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adj
- being the agent or cause
- having an acceptable credit rating
- worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable
- (of a job or position) Involving important duties; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.
- Capable of rational conduct and thus morally accountable for one's behavior.
- (postpositive, followed by "for") Being a primary cause of a situation or action and thus able to be blamed or credited for it.
- Having good judgment in decision-making.
- (followed by "to") Answerable to (a superior).
- Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.
- (postpositive, followed by "for") Having the duty of taking care of something; answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
noun
noun
- the causal agent resulting in death
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
adj
noun
- an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause
- (US) A military or heavy construction vehicle.
- A person or thing that is seminal and influential.
- (automotive) Tractor unit. Or, more specifically, the front part of a semi-trailer type truck, i.e., the tractor to which the trailer part attaches.
- A machine, such as a water wheel or steam engine, that receives and modifies energy as supplied by some natural source or fuel and transforms it into mechanical work
- (philosophy) The initial agent that is the cause of all things.
noun
- an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause
- (chiefly philosophy, theology) The prime mover or first cause (“an initial cause from which all other causes and effects follow”).
- (astronomy, historical) The outermost celestial sphere of the heavens in Ptolemaic astronomy, which was believed to cause all the inner spheres to rotate.
- (by extension) The person or thing that is the main impetus for some action; a driving force.
noun
- A person who serves as an agent to arrange for a desired result, perhaps by improper and/or unlawful means.
- (photography) A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions.
- (slang) A drug dealer or user.
- (Philippines, by extension) Someone who is often paid that helps a customer cut through red tape, especially for government processes or applications.
- (journalism) A person who assists foreign journalists in volatile countries, often providing interpretation, personal connections, and transportation services.
- (criminal justice, law) A person who arranges immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion, especially as a business endeavor for profit.
- (real estate, US) A fixer-upper.
- Agent noun of fix: one who, or that which, fixes.
- synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction
- a skilled worker who mends or repairs things
- someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee)
- a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image)
noun
- The fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill.
- The degree of lethal (mortal) danger that something (usually a disease or a weapon) presents; the magnitude of its power to kill organisms exposed to it; this property is indirectly measured by any of various proxy rates, including mortality rate, case fatality rate, or infection fatality rate (for diseases) or kill rate (for weapons, pesticides, or parasites).
- the quality of being deadly
adj
- causing or capable of causing death
- Causing death; lethal.
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- of an instrument of certain death
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
adv
adj
- causing or capable of causing death
- subject to death
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- unrelenting and deadly
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- Punishable by death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- (Scotland, Geordie, slang) Very drunk.
- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
noun
adv
noun
- Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure.
- a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
- (algebra, somewhat humorous) An associated prime of a module.
- (historical, usually capitalized) A member of the Nizari Ismaili Muslim community of the Alamut Period.
- Any ruthless killer.
- a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders
verb
noun
- any agent that retards or delays or hinders
- the extent to which something is delayed or held back
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- a decrease in rate of change
- (acoustics) The distance by which one wave is behind another.
- (music) A suspension which resolves upwards.
- (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Extreme stupidity.
- (music) The act of diminishing the rate of speed.
- The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.
- That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
- (physics) Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.
- (psychology) Ellipsis of mental retardation.
- (telegraphy) A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.
noun
- Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.
- (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 exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
noun
- Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
- The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
- (usually) A locomotive.
- A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
- A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
- (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
- A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
- A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
- something used to achieve a purpose
- an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
- motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
verb
- To menace, or be dangerous.
- To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
- To call into question the validity of (a belief, idea, or viewpoint); to challenge.
- To portend, or give a warning of.
- (figuratively) To be close to equaling or surpassing (a record, etc.); to challenge.
- to be a menacing indication of something
- to utter intentions of injury or punishment against
- pose a threat to; present a danger to
noun
- an act that has disastrous consequences
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
- A skateboard trick involving a 180-degree ollie, landing on the center of the board with the front trucks facing towards the ramp and the back trucks over the lip. The skater then leans forwards to return in the ramp.
- An unforeseen event causing great loss, upset or unpleasantness of whatever kind.
- An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.
noun
- an agent that operates some apparatus or machine
- (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation
- someone who owns or operates a business
- a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
- a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets
- A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to connect or otherwise assist callers.
- (by ellipsis, mining) The company that operates a mine; often the same one that owns the mine.
- A person or organisation that operates a device, system, service, etc.
- (uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
- (linguistics) A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
- (computing) A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
- (mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries values defined on a domain into another value or set of values in a defined range.
- A member of a military special operations unit.
- (informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
- (computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
- (slang) A thief or charlatan.
- (transport) A bus driver.
- (slang) A major criminal.
noun
adj
- foolish; totally unsound
- affected with madness or insanity
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- bizarre or fantastic
- possessed by inordinate excitement
- Very excited or enthusiastic.
- Out of control.
- Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
- In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
- (informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
adv
noun
- (slang) An assassin.
- A man who is skilled in travelling upon ice, as among glaciers.
- (historical) A person who trades in ice; a person employed to deliver block ice to those lacking electric refrigeration.
- (slang) One who is cool under pressure.
- An ancient human male mummified in ice.
- A human figure carved out of ice.
- a male professional killer
- a man who cuts and delivers ice
noun
- the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas
- the process of interacting with gas
- The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
- Poisoning by noxious gas.
- (manufacturing, historical) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
- (slang) boasting; insincere or empty talk
- Any similar process of singeing.
verb
noun
- a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
- a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance
- A shout of "bravo!"
- A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.
- (international standards, plural "bravos") Alternative letter-case form of Bravo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
verb
intj
noun
verb
noun
- something that is a source of danger
- A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
- declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- a warning that something unpleasant is imminent
- An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
- An indication of potential or imminent danger.
verb
noun
- An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
- (slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
- A dangling ornament or decoration.
verb
- (medicine, transitive) To position (a patient) in this way.
- (intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To put forth as a possibility.
- (intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
- (medicine, intransitive) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
- (transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.
- hang loosely
- cause to dangle or hang freely
adj
- characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being
- (often figuratively) Of an object: used to commit murder; capable of causing death; deadly, fatal.
- Of a person: intending or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty, homicidal.
- Of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers.
- (by extension) Very difficult.
noun
- a person who kills themself intentionally
- the act of killing yourself
- (countable, US, slang) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
- A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
- (figuratively) An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
- (countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing oneself, or of multiple people doing so.
- (countable) A person who has intentionally killed themself.
- A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
- (countable) A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
- (attributive) Pertaining to a suicide bombing.
- (uncountable) The act of intentionally killing oneself.
verb
noun
- Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.
- A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer.
- (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
- (grammar) The subject performing the action of a verb.
- a theatrical performer
- a person who acts and gets things done
noun
- someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
- a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
- someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
- A tow truck.
- (Soviet Union, crime, historical) Someone accused of the formal charge of wrecking; that is, of undermining the state in intangible ways.
- A mooncusser (type of land-based pirate).
- One who breaks up situations or events.
- (Australia) A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts.
noun
- the causal agent resulting in death
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
adj
noun
- an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause
- (US) A military or heavy construction vehicle.
- A person or thing that is seminal and influential.
- (automotive) Tractor unit. Or, more specifically, the front part of a semi-trailer type truck, i.e., the tractor to which the trailer part attaches.
- A machine, such as a water wheel or steam engine, that receives and modifies energy as supplied by some natural source or fuel and transforms it into mechanical work
- (philosophy) The initial agent that is the cause of all things.
noun
- an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause
- (chiefly philosophy, theology) The prime mover or first cause (“an initial cause from which all other causes and effects follow”).
- (astronomy, historical) The outermost celestial sphere of the heavens in Ptolemaic astronomy, which was believed to cause all the inner spheres to rotate.
- (by extension) The person or thing that is the main impetus for some action; a driving force.
noun
- A person who serves as an agent to arrange for a desired result, perhaps by improper and/or unlawful means.
- (photography) A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions.
- (slang) A drug dealer or user.
- (Philippines, by extension) Someone who is often paid that helps a customer cut through red tape, especially for government processes or applications.
- (journalism) A person who assists foreign journalists in volatile countries, often providing interpretation, personal connections, and transportation services.
- (criminal justice, law) A person who arranges immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion, especially as a business endeavor for profit.
- (real estate, US) A fixer-upper.
- Agent noun of fix: one who, or that which, fixes.
- synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction
- a skilled worker who mends or repairs things
- someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee)
- a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image)
noun
- The fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill.
- The degree of lethal (mortal) danger that something (usually a disease or a weapon) presents; the magnitude of its power to kill organisms exposed to it; this property is indirectly measured by any of various proxy rates, including mortality rate, case fatality rate, or infection fatality rate (for diseases) or kill rate (for weapons, pesticides, or parasites).
- the quality of being deadly
noun
- Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure.
- a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
- (algebra, somewhat humorous) An associated prime of a module.
- (historical, usually capitalized) A member of the Nizari Ismaili Muslim community of the Alamut Period.
- Any ruthless killer.
- a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders
verb
noun
- any agent that retards or delays or hinders
- the extent to which something is delayed or held back
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- a decrease in rate of change
- (acoustics) The distance by which one wave is behind another.
- (music) A suspension which resolves upwards.
- (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Extreme stupidity.
- (music) The act of diminishing the rate of speed.
- The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.
- That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
- (physics) Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.
- (psychology) Ellipsis of mental retardation.
- (telegraphy) A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.
noun
- Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.
- (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 exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
noun
- Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
- The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
- (usually) A locomotive.
- A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
- A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
- (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
- A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
- A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
- something used to achieve a purpose
- an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
- motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
noun
- an act that has disastrous consequences
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
- A skateboard trick involving a 180-degree ollie, landing on the center of the board with the front trucks facing towards the ramp and the back trucks over the lip. The skater then leans forwards to return in the ramp.
- An unforeseen event causing great loss, upset or unpleasantness of whatever kind.
- An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.
noun
- an agent that operates some apparatus or machine
- (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation
- someone who owns or operates a business
- a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
- a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets
- A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to connect or otherwise assist callers.
- (by ellipsis, mining) The company that operates a mine; often the same one that owns the mine.
- A person or organisation that operates a device, system, service, etc.
- (uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
- (linguistics) A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
- (computing) A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
- (mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries values defined on a domain into another value or set of values in a defined range.
- A member of a military special operations unit.
- (informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
- (computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
- (slang) A thief or charlatan.
- (transport) A bus driver.
- (slang) A major criminal.
noun
adj
- foolish; totally unsound
- affected with madness or insanity
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- bizarre or fantastic
- possessed by inordinate excitement
- Very excited or enthusiastic.
- Out of control.
- Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
- In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
- (informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
adv
noun
- (slang) An assassin.
- A man who is skilled in travelling upon ice, as among glaciers.
- (historical) A person who trades in ice; a person employed to deliver block ice to those lacking electric refrigeration.
- (slang) One who is cool under pressure.
- An ancient human male mummified in ice.
- A human figure carved out of ice.
- a male professional killer
- a man who cuts and delivers ice
noun
- the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas
- the process of interacting with gas
- The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
- Poisoning by noxious gas.
- (manufacturing, historical) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
- (slang) boasting; insincere or empty talk
- Any similar process of singeing.
verb
noun
- a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
- a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance
- A shout of "bravo!"
- A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.
- (international standards, plural "bravos") Alternative letter-case form of Bravo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
verb
intj
noun
verb
noun
- something that is a source of danger
- A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
- declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- a warning that something unpleasant is imminent
- An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
- An indication of potential or imminent danger.
verb
noun
- An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
- (slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
- A dangling ornament or decoration.
verb
- (medicine, transitive) To position (a patient) in this way.
- (intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To put forth as a possibility.
- (intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
- (medicine, intransitive) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
- (transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.
- hang loosely
- cause to dangle or hang freely
noun
- a person who kills themself intentionally
- the act of killing yourself
- (countable, US, slang) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
- A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
- (figuratively) An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
- (countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing oneself, or of multiple people doing so.
- (countable) A person who has intentionally killed themself.
- A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
- (countable) A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
- (attributive) Pertaining to a suicide bombing.
- (uncountable) The act of intentionally killing oneself.
verb
noun
- Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.
- A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer.
- (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
- (grammar) The subject performing the action of a verb.
- a theatrical performer
- a person who acts and gets things done
noun
- someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
- a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
- someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
- A tow truck.
- (Soviet Union, crime, historical) Someone accused of the formal charge of wrecking; that is, of undermining the state in intangible ways.
- A mooncusser (type of land-based pirate).
- One who breaks up situations or events.
- (Australia) A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts.
verb
- To menace, or be dangerous.
- To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
- To call into question the validity of (a belief, idea, or viewpoint); to challenge.
- To portend, or give a warning of.
- (figuratively) To be close to equaling or surpassing (a record, etc.); to challenge.
- to be a menacing indication of something
- to utter intentions of injury or punishment against
- pose a threat to; present a danger to
noun
verb
adj
- being the agent or cause
- having an acceptable credit rating
- worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable
- (of a job or position) Involving important duties; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.
- Capable of rational conduct and thus morally accountable for one's behavior.
- (postpositive, followed by "for") Being a primary cause of a situation or action and thus able to be blamed or credited for it.
- Having good judgment in decision-making.
- (followed by "to") Answerable to (a superior).
- Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.
- (postpositive, followed by "for") Having the duty of taking care of something; answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
noun
adj
- causing or capable of causing death
- Causing death; lethal.
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- of an instrument of certain death
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
adv
adj
- causing or capable of causing death
- subject to death
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- unrelenting and deadly
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- Punishable by death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- (Scotland, Geordie, slang) Very drunk.
- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
noun
adv
adj
- characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being
- (often figuratively) Of an object: used to commit murder; capable of causing death; deadly, fatal.
- Of a person: intending or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty, homicidal.
- Of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers.
- (by extension) Very difficult.