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verb
noun
- The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
- Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
- The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
verb
- (transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- (mathematics) To cause to become zero by means of an annihilator operator
- (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
- kill in large numbers
verb
noun
- A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.
- The act of revoking in a game of cards.
- A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
- the mistake of not following suit when able to do so
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To declare something invalid or null and void.
- (transitive) To leave out of account; to omit or neglect.
- (transitive) To separate and reserve something for a specific purpose.
- (transitive) To disagree with something and reject or overturn it.
- annul (a legal decision)
- make inoperative or stop
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
verb
- (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
- (transitive, medicine) Synonym of empty (verb).
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something
- declare invalid
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
- excrete or discharge from the body
adj
- (programming) Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- (bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.
- (with of) Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- lacking any legal or binding force
- containing nothing
noun
- (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A black cat.
- (medicine, urology) An instance of urination.
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- A cavity or empty space caused by water erosion.
- (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- (bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.
- An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
- an empty area or space
- the state of nonexistence
verb
- (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
- declare null and void; make ineffective
- (transitive, neologism) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture.
- (slang) To kill.
- (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
- (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
- (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
- (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
- (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- make invalid for use
- make up for
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- remove or make invisible
noun
- (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
- (printing) The page thus suppressed.
- (US) A cancellation.
- A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
- (printing) The page that replaces it.
- a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
verb
- (transitive) To make something ineffective, to invalidate.
- (transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
- (transitive) To debase or morally corrupt.
- make imperfect
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
- (transitive, informal) To utterly defeat; to crush.
- (transitive, slang) To eat food quickly, hungrily or completely.
- (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- (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
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
verb
- (transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
- (transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
- (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
- (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
- (transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
- Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
- cover as if with a blanket
- form a blanket-like cover (over)
adj
noun
- A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
- A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
- A covering layer of anything.
- A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
- a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor
- bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
- anything that covers
verb
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
adj
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
noun
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- (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.
- 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.
- 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
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- cause the death of, without intention
noun
- 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.
- 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
verb
- (transitive) To disallow.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To reject an option from a list of possibilities.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make something impossible.
- (transitive) To make unavailable.
- (transitive) To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler.
- include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules
- make impossible, especially beforehand
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
noun
- Abolition; nullification.
- Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; urination; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
- That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool, urine or other natural means.
- The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
- The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
- Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, country, fortress, etc.
- the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing the contents of something
verb
- (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
- (intransitive) To become shorter.
- (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
- (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
- (baking, of pastries, transitive) To make crumbly.
- (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
- (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- become short or shorter
- make short or shorter
verb
- To nullify or cause to be ineffective.
- To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
- (computing) To perform the NOT operation on.
- To be negative; bring or cause negative results.
- deny the truth of
- prove negative; show to be false
- make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
- be in contradiction with
noun
- The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or no legal effect.
- the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
- The nullification crisis in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
- (neologism) Surgical removal of genitals (and sometimes nipples) as a form of body modification.
- the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress
verb
noun
- Any other opening and closing device.
- (construction) A panel used to contain freshly poured concrete, which is usually removed when the concrete hardens.
- (photography) The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
- One who shuts or closes something.
- (usually in the plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
- a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure
- a hinged blind for a window
verb
- (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.
- break into many pieces
- cause to break into many pieces
- damage or destroy
noun
verb
- (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
- (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
- (transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
- (transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
- (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
- (transitive) To try not to do something or to have something happen.
- refrain from doing something
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- declare invalid
- stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
- refrain from certain foods or beverages
verb
- (transitive) To subtract.
- (transitive) To remove.
- (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
- (of a plant, etc.) To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- (transitive) To bind oneself by.
- (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- (transitive) To avail oneself of; to exploit.
- (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- (transitive) To experience or feel.
- (transitive) To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- (reflexive) To go.
- (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
- (transitive) To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
- (transitive) To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc.).
- (transitive) To assume (a form).
- (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- (transitive) To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time).
- (transitive) To exact.
- (transitive) To proceed to fill.
- (transitive) To accept and follow (advice, etc.).
- (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- (transitive, mathematics, computing) To accept (zero or more arguments).
- (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- (of ink, dye, etc.) To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
- (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
- (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
- (transitive) To seize or capture.
- (transitive) To participate in.
- (transitive) To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
- (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- (transitive) To perform (a role).
- (transitive) To receive into some relationship.
- (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc.).
- (transitive) To receive (medicine or drugs) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- (transitive) To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- (intransitive, copulative) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- (transitive, of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.).
- (transitive) To accept, be given (rightly or wrongly), or assume (especially as if by right).
- (transitive) To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
- (transitive) To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- (of a mechanical device) To catch; to engage.
- (transitive) To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- (transitive, grammar) To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc.).
- (transitive) To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- (transitive) To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- (transitive) To have sex with.
- (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- (transitive) To remove or end by death; to kill.
- Used in phrasal verbs: take in, take off, take on, take out, take to, take something to, take up.
- (transitive) To go or move into.
- (transitive) To fill, occupy, require, or use up (space).
- (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
- (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
- (transitive) To require (a person, resource or thing in order to achieve an outcome).
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- (transitive) To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- (transitive) To deal with.
- (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- (transitive, Greece, Cyprus, informal) To buy.
- (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
- (transitive, intransitive, law) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
- (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- (transitive) To escort or conduct (a person).
- (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
- (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- (transitive) To have and use one's recourse to.
- (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- admit into a group or community
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take somebody somewhere
- experience or feel or submit to
- develop a habit; apply oneself to a practice or occupation
- receive or obtain regularly
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- proceed along in a vehicle
- be a student of a certain subject
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- get into one's hands, take physically
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- be designed to hold or take
- take into one's possession
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- require (time or space)
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- obtain by winning
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- occupy or take on
- require as useful, just, or proper
- buy, select
- head into a specified direction
- make a film or photograph of something
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- receive willingly something given or offered
- carry out
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- engage for service under a term of contract
- conquer by force
- have sex with; archaic use
- be capable of holding or containing
noun
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits; takings.
- (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- The or an act of taking.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
- the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
verb
- (transitive, computing) To cause to lapse; to invalidate.
- (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
- (intransitive) To die.
- (intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
- (ambitransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.
- (intransitive) To come to an end; to conclude.
- (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
- lose validity
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- expel air
verb
- To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify.
- To lower (something) in price or value.
- To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
- (chiefly US) To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- To decrease in amount or size.
- (chiefly US) Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- To reduce (something) in amount or size.
- To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
- To lower in price or value; (law) specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
- (chiefly historical) Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
- To cut away or hammer down (material from metalwork, a sculpture, etc.) in such a way as to leave a figure in relief.
- To put an end to (a nuisance).
- become less in amount or intensity
- make less active or intense
verb
- (transitive) To remove.
- (intransitive) To become successful, to flourish.
- (ambitransitive) To absent oneself from (work or other responsibility), especially with permission.
- (intransitive) To depart.
- (transitive) To quantify.
- (surfing) To stand up on a surfboard and begin to surf a breaking wave.
- (usually transitive) To imitate (somebody), often in a satirical manner.
- (intransitive) To leave the ground and ascend into the air or into flight.
- prove fatal
- get started or set in motion, used figuratively
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner
- make a subtraction
- depart for someplace
- remove clothes or shoes
- take time off from work; stop working temporarily
- depart from the ground
noun
verb
adj
- (New Age jargon, derogatory) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
- Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
- Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
- (often used pejoratively) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
- Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
- (slang) COVID-19 negative.
- (medicine) Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
- (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
- (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
- (hyperbolic) No, not any, zero.
- (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero.
- (slang) HIV negative.
- (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- (weather) Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- having a negative charge
- not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition
- expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
- having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant
- designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
- reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive
- involving disadvantage or harm
- characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
- less than zero
intj
noun
- (mathematics) A negative quantity.
- (logic) A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
- (law) A right of veto.
- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
- An unfavorable point or characteristic.
- (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
- (weightlifting) A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
- (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
- The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- a reply of denial
- a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed
verb
- (transitive) To lay aside; to stop; to cancel.
- (intransitive, nautical) The general command to stop or cease.
- (transitive, climbing) To handle a climbing rope to prevent (a climber) from falling to the ground.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat.
- simple past of belie (“encompass”)
- turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or them
- fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat
noun
verb
- (transitive) To nullify a previous ruling by a higher power.
- (transitive, law) To dismiss or throw out (a protest or objection) at a court.
- (transitive) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
- (transitive) To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
- rule against
verb
- (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
- (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
- (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
- (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
- (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
- (physical chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
- (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
- (typography) To separate a ligature into its component letters.
- (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
- (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
- (physical chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.
- To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
- (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
- cause to fade away
- pass into a solution
- cause to go into a solution
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- grow less and less substantial until it disappears
- declare void
- come to an end (of a state)
- cause to lose control emotionally
- stop functioning or cohering as a unit
- lose control emotionally
noun
verb
- (transitive) To deselect.
- (figuratively) To take apart; criticize harshly.
- To unravel or untangle the threads of a rope etc.
- (figurative) To unfold; to solve.
- (knitting) To undo knitting in order to reuse the wool.
- (sewing) To undo sewing stitches.
- (figuratively) To disassemble, to undo.
- undo (the stitches) of (a piece of sewing)
- become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
verb
noun
- Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.
- A cancellation or postponement of a proposed event undesired by many.
- A document authorizing such an action.
- The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
- a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
- a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
verb
- (transitive) To unmake.
- (transitive, figurative) To counteract fate.
- (transitive) To unravel (something spun, knit, or woven).
- To happen; to unfold; to develop.
- To counteract or decipher a complicated web of lies, statements, arguments, traditions, etc.
- (ambitransitive) To untwist (something that is twisted or wound)
- (transitive) To disentangle.
- To reveal the truth behind PR (public relations) or slanted reporting.
- (ambiintransitive) To stop (something) from spinning.
noun
- the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
- a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
- (object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
- A royalty.
verb
- prevail over
- counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle)
- rule against
- ride (a horse) too hard
- (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
- (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
- (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
- (object-oriented programming, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- (transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
verb
- To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
- To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
- (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
- To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).
- To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
- (transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.
- create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)
- move people from their homes or country
- move out of an unsafe location into safety
- excrete or discharge from the body
- remove content from
verb
adj
intj
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract).
- (transitive) To tear into pieces.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have intense penetrative sex with.
- (intransitive) To start shedding tears.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To damage.
- (transitive) To wrench out of the ground.
- (transitive, slang) To brutally assault.
- tear into shreds
verb
- (transitive) To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.
- (transitive) To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.
- (transitive) To order to leave.
- (transitive) To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).
- (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
- (transitive, sports, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.
- (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
- (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.
- bar from attention or consideration
- end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave
- stop associating with
- cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration
- declare void
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
verb
- (transitive) To remove; to omit.
- (transitive) To oust; to replace.
- (nautical) To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
- (transitive) To intercept.
- (usually passive voice) To arrange or prepare.
- (intransitive) To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand) To separate (an animal) from the herd.
- (intransitive) To leave suddenly.
- (transitive, informal) To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something).
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To serve time in prison as an alternative to paying fines.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
- cease operating
- delete or remove
- strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out
- intercept (a player)
- cut off and stop
- form and create by cutting out
adj
verb
adj
- Insignificant.
- (mechanical engineering, of a position or setting) Neutral.
- Having no validity; "null and void".
- (genetics, of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function; amorphic.
- Absent or non-existent.
- (mathematics) Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
- (mathematics) Of the null set.
- lacking any legal or binding force
noun
- (computing) The attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
- (computing) The null character; the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, which indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
- One of the beads in nulled work.
- (statistics) The null hypothesis.
- Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
- A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
- Something that has no force or meaning.
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
noun
- Abolition; nullification.
- Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; urination; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
- That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool, urine or other natural means.
- The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
- The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
- Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, country, fortress, etc.
- the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing the contents of something
noun
- The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or no legal effect.
- the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
- The nullification crisis in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
- (neologism) Surgical removal of genitals (and sometimes nipples) as a form of body modification.
- the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress
noun
- the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
- a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
- (object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
- A royalty.
verb
- prevail over
- counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle)
- rule against
- ride (a horse) too hard
- (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
- (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
- (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
- (object-oriented programming, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- (transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
verb
noun
- The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
- Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
- The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
verb
- (transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- (mathematics) To cause to become zero by means of an annihilator operator
- (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
- kill in large numbers
verb
noun
- A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.
- The act of revoking in a game of cards.
- A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
- the mistake of not following suit when able to do so
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To declare something invalid or null and void.
- (transitive) To leave out of account; to omit or neglect.
- (transitive) To separate and reserve something for a specific purpose.
- (transitive) To disagree with something and reject or overturn it.
- annul (a legal decision)
- make inoperative or stop
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
verb
- (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
- (transitive, medicine) Synonym of empty (verb).
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something
- declare invalid
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
- excrete or discharge from the body
adj
- (programming) Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- (bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.
- (with of) Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- lacking any legal or binding force
- containing nothing
noun
- (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A black cat.
- (medicine, urology) An instance of urination.
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- A cavity or empty space caused by water erosion.
- (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- (bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.
- An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
- an empty area or space
- the state of nonexistence
verb
- (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
- declare null and void; make ineffective
- (transitive, neologism) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture.
- (slang) To kill.
- (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
- (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
- (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
- (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
- (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- make invalid for use
- make up for
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- remove or make invisible
noun
- (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
- (printing) The page thus suppressed.
- (US) A cancellation.
- A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
- (printing) The page that replaces it.
- a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
verb
- (transitive) To make something ineffective, to invalidate.
- (transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
- (transitive) To debase or morally corrupt.
- make imperfect
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
- (transitive, informal) To utterly defeat; to crush.
- (transitive, slang) To eat food quickly, hungrily or completely.
- (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- (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
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
verb
- (transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
- (transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
- (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
- (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
- (transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
- Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
- cover as if with a blanket
- form a blanket-like cover (over)
adj
noun
- A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
- A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
- A covering layer of anything.
- A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
- a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor
- bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
- anything that covers
verb
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
adj
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
noun
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- (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.
- 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.
- 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
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- cause the death of, without intention
noun
- 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.
- 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
verb
- (transitive) To disallow.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To reject an option from a list of possibilities.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make something impossible.
- (transitive) To make unavailable.
- (transitive) To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler.
- include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules
- make impossible, especially beforehand
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
verb
- (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
- (intransitive) To become shorter.
- (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
- (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
- (baking, of pastries, transitive) To make crumbly.
- (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
- (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- become short or shorter
- make short or shorter
verb
- To nullify or cause to be ineffective.
- To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
- (computing) To perform the NOT operation on.
- To be negative; bring or cause negative results.
- deny the truth of
- prove negative; show to be false
- make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
- be in contradiction with
verb
noun
- Any other opening and closing device.
- (construction) A panel used to contain freshly poured concrete, which is usually removed when the concrete hardens.
- (photography) The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
- One who shuts or closes something.
- (usually in the plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
- a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure
- a hinged blind for a window
verb
- (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.
- break into many pieces
- cause to break into many pieces
- damage or destroy
noun
verb
- (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
- (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
- (transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
- (transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
- (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
- (transitive) To try not to do something or to have something happen.
- refrain from doing something
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- declare invalid
- stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
- refrain from certain foods or beverages
verb
- (transitive) To subtract.
- (transitive) To remove.
- (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
- (of a plant, etc.) To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- (transitive) To bind oneself by.
- (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- (transitive) To avail oneself of; to exploit.
- (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- (transitive) To experience or feel.
- (transitive) To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- (reflexive) To go.
- (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
- (transitive) To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
- (transitive) To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc.).
- (transitive) To assume (a form).
- (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- (transitive) To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time).
- (transitive) To exact.
- (transitive) To proceed to fill.
- (transitive) To accept and follow (advice, etc.).
- (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- (transitive, mathematics, computing) To accept (zero or more arguments).
- (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- (of ink, dye, etc.) To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
- (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
- (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
- (transitive) To seize or capture.
- (transitive) To participate in.
- (transitive) To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
- (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- (transitive) To perform (a role).
- (transitive) To receive into some relationship.
- (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc.).
- (transitive) To receive (medicine or drugs) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- (transitive) To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- (intransitive, copulative) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- (transitive, of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.).
- (transitive) To accept, be given (rightly or wrongly), or assume (especially as if by right).
- (transitive) To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
- (transitive) To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- (of a mechanical device) To catch; to engage.
- (transitive) To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- (transitive, grammar) To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc.).
- (transitive) To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- (transitive) To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- (transitive) To have sex with.
- (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- (transitive) To remove or end by death; to kill.
- Used in phrasal verbs: take in, take off, take on, take out, take to, take something to, take up.
- (transitive) To go or move into.
- (transitive) To fill, occupy, require, or use up (space).
- (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
- (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
- (transitive) To require (a person, resource or thing in order to achieve an outcome).
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- (transitive) To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- (transitive) To deal with.
- (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- (transitive, Greece, Cyprus, informal) To buy.
- (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
- (transitive, intransitive, law) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
- (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- (transitive) To escort or conduct (a person).
- (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
- (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- (transitive) To have and use one's recourse to.
- (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- admit into a group or community
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take somebody somewhere
- experience or feel or submit to
- develop a habit; apply oneself to a practice or occupation
- receive or obtain regularly
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- proceed along in a vehicle
- be a student of a certain subject
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- get into one's hands, take physically
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- be designed to hold or take
- take into one's possession
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- require (time or space)
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- obtain by winning
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- occupy or take on
- require as useful, just, or proper
- buy, select
- head into a specified direction
- make a film or photograph of something
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- receive willingly something given or offered
- carry out
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- engage for service under a term of contract
- conquer by force
- have sex with; archaic use
- be capable of holding or containing
noun
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits; takings.
- (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- The or an act of taking.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
- the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
verb
- (transitive, computing) To cause to lapse; to invalidate.
- (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
- (intransitive) To die.
- (intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
- (ambitransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.
- (intransitive) To come to an end; to conclude.
- (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
- lose validity
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- expel air
verb
- To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify.
- To lower (something) in price or value.
- To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
- (chiefly US) To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- To decrease in amount or size.
- (chiefly US) Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- To reduce (something) in amount or size.
- To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
- To lower in price or value; (law) specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
- (chiefly historical) Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
- To cut away or hammer down (material from metalwork, a sculpture, etc.) in such a way as to leave a figure in relief.
- To put an end to (a nuisance).
- become less in amount or intensity
- make less active or intense
verb
- (transitive) To remove.
- (intransitive) To become successful, to flourish.
- (ambitransitive) To absent oneself from (work or other responsibility), especially with permission.
- (intransitive) To depart.
- (transitive) To quantify.
- (surfing) To stand up on a surfboard and begin to surf a breaking wave.
- (usually transitive) To imitate (somebody), often in a satirical manner.
- (intransitive) To leave the ground and ascend into the air or into flight.
- prove fatal
- get started or set in motion, used figuratively
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner
- make a subtraction
- depart for someplace
- remove clothes or shoes
- take time off from work; stop working temporarily
- depart from the ground
noun
verb
adj
- (New Age jargon, derogatory) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
- Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
- Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
- (often used pejoratively) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
- Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
- (slang) COVID-19 negative.
- (medicine) Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
- (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
- (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
- (hyperbolic) No, not any, zero.
- (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero.
- (slang) HIV negative.
- (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- (weather) Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- having a negative charge
- not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition
- expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
- having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant
- designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
- reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive
- involving disadvantage or harm
- characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
- less than zero
intj
noun
- (mathematics) A negative quantity.
- (logic) A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
- (law) A right of veto.
- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
- An unfavorable point or characteristic.
- (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
- (weightlifting) A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
- (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
- The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- a reply of denial
- a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed
verb
- (transitive) To lay aside; to stop; to cancel.
- (intransitive, nautical) The general command to stop or cease.
- (transitive, climbing) To handle a climbing rope to prevent (a climber) from falling to the ground.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat.
- simple past of belie (“encompass”)
- turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or them
- fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat
noun
verb
- (transitive) To nullify a previous ruling by a higher power.
- (transitive, law) To dismiss or throw out (a protest or objection) at a court.
- (transitive) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
- (transitive) To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
- rule against
verb
- (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
- (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
- (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
- (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
- (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
- (physical chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
- (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
- (typography) To separate a ligature into its component letters.
- (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
- (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
- (physical chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.
- To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
- (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
- cause to fade away
- pass into a solution
- cause to go into a solution
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- grow less and less substantial until it disappears
- declare void
- come to an end (of a state)
- cause to lose control emotionally
- stop functioning or cohering as a unit
- lose control emotionally
noun
verb
- (transitive) To deselect.
- (figuratively) To take apart; criticize harshly.
- To unravel or untangle the threads of a rope etc.
- (figurative) To unfold; to solve.
- (knitting) To undo knitting in order to reuse the wool.
- (sewing) To undo sewing stitches.
- (figuratively) To disassemble, to undo.
- undo (the stitches) of (a piece of sewing)
- become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
verb
noun
- Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.
- A cancellation or postponement of a proposed event undesired by many.
- A document authorizing such an action.
- The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
- a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
- a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
verb
- (transitive) To unmake.
- (transitive, figurative) To counteract fate.
- (transitive) To unravel (something spun, knit, or woven).
- To happen; to unfold; to develop.
- To counteract or decipher a complicated web of lies, statements, arguments, traditions, etc.
- (ambitransitive) To untwist (something that is twisted or wound)
- (transitive) To disentangle.
- To reveal the truth behind PR (public relations) or slanted reporting.
- (ambiintransitive) To stop (something) from spinning.
verb
- To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
- To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
- (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
- To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).
- To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
- (transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.
- create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)
- move people from their homes or country
- move out of an unsafe location into safety
- excrete or discharge from the body
- remove content from
verb
adj
intj
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract).
- (transitive) To tear into pieces.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have intense penetrative sex with.
- (intransitive) To start shedding tears.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To damage.
- (transitive) To wrench out of the ground.
- (transitive, slang) To brutally assault.
- tear into shreds
verb
- (transitive) To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.
- (transitive) To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.
- (transitive) To order to leave.
- (transitive) To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).
- (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
- (transitive, sports, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.
- (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
- (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.
- bar from attention or consideration
- end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave
- stop associating with
- cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration
- declare void
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
verb
- (transitive) To remove; to omit.
- (transitive) To oust; to replace.
- (nautical) To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
- (transitive) To intercept.
- (usually passive voice) To arrange or prepare.
- (intransitive) To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand) To separate (an animal) from the herd.
- (intransitive) To leave suddenly.
- (transitive, informal) To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something).
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To serve time in prison as an alternative to paying fines.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
- cease operating
- delete or remove
- strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out
- intercept (a player)
- cut off and stop
- form and create by cutting out
adj
verb
adj
- Insignificant.
- (mechanical engineering, of a position or setting) Neutral.
- Having no validity; "null and void".
- (genetics, of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function; amorphic.
- Absent or non-existent.
- (mathematics) Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
- (mathematics) Of the null set.
- lacking any legal or binding force
noun
- (computing) The attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
- (computing) The null character; the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, which indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
- One of the beads in nulled work.
- (statistics) The null hypothesis.
- Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
- A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
- Something that has no force or meaning.
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential