrases) Beyond or past a certain point.
- To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
- so as to pass a given point
- in reserve; not for immediate use
noun
verb
noun
- (figurative) Homage; adulation.
- The fragrant smoke released by burning incense (sense 1).
- Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.
- the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned
- a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned
verb
- (intransitive) To show hostility or resentment.
- (intransitive) To hold up one's head proudly or affectedly.
- (transitive) To put a bridle on.
- (transitive) To check, restrain, or control with, or as if with, a bridle; as in bridle your tongue.
- respond to the reins, as of horses
- put a bridle on
- anger or take offense
noun
- A mooring hawser.
- A piece in the interior of a gunlock which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.
- A length of line or cable attached to two parts of something to spread the force of a pull, as the rigging on a kite for attaching line.
- (figurative) A restraint; a curb; a check.
- A gesture expressing pride or vanity.
- (equestrianism) The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins.
- headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
verb
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (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.
- (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, informal) To anger or annoy.
- (transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
- (transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
- (transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
- (transitive) To cover with frost.
- (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
- damage by frost
- decorate with frosting
- cover with frost
- provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance
noun
- (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
- (television) A kind of light diffuser.
- A shade of white, like that of frost.
- A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- the formation of frost or ice on a surface
- weather cold enough to cause freezing
verb
- (transitive) To anger; to annoy.
- (transitive) To destroy by burning.
- (intransitive) To be angry or annoyed.
- (intransitive) To catch fire and burn until destroyed.
- (intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finishing strongly.
- (intransitive, specifically) To experience a high fever.
- (intransitive) To be or feel overly hot or inflamed.
- burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
- burn brightly
- use up (energy)
noun
noun
- (countable) The result or product of being aggressive.
- (uncountable) The propensity of a soil or water to dissolve metal or cement structures.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being aggressive.
- a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
- the quality of being bold and enterprising
- a natural disposition to be hostile
verb
- (often passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
- To put a saddle on an animal.
- To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
- (woodworking) To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
- To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
- Of a person: to get into a saddle.
- To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
- put a saddle on
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- load or burden; encumber
noun
- A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
- (chiefly Australia, mining) Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”).
- The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
- A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
- Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”).
- The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
- (dentistry) The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- (construction) The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway.
- In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
- (broadcasting) A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
- Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
- (geology) An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
- The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
- Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”).
- (engineering) An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
- (geometry) Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”).
- A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
- The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
- (nautical) A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”).
- a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal
- a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe
- cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a seat for the rider of a bicycle
- posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl
verb
adj
verb
- (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- To dance.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- treat badly
- measure (distances) by pacing
- shift or move by taking a step
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- furnish with steps
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
noun
- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- Stepping (style of dance)
- (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the distance covered by a step
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- relative position in a graded series
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- a short distance
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
verb
noun
- Violent uncontrolled anger.
- A current fashion or fad.
- (slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) An exciting and boisterous party.
- (music) A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.
- violent state of the elements
- something that is desired intensely
- an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- a state of extreme anger
- a feeling of intense anger
verb
prep
- (following a passive verb) Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
- Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
- (US, informal, considered incorrect by some) Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
- Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
- (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) Used to indicate the material or substance used.
- (following an intransitive verb) Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
- (following an adjective) Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
- From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
- (following an adjective) Introduces its subject matter.
- (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
- Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
- (directly following a noun) Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
- (UK, dialectal, chiefly in the negative) For (a given length of time).
- Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
- Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
- Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
- (informal) Often used without the hour
- (following an adjective) Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
- Forming the "objective genitive".
- (following a noun) Indicates a given part.
- Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
- (after a noun) Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
- Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
- (chiefly US) Before (the hour); to (the hour).
- Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
- (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
- (following a number or other quantitive word) Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
- Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).
- Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
- Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below; see also double possessive).
- Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
- (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
- Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
- Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
verb
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
- (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
- (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
- (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
- (transitive, intransitive) To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up.
- (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
- make round
- become round, plump, or shapely
- pronounce with rounded lips
- express as a round number
- wind around; move along a circular course
- attack in speech or writing
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
adj
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
- Returning to its starting point.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- (architecture) Vaulted.
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Plump.
- (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Loosely or approximately circular.
- Large in magnitude.
- (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- (of sounds) full and rich
- having the shape or form of a circle
- (mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand
adv
noun
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine; a round of beef.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- (UK) One slice of bread.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- (countable, music) A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- A circular dance.
- (nautical) A round-top.
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- (card games) The play after each deal.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
- (sports) A stage in a competition.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- (video games) A stage or level of a game.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- an outburst of applause
- any circular or rotating mechanism
- the course along which communications spread
- the activity of playing 18 holes of golf
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
- a charge of ammunition for a single shot
- (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order)
- a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic)
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- the usual activities in your day
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
prep
verb
noun
noun
- One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
- A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
- (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
- a person who requires medical care
- the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
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- (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression
- (chiefly UK, Australia) Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.
- (gaming) Hostile attention from an enemy.
- Aggravation; bother.
- (gaming) A measure of a player's level of belligerence.
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- (colloquial) Aggressive; inclined to attack (including, in video games, without having first been attacked).
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Angry.
- (TCGs) Of a player, favoring such decks.
- (British, US, slang) Hardcore, aggressive.
- (TCGs) Of a deck, designed for aggressive play that seeks to defeat the opponent in the early stages of the game.
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- (countable) The result or product of being aggressive.
- (uncountable) The propensity of a soil or water to dissolve metal or cement structures.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being aggressive.
- a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
- the quality of being bold and enterprising
- a natural disposition to be hostile
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- One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
- A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
- (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
- a person who requires medical care
- the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
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- (transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
- (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
- (transitive or intransitive) To obviously lack or be in need of something.
- (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
- (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
- (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
- call upon in supplication; entreat
- make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
- ask to obtain free
- dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted
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- (transitive) To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate.
- (transitive) To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on someone or something.
- destroy property or hinder normal operations
- oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
- oppose or check by a counteraction
- act in opposition to
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- (now often passive voice) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
- (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
- (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
- To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- do physical exercise
- put to use
- give a workout to
- learn by repetition
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- The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
- the act of using
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
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- (informal, intransitive) To show anger (about something).
- (informal, figuratively, transitive) To stir up (trouble), to cause (a disturbance).
- (transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, up.
- (machinery) To move sharply upward.
- (transitive, colloquial) To make more exciting.
- (of a horse) To rear back; to become more active or restless; to speed up.
- (informal, intransitive, US) To function improperly; to show signs of disorder; (of an illness) to flare up.
- (informal, figuratively, by extension, transitive, US) To raise, to increase (a price).
- (slang) To pass (something, such as a proposal or a share of a bribe) up a hierarchy or chain of command.
- evoke or provoke to appear or occur
- cause to rise by kicking
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- (intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
- (intransitive) To thunder or make a loud noise.
- (transitive, figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
- (figurative) to act as lightning, appearing quickly and destructively
- cause to explode violently and with loud noise
- criticize severely
- come on suddenly and intensely
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- (figurative) Homage; adulation.
- The fragrant smoke released by burning incense (sense 1).
- Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.
- the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned
- a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned
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- (intransitive) To show hostility or resentment.
- (intransitive) To hold up one's head proudly or affectedly.
- (transitive) To put a bridle on.
- (transitive) To check, restrain, or control with, or as if with, a bridle; as in bridle your tongue.
- respond to the reins, as of horses
- put a bridle on
- anger or take offense
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- A mooring hawser.
- A piece in the interior of a gunlock which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.
- A length of line or cable attached to two parts of something to spread the force of a pull, as the rigging on a kite for attaching line.
- (figurative) A restraint; a curb; a check.
- A gesture expressing pride or vanity.
- (equestrianism) The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins.
- headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
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- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (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.
- (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
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- 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
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- (transitive, informal) To anger or annoy.
- (transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
- (transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
- (transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
- (transitive) To cover with frost.
- (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
- damage by frost
- decorate with frosting
- cover with frost
- provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance
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- (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
- (television) A kind of light diffuser.
- A shade of white, like that of frost.
- A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- the formation of frost or ice on a surface
- weather cold enough to cause freezing
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- (transitive) To anger; to annoy.
- (transitive) To destroy by burning.
- (intransitive) To be angry or annoyed.
- (intransitive) To catch fire and burn until destroyed.
- (intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finishing strongly.
- (intransitive, specifically) To experience a high fever.
- (intransitive) To be or feel overly hot or inflamed.
- burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
- burn brightly
- use up (energy)
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- (often passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
- To put a saddle on an animal.
- To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
- (woodworking) To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
- To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
- Of a person: to get into a saddle.
- To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
- put a saddle on
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- load or burden; encumber
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- A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
- (chiefly Australia, mining) Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”).
- The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
- A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
- Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”).
- The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
- (dentistry) The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- (construction) The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway.
- In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
- (broadcasting) A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
- Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
- (geology) An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
- The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
- Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”).
- (engineering) An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
- (geometry) Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”).
- A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
- The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
- (nautical) A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”).
- a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal
- a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe
- cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a seat for the rider of a bicycle
- posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl
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- (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- To dance.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- treat badly
- measure (distances) by pacing
- shift or move by taking a step
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- furnish with steps
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
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- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- Stepping (style of dance)
- (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the distance covered by a step
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- relative position in a graded series
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- a short distance
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
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- Violent uncontrolled anger.
- A current fashion or fad.
- (slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) An exciting and boisterous party.
- (music) A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.
- violent state of the elements
- something that is desired intensely
- an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- a state of extreme anger
- a feeling of intense anger
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- (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
- (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
- (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
- (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
- (transitive, intransitive) To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up.
- (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
- make round
- become round, plump, or shapely
- pronounce with rounded lips
- express as a round number
- wind around; move along a circular course
- attack in speech or writing
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
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- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
- Returning to its starting point.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- (architecture) Vaulted.
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Plump.
- (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Loosely or approximately circular.
- Large in magnitude.
- (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- (of sounds) full and rich
- having the shape or form of a circle
- (mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand
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- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine; a round of beef.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- (UK) One slice of bread.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- (countable, music) A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- A circular dance.
- (nautical) A round-top.
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- (card games) The play after each deal.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
- (sports) A stage in a competition.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- (video games) A stage or level of a game.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- an outburst of applause
- any circular or rotating mechanism
- the course along which communications spread
- the activity of playing 18 holes of golf
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
- a charge of ammunition for a single shot
- (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order)
- a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic)
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- the usual activities in your day
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
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- Aggressive; antagonistic.
- (not comparable) Being or relating to a hostile takeover.
- Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
- Unwilling.
- very unfavorable to life or growth
- impossible to bring into friendly accord
- unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)
- characterized by enmity or ill will
- not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally
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- (grammar) Being in the passive voice.
- Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
- (in "passive provision") Where allowance is made for a possible future event.
- Taking no action.
- (electronics) Of a component: that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
- (psychology) Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
- (aviation) Without motive power.
- (finance) Not participating in management.
- lacking in energy or will
- expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb
- peacefully resistant in response to injustice
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- (marketing) A customer who is satisfied with a product or service, but not keen enough to promote it by word of mouth.
- (grammar) The passive voice of verbs.
- (electronics) Any component that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
- A thing whose worth decreases with time.
- (grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.
- (gaming) Ellipsis of passive attack.
- the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb
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- (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression
- (chiefly UK, Australia) Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.
- (gaming) Hostile attention from an enemy.
- Aggravation; bother.
- (gaming) A measure of a player's level of belligerence.
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- (colloquial) Aggressive; inclined to attack (including, in video games, without having first been attacked).
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Angry.
- (TCGs) Of a player, favoring such decks.
- (British, US, slang) Hardcore, aggressive.
- (TCGs) Of a deck, designed for aggressive play that seeks to defeat the opponent in the early stages of the game.