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verb
- overwhelm or overpower
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
- To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
- To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
- To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
verb
- To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- simple past of overlie
- (transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.
- (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
- (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
- kill by lying on
- put something on top of something else
noun
- (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
- (photography, graphic arts) An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.
- A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
- (Scotland) A cravat.
- (Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
- (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
- (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
- A covering over something else.
- protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior
- a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface
verb
- (by extension) To overwhelm.
- (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
- (often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To place in the ground.
- (professional wrestling slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
- (figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
- (figurative, humorous) To outlive.
- (sports) To score (a goal).
- place in a grave or tomb
- embed deeply
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- cover from sight
- place in the earth and cover with soil
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- (nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
- An overwhelming blow.
- (soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
- An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
- (genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
- A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
- (genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
- (film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
- a blow that knocks the opponent off their feet
verb
verb
- (transitive) To overwhelm.
- (transitive, idiomatic, US) To flabbergast; to impress greatly.
- (intransitive) To disperse or to depart on currents of air.
- (transitive, computing, informal) To delete (data, files, etc.).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm.
- (transitive) To cause to go away; to get rid of.
- (intransitive, figurative) To leave, depart.
- (transitive) To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind.
- (transitive, idiomatic, by extension) To utterly destroy, especially with overwhelming force.
verb
noun
- A great flood or rain.
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- a heavy rain
- an overwhelming number or amount
verb
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To rule over as king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
- To perform the duties of a king.
noun
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king-sized bed.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
verb
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
noun
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
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- To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
- (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
- (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)
- To exploit an advantage, often involving money, where the other person has little choice but to submit.
- (slang, sometimes offensive) To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
- (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
- (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
- force (someone) to have sex against their will
- destroy and strip of its possession
noun
- Overpowerment; utter defeat.
- The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
- Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
- A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
- The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person, regardless of gender; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on, perpetrated by, or forced to penetrate any being.
- An insult to one's senses so severe that one feels that they cannot ever be the same afterwards.
- (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
- the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
- the act of despoiling a country in warfare
- Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop
adj
- (informal, figuratively) Overpowered.
- Of a pedal, pushed all the way down, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, figuratively) Amazed or greatly surprised.
- Struck down or leveled with the floor.
- Brought to the ground.
- Hung near the base of a wall.
- (mathematics) Set to a lower bound.
- (informal, figuratively) Impressed.
- (informal, figuratively) Finished; done for.
- Covered or furnished with a floor.
- Silenced by a conclusive answer or retort.
- provided with a floor
verb
verb
- To overload; to overburden.
- To apply a surcharge.
- (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
- To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
- fill to an excessive degree
- charge an extra fee, as for a special service
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given
- place too much a load on
- print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
- fill to capacity with people
noun
- (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
- (art) A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
- The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.
- (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party
- An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
- (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
- An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price.
- an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)
noun
- (uncountable) Excessive or superior power.
- (countable) A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the United States or formerly the Soviet Union.
- (mathematics) A tetration.
- (countable, originally fiction) An extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.
- a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
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- To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
- (ambitransitive, Ireland, slang) To have sex with (someone).
- (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
- (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
- (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
- (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
- (transitive) To traverse by riding.
- (transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
- (ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
- (radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
- (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
- (transitive, figuratively) To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).
- (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
- (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
- (ambitransitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
- (music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
- (ambitransitive, slang) To mount (someone) to have sex with them.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
- keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
- sit on and control a vehicle
- move like a floating object
- be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- ride over, along, or through
- lie moored or anchored
- be sustained or supported or borne
- continue undisturbed and without interference
- have certain properties when driven
- climb up on the body
- copulate with
- be contingent on
- sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
noun
- (printing, historical) A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc.
- A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
- (figurative) A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
- Ellipsis of ride cymbal.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- An instance of riding.
- (UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
- (informal) A vehicle.
- (jazz) A steady rhythmical style.
- A district inspected by an excise officer.
- (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
verb
- overwhelm by using great force
- proceed with great force
- crush with a steamroller as if to level
- bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
- make level or flat with a steamroller
- (transitive) To level a road using a steamroller.
- (transitive, figurative) To proceed ruthlessly against all opposition as if with an overwhelming force.
noun
- vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
- a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
- (slang) A pipe, used for smoking cannabis, open at both ends and having a bowl near one end.
- (historical) A steam-powered heavy road roller.
- (by extension, informal) Any heavy road roller.
- (figurative) Any seemingly irresistible force.
verb
- have dominance or the power to defeat over
- be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
- look down on
- be greater in significance than
- be in control
- To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone
- To overlook from a height.
- To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power
- (computing, graph theory, linguistics) To precede another node of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.
- To enjoy a commanding position in some field
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- have dominance or the power to defeat over
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be or become completely proficient or skilled in
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
- (intransitive) To be a master.
- (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
- (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
- (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
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noun
- a person who has general authority over others
- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- key that secures entrance everywhere
- someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution
- an authority qualified to teach apprentices
- directs the work of others
- presiding officer of a school
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- an artist of consummate skill
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
- An expert at something.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- (by extension, music) The copyright in a sound recording.
- (Freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- Ellipsis of master key.
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- Someone who employs others.
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- A skilled artist.
- A person holding such a degree.
- (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
- (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- (BDSM) A male dominant.
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- A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
- (by extension) A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.
- A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
- a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things
- a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
noun
- power to dominate or defeat
- social control by dominating
- (topology) Synonym of cover.
- (BDSM) A fetish characterized by control and power over and discipline of one's sexual partner.
- Control by means of superior ability, influence, position, or resources; prevailing force.
- (Christianity) A dominion; an angel from a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.
- The exercise of power in ruling; sovereignty; authority; government.
noun
- power to dominate or defeat
- the act of mastering or subordinating someone
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
- The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
- Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
verb
- (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
- (transitive) To acknowledge.
- (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
- (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).
- (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
- (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above.
- (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
- (transitive) To claim as one's own.
- (transitive) To recognise.
- (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.
- (transitive) To take responsibility for.
- (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
- have ownership or possession of
adj
- Not shared.
- Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
- belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
noun
verb
- To supersede.
- To be dependent on an earlier event.
- (intransitive) To follow (something) closely, either as a consequence or in contrast.
- To occur as an interruption or change to an existing situation.
- (philosophy, followed by on) To be dependent on something else for existence, truth, or instantiation.
- take place as an additional or unexpected development
adj
- (sports, video games, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
- (of land) Uneven.
- (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
- (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
- (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- (of skin) Split or ruptured.
- (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- (informal) Badly designed or implemented.
- (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
- physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
- out of working order (‘busted’ is an informal substitute for ‘broken’)
- imperfectly spoken or written
- tamed or trained to obey
- topographically very uneven
- lacking a part or parts
- weakened and infirm
- discontinuous
- destroyed financially
verb
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- (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
- (reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.
- (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
- (intransitive) Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize.
- (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare, a cause, etc.).
- (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
- (intransitive) To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.
- (causative) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
- make a strenuous or labored effort
- fight against or resist strongly
noun
- (uncountable) The will or ability to fight.
- A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
- An occasion of fighting.
- A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
- (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
- an intense verbal dispute
- the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- a boxing or wrestling match
- an aggressive willingness to compete
noun
- (uncountable) Excessive or superior power.
- (countable) A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the United States or formerly the Soviet Union.
- (mathematics) A tetration.
- (countable, originally fiction) An extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.
- a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
verb
noun
- power to dominate or defeat
- social control by dominating
- (topology) Synonym of cover.
- (BDSM) A fetish characterized by control and power over and discipline of one's sexual partner.
- Control by means of superior ability, influence, position, or resources; prevailing force.
- (Christianity) A dominion; an angel from a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.
- The exercise of power in ruling; sovereignty; authority; government.
noun
- power to dominate or defeat
- the act of mastering or subordinating someone
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
- The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
- Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
verb
- To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
- (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
- (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)
- To exploit an advantage, often involving money, where the other person has little choice but to submit.
- (slang, sometimes offensive) To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
- (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
- (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
- force (someone) to have sex against their will
- destroy and strip of its possession
noun
- Overpowerment; utter defeat.
- The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
- Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
- A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
- The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person, regardless of gender; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on, perpetrated by, or forced to penetrate any being.
- An insult to one's senses so severe that one feels that they cannot ever be the same afterwards.
- (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
- the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
- the act of despoiling a country in warfare
- Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop
verb
- overwhelm or overpower
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
- To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
- To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
- To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
verb
- To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- simple past of overlie
- (transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.
- (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
- (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
- kill by lying on
- put something on top of something else
noun
- (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
- (photography, graphic arts) An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.
- A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
- (Scotland) A cravat.
- (Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
- (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
- (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
- A covering over something else.
- protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior
- a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface
verb
- (by extension) To overwhelm.
- (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
- (often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To place in the ground.
- (professional wrestling slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
- (figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
- (figurative, humorous) To outlive.
- (sports) To score (a goal).
- place in a grave or tomb
- embed deeply
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- cover from sight
- place in the earth and cover with soil
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verb
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verb
- (transitive) To overwhelm.
- (transitive, idiomatic, US) To flabbergast; to impress greatly.
- (intransitive) To disperse or to depart on currents of air.
- (transitive, computing, informal) To delete (data, files, etc.).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm.
- (transitive) To cause to go away; to get rid of.
- (intransitive, figurative) To leave, depart.
- (transitive) To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind.
- (transitive, idiomatic, by extension) To utterly destroy, especially with overwhelming force.
verb
noun
- A great flood or rain.
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- a heavy rain
- an overwhelming number or amount
verb
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To rule over as king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
- To perform the duties of a king.
noun
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king-sized bed.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
verb
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
noun
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
verb
adj
verb
- To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
- (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
- (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)
- To exploit an advantage, often involving money, where the other person has little choice but to submit.
- (slang, sometimes offensive) To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
- (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
- (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
- force (someone) to have sex against their will
- destroy and strip of its possession
noun
- Overpowerment; utter defeat.
- The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
- Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
- A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
- The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person, regardless of gender; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on, perpetrated by, or forced to penetrate any being.
- An insult to one's senses so severe that one feels that they cannot ever be the same afterwards.
- (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
- the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
- the act of despoiling a country in warfare
- Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop
verb
- To overload; to overburden.
- To apply a surcharge.
- (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
- To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
- fill to an excessive degree
- charge an extra fee, as for a special service
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given
- place too much a load on
- print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
- fill to capacity with people
noun
- (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
- (art) A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
- The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.
- (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party
- An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
- (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
- An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price.
- an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)
verb
noun
verb
- To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
- (ambitransitive, Ireland, slang) To have sex with (someone).
- (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
- (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
- (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
- (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
- (transitive) To traverse by riding.
- (transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
- (ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
- (radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
- (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
- (transitive, figuratively) To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).
- (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
- (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
- (ambitransitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
- (music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
- (ambitransitive, slang) To mount (someone) to have sex with them.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
- keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
- sit on and control a vehicle
- move like a floating object
- be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- ride over, along, or through
- lie moored or anchored
- be sustained or supported or borne
- continue undisturbed and without interference
- have certain properties when driven
- climb up on the body
- copulate with
- be contingent on
- sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
noun
- (printing, historical) A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc.
- A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
- (figurative) A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
- Ellipsis of ride cymbal.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- An instance of riding.
- (UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
- (informal) A vehicle.
- (jazz) A steady rhythmical style.
- A district inspected by an excise officer.
- (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
verb
- overwhelm by using great force
- proceed with great force
- crush with a steamroller as if to level
- bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
- make level or flat with a steamroller
- (transitive) To level a road using a steamroller.
- (transitive, figurative) To proceed ruthlessly against all opposition as if with an overwhelming force.
noun
- vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
- a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
- (slang) A pipe, used for smoking cannabis, open at both ends and having a bowl near one end.
- (historical) A steam-powered heavy road roller.
- (by extension, informal) Any heavy road roller.
- (figurative) Any seemingly irresistible force.
verb
- have dominance or the power to defeat over
- be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
- look down on
- be greater in significance than
- be in control
- To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone
- To overlook from a height.
- To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power
- (computing, graph theory, linguistics) To precede another node of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.
- To enjoy a commanding position in some field
adj
noun
verb
- have dominance or the power to defeat over
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be or become completely proficient or skilled in
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
- (intransitive) To be a master.
- (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
- (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
- (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
adj
noun
- a person who has general authority over others
- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- key that secures entrance everywhere
- someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution
- an authority qualified to teach apprentices
- directs the work of others
- presiding officer of a school
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- an artist of consummate skill
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
- An expert at something.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- (by extension, music) The copyright in a sound recording.
- (Freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- Ellipsis of master key.
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- Someone who employs others.
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- A skilled artist.
- A person holding such a degree.
- (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
- (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- (BDSM) A male dominant.
verb
verb
noun
- A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
- (by extension) A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.
- A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
- a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things
- a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
verb
- (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
- (transitive) To acknowledge.
- (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
- (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).
- (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
- (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above.
- (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
- (transitive) To claim as one's own.
- (transitive) To recognise.
- (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.
- (transitive) To take responsibility for.
- (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
- have ownership or possession of
adj
- Not shared.
- Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
- belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
noun
verb
- To supersede.
- To be dependent on an earlier event.
- (intransitive) To follow (something) closely, either as a consequence or in contrast.
- To occur as an interruption or change to an existing situation.
- (philosophy, followed by on) To be dependent on something else for existence, truth, or instantiation.
- take place as an additional or unexpected development
verb
- (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
- (reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.
- (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
- (intransitive) Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize.
- (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare, a cause, etc.).
- (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
- (intransitive) To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.
- (causative) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
- make a strenuous or labored effort
- fight against or resist strongly
noun
- (uncountable) The will or ability to fight.
- A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
- An occasion of fighting.
- A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
- (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
- an intense verbal dispute
- the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- a boxing or wrestling match
- an aggressive willingness to compete
adj
noun
- (nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
- An overwhelming blow.
- (soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
- An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
- (genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
- A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
- (genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
- (film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
- a blow that knocks the opponent off their feet
verb
adj
- (informal, figuratively) Overpowered.
- Of a pedal, pushed all the way down, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, figuratively) Amazed or greatly surprised.
- Struck down or leveled with the floor.
- Brought to the ground.
- Hung near the base of a wall.
- (mathematics) Set to a lower bound.
- (informal, figuratively) Impressed.
- (informal, figuratively) Finished; done for.
- Covered or furnished with a floor.
- Silenced by a conclusive answer or retort.
- provided with a floor
verb
adj
- (sports, video games, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
- (of land) Uneven.
- (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
- (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
- (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- (of skin) Split or ruptured.
- (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- (informal) Badly designed or implemented.
- (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
- physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
- out of working order (‘busted’ is an informal substitute for ‘broken’)
- imperfectly spoken or written
- tamed or trained to obey
- topographically very uneven
- lacking a part or parts
- weakened and infirm
- discontinuous
- destroyed financially