Palabras en English para 'Excessive nervousness.'
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adj
- nervous and unable to relax
- causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch
- Causing an itching sensation.
- Feeling an itching sensation; feeling a need to be scratched. (of a person, animal or body part)
- (figurative) Having a constant, teasing desire (for something, to do something); impatiently eager.
- Characterized by itching. (of a condition)
- (figurative) Causing a constant, teasing desire for something.
- (figurative) In a state of agitation; easily alarmed.
adj
- nervous and unable to relax
- ceaselessly in motion
- worried and uneasy
- lacking or not affording physical or mental rest
- Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose; eager for change; discontented.
- Deprived of rest or sleep.
- Not allowing or affording rest.
- Without rest; unable to be still or quiet; uneasy; continually moving.
adj
- Nervous, anxious.
- (of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
- Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
- Wavering; undecided.
- Shaking or trembling.
- vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
- not secure; beset with difficulties
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
verb
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- 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
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- 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
- (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
adj
- taut or rigid; stretched tight
- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘beat’)
- Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
- Pulled taut, without any slack.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
- Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
noun
- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
- (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.
- (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
adj
verb
- cause to be nervous or upset
- be flustered; behave in a confused manner
- (British, dialectal) To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
- To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- (by extension) To turn on, to make horny.
- To be agitated and confused; to bustle.
- To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
- (by extension) To become turned on, to become horny.
noun
verb
- make nervous or agitated
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- make confused or perplexed or puzzled
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- intrude or enter uninvited
- (imperative, euphemistic) Damn; curse.
- To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
- (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
- (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
- (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
noun
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.
- (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; to exercise.
- (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
- (transitive) To touch repeatedly; to fiddle with.
- (intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
- be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy
- lacerate by biting
- be on the mind of
- be concerned with
- touch or rub constantly
- disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress
noun
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an unwanted pregnancy
- a source of difficulty
- an event causing distress or pain
- 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.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (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
- An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
- (pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.
- (informal) Any anxiety disorder, especially generalized anxiety disorder.
- An uneasy or distressing desire (for something). Endeavor (to please).
- (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic
- a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
adj
- Nervous, apprehensive.
- (Internet slang) Exhibiting behavior that is disconcerting or alarming, sometimes in an effort to impress or to troll others.
- Sharp; having prominent edges.
- (entertainment, advertising) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge.
- (slang) Cool by virtue of being tough, dark, or badass.
- (art) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
- (figurative) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué.
- being in a tense state
noun
- an anxious feeling
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
- a cause for feeling concern
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
- (uncountable) The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
- (uncountable, UK) The state of being cared for by others.
- (uncountable) Maintenance, upkeep.
- (countable, uncountable) Worry.
- Close attention; concern; responsibility.
verb
- to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something
- be concerned with
- feel concern or interest
- provide care for
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- (intransitive, Appalachia) To mind; to object.
- (intransitive, informal, by extension) To be affected by, to treat as relevant for a subsequent course of action.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
- (intransitive, polite, formal, chiefly in the negative) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards or interested in.
- (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
noun
- an anxious feeling
- something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
- a feeling of sympathy for someone or something
- something that interests you because it is important or affects you
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
- (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
verb
noun
- an anxious feeling
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
- (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
- (countable) Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
- (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- (UK, with definite article, "the fear") A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.
- (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
verb
- be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement
- be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event
- be uneasy or apprehensive about
- be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
- regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
- (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
- (intransitive) To feel fear.
- (intransitive) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].
- (transitive) To regret.
- (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
adj
noun
- An anxious state of mind; anxiety.
- feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
- The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.
- embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
- the trait of seeming ill at ease
- physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
- inability to rest or relax or be still
noun
- a state of nervous excitement
- A state of excitement or anxiety.
- a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
- (in combination, slang, often derogatory) Sexual attraction towards a specific group of people.
- (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
- (medicine) A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
- (neologism) A group of stingrays.
verb
noun
- excessive or uncontrollable fear
- neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
- state of violent mental agitation
- (informal, psychopathology) Synonym of conversion disorder.
- Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
- (medicine, nosologically dated) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
verb
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
adj
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- a very troublesome child
- the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- (pathology, countable) A night terror.
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- (uncountable) Terrorism.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
adj
adj
- Anxious or uneasy.
- (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.
- (of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.
- 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
verb
verb
noun
- A nervous action; a tic.
- (computing) A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.
- (chiefly in the plural, often with "the") A state of nervousness.
- (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
- (data visualization) A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
- small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources
- a small irregular movement
verb
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- 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
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- 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
- (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.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.
- (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; to exercise.
- (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
- (transitive) To touch repeatedly; to fiddle with.
- (intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
- be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy
- lacerate by biting
- be on the mind of
- be concerned with
- touch or rub constantly
- disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress
noun
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an unwanted pregnancy
- a source of difficulty
- an event causing distress or pain
- 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.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (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
- An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
- (pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.
- (informal) Any anxiety disorder, especially generalized anxiety disorder.
- An uneasy or distressing desire (for something). Endeavor (to please).
- (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic
- a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
noun
- an anxious feeling
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
- a cause for feeling concern
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
- (uncountable) The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
- (uncountable, UK) The state of being cared for by others.
- (uncountable) Maintenance, upkeep.
- (countable, uncountable) Worry.
- Close attention; concern; responsibility.
verb
- to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something
- be concerned with
- feel concern or interest
- provide care for
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- (intransitive, Appalachia) To mind; to object.
- (intransitive, informal, by extension) To be affected by, to treat as relevant for a subsequent course of action.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
- (intransitive, polite, formal, chiefly in the negative) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards or interested in.
- (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
noun
- an anxious feeling
- something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
- a feeling of sympathy for someone or something
- something that interests you because it is important or affects you
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
- (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
verb
noun
- an anxious feeling
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
- (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
- (countable) Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
- (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- (UK, with definite article, "the fear") A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.
- (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
verb
- be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement
- be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event
- be uneasy or apprehensive about
- be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
- regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
- (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
- (intransitive) To feel fear.
- (intransitive) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].
- (transitive) To regret.
- (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
adj
noun
- An anxious state of mind; anxiety.
- feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
- The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.
- embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
- the trait of seeming ill at ease
- physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
- inability to rest or relax or be still
noun
- a state of nervous excitement
- A state of excitement or anxiety.
- a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
- (in combination, slang, often derogatory) Sexual attraction towards a specific group of people.
- (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
- (medicine) A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
- (neologism) A group of stingrays.
verb
noun
- excessive or uncontrollable fear
- neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
- state of violent mental agitation
- (informal, psychopathology) Synonym of conversion disorder.
- Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
- (medicine, nosologically dated) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
verb
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
adj
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- a very troublesome child
- the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- (pathology, countable) A night terror.
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- (uncountable) Terrorism.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
adj
verb
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- 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
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- 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
- (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
adj
- taut or rigid; stretched tight
- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘beat’)
- Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
- Pulled taut, without any slack.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
- Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
noun
- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
- (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.
- (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
verb
- cause to be nervous or upset
- be flustered; behave in a confused manner
- (British, dialectal) To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
- To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- (by extension) To turn on, to make horny.
- To be agitated and confused; to bustle.
- To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
- (by extension) To become turned on, to become horny.
noun
verb
- make nervous or agitated
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- make confused or perplexed or puzzled
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- intrude or enter uninvited
- (imperative, euphemistic) Damn; curse.
- To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
- (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
- (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
- (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
noun
verb
noun
- A nervous action; a tic.
- (computing) A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.
- (chiefly in the plural, often with "the") A state of nervousness.
- (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
- (data visualization) A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
- small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources
- a small irregular movement
adj
- nervous and unable to relax
- causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch
- Causing an itching sensation.
- Feeling an itching sensation; feeling a need to be scratched. (of a person, animal or body part)
- (figurative) Having a constant, teasing desire (for something, to do something); impatiently eager.
- Characterized by itching. (of a condition)
- (figurative) Causing a constant, teasing desire for something.
- (figurative) In a state of agitation; easily alarmed.
adj
- nervous and unable to relax
- ceaselessly in motion
- worried and uneasy
- lacking or not affording physical or mental rest
- Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose; eager for change; discontented.
- Deprived of rest or sleep.
- Not allowing or affording rest.
- Without rest; unable to be still or quiet; uneasy; continually moving.
adj
- Nervous, anxious.
- (of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
- Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
- Wavering; undecided.
- Shaking or trembling.
- vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
- not secure; beset with difficulties
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
adj
adj
adj
- Nervous, apprehensive.
- (Internet slang) Exhibiting behavior that is disconcerting or alarming, sometimes in an effort to impress or to troll others.
- Sharp; having prominent edges.
- (entertainment, advertising) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge.
- (slang) Cool by virtue of being tough, dark, or badass.
- (art) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
- (figurative) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué.
- being in a tense state
adj
- Anxious or uneasy.
- (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.
- (of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.
- 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