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adj
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
- excessively greedy and grasping
- Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
- (of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.
- (also figurative) Voracious; avaricious.
noun
- eating until excessively full
- the state of being more than full
- the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
- Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
- (uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
- (countable) An excessive amount of something.
- (countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
- (countable) A group of skunks.
verb
- indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
- supply or feed to surfeit
- (intransitive, reflexive) To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively).
- (transitive) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).
- (intransitive, reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
- (transitive) To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
- (transitive) To fill (something) to excess.
- (intransitive, reflexive, figurative) To indulge (in something) to excess.
- (transitive, figurative) To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
- (transitive) To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
adj
- consuming abundantly and with gusto
- deeply felt
- providing abundant nourishment
- showing warm and heartfelt friendliness
- endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health
- Warm and cordial towards another person.
- Cheerful; vivacious.
- Energetic, active or eager.
- Exhibiting strength; firm; courageous.
- Promoting strength; nourishing.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- destroy completely by means of consumption
- use up (resources or materials)
- engage fully
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- spend extravagantly
- (transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media.
- (transitive) To eat.
- (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
- (transitive) To use up.
- (transitive) To destroy completely.
- (economics, transitive, intransitive) To trade money for good or services as an individual.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- To devour; to eat up
- ruin or destroy
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- destroy completely
- (figuratively) To defeat, refute, discredit, or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
- (literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- eat greedily
- to consume
- enjoy avidly
- (transitive, idiomatic) To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.
- (originally drag slang, Internet slang, intransitive) Synonym of eat: to be very good at something; to slay.
- (transitive) To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
adj
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
noun
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
adv
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- apply thoroughly; think through
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- (transitive) To beat, fight or attack (someone).
- (transitive) To enact or recite the entire length of (something).
- (literally) To travel from one end of something to the other.
- (transitive, of a flavor or ingredient) To be present and intense.
- (transitive) To examine or scrutinize (a number or series of things).
- (intransitive) To progress to the next stage of something.
- (transitive) To undergo, suffer, experience.
- (intransitive) To reach an intended destination after passing through some process.
- (transitive) To use up or wear out (clothing etc.).
verb
- eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
- throw or cast away
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- kill gently, as with an injection
- turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
- stop using
- (transitive, combat sports, by extension) To knock out an opponent.
- (baseball) To catch a fly ball or tag out a baserunner.
- (transitive, now formal or literary) To discard, divest oneself of.
- (transitive) To send (someone) to prison or mental asylum.
- (transitive) To kill someone.
- (transitive) To store, add to one's stores for later use.
- (sports) To take a large lead in a game, especially enough to guarantee victory or make the game no longer competitive.
- (baseball) To strike out a batter.
- (transitive) To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up.
- (tennis, pickleball) To hit the ball in such a way that the opponent cannot reach it; see passing shot.
- (transitive, colloquial) To consume (food or drink), especially in large quantities.
verb
- eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
- (intransitive) To pull the blankets or duvet up over oneself; to get in bed.
- (transitive, soccer) To score from with a casual motion
- (finance) To acquire something tiny
- (transitive) To pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed.
- (transitive) To push (the fabric at the bottom of a shirt) under the pants.
- To place in a small space.
- (intransitive) To eat heartily.
noun
- (slang) A very large meal.
- (oil industry) A type of safety harness with a belt that wraps tightly around the belly.
- (slang) A loud, exuberant laugh.
- (poker slang) A poker hand which is four cards to a straight, where only one rank can complete a straight. E.g. 3-4-6-7, only a five completes the straight.
adj
- Prone to overeat.
- wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume
- (computer science, of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.
- (regular expressions) Tending to match as much text as possible.
- Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
- (often followed by ‘for’) ardently or excessively desirous
- immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
adj
- Large; more than ample; copious.
- Invigorating in its nature.
- Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed.
- Noble in behaviour or actions; principled, not petty; kind, magnanimous.
- not petty in character and mind
- more than is usual or necessary
- willing to give and share unstintingly
verb
- eat greedily
- live like a pig, in squalor
- give birth to (piglets)
- (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
- (intransitive) To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
- (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
- (of swine) To give birth.
- (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
noun
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- a coarse obnoxious person
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- domestic swine
- a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
- mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
- (US, slang) A Cadillac car.
- (figuratively, derogatory) An obese person.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A dirty or slovenly person.
- (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
- (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
- (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
- (US, slang) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
- (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
- (countable and uncountable) An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
- (Scotland) An earthenware pot or jar
- (engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
- (countable) Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
- (informal) A difficult problem.
- (slang) The victim of a pig butchering scam.
- (figuratively, derogatory) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
- (specifically) An earthenware vessel used as a hot-water bottle
- (derogatory, slang) A police officer.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A lecherous or sexist man.
- A lead container used for radioactive waste.
- (uncountable) A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
- The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
verb
- eat greedily
- prey on or hunt for
- obtain or seize by violence
- feed greedily
- Followed by about, after, or for: to go after or seek for something, especially booty or spoils; to maraud, to plunder; also (generally), to move about wildly and cause damage; to rampage.
- To eat greedily; also, followed by on or upon: of an animal: to prey on.
- (figurative) To absorb or take in (something, such as information) greedily; also, to approach or pounce on (someone) like prey.
- Originally followed by with: to experience great hunger; to be ravenous.
- (figurative) To take and exploit or make use of greedily.
- (figurative) Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a strong craving or desire for, or to do, something; to crave, to desire, to yearn.
- Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a ravenous appetite or craving for food or prey.
- Sometimes followed by about or on: to move about searching for food or prey ravenously.
noun
- large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
- (uncountable) A jet-black, often glossy, colour, like that of the plumage of a raven (etymology 1 sense 1).
- (countable) Any of several, generally large, species of birds in the genus Corvus with lustrous black plumage; especially the common raven (Corvus corax).
- (historical, countable) A flag bearing a raven (etymology 1 sense 1), formerly used by some Viking leaders
- (uncountable, metonymic) preceded by the: Viking military power.
- (chiefly fiction, countable) A person, especially a man, with black hair.
- Alternative spelling of ravin.
adj
verb
adj
- (of a number or amount) Large, healthy.
- Heavy, weighing a lot.
- (of a person) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built.
- With heft; heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive
- Strong; bulky.
- of considerable weight and size
- (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
- large in amount or extent or degree
noun
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
- Something supplied continuously.
- (social media, often after a possessive determiner) content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.
- (syndication or aggregation): antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
- A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
- food for domestic livestock
verb
- (transitive) To supply with something.
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- (transitive) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- (transitive, figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
- (transitive, sports) To pass to.
- simple past and past participle of fee
- (transitive, syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
- (transitive, phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
- (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
- (transitive) To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- introduce continuously
- move along, of liquids
- gratify
- take in food; used of animals only
- serve as food for; be the food for
- profit from in an exploitatory manner
- support or promote
- feed into; supply
- provide as food
- provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
- give food to
verb
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill tightly with a material
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- obstruct
- cram into a cavity
noun
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
adj
noun
- Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
- The contents of a pie, etc.
- Anything that is used to fill something.
- (dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.
- (Protestantism) A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.
- The woof in woven fabrics.
- flow into something (as a container)
- any material that fills a space or container
- (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
- the act of filling something
verb
noun
- eating until excessively full
- the state of being more than full
- the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
- Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
- (uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
- (countable) An excessive amount of something.
- (countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
- (countable) A group of skunks.
verb
- indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
- supply or feed to surfeit
- (intransitive, reflexive) To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively).
- (transitive) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).
- (intransitive, reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
- (transitive) To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
- (transitive) To fill (something) to excess.
- (intransitive, reflexive, figurative) To indulge (in something) to excess.
- (transitive, figurative) To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
- (transitive) To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
noun
- (slang) A very large meal.
- (oil industry) A type of safety harness with a belt that wraps tightly around the belly.
- (slang) A loud, exuberant laugh.
- (poker slang) A poker hand which is four cards to a straight, where only one rank can complete a straight. E.g. 3-4-6-7, only a five completes the straight.
noun
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
- Something supplied continuously.
- (social media, often after a possessive determiner) content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.
- (syndication or aggregation): antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
- A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
- food for domestic livestock
verb
- (transitive) To supply with something.
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- (transitive) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- (transitive, figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
- (transitive, sports) To pass to.
- simple past and past participle of fee
- (transitive, syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
- (transitive, phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
- (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
- (transitive) To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- introduce continuously
- move along, of liquids
- gratify
- take in food; used of animals only
- serve as food for; be the food for
- profit from in an exploitatory manner
- support or promote
- feed into; supply
- provide as food
- provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
- give food to
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- destroy completely by means of consumption
- use up (resources or materials)
- engage fully
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- spend extravagantly
- (transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media.
- (transitive) To eat.
- (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
- (transitive) To use up.
- (transitive) To destroy completely.
- (economics, transitive, intransitive) To trade money for good or services as an individual.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- To devour; to eat up
- ruin or destroy
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- destroy completely
- (figuratively) To defeat, refute, discredit, or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
- (literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- eat greedily
- to consume
- enjoy avidly
- (transitive, idiomatic) To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.
- (originally drag slang, Internet slang, intransitive) Synonym of eat: to be very good at something; to slay.
- (transitive) To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
adj
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
noun
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
adv
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- apply thoroughly; think through
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- (transitive) To beat, fight or attack (someone).
- (transitive) To enact or recite the entire length of (something).
- (literally) To travel from one end of something to the other.
- (transitive, of a flavor or ingredient) To be present and intense.
- (transitive) To examine or scrutinize (a number or series of things).
- (intransitive) To progress to the next stage of something.
- (transitive) To undergo, suffer, experience.
- (intransitive) To reach an intended destination after passing through some process.
- (transitive) To use up or wear out (clothing etc.).
verb
- eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
- throw or cast away
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- kill gently, as with an injection
- turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
- stop using
- (transitive, combat sports, by extension) To knock out an opponent.
- (baseball) To catch a fly ball or tag out a baserunner.
- (transitive, now formal or literary) To discard, divest oneself of.
- (transitive) To send (someone) to prison or mental asylum.
- (transitive) To kill someone.
- (transitive) To store, add to one's stores for later use.
- (sports) To take a large lead in a game, especially enough to guarantee victory or make the game no longer competitive.
- (baseball) To strike out a batter.
- (transitive) To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up.
- (tennis, pickleball) To hit the ball in such a way that the opponent cannot reach it; see passing shot.
- (transitive, colloquial) To consume (food or drink), especially in large quantities.
verb
- eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
- (intransitive) To pull the blankets or duvet up over oneself; to get in bed.
- (transitive, soccer) To score from with a casual motion
- (finance) To acquire something tiny
- (transitive) To pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed.
- (transitive) To push (the fabric at the bottom of a shirt) under the pants.
- To place in a small space.
- (intransitive) To eat heartily.
verb
- eat greedily
- live like a pig, in squalor
- give birth to (piglets)
- (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
- (intransitive) To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
- (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
- (of swine) To give birth.
- (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
noun
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- a coarse obnoxious person
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- domestic swine
- a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
- mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
- (US, slang) A Cadillac car.
- (figuratively, derogatory) An obese person.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A dirty or slovenly person.
- (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
- (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
- (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
- (US, slang) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
- (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
- (countable and uncountable) An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
- (Scotland) An earthenware pot or jar
- (engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
- (countable) Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
- (informal) A difficult problem.
- (slang) The victim of a pig butchering scam.
- (figuratively, derogatory) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
- (specifically) An earthenware vessel used as a hot-water bottle
- (derogatory, slang) A police officer.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A lecherous or sexist man.
- A lead container used for radioactive waste.
- (uncountable) A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
- The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
verb
- eat greedily
- prey on or hunt for
- obtain or seize by violence
- feed greedily
- Followed by about, after, or for: to go after or seek for something, especially booty or spoils; to maraud, to plunder; also (generally), to move about wildly and cause damage; to rampage.
- To eat greedily; also, followed by on or upon: of an animal: to prey on.
- (figurative) To absorb or take in (something, such as information) greedily; also, to approach or pounce on (someone) like prey.
- Originally followed by with: to experience great hunger; to be ravenous.
- (figurative) To take and exploit or make use of greedily.
- (figurative) Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a strong craving or desire for, or to do, something; to crave, to desire, to yearn.
- Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a ravenous appetite or craving for food or prey.
- Sometimes followed by about or on: to move about searching for food or prey ravenously.
noun
- large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
- (uncountable) A jet-black, often glossy, colour, like that of the plumage of a raven (etymology 1 sense 1).
- (countable) Any of several, generally large, species of birds in the genus Corvus with lustrous black plumage; especially the common raven (Corvus corax).
- (historical, countable) A flag bearing a raven (etymology 1 sense 1), formerly used by some Viking leaders
- (uncountable, metonymic) preceded by the: Viking military power.
- (chiefly fiction, countable) A person, especially a man, with black hair.
- Alternative spelling of ravin.
adj
verb
verb
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill tightly with a material
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- obstruct
- cram into a cavity
noun
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
adj
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
- excessively greedy and grasping
- Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
- (of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.
- (also figurative) Voracious; avaricious.
adj
- consuming abundantly and with gusto
- deeply felt
- providing abundant nourishment
- showing warm and heartfelt friendliness
- endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health
- Warm and cordial towards another person.
- Cheerful; vivacious.
- Energetic, active or eager.
- Exhibiting strength; firm; courageous.
- Promoting strength; nourishing.
adj
- Prone to overeat.
- wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume
- (computer science, of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.
- (regular expressions) Tending to match as much text as possible.
- Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
- (often followed by ‘for’) ardently or excessively desirous
- immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
adj
- Large; more than ample; copious.
- Invigorating in its nature.
- Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed.
- Noble in behaviour or actions; principled, not petty; kind, magnanimous.
- not petty in character and mind
- more than is usual or necessary
- willing to give and share unstintingly
adj
- (of a number or amount) Large, healthy.
- Heavy, weighing a lot.
- (of a person) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built.
- With heft; heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive
- Strong; bulky.
- of considerable weight and size
- (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
- large in amount or extent or degree
adj
noun
- Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
- The contents of a pie, etc.
- Anything that is used to fill something.
- (dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.
- (Protestantism) A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.
- The woof in woven fabrics.
- flow into something (as a container)
- any material that fills a space or container
- (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
- the act of filling something