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verb
- (transitive) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
- cook slowly and for a long time in liquid
- (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
noun
- (informal) A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.
- (now historical) A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.
- (Scotland and England) A cloud of fine particles or droplets; dust, smoke, vapor, mist, or sea-spray.
- (slang) A state of agitated excitement, worry, or confusion.
- (uncountable, countable) A dish cooked by stewing.
- (Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
- (broadcasting, slang) Unwanted background noise recorded by the microphone.
- (US, regional) An artificial bed of oysters.
- food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
- agitation resulting from active worry
verb
- (transitive) To cook for too long.
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) too much work; to require too much effort or strength of (someone); to use up too much of (something).
- (transitive) To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to carry too far.
- do something to an excessive degree
verb
verb
- prepare by brewing
- sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor
- (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
- (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing.
- (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
- (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
noun
- drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
- (British, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.
- (slang) A serving of beer.
- (British, slang) A cup of tea.
- The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
- A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients.
verb
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
- defeat soundly and utterly
- strike hard
noun
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- A heavy blow, a punch.
- A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- An emotional impact, a psychological force.
- a severe blow
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
verb
verb
verb
- cook until very little liquid is left
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- be the essential element
- (transitive and intransitive) To reduce in volume by boiling.
- (intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
- (transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
verb
- cook until very little liquid is left
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- make denser, stronger, or purer
- make central
- compress or concentrate
- make more concise
- direct one's attention on something
- draw together or meet in one common center
- (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
- (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
noun
adj
verb
- cook until very little liquid is left
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- lessen and make more modest
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be the essential element
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make smaller
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- make less complex
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- narrow or limit
- undergo meiosis
- put down by force or intimidation
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- take off weight
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive, Scots law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive) To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive, phonetics, phonology) To pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
prep_phrase
- (Of a heated liquid) simmering strongly and about to boil.
- (colloquial) About to happen; imminent.
- (sports, rugby, colloquial) (Of a player taking a pass) running at full speed towards the opposition.
- (Of a heated liquid) boiling.
- (colloquial) continuing; active; in a state of activity or development.
- (sports, colloquial) Playing exceptionally well.
- (colloquial) Going smoothly; working well.
verb
noun
- A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
- Alternative form of skald.
- (Appalachia) Poor or bad land.
- A paste, made by mixing flour with hot or boiling water (causing starches in it to gelatinize and hold more water) and allowing that mixture to sit and cool, which is added to bread dough to produce a softer bread that takes longer to stale.
- a burn cause by hot liquid or steam
- the act of burning with steam or hot water
verb
intj
noun
- An impediment to free movement.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
verb
noun
verb
noun
- baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
- brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- (figuratively) A frothy foam.
- A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
- A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- The resulting infection, candidiasis.
- a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
- any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
noun
- (brewing) A fermenting vat.
- The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.
- (Malaysia) A respectful term of address to royalties and certain award recipients
- Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.
- Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.
- (dialectal, UK) a chimney.
- (figurative) Synonym of ton: any extremely or excessively large amount.
- A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- (historical) A traditional unit of liquid measure (from the volume of such a cask) equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.
- a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
verb
adj
noun
- (India) A storage tank, especially for water.
- Alternative form of tankie (“a soldier from a tank regiment; a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain”).
- (nautical, slang) A sailor who assists the navigator of the ship; a sailor in charge of the ship's hold, and thus responsible for the provision of rations and water.
verb
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
noun
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
adj
adj
noun
verb
verb
- cover with liquid before cooking
- strike violently and repeatedly
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
- (transitive) To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
- (transitive) To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
- (transitive) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- (transitive, by extension) To coat over something.
noun
noun
- A large pot used for processing jars when preserving food, either in a boiling water bath or by capturing steam to elevate the pressure and temperature.
- (US, slang) Someone who lives off container deposit refunds from recycling.
- Someone or something which cans.
- An animal yielding inferior meat best suited to canning.
verb
verb
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- extract the essence of something by boiling it
- steep in hot water
- To digest in the stomach.
- (cooking) To make an infusion.
- (transitive) To devise.
- (figurative) To heat as if by boiling.
- (figurative) To reduce or diminish.
- (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
verb
- Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
- To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
- (rare) To inspire or stimulate.
- To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
- To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
- (transitive, rare) To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
- To grow bright; to brighten.
- (also figuratively) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
- To give life; to make alive.
- To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
- To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
- (literary, also figuratively) To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
- To come back to life, to receive life.
- (intransitive) To become quicker or faster.
- show signs of life
- give new life or energy to
- make keen or more acute
- move faster
- give life or energy to
noun
- (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
- (chiefly Ireland, Northern England) In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
noun
- (brewing) A fermenting vat.
- The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.
- (Malaysia) A respectful term of address to royalties and certain award recipients
- Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.
- Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.
- (dialectal, UK) a chimney.
- (figurative) Synonym of ton: any extremely or excessively large amount.
- A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- (historical) A traditional unit of liquid measure (from the volume of such a cask) equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.
- a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
verb
noun
- A large pot used for processing jars when preserving food, either in a boiling water bath or by capturing steam to elevate the pressure and temperature.
- (US, slang) Someone who lives off container deposit refunds from recycling.
- Someone or something which cans.
- An animal yielding inferior meat best suited to canning.
verb
- (transitive) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
- cook slowly and for a long time in liquid
- (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
noun
- (informal) A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.
- (now historical) A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.
- (Scotland and England) A cloud of fine particles or droplets; dust, smoke, vapor, mist, or sea-spray.
- (slang) A state of agitated excitement, worry, or confusion.
- (uncountable, countable) A dish cooked by stewing.
- (Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
- (broadcasting, slang) Unwanted background noise recorded by the microphone.
- (US, regional) An artificial bed of oysters.
- food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
- agitation resulting from active worry
verb
- (transitive) To cook for too long.
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) too much work; to require too much effort or strength of (someone); to use up too much of (something).
- (transitive) To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to carry too far.
- do something to an excessive degree
verb
verb
- prepare by brewing
- sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor
- (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
- (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing.
- (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
- (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
noun
- drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
- (British, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.
- (slang) A serving of beer.
- (British, slang) A cup of tea.
- The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
- A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients.
verb
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
- defeat soundly and utterly
- strike hard
noun
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- A heavy blow, a punch.
- A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- An emotional impact, a psychological force.
- a severe blow
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
verb
verb
verb
- cook until very little liquid is left
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- be the essential element
- (transitive and intransitive) To reduce in volume by boiling.
- (intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
- (transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
verb
- cook until very little liquid is left
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- make denser, stronger, or purer
- make central
- compress or concentrate
- make more concise
- direct one's attention on something
- draw together or meet in one common center
- (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
- (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
noun
adj
verb
- cook until very little liquid is left
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- lessen and make more modest
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be the essential element
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make smaller
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- make less complex
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- narrow or limit
- undergo meiosis
- put down by force or intimidation
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- take off weight
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive, Scots law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive) To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive, phonetics, phonology) To pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
verb
noun
- A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
- Alternative form of skald.
- (Appalachia) Poor or bad land.
- A paste, made by mixing flour with hot or boiling water (causing starches in it to gelatinize and hold more water) and allowing that mixture to sit and cool, which is added to bread dough to produce a softer bread that takes longer to stale.
- a burn cause by hot liquid or steam
- the act of burning with steam or hot water
verb
intj
noun
- An impediment to free movement.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
verb
noun
verb
noun
- baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
- brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- (figuratively) A frothy foam.
- A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
- A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- The resulting infection, candidiasis.
- a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
- any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
verb
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
noun
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
adj
verb
- cover with liquid before cooking
- strike violently and repeatedly
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
- (transitive) To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
- (transitive) To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
- (transitive) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- (transitive, by extension) To coat over something.
noun
verb
verb
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- extract the essence of something by boiling it
- steep in hot water
- To digest in the stomach.
- (cooking) To make an infusion.
- (transitive) To devise.
- (figurative) To heat as if by boiling.
- (figurative) To reduce or diminish.
- (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
verb
- Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
- To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
- (rare) To inspire or stimulate.
- To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
- To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
- (transitive, rare) To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
- To grow bright; to brighten.
- (also figuratively) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
- To give life; to make alive.
- To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
- To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
- (literary, also figuratively) To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
- To come back to life, to receive life.
- (intransitive) To become quicker or faster.
- show signs of life
- give new life or energy to
- make keen or more acute
- move faster
- give life or energy to
noun
- (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
- (chiefly Ireland, Northern England) In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
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noun
- (India) A storage tank, especially for water.
- Alternative form of tankie (“a soldier from a tank regiment; a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain”).
- (nautical, slang) A sailor who assists the navigator of the ship; a sailor in charge of the ship's hold, and thus responsible for the provision of rations and water.