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verb
- retreat
- change from a waking to a sleeping state
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- fall to a lower standard
- fall or diminish
- (idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To drop, fall.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To drop from, fall from.
- (slang) To abandon or give up on (something); to be abandoned or given up on.
- (intransitive, figurative) To end a connection with a telephone queue, either by hanging up or after being served or processed.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To fall asleep.
- (intransitive) To lessen or reduce.
verb
- retreat
- To retreat.
- move back and away from
- go back to bad behavior
- fall backwards and down
- have recourse to
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, back.
- To turn the clocks back for the end of daylight saving time.
- To fail to fulfill a promise or purpose.
verb
- retreat
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, behind.
- (transitive and intransitive) to fail to keep up (with)
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To be late (for a regular event)
- (intransitive) To be progressively below average in performance.
verb
- To retreat.
- (transitive, sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.
- (transitive, sports) To score when the team is losing.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, back.
- use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
- move to a rearward position; pull towards the back
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
- pull back or move away or backward
noun
- The retreat of a hermit, or anchorite.
- (figurative) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.
- The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
- That into which something is anchored or fastened.
- The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
- (medicine) The surgical fixation of prolapsed organs.
- (nautical) A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge.
- (nautical) A fee charged for anchoring.
- place for vessels to anchor
- a fee for anchoring
- the condition of being secured to a base
- the act of anchoring
- the provision of a sense of security or steadfastness
verb
- escape, either physically or mentally
- cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
- evade payment to
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- (intransitive, UK) To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
- (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
- (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
noun
verb
- escape, either physically or mentally
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- (transitive) To evade or escape from (someone or something), especially by using cunning or skill.
- (transitive) To shake off (a pursuer); to give someone the slip.
- (transitive) To escape someone's memory, to slip someone's mind.
- (transitive) To escape being understandable to; to be incomprehensible to.
verb
- escape, either physically or mentally
- use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- practice evasion
- (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
- (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
- (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
verb
- (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
- (intransitive) To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
- (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. Also, when such an event ends a team's turn at bat.
- (intransitive, sports) To stop playing their sport and in competitions a sports player.
- (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
- (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
- (transitive, American spelling) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.
- (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
- (intransitive) To go to bed.
- (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
- (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
- (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
- cause to get out
- withdraw from active participation
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- lose interest
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make (someone) retire
- prepare for sleep
- pull back or move away or backward
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
noun
noun
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
- (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
verb
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- fit together or fit inside
- gather nests
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
noun
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- an area where you can be alone
- (military) Withdrawal by a military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
- (chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.
- A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude, especially for meditation, prayer, or study.
- (military) A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
- (military) A signal for a military withdrawal.
- A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
- The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
- (military) A military ceremony to lower the flag.
- The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
verb
- move away, as for privacy
- move back
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- pull back or move away or backward
- (intransitive) To withdraw from a position, go back.
- (intransitive) To shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures. (of a glacier)
- (intransitive) To slope back.
- (intransitive) To withdraw military forces.
- Alternative form of re-treat.
noun
- A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat.
- A recess, cove or hollow.
- (historical) An English unit of land area, originally ¹⁄₄ of a yardland but later 12+¹⁄₂ or 20 acres.
- A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.
- (Homestuck fandom slang, vulgar) The vagina-like genitalia of a troll, featured in Homestuck fanworks but not in canon.
- a sheltered and secluded place
- an interior angle formed by two meeting walls
verb
noun
- The act of fleeing.
- The act of flying.
- (collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.
- An instance of flying.
- An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
- (engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
- (cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift.
- The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
- A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
- A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
- Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
- The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
- A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
- (by extension) A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
- (US, naval) A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
- An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
- A paper airplane.
- An air force unit.
- A series of stairs between landings.
- (advertising, broadcasting) An advertising campaign of fixed length.
- a formation of aircraft in flight
- a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports
- a flock of flying birds
- the act of escaping physically
- passing above and beyond ordinary bounds
- a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
- an instance of traveling by air
- an air force unit smaller than a squadron
- the path followed by an object moving through space
verb
noun
- A retreat, especially a military one.
- (by extension, humorous) Any journey downwards or fall.
- (mythology, literature) A mytheme or trope in which the hero embarks on a journey to the underworld.
- (rare) The presence of downward (drainage or katabatic) winds.
- A journey from the interior of a country to the coast.
verb
noun
verb
- To depart or slip away.
- (transitive, slang) To extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
- (transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
- (transitive, informal) To bribe.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
- lubricate with grease
noun
- (by extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
- Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
- Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
- Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
- (slang) Money.
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)
verb
- (intransitive) To begin moving away.
- (transitive) To avoid the undesirable consequences of; to prevent.
- (transitive) To intercept.
- (nautical) To turn away from the wind.
- (intransitive) To start out.
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
noun
- A removal to a distance; a withdrawal; a being at a distance; a distance.
- The state of being lengthened.
- That which lengthens out; a continuation.
- The ratio of the extension of a material to the length of the material prior to stretching.
- (astronomy) The angular distance of a planet from the sun.
- The act of lengthening.
- the act of lengthening something
- the quality of being elongated
- an addition to the length of something
adj
noun
verb
- (also figurative, intransitive) To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat.
- (literally, intransitive) To use coitus interruptus as a method of birth control.
- (transitive) To draw out or lengthen.
- (aviation, intransitive, of an aircraft) To transition from a dive to level or climbing flight.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To remove something from a container.
- (transitive) To draw out by dragging or tugging.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To maneuver a vehicle from the side of a road onto the lane.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, out.
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- move out or away
- remove oneself from an obligation
verb
- withdraw, as from reality
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- fail to keep or maintain (of a state)
- fail to win
- fail to get or obtain
- allow to go out of sight or mind
- be set at a disadvantage
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
- (transitive) To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
- (transitive) Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
- (transitive) To be deprived of (some right or privileged access to something).
- (transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
- (transitive) To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
- (transitive) To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc).
- (transitive) To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
- (transitive) To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
- (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
- (transitive) To pay or owe (some wager) due from an unsuccessful bet or gamble.
- (transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- (transitive) To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
- (transitive) To shed (weight).
- (intransitive) To be defeated (in a game, competition, contest, etc.)
noun
adj
noun
verb
- move away or escape suddenly
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- move away or escape suddenly
- begin suddenly and sometimes violently
- become raw or open
- start abruptly
- take from stowage in preparation for use
- (transitive) To take or force out by breaking.
- (intransitive, of a person) To suddenly get pimples or a rash, especially on one's face.
- (intransitive) To begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition.
- (transitive) To separate (something) from a bundle.
- (transitive) To rescue someone or aid their escape as in sense 1.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To bring out from storage, use, or present.
- (intransitive) To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly.
- (especially recording industry, intransitive) (Of a record, product, or company): to achieve widespread success.
noun
- the act of breaking away or withdrawing from
- (Australia) An animal that breaks away from a herd.
- (boxing) The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.
- (Australia) A stampede of animals.
- (Australia, geography) An eroding steep slope on the edge of a plateau; an escarpment.
- (ice hockey) A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them.
- A swing dance in which the leader occasionally swings the follower out into an open position.
- (cycle racing) A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton.
- (Australia) A channel of floodwater that has burst from its usual course; or the track or channel eroded by the water.
- The act of breaking away from something.
- A particular yo-yo trick http://yoyo.wikia.com/wiki/Breakaway.
- (theater) An item of scenery designed to be broken or destroyed during the performance.
adj
- having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude
- Capable of breaking off without damaging the larger structure.
- (ice hockey) Occurring during or as a result of a breakaway (see Noun)
- (entertainment industry) Enjoying rapid popular success.
- Having broken away from a larger unit.
verb
- (transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
- (transitive) To cause to become smaller.
- (intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
- (intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
- (intransitive) To cower or flinch.
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- wither, as with a loss of moisture
- draw back, as with fear or pain
- decrease in size, range, or extent
- become smaller or draw together
noun
noun
- Someone who withdraws.
- a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled
- a drug addict who is discontinuing the use of narcotics
- a contestant who withdraws from competition
- an authority who withdraws permission
- a depositor who withdraws funds previously deposited
- an individualist who withdraws from social interaction
noun
- A departure.
- (in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something).
- (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
- The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next.
- The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
- (figurative) Conditions for advancing in any way.
- Progress.
- advancing toward a goal
- the act of departing
- euphemistic expressions for death
adj
verb
noun
- The retreat of a hermit, or anchorite.
- (figurative) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.
- The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
- That into which something is anchored or fastened.
- The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
- (medicine) The surgical fixation of prolapsed organs.
- (nautical) A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge.
- (nautical) A fee charged for anchoring.
- place for vessels to anchor
- a fee for anchoring
- the condition of being secured to a base
- the act of anchoring
- the provision of a sense of security or steadfastness
noun
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
- (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
verb
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- fit together or fit inside
- gather nests
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
noun
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- an area where you can be alone
- (military) Withdrawal by a military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
- (chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.
- A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude, especially for meditation, prayer, or study.
- (military) A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
- (military) A signal for a military withdrawal.
- A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
- The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
- (military) A military ceremony to lower the flag.
- The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
verb
- move away, as for privacy
- move back
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- pull back or move away or backward
- (intransitive) To withdraw from a position, go back.
- (intransitive) To shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures. (of a glacier)
- (intransitive) To slope back.
- (intransitive) To withdraw military forces.
- Alternative form of re-treat.
noun
- A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat.
- A recess, cove or hollow.
- (historical) An English unit of land area, originally ¹⁄₄ of a yardland but later 12+¹⁄₂ or 20 acres.
- A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.
- (Homestuck fandom slang, vulgar) The vagina-like genitalia of a troll, featured in Homestuck fanworks but not in canon.
- a sheltered and secluded place
- an interior angle formed by two meeting walls
verb
noun
- The act of fleeing.
- The act of flying.
- (collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.
- An instance of flying.
- An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
- (engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
- (cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift.
- The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
- A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
- A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
- Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
- The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
- A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
- (by extension) A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
- (US, naval) A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
- An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
- A paper airplane.
- An air force unit.
- A series of stairs between landings.
- (advertising, broadcasting) An advertising campaign of fixed length.
- a formation of aircraft in flight
- a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports
- a flock of flying birds
- the act of escaping physically
- passing above and beyond ordinary bounds
- a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
- an instance of traveling by air
- an air force unit smaller than a squadron
- the path followed by an object moving through space
verb
noun
- A retreat, especially a military one.
- (by extension, humorous) Any journey downwards or fall.
- (mythology, literature) A mytheme or trope in which the hero embarks on a journey to the underworld.
- (rare) The presence of downward (drainage or katabatic) winds.
- A journey from the interior of a country to the coast.
noun
- A removal to a distance; a withdrawal; a being at a distance; a distance.
- The state of being lengthened.
- That which lengthens out; a continuation.
- The ratio of the extension of a material to the length of the material prior to stretching.
- (astronomy) The angular distance of a planet from the sun.
- The act of lengthening.
- the act of lengthening something
- the quality of being elongated
- an addition to the length of something
noun
- the act of breaking away or withdrawing from
- (Australia) An animal that breaks away from a herd.
- (boxing) The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.
- (Australia) A stampede of animals.
- (Australia, geography) An eroding steep slope on the edge of a plateau; an escarpment.
- (ice hockey) A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them.
- A swing dance in which the leader occasionally swings the follower out into an open position.
- (cycle racing) A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton.
- (Australia) A channel of floodwater that has burst from its usual course; or the track or channel eroded by the water.
- The act of breaking away from something.
- A particular yo-yo trick http://yoyo.wikia.com/wiki/Breakaway.
- (theater) An item of scenery designed to be broken or destroyed during the performance.
adj
- having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude
- Capable of breaking off without damaging the larger structure.
- (ice hockey) Occurring during or as a result of a breakaway (see Noun)
- (entertainment industry) Enjoying rapid popular success.
- Having broken away from a larger unit.
noun
- Someone who withdraws.
- a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled
- a drug addict who is discontinuing the use of narcotics
- a contestant who withdraws from competition
- an authority who withdraws permission
- a depositor who withdraws funds previously deposited
- an individualist who withdraws from social interaction
noun
- A departure.
- (in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something).
- (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
- The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next.
- The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
- (figurative) Conditions for advancing in any way.
- Progress.
- advancing toward a goal
- the act of departing
- euphemistic expressions for death
adj
verb
verb
- retreat
- change from a waking to a sleeping state
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- fall to a lower standard
- fall or diminish
- (idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To drop, fall.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To drop from, fall from.
- (slang) To abandon or give up on (something); to be abandoned or given up on.
- (intransitive, figurative) To end a connection with a telephone queue, either by hanging up or after being served or processed.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To fall asleep.
- (intransitive) To lessen or reduce.
verb
- retreat
- To retreat.
- move back and away from
- go back to bad behavior
- fall backwards and down
- have recourse to
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, back.
- To turn the clocks back for the end of daylight saving time.
- To fail to fulfill a promise or purpose.
verb
- retreat
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, behind.
- (transitive and intransitive) to fail to keep up (with)
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To be late (for a regular event)
- (intransitive) To be progressively below average in performance.
verb
- To retreat.
- (transitive, sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.
- (transitive, sports) To score when the team is losing.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, back.
- use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
- move to a rearward position; pull towards the back
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
- pull back or move away or backward
verb
- escape, either physically or mentally
- cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
- evade payment to
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- (intransitive, UK) To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
- (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
- (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
noun
verb
- escape, either physically or mentally
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- (transitive) To evade or escape from (someone or something), especially by using cunning or skill.
- (transitive) To shake off (a pursuer); to give someone the slip.
- (transitive) To escape someone's memory, to slip someone's mind.
- (transitive) To escape being understandable to; to be incomprehensible to.
verb
- escape, either physically or mentally
- use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- practice evasion
- (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
- (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
- (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
verb
- (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
- (intransitive) To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
- (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. Also, when such an event ends a team's turn at bat.
- (intransitive, sports) To stop playing their sport and in competitions a sports player.
- (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
- (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
- (transitive, American spelling) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.
- (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
- (intransitive) To go to bed.
- (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
- (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
- (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
- cause to get out
- withdraw from active participation
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- lose interest
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make (someone) retire
- prepare for sleep
- pull back or move away or backward
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To depart or slip away.
- (transitive, slang) To extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
- (transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
- (transitive, informal) To bribe.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
- lubricate with grease
noun
- (by extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
- Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
- Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
- Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
- (slang) Money.
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)
verb
- (intransitive) To begin moving away.
- (transitive) To avoid the undesirable consequences of; to prevent.
- (transitive) To intercept.
- (nautical) To turn away from the wind.
- (intransitive) To start out.
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
verb
- (also figurative, intransitive) To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat.
- (literally, intransitive) To use coitus interruptus as a method of birth control.
- (transitive) To draw out or lengthen.
- (aviation, intransitive, of an aircraft) To transition from a dive to level or climbing flight.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To remove something from a container.
- (transitive) To draw out by dragging or tugging.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To maneuver a vehicle from the side of a road onto the lane.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, out.
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- move out or away
- remove oneself from an obligation
noun
- A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat.
- A recess, cove or hollow.
- (historical) An English unit of land area, originally ¹⁄₄ of a yardland but later 12+¹⁄₂ or 20 acres.
- A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.
- (Homestuck fandom slang, vulgar) The vagina-like genitalia of a troll, featured in Homestuck fanworks but not in canon.
- a sheltered and secluded place
- an interior angle formed by two meeting walls
verb
verb
- withdraw, as from reality
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- fail to keep or maintain (of a state)
- fail to win
- fail to get or obtain
- allow to go out of sight or mind
- be set at a disadvantage
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
- (transitive) To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
- (transitive) Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
- (transitive) To be deprived of (some right or privileged access to something).
- (transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
- (transitive) To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
- (transitive) To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc).
- (transitive) To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
- (transitive) To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
- (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
- (transitive) To pay or owe (some wager) due from an unsuccessful bet or gamble.
- (transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- (transitive) To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
- (transitive) To shed (weight).
- (intransitive) To be defeated (in a game, competition, contest, etc.)
noun
verb
- move away or escape suddenly
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- move away or escape suddenly
- begin suddenly and sometimes violently
- become raw or open
- start abruptly
- take from stowage in preparation for use
- (transitive) To take or force out by breaking.
- (intransitive, of a person) To suddenly get pimples or a rash, especially on one's face.
- (intransitive) To begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition.
- (transitive) To separate (something) from a bundle.
- (transitive) To rescue someone or aid their escape as in sense 1.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To bring out from storage, use, or present.
- (intransitive) To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly.
- (especially recording industry, intransitive) (Of a record, product, or company): to achieve widespread success.
verb
- (transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
- (transitive) To cause to become smaller.
- (intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
- (intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
- (intransitive) To cower or flinch.
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- wither, as with a loss of moisture
- draw back, as with fear or pain
- decrease in size, range, or extent
- become smaller or draw together