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verb
- To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
- To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
- (intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps.
- Alternative form of Twitter.
- (intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
- make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
noun
- (countable) A slight trembling of the nerves.
- (uncountable, countable) The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
- (countable, informal or British, regional) Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.
- (uncountable, electronics) Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
- (countable) A tremulous broken sound.
- a series of chirps
adj
- nervous and unable to relax
- causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch
- Causing an itching sensation.
- Feeling an itching sensation; feeling a need to be scratched. (of a person, animal or body part)
- (figurative) Having a constant, teasing desire (for something, to do something); impatiently eager.
- Characterized by itching. (of a condition)
- (figurative) Causing a constant, teasing desire for something.
- (figurative) In a state of agitation; easily alarmed.
adj
- nervous and unable to relax
- ceaselessly in motion
- worried and uneasy
- lacking or not affording physical or mental rest
- Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose; eager for change; discontented.
- Deprived of rest or sleep.
- Not allowing or affording rest.
- Without rest; unable to be still or quiet; uneasy; continually moving.
noun
- A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion; a frisson.
- (figurative) A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
- (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
- A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
- something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
verb
- tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
- (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
- (machining) To drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.
- (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
- fill with sublime emotion
- cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input
- feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
adj
- Nervous, anxious.
- Shaking or trembling.
- (of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
- Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
- Wavering; undecided.
- vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
- not secure; beset with difficulties
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
noun
- The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.
- An anxious state of mind; anxiety.
- embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
- the trait of seeming ill at ease
- feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
- physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
- inability to rest or relax or be still
noun
- a state of nervous excitement
- A state of excitement or anxiety.
- a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
- (in combination, slang, often derogatory) Sexual attraction towards a specific group of people.
- (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
- (medicine) A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
- (neologism) A group of stingrays.
verb
adj
noun
- A state of nervous excitement.
- (computer graphics) The use of dot patterns in an image or graphic to approximate colors not available in the system palette.
- A form of noise intentionally added to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- Trembling, shaking, or shivering.
- The state of being undecided; indecision; vacillation.
- an excited state of agitation
verb
- (literally) To tremble, shake, or shiver.
- To intentionally add noise to a signal to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- (computer graphics) To use dot patterns in an image or graphic to simulate colors or shades not in the system palette.
- To do something nervously.
- (figurative) To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay.
- make a fuss; be agitated
- act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
noun
verb
adj
adj
noun
verb
verb
adj
- taut or rigid; stretched tight
- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘beat’)
- Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
- Pulled taut, without any slack.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
- Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
noun
- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
- (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.
- (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
verb
noun
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- The act of shivering.
- (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.
- (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
- (geology) A variety of blue slate.
- (Lincolnshire, Norfolk) A splinter of wood embedded in the flesh
- (collective) Collective noun for a group of sharks.
- A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
verb
noun
verb
- tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
- pulsate or pound with abnormal force
- expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
- (intransitive, of a body part) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.
- (intransitive) To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
- (figurative, with "with") To exhibit an attitude, trait, or affect powerfully and profoundly.
noun
verb
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- to exert much effort or energy
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- become stretched or tense or taut
- remove by passing through a filter
- test the limits of
- (transitive) To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
- (transitive) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- (transitive) To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- (transitive) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- (ambitransitive) To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- (transitive) To urge with importunity; to press.
- (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
- (transitive) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
- (transitive) To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
noun
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- an intense or violent exertion
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the act of singing
- injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
- the general meaning or substance of an utterance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- (figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
- (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- (music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
noun
- A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
- A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
- The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
- A snail of the genus Vertigo.
- a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
- (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
- (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
- (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
- fly around
- cause to spin
adj
noun
- an anxious feeling
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
- a cause for feeling concern
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
- (uncountable) The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
- (uncountable, UK) The state of being cared for by others.
- (uncountable) Maintenance, upkeep.
- (countable, uncountable) Worry.
- Close attention; concern; responsibility.
verb
- to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something
- be concerned with
- feel concern or interest
- provide care for
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- (intransitive, Appalachia) To mind; to object.
- (intransitive, informal, by extension) To be affected by, to treat as relevant for a subsequent course of action.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
- (intransitive, polite, formal, chiefly in the negative) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards or interested in.
- (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
noun
- an anxious feeling
- something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
- a feeling of sympathy for someone or something
- something that interests you because it is important or affects you
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
- (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
verb
noun
- an anxious feeling
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
- (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
- (countable) Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
- (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- (UK, with definite article, "the fear") A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.
- (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
verb
- be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement
- be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event
- be uneasy or apprehensive about
- be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
- regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
- (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
- (intransitive) To feel fear.
- (intransitive) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].
- (transitive) To regret.
- (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
adj
verb
- cause to be nervous or upset
- be flustered; behave in a confused manner
- (British, dialectal) To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
- To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- (by extension) To turn on, to make horny.
- To be agitated and confused; to bustle.
- To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
- (by extension) To become turned on, to become horny.
noun
verb
- make nervous or agitated
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- make confused or perplexed or puzzled
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- intrude or enter uninvited
- (imperative, euphemistic) Damn; curse.
- To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
- (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
- (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
- (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
noun
noun
verb
noun
- An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
- (pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.
- (informal) Any anxiety disorder, especially generalized anxiety disorder.
- An uneasy or distressing desire (for something). Endeavor (to please).
- (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic
- a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
noun
- (colloquial) A nervous or jittery person.
- Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”).
- (dance) An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps.
- (jazz) A jazz musician or aficionado.
- a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
verb
noun
- A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion; a frisson.
- (figurative) A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
- (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
- A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
- something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
verb
- tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
- (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
- (machining) To drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.
- (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
- fill with sublime emotion
- cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input
- feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
noun
- The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.
- An anxious state of mind; anxiety.
- embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
- the trait of seeming ill at ease
- feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
- physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
- inability to rest or relax or be still
noun
- a state of nervous excitement
- A state of excitement or anxiety.
- a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
- (in combination, slang, often derogatory) Sexual attraction towards a specific group of people.
- (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
- (medicine) A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
- (neologism) A group of stingrays.
verb
noun
- A state of nervous excitement.
- (computer graphics) The use of dot patterns in an image or graphic to approximate colors not available in the system palette.
- A form of noise intentionally added to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- Trembling, shaking, or shivering.
- The state of being undecided; indecision; vacillation.
- an excited state of agitation
verb
- (literally) To tremble, shake, or shiver.
- To intentionally add noise to a signal to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- (computer graphics) To use dot patterns in an image or graphic to simulate colors or shades not in the system palette.
- To do something nervously.
- (figurative) To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay.
- make a fuss; be agitated
- act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
noun
verb
noun
- A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
- A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
- The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
- A snail of the genus Vertigo.
- a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
- (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
- (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
- (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
- fly around
- cause to spin
noun
- an anxious feeling
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
- a cause for feeling concern
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
- (uncountable) The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
- (uncountable, UK) The state of being cared for by others.
- (uncountable) Maintenance, upkeep.
- (countable, uncountable) Worry.
- Close attention; concern; responsibility.
verb
- to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something
- be concerned with
- feel concern or interest
- provide care for
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- (intransitive, Appalachia) To mind; to object.
- (intransitive, informal, by extension) To be affected by, to treat as relevant for a subsequent course of action.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
- (intransitive, polite, formal, chiefly in the negative) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards or interested in.
- (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
noun
- an anxious feeling
- something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
- a feeling of sympathy for someone or something
- something that interests you because it is important or affects you
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
- (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
verb
noun
- an anxious feeling
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
- (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
- (countable) Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
- (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- (UK, with definite article, "the fear") A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.
- (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
verb
- be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement
- be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event
- be uneasy or apprehensive about
- be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
- regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
- (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
- (intransitive) To feel fear.
- (intransitive) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].
- (transitive) To regret.
- (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
adj
verb
- To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
- To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
- (intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps.
- Alternative form of Twitter.
- (intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
- make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
noun
- (countable) A slight trembling of the nerves.
- (uncountable, countable) The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
- (countable, informal or British, regional) Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.
- (uncountable, electronics) Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
- (countable) A tremulous broken sound.
- a series of chirps
noun
verb
noun
- An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
- (pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.
- (informal) Any anxiety disorder, especially generalized anxiety disorder.
- An uneasy or distressing desire (for something). Endeavor (to please).
- (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic
- a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
noun
- (colloquial) A nervous or jittery person.
- Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”).
- (dance) An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps.
- (jazz) A jazz musician or aficionado.
- a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
verb
verb
- cause to be nervous or upset
- be flustered; behave in a confused manner
- (British, dialectal) To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
- To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- (by extension) To turn on, to make horny.
- To be agitated and confused; to bustle.
- To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
- (by extension) To become turned on, to become horny.
noun
verb
- To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
- To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
- (intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps.
- Alternative form of Twitter.
- (intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
- make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
noun
- (countable) A slight trembling of the nerves.
- (uncountable, countable) The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
- (countable, informal or British, regional) Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.
- (uncountable, electronics) Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
- (countable) A tremulous broken sound.
- a series of chirps
verb
adj
- taut or rigid; stretched tight
- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘beat’)
- Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
- Pulled taut, without any slack.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
- Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
noun
- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
- (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.
- (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
noun
- A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion; a frisson.
- (figurative) A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
- (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
- A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
- something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
verb
- tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
- (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
- (machining) To drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.
- (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
- fill with sublime emotion
- cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input
- feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
verb
noun
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- The act of shivering.
- (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.
- (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
- (geology) A variety of blue slate.
- (Lincolnshire, Norfolk) A splinter of wood embedded in the flesh
- (collective) Collective noun for a group of sharks.
- A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
verb
noun
verb
- tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
- pulsate or pound with abnormal force
- expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
- (intransitive, of a body part) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.
- (intransitive) To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
- (figurative, with "with") To exhibit an attitude, trait, or affect powerfully and profoundly.
noun
verb
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- to exert much effort or energy
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- become stretched or tense or taut
- remove by passing through a filter
- test the limits of
- (transitive) To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
- (transitive) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- (transitive) To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- (transitive) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- (ambitransitive) To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- (transitive) To urge with importunity; to press.
- (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
- (transitive) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
- (transitive) To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
noun
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- an intense or violent exertion
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the act of singing
- injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
- the general meaning or substance of an utterance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- (figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
- (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- (music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
verb
- cause to be nervous or upset
- be flustered; behave in a confused manner
- (British, dialectal) To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
- To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- (by extension) To turn on, to make horny.
- To be agitated and confused; to bustle.
- To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
- (by extension) To become turned on, to become horny.
noun
verb
- make nervous or agitated
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- make confused or perplexed or puzzled
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- intrude or enter uninvited
- (imperative, euphemistic) Damn; curse.
- To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
- (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
- (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
- (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
noun
adj
- nervous and unable to relax
- causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch
- Causing an itching sensation.
- Feeling an itching sensation; feeling a need to be scratched. (of a person, animal or body part)
- (figurative) Having a constant, teasing desire (for something, to do something); impatiently eager.
- Characterized by itching. (of a condition)
- (figurative) Causing a constant, teasing desire for something.
- (figurative) In a state of agitation; easily alarmed.
adj
- nervous and unable to relax
- ceaselessly in motion
- worried and uneasy
- lacking or not affording physical or mental rest
- Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose; eager for change; discontented.
- Deprived of rest or sleep.
- Not allowing or affording rest.
- Without rest; unable to be still or quiet; uneasy; continually moving.
adj
- Nervous, anxious.
- Shaking or trembling.
- (of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
- Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
- Wavering; undecided.
- vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
- not secure; beset with difficulties
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect