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adj
- involved in difficulties
- deeply involved especially in something complicated
- twisted together in a tangled mass
- Tangled or twisted together.
- (quantum mechanics, of two quantum states) Correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable.
- (figurative) Confused or complicated.
verb
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- To have difficulty with something.
- To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
- To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- to exert strenuous effort against opposition
- make a strenuous or labored effort
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- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- generalized feeling of distress
- suffering severe physical strain or distress
- (of a property) Offered for sale after foreclosure.
- (finance, of securities) Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.
- (of furniture, etc.) Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
- Anxious or uneasy.
- (of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.
verb
noun
- where problems or difficulties are likely to occur
- any of several points on the body where the pulse can be felt and where pressure on an underlying artery will control bleeding from that artery at a more distal point
- an area on the skin that is highly sensitive to pressure
- (therapy) A specific small area of the body sensitive to and suitable for therapeutic pressure.
- (martial arts) A specific small area of the body targeted, due to a cluster of nerves being close to the skin, usually not protected by bone.
- (figurative) A situation that, when addressed, can cause a change to occur.
adj
- distressing
- resulting in suffering or adversity
- presaging ill fortune
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- indicating hostility or enmity
- (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.
- (slang, chiefly hip-hop) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
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- Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
- Like a rock; rigid, solid.
- In the style of rock music.
- Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
- (originally US) Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
- Easily rocked; unstable.
- (Of an animal or plant) Having a habitat around or on rocks.
- liable to rock
- causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- abounding in rocks or stones
- full of hardship or trials
noun
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- the performance of a piece of work
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- the responsibility to do something
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a damaging piece of work
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- (UK, slang, law enforcement, uncountable) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (in noun compounds) A sex act.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- A task.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- (informal) A robbery or heist.
verb
- work occasionally
- invest at a risk
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- profit privately from public office and official business
- (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
noun
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a source of difficulty
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- a question raised for consideration or solution
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
adj
noun
- a severe or trying experience
- a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
- The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean.
- (figuratively) A painful or trying experience.
- (historical) A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.
noun
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
- a light-colored marking
- a strong flame that burns brightly
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- (hiking) A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.
verb
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly
- move rapidly and as if blazing
- burn brightly and intensely
- shine brightly and intensively
- indicate by marking trees with blazes
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
- (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet.
- (slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- (transitive) To mark off or stake a claim to land.
- (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (transitive, heraldry) To blazon.
- (figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
noun
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- any place of pain and turmoil
- (figuratively) An extremely hot place.
- (countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- (countable) A place for gambling.
- In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- (sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
- (colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
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- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- an intense or violent exertion
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the act of singing
- injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
- the general meaning or substance of an utterance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- (figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
- (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- (music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
verb
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- to exert much effort or energy
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- become stretched or tense or taut
- remove by passing through a filter
- test the limits of
- (transitive) To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
- (transitive) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- (transitive) To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- (transitive) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- (ambitransitive) To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- (transitive) To urge with importunity; to press.
- (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
- (transitive) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
- (transitive) To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
noun
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
- special emphasis attached to something
- the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
- (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body
- (countable, physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
- (uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
- (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
- (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
- (countable, phonetics, loosely) A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.
- (countable, phonetics, strictly) The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.
- (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
- (Scots law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
- (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
verb
- to suffer from stress
- test the limits of
- put stress on; utter with an accent
- to stress, single out as important
- (transitive) To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
- (transitive) To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
- (transitive) To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
- (transitive) To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
- (transitive) To emphasise (words in speaking).
- (intransitive, informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
noun
- a thwarting and distressing situation
- a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole
- (golf) A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).
- (by extension) An obstacle or obstruction.
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noun
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- the causal agent resulting in death
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
adj
noun
- a source of difficulty
- Difficulty in doing something.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- an unwanted pregnancy
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
verb
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
noun
- 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
- 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.
verb
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- (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.
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- Trouble; distress; tweag.
- A slight adjustment or modification.
- A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
- (cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.
- (slang) Methamphetamine.
- (slang) A single inhalation of cocaine.
- a squeeze with the fingers
verb
- (intransitive, slang, by extension) To be extremely confused; to have no clue what is happening.
- (transitive) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
- (transitive) To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).
- (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse.
- (military, weaponry, uncommon) From a catapult, to strike a target with a missile.
- (transitive, informal) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
- pull or pull out sharply
- pinch or squeeze sharply
- to be under the influence of methamphetamine
- adjust finely
verb
- help in a difficult situation
- (transitive) To give aid, assistance, or help.
- (transitive, military) To provide aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers; in particular, for helping a place under siege.
- (transitive, obsolete except dialectal) To protect, to shelter; to provide a refuge.
noun
- assistance in time of difficulty
- (uncountable, obsolete except dialectal) Protection, refuge, shelter; (countable) a place providing such protection, refuge or shelter.
- (uncountable, military) Aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers, especially reinforcements sent to support military action.
- (uncountable) Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
noun
- Any difficult circumstance or problem.
- A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
- (rhetoric) Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.
- (logic) A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
- state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options
adj
- Difficult to deal with, solve, or manage. (of a problem)
- Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed.
- Stubborn; obstinate. (of a person)
- (medicine) Difficult to treat (of a medical condition).
- (mathematics, of a mathematical problem) Not able to be solved in polynomial time; too difficult to attempt to solve.
- not tractable; difficult to manage or mold
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- A difficult situation.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A group of people or things.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- (nautical) A nautical mile.
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- (slang) The bulbus glandis.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
- a tight cluster of people or things
- something twisted and tight and swollen
verb
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
- tie or fasten into a knot
- make into knots; make knots out of
- tangle or complicate
noun
- A difficult situation.
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- A parking space.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (physics) An autosoliton.
- A location or area.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a small contrasting part of something
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a slight attack of illness
- an outstanding characteristic
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
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- (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- (dialectal) To rain slightly, in scattered, infrequent drops, for example when first beginning to rain.
- (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
- (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
- (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
- (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
- (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- catch sight of
- mar or impair with a flaw
- mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition
- detect with the senses
- become spotted
- make a spot or mark onto
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- (Canada, US) Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
- A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.
- A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus).
- flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
- any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
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- a painful or straitened circumstance
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- (slang) An arrest.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
verb
- irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
- cut the top off
- make ridges into by pinching together
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- make off with belongings of others
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
noun
- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- (slang) An outfit, garment, or look.
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- (US, film industry) An individual movie theater.
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- (UK) A position of employment; a post.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
- a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
- a job in an organization
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
- physical position in relation to the surroundings
noun
- assistance in time of difficulty
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped
- the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)
- a pause for relaxation
- the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
- (law) redress awarded by a court
- sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background
- the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)
- the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged
- a change for the better
- Release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another.
- The difference of elevations on a surface.
- (countable) A sculpture or other artwork made with such a method.
- The removal of stress or discomfort.
- (military) Military assistance to break a siege or an encirclement.
- A certain fine or composition paid by the heir of a tenant upon the death of the ancestor.
- (heraldry) The supposed projection of a charge from the surface of a field, indicated by shading on the sinister and lower sides.
- The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
- (uncountable) A method of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
- Relative distinctness, perceived difference due to contrast.
- (golf) Permission for a player to move their ball to a more convenient spot before taking a shot, under certain circumstances.
- (law) Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
- Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
- The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation in light or color.
- A lowering of a tax through special provisions; tax relief.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Ellipsis of relief teacher.
- The person who takes over a shift for another.
adj
adj
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having the place or position changed
- emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships
- affected with madness or insanity
- Having been altered or changed.
- Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.
- Extremely alarmed; shocked.
verb
adj
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
noun
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
verb
- form metals with a swage
- disturb the balance or stability of
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
noun
- psychological suffering
- extreme physical pain
- a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
- the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
- (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- A cause of such discomfort.
- Serious danger.
- (medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
- (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
verb
noun
- psychological suffering
- feelings of mental or physical pain
- the act of damaging something or someone
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- a damage or loss
- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
- (engineering) A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
- A husk.
- (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
adj
verb
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- hurt the feelings of
- be in pain
- cause damage or affect negatively
- give trouble or pain to
- be the source of pain
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- (transitive, intransitive) To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
- (intransitive, stative) To be painful.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- begin to deal with
- move towards
- come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
- come near in time
- make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion
- (transitive) To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
- (intransitive, golf, tennis) To play an approach shot.
- (transitive, mathematical analysis) Used when defining limits, preceded by as: To become arbitrarily close to some value, be it a number, vector or infinity and have an effect on another value.
- (intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
- (ambitransitive, figuratively) Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
- (transitive) To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.
- (transitive, military) To take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.
- (transitive, rarely intransitive) Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).
- (transitive) To attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).
noun
- a way of entering or leaving
- a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
- a close approximation
- the event of one object coming closer to another
- the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
- the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- the act of drawing spatially closer to something
- a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- (also figuratively) An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
- (climbing) A path taken to reach the climbing area, for example, from a car park, road, etc.
- (also figuratively) An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.
- (aviation, also attributively) The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
- (figuratively) A manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).
- (golf, tennis) Ellipsis of approach shot.
- A specific procedure used for approaching and landing at an airport.
- An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.
- (bowling) The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
verb
- begin to deal with
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- enter upon an activity or enterprise
- (transitive, archaic except chiefly Northern England) To circulate or spread (news, a rumour, etc.)
- (UK, informal) To attack (someone); to set upon.
- Used with the adverb sense of about.
- (intransitive) To start doing or to devote oneself to some task; to set upon.
noun
adj
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
- socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
- lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
- causing inconvenience
- not elegant or graceful in expression
- Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.
- Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
- Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle.
- Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.
noun
adj
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- covered with an adhesive material
- hot or warm and humid
- moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body
- having the sticky properties of an adhesive
- (finance) Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
- (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a stick.
- Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
- Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
- Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
- Difficult, awkward.
- (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
- (Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
- Mawkish, sentimental.
- (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.
- (Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
noun
- A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
- (Australia, colloquial) A sweet dessert wine.
- (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
- (slang) Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.
- (Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
verb
noun
- Distress.
- (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
- Urgency.
- A contrasting force or impulse of any kind.
- A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
- the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)
- an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress
- the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
- the pressure exerted by the atmosphere
- a force that compels
- the state of demanding notice or attention
verb
noun
verb
noun
- where problems or difficulties are likely to occur
- any of several points on the body where the pulse can be felt and where pressure on an underlying artery will control bleeding from that artery at a more distal point
- an area on the skin that is highly sensitive to pressure
- (therapy) A specific small area of the body sensitive to and suitable for therapeutic pressure.
- (martial arts) A specific small area of the body targeted, due to a cluster of nerves being close to the skin, usually not protected by bone.
- (figurative) A situation that, when addressed, can cause a change to occur.
noun
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- the performance of a piece of work
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- the responsibility to do something
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a damaging piece of work
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- (UK, slang, law enforcement, uncountable) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (in noun compounds) A sex act.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- A task.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- (informal) A robbery or heist.
verb
- work occasionally
- invest at a risk
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- profit privately from public office and official business
- (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
noun
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a source of difficulty
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- a question raised for consideration or solution
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
adj
noun
- a severe or trying experience
- a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
- The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean.
- (figuratively) A painful or trying experience.
- (historical) A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.
noun
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
- a light-colored marking
- a strong flame that burns brightly
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- (hiking) A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.
verb
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly
- move rapidly and as if blazing
- burn brightly and intensely
- shine brightly and intensively
- indicate by marking trees with blazes
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
- (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet.
- (slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- (transitive) To mark off or stake a claim to land.
- (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (transitive, heraldry) To blazon.
- (figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
noun
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- any place of pain and turmoil
- (figuratively) An extremely hot place.
- (countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- (countable) A place for gambling.
- In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- (sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
- (colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
adv
intj
name
verb
noun
verb
noun
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- an intense or violent exertion
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the act of singing
- injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
- the general meaning or substance of an utterance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- (figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
- (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- (music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
verb
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- to exert much effort or energy
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- become stretched or tense or taut
- remove by passing through a filter
- test the limits of
- (transitive) To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
- (transitive) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- (transitive) To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- (transitive) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- (ambitransitive) To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- (transitive) To urge with importunity; to press.
- (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
- (transitive) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
- (transitive) To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
noun
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
- special emphasis attached to something
- the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
- (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body
- (countable, physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
- (uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
- (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
- (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
- (countable, phonetics, loosely) A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.
- (countable, phonetics, strictly) The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.
- (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
- (Scots law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
- (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
verb
- to suffer from stress
- test the limits of
- put stress on; utter with an accent
- to stress, single out as important
- (transitive) To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
- (transitive) To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
- (transitive) To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
- (transitive) To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
- (transitive) To emphasise (words in speaking).
- (intransitive, informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
noun
- a thwarting and distressing situation
- a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole
- (golf) A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).
- (by extension) An obstacle or obstruction.
verb
noun
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- the causal agent resulting in death
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
adj
noun
- a source of difficulty
- Difficulty in doing something.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- an unwanted pregnancy
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
verb
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
noun
- 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
- 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.
verb
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- (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.
noun
adj
adv
verb
noun
- Trouble; distress; tweag.
- A slight adjustment or modification.
- A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
- (cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.
- (slang) Methamphetamine.
- (slang) A single inhalation of cocaine.
- a squeeze with the fingers
verb
- (intransitive, slang, by extension) To be extremely confused; to have no clue what is happening.
- (transitive) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
- (transitive) To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).
- (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse.
- (military, weaponry, uncommon) From a catapult, to strike a target with a missile.
- (transitive, informal) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
- pull or pull out sharply
- pinch or squeeze sharply
- to be under the influence of methamphetamine
- adjust finely
noun
- Any difficult circumstance or problem.
- A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
- (rhetoric) Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.
- (logic) A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
- state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options
noun
verb
adj
noun
- A difficult situation.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A group of people or things.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- (nautical) A nautical mile.
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- (slang) The bulbus glandis.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
- a tight cluster of people or things
- something twisted and tight and swollen
verb
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
- tie or fasten into a knot
- make into knots; make knots out of
- tangle or complicate
noun
- A difficult situation.
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- A parking space.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (physics) An autosoliton.
- A location or area.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a small contrasting part of something
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a slight attack of illness
- an outstanding characteristic
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
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- (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- (dialectal) To rain slightly, in scattered, infrequent drops, for example when first beginning to rain.
- (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
- (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
- (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
- (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
- (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- catch sight of
- mar or impair with a flaw
- mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition
- detect with the senses
- become spotted
- make a spot or mark onto
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verb
noun
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- (slang) An arrest.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
verb
- irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
- cut the top off
- make ridges into by pinching together
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- make off with belongings of others
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
noun
- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- (slang) An outfit, garment, or look.
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- (US, film industry) An individual movie theater.
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- (UK) A position of employment; a post.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
- a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
- a job in an organization
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
- physical position in relation to the surroundings
verb
- help in a difficult situation
- (transitive) To give aid, assistance, or help.
- (transitive, military) To provide aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers; in particular, for helping a place under siege.
- (transitive, obsolete except dialectal) To protect, to shelter; to provide a refuge.
noun
- assistance in time of difficulty
- (uncountable, obsolete except dialectal) Protection, refuge, shelter; (countable) a place providing such protection, refuge or shelter.
- (uncountable, military) Aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers, especially reinforcements sent to support military action.
- (uncountable) Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
noun
- assistance in time of difficulty
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped
- the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)
- a pause for relaxation
- the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
- (law) redress awarded by a court
- sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background
- the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)
- the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged
- a change for the better
- Release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another.
- The difference of elevations on a surface.
- (countable) A sculpture or other artwork made with such a method.
- The removal of stress or discomfort.
- (military) Military assistance to break a siege or an encirclement.
- A certain fine or composition paid by the heir of a tenant upon the death of the ancestor.
- (heraldry) The supposed projection of a charge from the surface of a field, indicated by shading on the sinister and lower sides.
- The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
- (uncountable) A method of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
- Relative distinctness, perceived difference due to contrast.
- (golf) Permission for a player to move their ball to a more convenient spot before taking a shot, under certain circumstances.
- (law) Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
- Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
- The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation in light or color.
- A lowering of a tax through special provisions; tax relief.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Ellipsis of relief teacher.
- The person who takes over a shift for another.
adj
noun
- psychological suffering
- extreme physical pain
- a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
- the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
- (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- A cause of such discomfort.
- Serious danger.
- (medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
- (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
verb
noun
- psychological suffering
- feelings of mental or physical pain
- the act of damaging something or someone
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- a damage or loss
- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
- (engineering) A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
- A husk.
- (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
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verb
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- hurt the feelings of
- be in pain
- cause damage or affect negatively
- give trouble or pain to
- be the source of pain
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- (transitive, intransitive) To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
- (intransitive, stative) To be painful.
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- Distress.
- (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
- Urgency.
- A contrasting force or impulse of any kind.
- A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
- the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)
- an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress
- the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
- the pressure exerted by the atmosphere
- a force that compels
- the state of demanding notice or attention
verb
verb
- To have difficulty with something.
- To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
- To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- to exert strenuous effort against opposition
- make a strenuous or labored effort
noun
verb
- help in a difficult situation
- (transitive) To give aid, assistance, or help.
- (transitive, military) To provide aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers; in particular, for helping a place under siege.
- (transitive, obsolete except dialectal) To protect, to shelter; to provide a refuge.
noun
- assistance in time of difficulty
- (uncountable, obsolete except dialectal) Protection, refuge, shelter; (countable) a place providing such protection, refuge or shelter.
- (uncountable, military) Aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers, especially reinforcements sent to support military action.
- (uncountable) Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
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noun
- (Canada, US) Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
- A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.
- A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus).
- flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
- any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
verb
- begin to deal with
- move towards
- come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
- come near in time
- make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion
- (transitive) To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
- (intransitive, golf, tennis) To play an approach shot.
- (transitive, mathematical analysis) Used when defining limits, preceded by as: To become arbitrarily close to some value, be it a number, vector or infinity and have an effect on another value.
- (intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
- (ambitransitive, figuratively) Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
- (transitive) To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.
- (transitive, military) To take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.
- (transitive, rarely intransitive) Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).
- (transitive) To attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).
noun
- a way of entering or leaving
- a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
- a close approximation
- the event of one object coming closer to another
- the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
- the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- the act of drawing spatially closer to something
- a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- (also figuratively) An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
- (climbing) A path taken to reach the climbing area, for example, from a car park, road, etc.
- (also figuratively) An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.
- (aviation, also attributively) The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
- (figuratively) A manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).
- (golf, tennis) Ellipsis of approach shot.
- A specific procedure used for approaching and landing at an airport.
- An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.
- (bowling) The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
verb
- begin to deal with
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- enter upon an activity or enterprise
- (transitive, archaic except chiefly Northern England) To circulate or spread (news, a rumour, etc.)
- (UK, informal) To attack (someone); to set upon.
- Used with the adverb sense of about.
- (intransitive) To start doing or to devote oneself to some task; to set upon.
noun
- psychological suffering
- extreme physical pain
- a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
- the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
- (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- A cause of such discomfort.
- Serious danger.
- (medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
- (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
verb
adj
- involved in difficulties
- deeply involved especially in something complicated
- twisted together in a tangled mass
- Tangled or twisted together.
- (quantum mechanics, of two quantum states) Correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable.
- (figurative) Confused or complicated.
verb
adj
- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- generalized feeling of distress
- suffering severe physical strain or distress
- (of a property) Offered for sale after foreclosure.
- (finance, of securities) Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.
- (of furniture, etc.) Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
- Anxious or uneasy.
- (of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.
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adj
- distressing
- resulting in suffering or adversity
- presaging ill fortune
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- indicating hostility or enmity
- (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.
- (slang, chiefly hip-hop) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
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adv
adj
- Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
- Like a rock; rigid, solid.
- In the style of rock music.
- Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
- (originally US) Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
- Easily rocked; unstable.
- (Of an animal or plant) Having a habitat around or on rocks.
- liable to rock
- causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- abounding in rocks or stones
- full of hardship or trials
adj
- Difficult to deal with, solve, or manage. (of a problem)
- Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed.
- Stubborn; obstinate. (of a person)
- (medicine) Difficult to treat (of a medical condition).
- (mathematics, of a mathematical problem) Not able to be solved in polynomial time; too difficult to attempt to solve.
- not tractable; difficult to manage or mold
noun
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- the causal agent resulting in death
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
adj
adj
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having the place or position changed
- emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships
- affected with madness or insanity
- Having been altered or changed.
- Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.
- Extremely alarmed; shocked.
verb
adj
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
noun
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
verb
- form metals with a swage
- disturb the balance or stability of
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
adj
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
- socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
- lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
- causing inconvenience
- not elegant or graceful in expression
- Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.
- Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
- Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle.
- Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.
noun
adj
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- covered with an adhesive material
- hot or warm and humid
- moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body
- having the sticky properties of an adhesive
- (finance) Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
- (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a stick.
- Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
- Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
- Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
- Difficult, awkward.
- (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
- (Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
- Mawkish, sentimental.
- (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.
- (Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
noun
- A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
- (Australia, colloquial) A sweet dessert wine.
- (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
- (slang) Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.
- (Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.