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adj
- (of a word or expression) not agreeing with grammatical principles
- not in accord with established usage or procedure
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
- characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules
- Faulty or defective.
- Inappropriate or improper.
- Not correct; erroneous or wrong.
noun
adj
- violating or tending to violate or offend against
- causing anger or annoyance
- for the purpose of attack rather than defense
- morally offensive
- causing or able to cause nausea
- unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
- Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
- (sports) Having to do with play directed at scoring.
- Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
- (transitive) To rape.
- force (someone) to have sex against their will
- destroy and strip of its possession
- violate the sacred character of a place or language
- destroy
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
verb
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- 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.
- (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.
- 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
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- 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
noun
- (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.
- 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
adj
- Tending to contradict or oppose, contrarious.
- That is diametrically opposed to something.
- Mutually exclusive.
- That contradicts something, such as an argument.
- That is itself a contradiction.
- of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false
- unable for both to exist or be true at the same time
- in disagreement
- that confounds or contradicts or confuses
noun
prep
- Contrary to; in conflict with.
- In opposition to.
- In front of; before (a background).
- In physical opposition to; in collision with.
- As protection from.
- (Hollywood) To be paid now in contrast to the following amount to be paid later under specified circumstances, usually that a movie is made or has started filming.
- In contrast or comparison with.
- As a charge on.
- In physical contact with, so as to abut or be supported by.
- In competition with, versus.
- In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).
- As counterbalance to.
- Of betting odds, denoting a worse-than-even chance.
- In exchange for.
- Close to, alongside.
- In a contrary direction to.
verb
- (transitive or with "against") To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
- (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
- (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
- (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
- (intransitive) To feel or become offended; to take insult.
- (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
- strike with disgust or revulsion
- cause to feel resentment or indignation
- hurt the feelings of
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
verb
- To be contrary to (something).
- To oppose (a person) by denying the truth or pertinence of a given statement.
- To deny the truth or validity of (a statement or statements).
- (reflexive) To say things that conflict with each other.
- deny the truth of
- prove negative; show to be false
- be resistant to
- be in contradiction with
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prep
adj
adv
noun
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- counterattack
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
- (Internet) A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games
- (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)
- a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot
- table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted
- a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens
- a person who counts things
- a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- a return punch (especially by a boxer)
verb
verb
noun
- opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)
- opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- an incompatibility of dates or events
- a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
- a disagreement or argument about something important
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
- A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
adj
- marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict
- resistant to guidance or discipline
- deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good
- Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.
- Wayward; vexing; contrary.
- Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.
- (law, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
- Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable.
noun
- A rejection of, or failure to conform to, a practice, standard, rule, or law.
- (geology) A type of unconformity in which a nonsedimentary rock intrudes in sedimentary layers.
- A refusal to conform to the doctrine, discipline, or practice of a state religion, especially refusal by other Protestants to conform to the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England; the principles or practice of nonconformists; nonconformists as a class.
- a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs
- lack of harmony or correspondence
- unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values
- failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior
noun
- the speech act of contradicting someone
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily false
- opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
- (countable, uncountable) The act of contradicting.
- (countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
- (countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
- (logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
verb
- to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
- to strive or contend about; to contest
- (intransitive) to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
- (transitive) to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss
- have a disagreement over something
- take exception to
noun
verb
noun
- A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
- (music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
- One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
- Poetic form in general.
- A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)
- a piece of poetry
- literature in metrical form
- a line of metrical text
adj
- contrary to or forbidden by law
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
- Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
- Not correctly deduced.
- Born to unmarried parents.
- Not in accordance with the law.
- (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
- Not sanctioned by marriage.
- Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
noun
verb
adj
noun
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
- (humorous) One who would be an in-law except that the marriage-like relationship is unofficial.
- (slang) A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
- (history) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty.
- A wild or violent animal, such as a horse.
- A person who operates outside established norms.
- (humorous) An in-law: a relative by marriage.
- A fugitive from the law.
verb
verb
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
noun
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
noun
verb
- Chiefly followed by to, and sometimes by at or on: to object or be reluctant; to balk, to take exception.
- (rare) To object or take exception to (something).
- (law) To submit a demurrer (“motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defence, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further”).
- enter a demurrer
- object to
prep
- Against; in opposition to.
- (music) Mashed up with.
- Compared with, as opposed to.
- (law) Bringing a legal action against, as used in the title of a court case in which the first party indicates the plaintiff (or appellant or the like), and the second indicates the defendant (or respondent or the like).
- Interacting with, especially to record reactions
verb
verb
- act against or in opposition to
- be resistant to
- contrast with equal weight or force
- set into opposition or rivalry
- be against; express opposition to
- fight against or resist strongly
- To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
- To object to.
- To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
- To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
verb
- act against or in opposition to
- undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions
- show a response or a reaction to something
- (chemistry, intransitive) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
- (chemistry, transitive) To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
- (physics, intransitive) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
- (Internet, intransitive) To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
- (intransitive) To act in response.
noun
prefix
- Moving or acting against, opposing, contrary.
- Alternate, different.
- Perpendicular in angle; transverse.
- (figurative) Moving from one track or state to another.
- Located in between. Often, but not necessarily, forming an H-shaped structure.
- Involving two or more at the same time; coincident.
- Comparing two sources of information, often to verify their contents.
- Moving from one side to the other; across.
- Shaped like a cross or X; crossing lines.
- On the opposite side of.
- To combine two entities to create a hybrid.
- More than one, often in indicating applicability to several domains that are usually separate.
- Mutual exchange or influence, where both entities are affected in the same way. Mutuality.
- One entity affecting a similar entity, such as to transfer of one property from one entity to the other.
verb
noun
- (video games, sociology) A subversive style of gameplay in which a player attempts to overturn the usual rules and conventions of the game.
- A game move made as a response.
- (chess) A counterattack in a different part of the board.
- (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board
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adj
- defying expression or description
- too sacred to be uttered
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- Extremely bad or objectionable.
- (programming, not comparable) That cannot be referenced in source code, due to having no usable name.
- Impossible to speak about.
- Incapable of being spoken or uttered.
- Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
noun
adj
- defying expression or description
- very difficult to pronounce correctly
- too sacred to be uttered
- Not allowed to be spoken; taboo, unspeakable.
- Not utterable; incapable of being physically spoken or voiced; unpronounceable.
- (figuratively) Extremely bad or objectionable; unspeakable.
- Incapable of being articulated or expressed; indescribable, inexpressible.
noun
noun
- The act of contradicting something by making a contrary argument, or presenting contrary evidence.
- the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument
- A statement, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents.
- (law) A pleading by a defendant in reply to the evidence put forward by a plaintiff or the prosecution.
- (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder
verb
- To object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech.
- To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
- To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking.
- recite in elocution
- speak against in an impassioned manner
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noun
- (politics, derogatory) A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
- (accounting, often attributive) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
- (dance) A contra dance.
- (music, informal) Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
- (business) A deal to swap goods or services.
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noun
- A rejection of, or failure to conform to, a practice, standard, rule, or law.
- (geology) A type of unconformity in which a nonsedimentary rock intrudes in sedimentary layers.
- A refusal to conform to the doctrine, discipline, or practice of a state religion, especially refusal by other Protestants to conform to the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England; the principles or practice of nonconformists; nonconformists as a class.
- a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs
- lack of harmony or correspondence
- unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values
- failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior
noun
- the speech act of contradicting someone
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily false
- opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
- (countable, uncountable) The act of contradicting.
- (countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
- (countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
- (logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
noun
verb
- Chiefly followed by to, and sometimes by at or on: to object or be reluctant; to balk, to take exception.
- (rare) To object or take exception to (something).
- (law) To submit a demurrer (“motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defence, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further”).
- enter a demurrer
- object to
noun
- The act of contradicting something by making a contrary argument, or presenting contrary evidence.
- the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument
- A statement, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents.
- (law) A pleading by a defendant in reply to the evidence put forward by a plaintiff or the prosecution.
- (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder
verb
- (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
- (transitive) To rape.
- force (someone) to have sex against their will
- destroy and strip of its possession
- violate the sacred character of a place or language
- destroy
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
verb
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- 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.
- (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.
- 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
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- 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
noun
- (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.
- 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
verb
- (transitive or with "against") To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
- (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
- (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
- (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
- (intransitive) To feel or become offended; to take insult.
- (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
- strike with disgust or revulsion
- cause to feel resentment or indignation
- hurt the feelings of
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
verb
- To be contrary to (something).
- To oppose (a person) by denying the truth or pertinence of a given statement.
- To deny the truth or validity of (a statement or statements).
- (reflexive) To say things that conflict with each other.
- deny the truth of
- prove negative; show to be false
- be resistant to
- be in contradiction with
verb
noun
- opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)
- opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- an incompatibility of dates or events
- a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
- a disagreement or argument about something important
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
- A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
verb
- to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
- to strive or contend about; to contest
- (intransitive) to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
- (transitive) to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss
- have a disagreement over something
- take exception to
noun
verb
noun
- A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
- (music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
- One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
- Poetic form in general.
- A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)
- a piece of poetry
- literature in metrical form
- a line of metrical text
verb
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
noun
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
noun
verb
- Chiefly followed by to, and sometimes by at or on: to object or be reluctant; to balk, to take exception.
- (rare) To object or take exception to (something).
- (law) To submit a demurrer (“motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defence, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further”).
- enter a demurrer
- object to
verb
- act against or in opposition to
- be resistant to
- contrast with equal weight or force
- set into opposition or rivalry
- be against; express opposition to
- fight against or resist strongly
- To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
- To object to.
- To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
- To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
verb
- act against or in opposition to
- undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions
- show a response or a reaction to something
- (chemistry, intransitive) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
- (chemistry, transitive) To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
- (physics, intransitive) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
- (Internet, intransitive) To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
- (intransitive) To act in response.
noun
verb
noun
- (video games, sociology) A subversive style of gameplay in which a player attempts to overturn the usual rules and conventions of the game.
- A game move made as a response.
- (chess) A counterattack in a different part of the board.
- (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board
verb
conj
prep
verb
- To object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech.
- To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
- To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking.
- recite in elocution
- speak against in an impassioned manner
adv
prep
adj
- (of a word or expression) not agreeing with grammatical principles
- not in accord with established usage or procedure
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
- characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules
- Faulty or defective.
- Inappropriate or improper.
- Not correct; erroneous or wrong.
noun
adj
- violating or tending to violate or offend against
- causing anger or annoyance
- for the purpose of attack rather than defense
- morally offensive
- causing or able to cause nausea
- unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
- Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
- (sports) Having to do with play directed at scoring.
- Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation.
noun
adj
- Tending to contradict or oppose, contrarious.
- That is diametrically opposed to something.
- Mutually exclusive.
- That contradicts something, such as an argument.
- That is itself a contradiction.
- of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false
- unable for both to exist or be true at the same time
- in disagreement
- that confounds or contradicts or confuses
noun
adj
adv
noun
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- counterattack
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
- (Internet) A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games
- (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)
- a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot
- table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted
- a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens
- a person who counts things
- a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- a return punch (especially by a boxer)
verb
adj
- marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict
- resistant to guidance or discipline
- deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good
- Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.
- Wayward; vexing; contrary.
- Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.
- (law, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
- Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable.
adj
- contrary to or forbidden by law
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
- Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
- Not correctly deduced.
- Born to unmarried parents.
- Not in accordance with the law.
- (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
- Not sanctioned by marriage.
- Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
noun
verb
adj
noun
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
- (humorous) One who would be an in-law except that the marriage-like relationship is unofficial.
- (slang) A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
- (history) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty.
- A wild or violent animal, such as a horse.
- A person who operates outside established norms.
- (humorous) An in-law: a relative by marriage.
- A fugitive from the law.
verb
adj
- defying expression or description
- too sacred to be uttered
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- Extremely bad or objectionable.
- (programming, not comparable) That cannot be referenced in source code, due to having no usable name.
- Impossible to speak about.
- Incapable of being spoken or uttered.
- Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
noun
adj
- defying expression or description
- very difficult to pronounce correctly
- too sacred to be uttered
- Not allowed to be spoken; taboo, unspeakable.
- Not utterable; incapable of being physically spoken or voiced; unpronounceable.
- (figuratively) Extremely bad or objectionable; unspeakable.
- Incapable of being articulated or expressed; indescribable, inexpressible.