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verb
- (by extension) To overwhelm.
- (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
- (often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To place in the ground.
- (professional wrestling slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
- (figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
- (figurative, humorous) To outlive.
- (sports) To score (a goal).
- place in a grave or tomb
- embed deeply
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- cover from sight
- place in the earth and cover with soil
noun
verb
- overwhelm or overpower
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
- To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
- To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
- To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
verb
- To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- simple past of overlie
- (transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.
- (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
- (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
- kill by lying on
- put something on top of something else
noun
- (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
- (photography, graphic arts) An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.
- A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
- (Scotland) A cravat.
- (Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
- (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
- (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
- A covering over something else.
- protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior
- a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface
verb
- (transitive) To overwhelm.
- (transitive, idiomatic, US) To flabbergast; to impress greatly.
- (intransitive) To disperse or to depart on currents of air.
- (transitive, computing, informal) To delete (data, files, etc.).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm.
- (transitive) To cause to go away; to get rid of.
- (intransitive, figurative) To leave, depart.
- (transitive) To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind.
- (transitive, idiomatic, by extension) To utterly destroy, especially with overwhelming force.
verb
noun
- A great flood or rain.
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- a heavy rain
- an overwhelming number or amount
verb
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
noun
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
verb
- To overload; to overburden.
- To apply a surcharge.
- (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
- To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
- fill to an excessive degree
- charge an extra fee, as for a special service
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given
- place too much a load on
- print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
- fill to capacity with people
noun
- (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
- (art) A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
- The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.
- (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party
- An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
- (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
- An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price.
- an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)
verb
- be fatally overwhelmed
- cease opposition; stop fighting
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- be willing to concede
- consent reluctantly
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- be the cause or source of
- bring in
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- give in, as to influence or pressure
- give or supply
- end resistance, as under pressure or force
- (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- (transitive or intransitive, especially US) To give way so as to allow another to pass first.
- (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- (mathematics) To produce as a result.
- To produce as return from an investment.
- (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- (computing, intransitive) Of a running process, to give control back to the operating system so that other processes can be allowed to run.
- (intransitive) To give way under force; to succumb to a force.
- To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
- (transitive or intransitive) To give as demanded; to relinquish.
noun
- an amount of a product
- the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- production of a certain amount
- A product.
- (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
- (engineering, material science) yield strength of a material.
- (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
- (forestry, fishery) The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
- The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
- (programming) The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
- (chemistry) The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
- (hydrology) The volume of water escaping from a spring.
- (agriculture) Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
verb
noun
- A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
- (by extension) A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.
- A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
- a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things
- a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
adj
noun
- (nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
- An overwhelming blow.
- (soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
- An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
- (genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
- A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
- (genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
- (film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
- a blow that knocks the opponent off their feet
verb
noun
- The act of overflushing.
- The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.
- Surplus assets.
- A flush (series of obstacles to ski between) that covers a slope
- A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
- An excess of something.
- A flush or tinge of color that appears over the base color.
- A sudden rush of feeling that appears expressed in the face.
adj
adv
verb
verb
verb
noun
noun
noun
- The amount by which something overruns.
- An instance of overrunning.
- (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
- (aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
- (printing) A turnover: a break to a new line by text flowing within the column.
- too much production or more than expected
verb
- (intransitive) To continue for too long.
- (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
- (transitive) To run past the end of.
- (printing, transitive) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
- (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
- (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
- invade in great numbers
- seize the position of and defeat
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- run beyond or past
- occupy in large numbers or live on a host
verb
- (ambitransitive) To overflow.
- (engineering) To have rotation in such direction that the crank pin traverses the upper, or front, half of its path in the forward, or outward, stroke; said of a crank which drives, or is driven by, a reciprocating piece.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To describe briefly; to summarize or recapitulate; to go through or consider quickly.
- (transitive) To cross by running.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (transitive, by extension) To mistreat out of disregard.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To rehearse quickly.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To drive over, causing injury or death.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To exceed the allotted time.
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle
verb
- (transitive) To overburden.
- (archery, transitive) To provide (an archer) with a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (archery, intransitive) To use a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (intransitive) To bend too far.
- (chiefly poetic, transitive) To arch over.
- (transitive) To show excessive deference toward by too much bowing.
- (transitive) To bow or bend (something) over beyond its natural trajectory; to bend in a contrary direction.
- To use too much pressure when playing a stringed instrument using a bow.
adj
noun
verb
- overwhelm by using great force
- proceed with great force
- crush with a steamroller as if to level
- bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
- make level or flat with a steamroller
- (transitive) To level a road using a steamroller.
- (transitive, figurative) To proceed ruthlessly against all opposition as if with an overwhelming force.
noun
- vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
- a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
- (slang) A pipe, used for smoking cannabis, open at both ends and having a bowl near one end.
- (historical) A steam-powered heavy road roller.
- (by extension, informal) Any heavy road roller.
- (figurative) Any seemingly irresistible force.
verb
- To do something excessively.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To provide (food or drinks) for free.
- (nautical) To sail towards or to arrive at (a destination).
- To provide.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To repeatedly say (particular types of thing).
- (colloquial) To blame; to shift blame onto someone or something.
- (transitive, slang) To give (money, drugs, etc.) to (someone).
- (UK) To give (something) as a gift, special treat or bonus.
- (transitive) To apply or implement (something).
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To impart or explain (something) in words to (someone).
- (transitive) To cover something with a layer of (something).
- (nautical) To vigorously row (an oar) to propel a boat or ship.
verb
- (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
- (transitive) To acknowledge.
- (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
- (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).
- (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
- (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above.
- (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
- (transitive) To claim as one's own.
- (transitive) To recognise.
- (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.
- (transitive) To take responsibility for.
- (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
- have ownership or possession of
adj
- Not shared.
- Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
- belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
noun
adj
- Completely overwhelming.
- Moving in a continuous motion, rather than by intermittent jumps. (For example, the second hand on a clock face may move either in the sweeping manner or in the ticking manner.)
- Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
- ignoring distinctions
- taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination
noun
verb
noun
- An excess, too much.
- The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
- (British, soccer) Five goals scored by one player in a game.
- (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
- (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
- A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
- (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
- Something that fills up an opening.
- That which is swallowed.
- A block used for a fulcrum.
- the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
verb
- (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
- (transitive, economics) To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
- (transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
- supply with an excess of
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
verb
- (figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- (figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- (intransitive, transitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- To oppress or grievously burden.
- crush or bruise
- make ineffective
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
- break into small pieces
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- humiliate or depress completely
noun
- A crowd control barrier.
- (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- (uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- (slang) A group or gang.
- A violent crowding.
- a dense crowd of people
- the act of crushing
- leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
- temporary love of an adolescent
verb
- overflow with a certain feeling
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have something in superabundance; to abound in something.
- (transitive) To flow over the brim of (a container).
- (transitive) To cause an overflow.
- (transitive) To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
- (intransitive) To be subject to a load that exceeds limits or capacity. [with with]
- (intransitive) To flow over the brim of a container.
- (computing, ambitransitive) To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.
noun
verb
- overflow with a certain feeling
- be disgorged
- (intransitive) (of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax
- (intransitive) (of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans
- to enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow
noun
- The act of overflushing.
- The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.
- Surplus assets.
- A flush (series of obstacles to ski between) that covers a slope
- A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
- An excess of something.
- A flush or tinge of color that appears over the base color.
- A sudden rush of feeling that appears expressed in the face.
adj
adv
verb
noun
noun
- The amount by which something overruns.
- An instance of overrunning.
- (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
- (aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
- (printing) A turnover: a break to a new line by text flowing within the column.
- too much production or more than expected
verb
- (intransitive) To continue for too long.
- (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
- (transitive) To run past the end of.
- (printing, transitive) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
- (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
- (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
- invade in great numbers
- seize the position of and defeat
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- run beyond or past
- occupy in large numbers or live on a host
noun
- An excess, too much.
- The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
- (British, soccer) Five goals scored by one player in a game.
- (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
- (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
- A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
- (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
- Something that fills up an opening.
- That which is swallowed.
- A block used for a fulcrum.
- the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
verb
- (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
- (transitive, economics) To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
- (transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
- supply with an excess of
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
verb
- (by extension) To overwhelm.
- (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
- (often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To place in the ground.
- (professional wrestling slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
- (figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
- (figurative, humorous) To outlive.
- (sports) To score (a goal).
- place in a grave or tomb
- embed deeply
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- cover from sight
- place in the earth and cover with soil
noun
verb
- overwhelm or overpower
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
- To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
- To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
- To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
verb
- To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- simple past of overlie
- (transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.
- (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
- (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
- kill by lying on
- put something on top of something else
noun
- (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
- (photography, graphic arts) An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.
- A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
- (Scotland) A cravat.
- (Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
- (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
- (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
- A covering over something else.
- protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior
- a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface
verb
- (transitive) To overwhelm.
- (transitive, idiomatic, US) To flabbergast; to impress greatly.
- (intransitive) To disperse or to depart on currents of air.
- (transitive, computing, informal) To delete (data, files, etc.).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm.
- (transitive) To cause to go away; to get rid of.
- (intransitive, figurative) To leave, depart.
- (transitive) To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind.
- (transitive, idiomatic, by extension) To utterly destroy, especially with overwhelming force.
verb
noun
- A great flood or rain.
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- a heavy rain
- an overwhelming number or amount
verb
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
noun
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
verb
- To overload; to overburden.
- To apply a surcharge.
- (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
- To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
- fill to an excessive degree
- charge an extra fee, as for a special service
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given
- place too much a load on
- print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
- fill to capacity with people
noun
- (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
- (art) A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
- The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.
- (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party
- An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
- (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
- An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price.
- an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)
verb
- be fatally overwhelmed
- cease opposition; stop fighting
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- be willing to concede
- consent reluctantly
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- be the cause or source of
- bring in
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- give in, as to influence or pressure
- give or supply
- end resistance, as under pressure or force
- (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- (transitive or intransitive, especially US) To give way so as to allow another to pass first.
- (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- (mathematics) To produce as a result.
- To produce as return from an investment.
- (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- (computing, intransitive) Of a running process, to give control back to the operating system so that other processes can be allowed to run.
- (intransitive) To give way under force; to succumb to a force.
- To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
- (transitive or intransitive) To give as demanded; to relinquish.
noun
- an amount of a product
- the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- production of a certain amount
- A product.
- (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
- (engineering, material science) yield strength of a material.
- (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
- (forestry, fishery) The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
- The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
- (programming) The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
- (chemistry) The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
- (hydrology) The volume of water escaping from a spring.
- (agriculture) Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
verb
noun
- A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
- (by extension) A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.
- A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
- a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things
- a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
verb
verb
noun
verb
- (ambitransitive) To overflow.
- (engineering) To have rotation in such direction that the crank pin traverses the upper, or front, half of its path in the forward, or outward, stroke; said of a crank which drives, or is driven by, a reciprocating piece.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To describe briefly; to summarize or recapitulate; to go through or consider quickly.
- (transitive) To cross by running.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (transitive, by extension) To mistreat out of disregard.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To rehearse quickly.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To drive over, causing injury or death.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To exceed the allotted time.
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle
verb
- (transitive) To overburden.
- (archery, transitive) To provide (an archer) with a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (archery, intransitive) To use a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (intransitive) To bend too far.
- (chiefly poetic, transitive) To arch over.
- (transitive) To show excessive deference toward by too much bowing.
- (transitive) To bow or bend (something) over beyond its natural trajectory; to bend in a contrary direction.
- To use too much pressure when playing a stringed instrument using a bow.
adj
noun
verb
- overwhelm by using great force
- proceed with great force
- crush with a steamroller as if to level
- bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
- make level or flat with a steamroller
- (transitive) To level a road using a steamroller.
- (transitive, figurative) To proceed ruthlessly against all opposition as if with an overwhelming force.
noun
- vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
- a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
- (slang) A pipe, used for smoking cannabis, open at both ends and having a bowl near one end.
- (historical) A steam-powered heavy road roller.
- (by extension, informal) Any heavy road roller.
- (figurative) Any seemingly irresistible force.
verb
- To do something excessively.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To provide (food or drinks) for free.
- (nautical) To sail towards or to arrive at (a destination).
- To provide.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To repeatedly say (particular types of thing).
- (colloquial) To blame; to shift blame onto someone or something.
- (transitive, slang) To give (money, drugs, etc.) to (someone).
- (UK) To give (something) as a gift, special treat or bonus.
- (transitive) To apply or implement (something).
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To impart or explain (something) in words to (someone).
- (transitive) To cover something with a layer of (something).
- (nautical) To vigorously row (an oar) to propel a boat or ship.
verb
- (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
- (transitive) To acknowledge.
- (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
- (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).
- (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
- (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above.
- (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
- (transitive) To claim as one's own.
- (transitive) To recognise.
- (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.
- (transitive) To take responsibility for.
- (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
- have ownership or possession of
adj
- Not shared.
- Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
- belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
noun
verb
- (figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- (figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- (intransitive, transitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- To oppress or grievously burden.
- crush or bruise
- make ineffective
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
- break into small pieces
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- humiliate or depress completely
noun
- A crowd control barrier.
- (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- (uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- (slang) A group or gang.
- A violent crowding.
- a dense crowd of people
- the act of crushing
- leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
- temporary love of an adolescent
verb
- overflow with a certain feeling
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have something in superabundance; to abound in something.
- (transitive) To flow over the brim of (a container).
- (transitive) To cause an overflow.
- (transitive) To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
- (intransitive) To be subject to a load that exceeds limits or capacity. [with with]
- (intransitive) To flow over the brim of a container.
- (computing, ambitransitive) To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.
noun
verb
- overflow with a certain feeling
- be disgorged
- (intransitive) (of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax
- (intransitive) (of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans
- to enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow
adj
noun
- (nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
- An overwhelming blow.
- (soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
- An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
- (genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
- A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
- (genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
- (film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
- a blow that knocks the opponent off their feet
verb
adj
- Completely overwhelming.
- Moving in a continuous motion, rather than by intermittent jumps. (For example, the second hand on a clock face may move either in the sweeping manner or in the ticking manner.)
- Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
- ignoring distinctions
- taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination