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adj
- Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp.
- slightly wet
- (informal) Of the vagina: sexually lubricated due to sexual arousal; of a woman: sexually aroused, turned on.
- Of sounds of internal organs (especially as heard through a stethoscope): characterized by the sound of air bubbling through a fluid.
- Of a climate, the weather, etc.: damp, humid, rainy.
- (sciences, historical) Pertaining to one of the four essential qualities formerly believed to be present in all things, characterized by wetness; also, having a significant amount of this quality.
- Of eyes: wet with tears; tearful; also (obsolete), watery due to some illness or to old age.
- Characterized by the presence of some fluid such as mucus, pus, etc.
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- A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly New Zealand, Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
- (mechanical engineering) A shock absorber.
- Something that kills the mood.
- A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
- A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
- a depressing restraint
- a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations
- a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace
noun
- (Northern England, Scotland) dampness; moistness
- (Northern England, Scotland) A dense mist or drizzle
- (Northern England, Scotland) A mouldy dampness; mouldiness
- buttocks
- (Australia, slang) A fool.
- (Australia, slang) A car's engine.
- (slang) A donkey (the animal).
- (British, uncountable) A sub-genre of Scouse house music containing distinctive percussion sounds.
- (poker, slang, derogatory) A poor player who makes mistakes.
- A 1971 to 1976 Chevrolet Caprice or Impala that has been modified, usually by being raised and given bigger wheels.
adj
verb
- (Northern England, Scotland) To moisten; dampen
- (Northern England, Scotland) To drizzle
- (slang, intransitive, Canada, US) To mess around, to play
- (slang, transitive) To hit
- (poker slang) To make a donk bet.
- (Australia, colloquial, slang) To provide a second person with a lift on a bicycle (formerly, on a horse), seating the passenger either in front (on the handlebar) or behind (sharing the seat); to travel as a passenger in such manner.
verb
- (intransitive) To become damp or moist.
- (transitive) To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet.
- make moist
- (transitive) To lessen; to dull; to make less intense (said of emotions and non-physical things).
- (transitive, proscribed) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
- (intransitive) To become damped or deadened.
- check; keep in check (a fire)
- reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves)
- suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
- deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
- lessen in force or effect
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adj
- Affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.
- (archaic except Northern England (northwest)) Bad-tempered, grumpy, irritable.
- Characteristic of or relating to mould or mouldiness.
- Of attitudes, ideas, writing, or other abstract things: no longer fresh or interesting; outdated, stale.
- Of a person: boring and unadventurous; also, old-fashioned, stuck in the past.
- Having an odour or taste of mould; also (generally), having a stale or unfresh odour or taste.
- (rare) Of a male animal such as a camel or an elephant: in musth.
- stale and unclean smelling
- covered with or smelling of mold
adj
- (comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.
- (chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
- (mathematics, especially topology, with respect to a function f) Saturated with respect to the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y) (the kernel, noun sense 10, of f).
- (mathematics, set theory, of a set S, with respect to an equivalence relation ≡) Equal to a union of equivalence classes of ≡; such that if x∈S and x≡y then y∈S.
- (not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
- Having a high level of saturation (in various senses).
- (not comparable, chemistry, of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
- (computing) Conforming to saturation arithmetic.
- used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled
- (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
- being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance
verb
adj
- (especially) Soft and wet.
- Making a squish sound.
- (gaming) Vulnerable to physical damage; having low hit points or defense.
- (politics, colloquial, derogatory) Politically moderate.
- Subjective or vague.
- (literally, of a physical material) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft.
- easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
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noun
- Liquid or moisture.
- Rainy weather.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
- (motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.
- (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
- (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
- (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
- (British, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).
- wetness caused by water
adj
- (poker slang) Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
- (slang, euphemistic) Involving assassination or "wet work".
- (retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.
- Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
- (biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
- (aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
- With a usual complement or consummation; potent.
- (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
- (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
- Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
- (British, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
- Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
- Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
- (slang, vulgar, of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
- Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
- Of weather or a time period: rainy.
- covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
- consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
- producing or secreting milk
- very drunk
- supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- containing moisture or volatile components
verb
- Misspelling of whet.
- (transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
- (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
- (transitive, informal) To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.
- (US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.
- (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
- cause to become wet
- make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
adj
- having or characterized by moderate or a well-balanced supply of moisture
- of or pertaining to a meson
- (physics) Of or pertaining to mesons; mesonic.
- (biology, of an organism) Adapted to a habitat of intermediate moisture.
- (biology, of a habitat) Characterized by an intermediate degree of moisture, in between xeric (dry) and hydric (wet); somewhat moist.
adj
- needing moisture
- feeling a need or desire to drink
- able to take in large quantities of moisture
- (usually followed by ‘for’) extremely desirous
- (slang, figurative) Craving or desiring sex.
- Needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water.
- (figurative) Craving something immaterial.
- (euphemistic) Craving alcohol; especially, experiencing some alcohol withdrawal.
- (informal, uncommon) Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink.
noun
adj
- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
- (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
- (derogatory) Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- as if under the influence of alcohol
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
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- Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
- (statistics, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis.
- Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
- (slang, sex) Without a condom.
- Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
- Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
- Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
- Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
- Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
- Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
- New or inexperienced.
- (cooking) (of food) Not cooked.
- untempered and unrefined
- used of wood and furniture
- not processed or refined
- (used informally) completely unclothed
- having the surface exposed and painful
- hurting
- lacking training or experience
- devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
- brutally unfair or harsh
- unpleasantly cold and damp
- not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
- not processed or subjected to analysis
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
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- (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
- A galled place; an inveterate sore.
- (by extension, figurative) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
- (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
- (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
- informal terms for nakedness
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- A quantity, a great number or amount (e.g. of rain or milk).
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- (botany) Flowering plants of genus Blepharis.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) An attempt; a go at something.
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- (machining, mechanical) Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
- leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip
- any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
- a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
verb
- Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
- (transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- (transitive) To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- (intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
- (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- (transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- (intransitive) To strike vigorously; to let fly.
- (intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- (transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
- (intransitive, of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- lash or flick about sharply
- bind with a rope, chain, or cord
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- strike as if by whipping
verb
noun
- very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
- Light rain.
- (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
- (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
- (slang) Water.
adj
verb
- make moist
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
noun
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
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noun
- Warmth and humidity, as on a muggy day.
- (psychology) An overemotional attachment to others; clinging in interpersonal relations; difficulty with ending conversations.
- (advertising) A research measure that captures the extent to which viewers wish to spend more time looking at or reading a print advertisement.
- (marketing, interface design) The presence of unique attributes that make a product indisposable and valuable to its owner.
- (economics): Of prices or wages: the tendency to stay the same despite changes in the economy.
- The property of sticking or adhering; adhesion.
- the property of sticking to a surface
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adj
verb
noun
- (Northern England, Scotland) dampness; moistness
- (Northern England, Scotland) A dense mist or drizzle
- (Northern England, Scotland) A mouldy dampness; mouldiness
- buttocks
- (Australia, slang) A fool.
- (Australia, slang) A car's engine.
- (slang) A donkey (the animal).
- (British, uncountable) A sub-genre of Scouse house music containing distinctive percussion sounds.
- (poker, slang, derogatory) A poor player who makes mistakes.
- A 1971 to 1976 Chevrolet Caprice or Impala that has been modified, usually by being raised and given bigger wheels.
adj
verb
- (Northern England, Scotland) To moisten; dampen
- (Northern England, Scotland) To drizzle
- (slang, intransitive, Canada, US) To mess around, to play
- (slang, transitive) To hit
- (poker slang) To make a donk bet.
- (Australia, colloquial, slang) To provide a second person with a lift on a bicycle (formerly, on a horse), seating the passenger either in front (on the handlebar) or behind (sharing the seat); to travel as a passenger in such manner.
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- Liquid or moisture.
- Rainy weather.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
- (motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.
- (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
- (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
- (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
- (British, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).
- wetness caused by water
adj
- (poker slang) Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
- (slang, euphemistic) Involving assassination or "wet work".
- (retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.
- Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
- (biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
- (aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
- With a usual complement or consummation; potent.
- (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
- (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
- Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
- (British, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
- Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
- Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
- (slang, vulgar, of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
- Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
- Of weather or a time period: rainy.
- covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
- consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
- producing or secreting milk
- very drunk
- supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- containing moisture or volatile components
verb
- Misspelling of whet.
- (transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
- (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
- (transitive, informal) To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.
- (US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.
- (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
- cause to become wet
- make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
noun
noun
- Warmth and humidity, as on a muggy day.
- (psychology) An overemotional attachment to others; clinging in interpersonal relations; difficulty with ending conversations.
- (advertising) A research measure that captures the extent to which viewers wish to spend more time looking at or reading a print advertisement.
- (marketing, interface design) The presence of unique attributes that make a product indisposable and valuable to its owner.
- (economics): Of prices or wages: the tendency to stay the same despite changes in the economy.
- The property of sticking or adhering; adhesion.
- the property of sticking to a surface
verb
- (intransitive) To become damp or moist.
- (transitive) To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet.
- make moist
- (transitive) To lessen; to dull; to make less intense (said of emotions and non-physical things).
- (transitive, proscribed) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
- (intransitive) To become damped or deadened.
- check; keep in check (a fire)
- reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves)
- suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
- deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
- lessen in force or effect
verb
noun
- very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
- Light rain.
- (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
- (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
- (slang) Water.
verb
- make moist
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
noun
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
noun
- (Northern England, Scotland) dampness; moistness
- (Northern England, Scotland) A dense mist or drizzle
- (Northern England, Scotland) A mouldy dampness; mouldiness
- buttocks
- (Australia, slang) A fool.
- (Australia, slang) A car's engine.
- (slang) A donkey (the animal).
- (British, uncountable) A sub-genre of Scouse house music containing distinctive percussion sounds.
- (poker, slang, derogatory) A poor player who makes mistakes.
- A 1971 to 1976 Chevrolet Caprice or Impala that has been modified, usually by being raised and given bigger wheels.
adj
verb
- (Northern England, Scotland) To moisten; dampen
- (Northern England, Scotland) To drizzle
- (slang, intransitive, Canada, US) To mess around, to play
- (slang, transitive) To hit
- (poker slang) To make a donk bet.
- (Australia, colloquial, slang) To provide a second person with a lift on a bicycle (formerly, on a horse), seating the passenger either in front (on the handlebar) or behind (sharing the seat); to travel as a passenger in such manner.
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- Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp.
- slightly wet
- (informal) Of the vagina: sexually lubricated due to sexual arousal; of a woman: sexually aroused, turned on.
- Of sounds of internal organs (especially as heard through a stethoscope): characterized by the sound of air bubbling through a fluid.
- Of a climate, the weather, etc.: damp, humid, rainy.
- (sciences, historical) Pertaining to one of the four essential qualities formerly believed to be present in all things, characterized by wetness; also, having a significant amount of this quality.
- Of eyes: wet with tears; tearful; also (obsolete), watery due to some illness or to old age.
- Characterized by the presence of some fluid such as mucus, pus, etc.
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- A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly New Zealand, Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
- (mechanical engineering) A shock absorber.
- Something that kills the mood.
- A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
- A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
- a depressing restraint
- a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations
- a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace
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- (Northern England, Scotland) dampness; moistness
- (Northern England, Scotland) A dense mist or drizzle
- (Northern England, Scotland) A mouldy dampness; mouldiness
- buttocks
- (Australia, slang) A fool.
- (Australia, slang) A car's engine.
- (slang) A donkey (the animal).
- (British, uncountable) A sub-genre of Scouse house music containing distinctive percussion sounds.
- (poker, slang, derogatory) A poor player who makes mistakes.
- A 1971 to 1976 Chevrolet Caprice or Impala that has been modified, usually by being raised and given bigger wheels.
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- (Northern England, Scotland) To moisten; dampen
- (Northern England, Scotland) To drizzle
- (slang, intransitive, Canada, US) To mess around, to play
- (slang, transitive) To hit
- (poker slang) To make a donk bet.
- (Australia, colloquial, slang) To provide a second person with a lift on a bicycle (formerly, on a horse), seating the passenger either in front (on the handlebar) or behind (sharing the seat); to travel as a passenger in such manner.
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- Affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.
- (archaic except Northern England (northwest)) Bad-tempered, grumpy, irritable.
- Characteristic of or relating to mould or mouldiness.
- Of attitudes, ideas, writing, or other abstract things: no longer fresh or interesting; outdated, stale.
- Of a person: boring and unadventurous; also, old-fashioned, stuck in the past.
- Having an odour or taste of mould; also (generally), having a stale or unfresh odour or taste.
- (rare) Of a male animal such as a camel or an elephant: in musth.
- stale and unclean smelling
- covered with or smelling of mold
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- (comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.
- (chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
- (mathematics, especially topology, with respect to a function f) Saturated with respect to the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y) (the kernel, noun sense 10, of f).
- (mathematics, set theory, of a set S, with respect to an equivalence relation ≡) Equal to a union of equivalence classes of ≡; such that if x∈S and x≡y then y∈S.
- (not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
- Having a high level of saturation (in various senses).
- (not comparable, chemistry, of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
- (computing) Conforming to saturation arithmetic.
- used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled
- (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
- being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance
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- (especially) Soft and wet.
- Making a squish sound.
- (gaming) Vulnerable to physical damage; having low hit points or defense.
- (politics, colloquial, derogatory) Politically moderate.
- Subjective or vague.
- (literally, of a physical material) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft.
- easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
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- having or characterized by moderate or a well-balanced supply of moisture
- of or pertaining to a meson
- (physics) Of or pertaining to mesons; mesonic.
- (biology, of an organism) Adapted to a habitat of intermediate moisture.
- (biology, of a habitat) Characterized by an intermediate degree of moisture, in between xeric (dry) and hydric (wet); somewhat moist.
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- needing moisture
- feeling a need or desire to drink
- able to take in large quantities of moisture
- (usually followed by ‘for’) extremely desirous
- (slang, figurative) Craving or desiring sex.
- Needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water.
- (figurative) Craving something immaterial.
- (euphemistic) Craving alcohol; especially, experiencing some alcohol withdrawal.
- (informal, uncommon) Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink.
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- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
- (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
- (derogatory) Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- as if under the influence of alcohol
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
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- Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
- (statistics, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis.
- Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
- (slang, sex) Without a condom.
- Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
- Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
- Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
- Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
- Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
- Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
- New or inexperienced.
- (cooking) (of food) Not cooked.
- untempered and unrefined
- used of wood and furniture
- not processed or refined
- (used informally) completely unclothed
- having the surface exposed and painful
- hurting
- lacking training or experience
- devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
- brutally unfair or harsh
- unpleasantly cold and damp
- not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
- not processed or subjected to analysis
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
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- (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
- A galled place; an inveterate sore.
- (by extension, figurative) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
- (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
- (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
- informal terms for nakedness
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- A quantity, a great number or amount (e.g. of rain or milk).
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- (botany) Flowering plants of genus Blepharis.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) An attempt; a go at something.
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- (machining, mechanical) Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
- leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip
- any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
- a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
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- Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
- (transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- (transitive) To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- (intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
- (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- (transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- (intransitive) To strike vigorously; to let fly.
- (intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- (transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
- (intransitive, of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- lash or flick about sharply
- bind with a rope, chain, or cord
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- strike as if by whipping