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adj
- Destroying or undermining something gradually.
- Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
- Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
- spitefully sarcastic
- of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
noun
noun
- (by extension) The gradual destruction or undermining of something.
- A substance (such as rust) so formed.
- The act of corroding or the condition so produced.
- (physical chemistry) Erosion by chemical action, especially oxidation.
- erosion by chemical action
- a state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action
verb
- To destroy (something) gradually by an ongoing process.
- To physically corrode or erode (something) gradually.
- (specifically) Chiefly followed by at: of a circumstance, incident, etc.: to cause (someone) to feel guilty, troubled, or worried; to bother (see eat away at).
- wear away or erode
- remove soil or rock
noun
- a wearing down to weaken or destroy
- the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
- the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
- erosion by friction
- sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
- (theology) Imperfect contrition or remorse.
- (sciences) The loss of participants during an experiment.
- Grinding down or wearing away by friction.
- (dentistry) The wearing of teeth due to their grinding.
- (human resources) A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through injury, incapacitation, retirement, resignation, or death.
- (linguistics) The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language.
- A gradual reduction in number.
verb
verb
intj
noun
- Something of little value.
- (figurative) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
- A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
- A contemptible person.
- (figurative) A state of chaos or confusion.
- (singular only, with the) Used as an intensifier.
- (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
verb
- To hollow out or undermine.
- To collapse.
- To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
- (figurative) To surrender.
- (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
- explore natural caves
- hollow out as if making a cave or opening
intj
noun
- (programming) A code cave.
- (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
- A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
- (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
- (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
- A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
- (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
- (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
- A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
- A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
- a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- total destruction
- The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it.
- (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
- The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
- The state of being annihilated.
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- the complete destruction of every trace of something
- The concealing or covering of something.
- The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.
- (medicine) The cancellation of the function, structure, or both of a vessel or organ; for example, the occlusion of the lumen of a duct, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel, be it solely functional (as when squeezed by nearby mass effect or inflammation) or both structural and functional (as when clogged with thrombus, embolus, or fibrosis).
- The total destruction of something.
verb
noun
verb
- damage or destroy
- break into many pieces
- cause to break into many pieces
- (transitive) To destroy or disable something.
- (intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
- (intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- (transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
- (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
noun
verb
noun
noun
- That which destroys something.
- (military, nautical) A larger warship with guided missile armament, usually intended for air defence or anti-ship roles. Often, but not always, larger than a frigate and smaller than a cruiser.
- (military, nautical, historical) A small, fast warship with light gun armament, smaller than a cruiser, but bigger than a frigate.
- (science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role.
- a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship
- a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
verb
- (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- (transitive, informal) To utterly defeat; to crush.
- (transitive, slang) To eat food quickly, hungrily or completely.
- (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
- (transitive, US, slang) To sing a song extremely poorly.
- (transitive, bodybuilding, slang, antiphrasis) To exhaust completely and thus recreate or build up.
- (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
- (transitive, computing) To remove data.
- (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
- put (an animal) to death
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
verb
- (loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
- (proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of (something).
- To destroy or remove one-tenth of (something).
- (computer graphics) To replace (a high-resolution model) with another of lower but acceptable quality. (Usually algorithmically)
- kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
- kill in large numbers
noun
- anything that harms or destroys
- any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
- (figuratively) Anything harmful to a person or thing.
- A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
- (chemistry) Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity.
- (informal, idiomatic) An alcoholic drink. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison?")
verb
- kill with poison
- kill by its poison
- administer poison to
- spoil as if by poison
- add poison to
- (chemistry) To inhibit the catalytic activity of.
- (transitive, computing) To place false or malicious data into (a cache, etc.) as part of an exploit.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.
- (transitive) To pollute; to cause to become poisonous.
- (transitive) To cause to become much worse.
- (transitive) To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody).
verb
- destroy or break forcefully
- empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out
- overwhelm with admiration
- knock unconscious or senseless
- eliminate
- (transitive) To eliminate from a contest or similar.
- (intransitive, informal, idiomatic) To fall asleep, especially suddenly.
- (transitive) To communicate (a message) by knocking.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat or kill (someone).
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To exhaust.
- (transitive, informal) To complete, especially in haste; knock off.
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To impress, surpass or overwhelm (someone).
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To put to sleep.
- (transitive, slang, UK) To sell.
- (transitive) To strike or bump (someone or something) out.
- (transitive, Australia) To obtain or earn (something, often money or food).
- To lose the scent of hounds in fox-hunting.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To render unconscious, as by a blow to the head.
verb
intj
noun
noun
- The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- The state of having been erased; total blankness.
- The place where something has been erased.
- (sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
- a correction made by erasing
- deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
- a surface area where something has been erased
verb
- To undermine.
- To downplay or minimize.
- (motor racing) To employ the undercut strategy.
- To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
- To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
- To strike a heavy blow upward.
- cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief
- strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot
- cut away the underpart of
- sell cheaper than one's competition
- cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
adj
noun
- The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
- The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
- (moldmaking) A section of a mold or pattern with negative draft angle
- The continuation of the saddle of a rabbit's coat toward the front legs.
- A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
- (motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone by pitting before them and using fresh tyres to make up time.
- A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
- A blow dealt upward.
- a cut made underneath to remove material
- the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column
- a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the material removed by a cut made underneath
noun
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
- an event that results in total destruction
- a bleak and desolate atmosphere
- The state of being desolated or laid waste
- The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
- A place or country wasted and forsaken.
noun
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
- the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
- an event that results in total destruction
- plundering with excessive damage and destruction
- The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
- (law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastavit.
verb
- (intransitive) To be destroyed or degraded quickly, especially inadvertently and prematurely.
- (slang) To spend a lot of money; to splurge.
- (transitive) To extinguish something, especially a flame, especially by means of a strong current of air or another gas.
- (transitive) To force open or out by the expansive force of a gas or vapour.
- (sports, transitive) In a sporting contest, to dominate and defeat an opposing team, especially by a large scoring margin.
- (slang) To sing out, sing out loud.
- (intransitive) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapour.
- (transitive) To destroy or degrade (something) quickly, especially inadvertently and prematurely; for example, to deflate (a tire) by puncturing it, to burn out a light bulb by overcurrent, or to injure a bodily joint.
- (transitive) To exhaust; to physically tire.
- put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
- erupt in an uncontrolled manner
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
verb
- damage or destroy as if by violence
- hit violently
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- hit with great force
- overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
- collide or strike violently and suddenly
- break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
- humiliate or depress completely
- hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
- reduce to bankruptcy
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
- (transitive, US) To deform through continuous pressure.
- (transitive, figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
- (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
- (transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.
- (transitive) To hit extremely hard.
noun
- a conspicuous success
- the act of colliding with something
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- a vigorous blow
- a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
- The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
- (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
- (aviation, informal) Airspeed; dynamic pressure.
- A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A traffic collision.
- (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
- A mashed foodstuff.
adv
verb
- destroy or break
- hurl or thrust violently
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- add an enlivening or altering element to
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away
- (transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
- (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
- (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
- (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
- (ambitransitive, sometimes figurative) To sprinkle; to splatter.
- (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
- (transitive) To throw violently.
- (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
- (transitive, usually with down or off) To complete hastily.
noun
- a quick run
- a punctuation mark (‘-’) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
- the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- distinctive and stylish elegance
- a footrace run at top speed
- the act of moving with great haste
- A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
- Violent strike; a whack.
- (uncountable) Ostentatious vigor.
- (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
- A short run, flight.
- (figurative, by extension) A slight admixture.
- Ellipsis of dashboard.
- (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
- (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, countable, uncountable) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
- (UK, India) A prime symbol.
- A rushing or violent onset.
- (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
- (Internet, informal) The dashboard of a social media user.
intj
adj
- Capable of being dismantled, or taken apart.
- (set theory) The property of an ordered set such that its elements can be listed in an order such that, for every element, the element is irreducible (has exactly one upper or lower cover) in the subset consisting of that element and all subsequent elements.
- (graph theory) The property of a graph such that its vertices can be listed in an order such that, for every vertex, the vertex is a subdominant vertex (has an adjacent vertex that is adjacent to every other vertex that it is adjacent to) in the induced subgraph generated by that vertex and all subsequent vertices.
noun
- The destroying or taking apart of an object; disassembly.
- (philosophy, literature) A philosophical theory of textual criticism; a form of critical analysis that emphasizes inquiry into the variable projection of the meaning and message of critical works, the meaning in relation to the reader and the intended audience, and the assumptions implicit in the embodied forms of expression.
- a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning
verb
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- deprive of life
- hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- tire out completely
- thwart the passage of
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- end or extinguish by forceful means
- drink down entirely
- be the source of great pain for
- cause to cease operating
- cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- be fatal
- cause the death of, without intention
- (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
noun
- the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
- the act of terminating a life
- The act of killing.
- (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
noun
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
verb
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- reduce to bankruptcy
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
noun
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- The state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction.
- A loss of reputation.
- The cause of being ruined, destroyed or lost.
- The act of ruining or wrecking.
verb
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- (transitive) To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).
- (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
- (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.
- deplete
- excavate the earth beneath
noun
- (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- (figurative) Vitality.
- (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- Any juice.
- (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.
- a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
- a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
- a person who lacks good judgment
verb
- (transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.
- (transitive) To prematurely reveal major events or the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing ahead of time as a spoiler.
- (transitive) To render (a ballot) invalid by deliberately defacing.
- (aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
- (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
- (intransitive, of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay.
- (intransitive) To be very eager (for something).
- have a strong desire or urge to do something
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- become unfit for consumption or use
- treat with excessive indulgence
- alter from the original
- destroy and strip of its possession
- make imperfect
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
noun
- (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
- (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
- (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
- the act of stripping and taking by force
- the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
verb
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
adj
noun
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
verb
- (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
- (transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
- (slang) To rape.
- (slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
noun
noun
- (by extension) The gradual destruction or undermining of something.
- A substance (such as rust) so formed.
- The act of corroding or the condition so produced.
- (physical chemistry) Erosion by chemical action, especially oxidation.
- erosion by chemical action
- a state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action
noun
- a wearing down to weaken or destroy
- the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
- the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
- erosion by friction
- sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
- (theology) Imperfect contrition or remorse.
- (sciences) The loss of participants during an experiment.
- Grinding down or wearing away by friction.
- (dentistry) The wearing of teeth due to their grinding.
- (human resources) A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through injury, incapacitation, retirement, resignation, or death.
- (linguistics) The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language.
- A gradual reduction in number.
verb
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- total destruction
- The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it.
- (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
- The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
- The state of being annihilated.
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- the complete destruction of every trace of something
- The concealing or covering of something.
- The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.
- (medicine) The cancellation of the function, structure, or both of a vessel or organ; for example, the occlusion of the lumen of a duct, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel, be it solely functional (as when squeezed by nearby mass effect or inflammation) or both structural and functional (as when clogged with thrombus, embolus, or fibrosis).
- The total destruction of something.
noun
- That which destroys something.
- (military, nautical) A larger warship with guided missile armament, usually intended for air defence or anti-ship roles. Often, but not always, larger than a frigate and smaller than a cruiser.
- (military, nautical, historical) A small, fast warship with light gun armament, smaller than a cruiser, but bigger than a frigate.
- (science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role.
- a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship
- a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
noun
- anything that harms or destroys
- any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
- (figuratively) Anything harmful to a person or thing.
- A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
- (chemistry) Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity.
- (informal, idiomatic) An alcoholic drink. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison?")
verb
- kill with poison
- kill by its poison
- administer poison to
- spoil as if by poison
- add poison to
- (chemistry) To inhibit the catalytic activity of.
- (transitive, computing) To place false or malicious data into (a cache, etc.) as part of an exploit.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.
- (transitive) To pollute; to cause to become poisonous.
- (transitive) To cause to become much worse.
- (transitive) To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody).
noun
- The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- The state of having been erased; total blankness.
- The place where something has been erased.
- (sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
- a correction made by erasing
- deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
- a surface area where something has been erased
noun
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
- an event that results in total destruction
- a bleak and desolate atmosphere
- The state of being desolated or laid waste
- The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
- A place or country wasted and forsaken.
noun
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
- the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
- an event that results in total destruction
- plundering with excessive damage and destruction
- The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
- (law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastavit.
noun
- The destroying or taking apart of an object; disassembly.
- (philosophy, literature) A philosophical theory of textual criticism; a form of critical analysis that emphasizes inquiry into the variable projection of the meaning and message of critical works, the meaning in relation to the reader and the intended audience, and the assumptions implicit in the embodied forms of expression.
- a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning
noun
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
verb
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- reduce to bankruptcy
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
noun
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- The state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction.
- A loss of reputation.
- The cause of being ruined, destroyed or lost.
- The act of ruining or wrecking.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- To destroy (something) gradually by an ongoing process.
- To physically corrode or erode (something) gradually.
- (specifically) Chiefly followed by at: of a circumstance, incident, etc.: to cause (someone) to feel guilty, troubled, or worried; to bother (see eat away at).
- wear away or erode
- remove soil or rock
verb
intj
noun
- Something of little value.
- (figurative) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
- A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
- A contemptible person.
- (figurative) A state of chaos or confusion.
- (singular only, with the) Used as an intensifier.
- (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
verb
- To hollow out or undermine.
- To collapse.
- To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
- (figurative) To surrender.
- (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
- explore natural caves
- hollow out as if making a cave or opening
intj
noun
- (programming) A code cave.
- (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
- A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
- (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
- (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
- A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
- (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
- (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
- A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
- A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
- a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
verb
noun
verb
- damage or destroy
- break into many pieces
- cause to break into many pieces
- (transitive) To destroy or disable something.
- (intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
- (intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- (transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
- (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- (transitive, informal) To utterly defeat; to crush.
- (transitive, slang) To eat food quickly, hungrily or completely.
- (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
- (transitive, US, slang) To sing a song extremely poorly.
- (transitive, bodybuilding, slang, antiphrasis) To exhaust completely and thus recreate or build up.
- (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
- (transitive, computing) To remove data.
- (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
- put (an animal) to death
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
verb
- (loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
- (proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of (something).
- To destroy or remove one-tenth of (something).
- (computer graphics) To replace (a high-resolution model) with another of lower but acceptable quality. (Usually algorithmically)
- kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
- kill in large numbers
verb
- destroy or break forcefully
- empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out
- overwhelm with admiration
- knock unconscious or senseless
- eliminate
- (transitive) To eliminate from a contest or similar.
- (intransitive, informal, idiomatic) To fall asleep, especially suddenly.
- (transitive) To communicate (a message) by knocking.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat or kill (someone).
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To exhaust.
- (transitive, informal) To complete, especially in haste; knock off.
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To impress, surpass or overwhelm (someone).
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To put to sleep.
- (transitive, slang, UK) To sell.
- (transitive) To strike or bump (someone or something) out.
- (transitive, Australia) To obtain or earn (something, often money or food).
- To lose the scent of hounds in fox-hunting.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To render unconscious, as by a blow to the head.
verb
intj
noun
verb
- To undermine.
- To downplay or minimize.
- (motor racing) To employ the undercut strategy.
- To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
- To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
- To strike a heavy blow upward.
- cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief
- strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot
- cut away the underpart of
- sell cheaper than one's competition
- cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
adj
noun
- The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
- The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
- (moldmaking) A section of a mold or pattern with negative draft angle
- The continuation of the saddle of a rabbit's coat toward the front legs.
- A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
- (motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone by pitting before them and using fresh tyres to make up time.
- A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
- A blow dealt upward.
- a cut made underneath to remove material
- the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column
- a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the material removed by a cut made underneath
verb
- (intransitive) To be destroyed or degraded quickly, especially inadvertently and prematurely.
- (slang) To spend a lot of money; to splurge.
- (transitive) To extinguish something, especially a flame, especially by means of a strong current of air or another gas.
- (transitive) To force open or out by the expansive force of a gas or vapour.
- (sports, transitive) In a sporting contest, to dominate and defeat an opposing team, especially by a large scoring margin.
- (slang) To sing out, sing out loud.
- (intransitive) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapour.
- (transitive) To destroy or degrade (something) quickly, especially inadvertently and prematurely; for example, to deflate (a tire) by puncturing it, to burn out a light bulb by overcurrent, or to injure a bodily joint.
- (transitive) To exhaust; to physically tire.
- put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
- erupt in an uncontrolled manner
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
verb
- damage or destroy as if by violence
- hit violently
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- hit with great force
- overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
- collide or strike violently and suddenly
- break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
- humiliate or depress completely
- hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
- reduce to bankruptcy
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
- (transitive, US) To deform through continuous pressure.
- (transitive, figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
- (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
- (transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.
- (transitive) To hit extremely hard.
noun
- a conspicuous success
- the act of colliding with something
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- a vigorous blow
- a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
- The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
- (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
- (aviation, informal) Airspeed; dynamic pressure.
- A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A traffic collision.
- (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
- A mashed foodstuff.
adv
verb
- destroy or break
- hurl or thrust violently
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- add an enlivening or altering element to
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away
- (transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
- (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
- (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
- (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
- (ambitransitive, sometimes figurative) To sprinkle; to splatter.
- (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
- (transitive) To throw violently.
- (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
- (transitive, usually with down or off) To complete hastily.
noun
- a quick run
- a punctuation mark (‘-’) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
- the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- distinctive and stylish elegance
- a footrace run at top speed
- the act of moving with great haste
- A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
- Violent strike; a whack.
- (uncountable) Ostentatious vigor.
- (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
- A short run, flight.
- (figurative, by extension) A slight admixture.
- Ellipsis of dashboard.
- (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
- (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, countable, uncountable) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
- (UK, India) A prime symbol.
- A rushing or violent onset.
- (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
- (Internet, informal) The dashboard of a social media user.
intj
verb
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- deprive of life
- hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- tire out completely
- thwart the passage of
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- end or extinguish by forceful means
- drink down entirely
- be the source of great pain for
- cause to cease operating
- cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- be fatal
- cause the death of, without intention
- (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
noun
- the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
- the act of terminating a life
- The act of killing.
- (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
verb
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- (transitive) To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).
- (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
- (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.
- deplete
- excavate the earth beneath
noun
- (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- (figurative) Vitality.
- (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- Any juice.
- (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.
- a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
- a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
- a person who lacks good judgment
noun
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
verb
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- reduce to bankruptcy
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
verb
- (transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.
- (transitive) To prematurely reveal major events or the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing ahead of time as a spoiler.
- (transitive) To render (a ballot) invalid by deliberately defacing.
- (aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
- (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
- (intransitive, of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay.
- (intransitive) To be very eager (for something).
- have a strong desire or urge to do something
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- become unfit for consumption or use
- treat with excessive indulgence
- alter from the original
- destroy and strip of its possession
- make imperfect
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
noun
- (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
- (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
- (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
- the act of stripping and taking by force
- the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
verb
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
adj
noun
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
verb
- (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
- (transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
- (slang) To rape.
- (slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
noun
adj
- Destroying or undermining something gradually.
- Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
- Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
- spitefully sarcastic
- of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
noun
adj
- Capable of being dismantled, or taken apart.
- (set theory) The property of an ordered set such that its elements can be listed in an order such that, for every element, the element is irreducible (has exactly one upper or lower cover) in the subset consisting of that element and all subsequent elements.
- (graph theory) The property of a graph such that its vertices can be listed in an order such that, for every vertex, the vertex is a subdominant vertex (has an adjacent vertex that is adjacent to every other vertex that it is adjacent to) in the induced subgraph generated by that vertex and all subsequent vertices.