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noun
- the act of exterminating
- the murder of a competitor
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
- The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
- (euphemistic) The murder of dehumanized victims.
verb
- (figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
- (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
noun
verb
- To extinguish.
- To sound a rhythm on a percussion instrument such as a drum.
- (US) To defeat by a narrow margin.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, out.
- To work out fully.
- To bash a hole in.
- To make gold or silver leaf out of solid metal.
- (baseball, of a runner) To reach base after a bunt or groundball.
- beat out a rhythm
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
noun
- The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- The state of having been erased; total blankness.
- The place where something has been erased.
- (sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
- a correction made by erasing
- deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
- a surface area where something has been erased
verb
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- (transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.
- (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
- (transitive, literary) To eradicate or stamp out.
- (transitive, by extension, hyperbolic, informal) To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).
- (ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
- (transitive, slang) To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
- (transitive, now literary) To kill; to murder.
- (slang) To have sex with.
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- be excellent or outstanding
- to succeed greatly
intj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To eliminate, or make extinct.
- (figurative, transitive) To put an end to.
- (film, television, literature) Of writers or producers, to permanently take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.
- kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many
noun
- complete annihilation
- The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
- the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation
- the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
- a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
- no longer in existence
- no longer active; extinguished
- (psychology) The fading of a conditioned response over time if it is not reinforced.
- (astronomy) The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
- (pathology) The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously.
verb
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
noun
- someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
- (biochemistry) A DNA sequence that causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.
- (electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
- (science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans.
- (computing) A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.
- (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body.
- Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.
verb
- (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
- (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
noun
- The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
- Withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous.
- (medicine) A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.
- shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor
- withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous
noun
adj
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- The state of being annihilated.
- total destruction
- The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it.
- (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
- The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- the complete destruction of every trace of something
- The concealing or covering of something.
- The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.
- (medicine) The cancellation of the function, structure, or both of a vessel or organ; for example, the occlusion of the lumen of a duct, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel, be it solely functional (as when squeezed by nearby mass effect or inflammation) or both structural and functional (as when clogged with thrombus, embolus, or fibrosis).
- The total destruction of something.
verb
- eliminate
- empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out
- overwhelm with admiration
- knock unconscious or senseless
- destroy or break forcefully
- (transitive) To eliminate from a contest or similar.
- (intransitive, informal, idiomatic) To fall asleep, especially suddenly.
- (transitive) To communicate (a message) by knocking.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat or kill (someone).
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To exhaust.
- (transitive, informal) To complete, especially in haste; knock off.
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To impress, surpass or overwhelm (someone).
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To put to sleep.
- (transitive, slang, UK) To sell.
- (transitive) To strike or bump (someone or something) out.
- (transitive, Australia) To obtain or earn (something, often money or food).
- To lose the scent of hounds in fox-hunting.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To render unconscious, as by a blow to the head.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- eliminate (a substance)
- remove the charge from
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- release from military service
- complete or carry out
- become empty or void of its content
- free from obligations or duties
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- go off or discharge
- cause to go off
- pour forth or release
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
noun
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the sudden giving off of energy
- the act of discharging a gun
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- a substance that is emitted or released
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- the act of venting
- (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The process of flowing out.
- (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
- (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The process of removing the load borne by something.
- (law) Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
- The material thus released.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
verb
- eliminate (a substance)
- cause to come out in a squirt
- leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
- put out or expel from a place
- (transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.
- (transitive) To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
- (usually intransitive) To forcefully project oneself or another occupant from an aircraft (or, rarely, another type of vehicle), typically using an ejection seat or escape capsule.
- (intransitive) To come out of a machine.
- (US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
noun
verb
- eliminate (a substance)
- use up (resources or materials)
- deplete
- wear out completely
- use up the whole supply of
- (transitive) To draw or let out wholly; to drain completely.
- (transitive, chemistry) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives.
- (intransitive) To discharge or escape (as exhaust).
- (transitive) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents.
- (transitive) To tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy.
- (transitive) To discuss thoroughly or completely.
- (transitive, literally, figuratively) To use up; to deplete, drain or expend wholly, or use until the supply comes to an end.
- (transitive) To expel (as exhaust).
noun
- gases ejected from an engine as waste products
- system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged
- Exhaust gas.
- An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
- A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.
- The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
- The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
verb
- eliminate (a substance)
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- make (information) available for publication
- generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
- release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- part with a possession or right
- release, as from one's grip
- make (assets) available
- (transitive, telephony) (of a call) To hang up.
- (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
- (transitive) To let go of; to cease to hold or contain.
- (transitive) To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
- (transitive, law) To let go, quit (a legal claim); to discharge or relinquish a right to (lands or buildings) by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession.
- (transitive) To discharge.
- (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
- (transitive) To free or liberate; to set free.
- (transitive) To make available to the public.
- (intransitive) To launch; to come out; to become available.
- (transitive, soccer) To set up; to provide with a goalscoring opportunity.
noun
- a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation
- the act of liberating someone or something
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- a process that liberates or discharges something
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- the act of allowing a fluid to escape
- merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)
- euphemistic expressions for death
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
- an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
- (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
- The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
- Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
- (law) The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
- (software) The distribution, either public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product.
- The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
- Discharged semen
- The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken.
- Liberation from pain or suffering.
- A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
- (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- (music) A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
- That which is released, untied or let go.
- Orgasm.
noun
- the act of exterminating
- the murder of a competitor
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
- The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
- (euphemistic) The murder of dehumanized victims.
noun
- The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- The state of having been erased; total blankness.
- The place where something has been erased.
- (sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
- a correction made by erasing
- deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
- a surface area where something has been erased
noun
- complete annihilation
- The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
- the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation
- the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
- a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
- no longer in existence
- no longer active; extinguished
- (psychology) The fading of a conditioned response over time if it is not reinforced.
- (astronomy) The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
- (pathology) The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously.
noun
- someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
- (biochemistry) A DNA sequence that causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.
- (electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
- (science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans.
- (computing) A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.
- (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body.
- Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.
noun
- The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
- Withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous.
- (medicine) A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.
- shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor
- withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous
noun
adj
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- The state of being annihilated.
- total destruction
- The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it.
- (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
- The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- the complete destruction of every trace of something
- The concealing or covering of something.
- The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.
- (medicine) The cancellation of the function, structure, or both of a vessel or organ; for example, the occlusion of the lumen of a duct, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel, be it solely functional (as when squeezed by nearby mass effect or inflammation) or both structural and functional (as when clogged with thrombus, embolus, or fibrosis).
- The total destruction of something.
verb
- (figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
- (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
noun
verb
- To extinguish.
- To sound a rhythm on a percussion instrument such as a drum.
- (US) To defeat by a narrow margin.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, out.
- To work out fully.
- To bash a hole in.
- To make gold or silver leaf out of solid metal.
- (baseball, of a runner) To reach base after a bunt or groundball.
- beat out a rhythm
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
verb
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- (transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.
- (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
- (transitive, literary) To eradicate or stamp out.
- (transitive, by extension, hyperbolic, informal) To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).
- (ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
- (transitive, slang) To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
- (transitive, now literary) To kill; to murder.
- (slang) To have sex with.
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- be excellent or outstanding
- to succeed greatly
intj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To eliminate, or make extinct.
- (figurative, transitive) To put an end to.
- (film, television, literature) Of writers or producers, to permanently take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.
- kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many
verb
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
- (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
verb
- eliminate
- empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out
- overwhelm with admiration
- knock unconscious or senseless
- destroy or break forcefully
- (transitive) To eliminate from a contest or similar.
- (intransitive, informal, idiomatic) To fall asleep, especially suddenly.
- (transitive) To communicate (a message) by knocking.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat or kill (someone).
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To exhaust.
- (transitive, informal) To complete, especially in haste; knock off.
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To impress, surpass or overwhelm (someone).
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To put to sleep.
- (transitive, slang, UK) To sell.
- (transitive) To strike or bump (someone or something) out.
- (transitive, Australia) To obtain or earn (something, often money or food).
- To lose the scent of hounds in fox-hunting.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To render unconscious, as by a blow to the head.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- eliminate (a substance)
- remove the charge from
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- release from military service
- complete or carry out
- become empty or void of its content
- free from obligations or duties
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- go off or discharge
- cause to go off
- pour forth or release
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
noun
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the sudden giving off of energy
- the act of discharging a gun
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- a substance that is emitted or released
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- the act of venting
- (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The process of flowing out.
- (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
- (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The process of removing the load borne by something.
- (law) Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
- The material thus released.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
verb
- eliminate (a substance)
- cause to come out in a squirt
- leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
- put out or expel from a place
- (transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.
- (transitive) To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
- (usually intransitive) To forcefully project oneself or another occupant from an aircraft (or, rarely, another type of vehicle), typically using an ejection seat or escape capsule.
- (intransitive) To come out of a machine.
- (US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
noun
verb
- eliminate (a substance)
- use up (resources or materials)
- deplete
- wear out completely
- use up the whole supply of
- (transitive) To draw or let out wholly; to drain completely.
- (transitive, chemistry) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives.
- (intransitive) To discharge or escape (as exhaust).
- (transitive) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents.
- (transitive) To tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy.
- (transitive) To discuss thoroughly or completely.
- (transitive, literally, figuratively) To use up; to deplete, drain or expend wholly, or use until the supply comes to an end.
- (transitive) To expel (as exhaust).
noun
- gases ejected from an engine as waste products
- system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged
- Exhaust gas.
- An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
- A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.
- The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
- The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
verb
- eliminate (a substance)
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- make (information) available for publication
- generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
- release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- part with a possession or right
- release, as from one's grip
- make (assets) available
- (transitive, telephony) (of a call) To hang up.
- (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
- (transitive) To let go of; to cease to hold or contain.
- (transitive) To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
- (transitive, law) To let go, quit (a legal claim); to discharge or relinquish a right to (lands or buildings) by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession.
- (transitive) To discharge.
- (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
- (transitive) To free or liberate; to set free.
- (transitive) To make available to the public.
- (intransitive) To launch; to come out; to become available.
- (transitive, soccer) To set up; to provide with a goalscoring opportunity.
noun
- a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation
- the act of liberating someone or something
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- a process that liberates or discharges something
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- the act of allowing a fluid to escape
- merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)
- euphemistic expressions for death
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
- an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
- (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
- The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
- Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
- (law) The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
- (software) The distribution, either public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product.
- The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
- Discharged semen
- The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken.
- Liberation from pain or suffering.
- A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
- (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- (music) A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
- That which is released, untied or let go.
- Orgasm.