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noun
- (historical) The punishment of being placed in a pillory and whipped.
- (plural "cavallettos") A specialized gantry crane for loading and unloading cargo ships that attaches to and moves along guides on the ship's hatchway.
- (plural "cavalletti") A long pole placed horizontally at a height of 4 to 20 inches from the ground, used in training horses.
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- To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
- (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
- To take or carry on the back.
- (by extension) To flog.
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
- (intransitive) Synonym of horse around.
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- (transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
- (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
- provide with a horse or horses
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- (poker slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
- (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
- (slang) Heroin (drug).
- (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on WikipediaWikipedia).
- A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- A breastband for a leadsman.
- (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
- An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- A jackstay.
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
- (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
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- (slang) A beating or flogging.
- (nautical) A rope used to secure a cannon.
- A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.
- (historical) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
- (equestrianism) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
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- To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
- (transitive, military, rare) Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”).
- To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
- (religion) To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
- To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- spot, stain, or pollute
noun
- A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
- An act of marching in files or lines.
- A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.
- (military, rare) An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
- a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
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- (countable) The punishment of being whipped.
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- (bookbinding) The sewing of the edges of single leaves in sections by overcasting the thread.
- (nautical) The lashing of the end of a rope.
- (countable) A cord or thread used to lash or bind something.
- (countable) A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
- (uncountable) A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream to produce whipped cream.
- the act of overcoming or outdoing
- a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally
- a sound defeat
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- (transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To sell.
- (theater) To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
- (transitive, Australia, agriculture) To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
- (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- beat with a cane
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- (slang, Winchester College) A flogging of six cuts on the small of the back in which the bible clerk and ostiarius held up the culprit's shirt while a school official administered the flogging.
- A student at a boarding school who has the job of reading from the bible during meals.
- One given to quoting the bible; a bible-thumper.
noun
- a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
- a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- (pedagogy) A device in scaffolding, i.e. the provision a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.
- (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
- (sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.
verb
- provide with a scaffold for support
- (transitive) To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
- (transitive, pedagogy) To provide a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.
- (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
- (transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
verb
- torture and torment like a martyr
- kill as a martyr
- (transitive) To persecute.
- (transitive) To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
- (transitive) To torment; to torture.
noun
- one who suffers for the sake of principle
- one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion
- (by extension) One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
- (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly or constantly, even involuntarily.
- One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom.
- (derogatory) Someone who exaggerates their pain and suffering in order to gain sympathy.
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- (botany, anatomy) Having or relating to a stigma or stigmata.
- Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character; stigmatized.
- Impressing with infamy or reproach.
- pertaining to or resembling or having stigmata
- not astigmatic
- pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images)
noun
- Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
- (sports) sin bin
- A flaw or mistake.
- A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- A misdeed or wrong.
- Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”).
- A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
- (theology) A violation of divine will or religious law.
- A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
- ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- estrangement from god
- an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
- the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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- Punishable by death.
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- 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.).
- causing or capable of causing death
- subject to death
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- unrelenting and deadly
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- the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross
- An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.
- the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering
- (Christianity, often capitalized) The death of Jesus Christ on the Cross.
- (military, historical, colloquial) The military punishment of being tied to a fixed object, often with the limbs in a stretched position.
- (figuratively) An ordeal, terrible, especially malicious treatment imposed upon someone.
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- Forced labor in general, regardless of legality.
- A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
- (figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
- An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
- the state of being under the control of another person
- work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
- the practice of owning slaves
verb
- To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
- To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
- (figuratively, now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation.
- To injure with divine power.
- To kill violently; to slay.
- To strike down or kill with godly force.
- cause physical pain or suffering in
- affect suddenly with deep feeling
- inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon
verb
- (transitive, historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
- (transitive, sports, often figurative) To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
- (transitive, slang) To steal.
- (transitive, slang) To rob.
- (intransitive) To be lifted up.
- (transitive, computing theory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
- (transitive) To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- move from one place to another by lifting
- raise by using ropes and pulleys
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- The position of a flag (on a mast) or of a sail on a ship when lifted up to its highest level.
- Any member of certain classes of devices that hoist things.
- The act of hoisting; a lift.
- The triangular vertical position of a flag, as opposed to the flying state, or triangular vertical position of a sail, when flying from a mast.
- The position of a main fore-and-aft topsail on a ship and fore fore-and-aft topsail on a ship.
- lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
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- (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To eat sparingly.
- (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To pilfer.
- (programming, in Python) To serialize.
- preserve in a pickling liquid
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- (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- (baseball) A rundown.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- (UK) A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
- (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
- (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- (slang) A penis.
- (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
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- A sacrament in some Christian churches that involves penitence (remorse plus restitution via prayer).
- Any instrument of self-punishment.
- A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
- voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
- a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
- remorse for your past conduct
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- putting a condemned person to death
- (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable
- the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
- the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order
- unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
- (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
- a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out
- The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
- The state of being accomplished.
- (law) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
- (law) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
- (computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.
- The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
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- inflict as a punishment
- estimate the duration or outcome of something
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- convey or reveal information
- give or convey physically
- consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man
- dedicate
- bring about
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- manifest or show
- offer in good faith
- be the cause or source of
- accord by verdict
- allow to have or take
- emit or utter
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- bestow, especially officially
- proffer (a body part)
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- execute and deliver
- submit for consideration, judgment, or use
- give as a present; make a gift of
- cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
- deliver in exchange or recompense
- bestow
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- endure the loss of
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- present to view
- perform for an audience
- transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- propose
- give (as medicine)
- place into the hands or custody of
- leave with; give temporarily
- organize or be responsible for
- guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion
- give or supply
- occur
- give food to
- contribute to some cause
- To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
- To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- To propose someone for a toast, used in standard formulations for toasts.
- To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
- To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
- To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).
- (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- To provide or administer (a medication)
- (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
- To pledge.
- To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
- To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in (the specified person, or the target, audience, etc).
- To make a present or gift of.
- To present someone to an audience.
- To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
- (intransitive) To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
- To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- (slang, transitive) To give off (a certain vibe or appearance). (Compare giving.)
- To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
- (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
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- The state of being condemned.
- The ground or reason of condemning.
- The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong.
- The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.
- The process by which a public entity exercises its powers of eminent domain.
- an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable
- (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
- an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- (law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building)
- the condition of being strongly disapproved of
verb
- To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
- To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
- (figurative) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
- (UK, dialectal, of plants) To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.
- To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
- devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure
- roll around
- rise up as if in waves
- delight greatly in
- be ecstatic with joy
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- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- rope that is used for fastening something to something else
- Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
- The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation, chastisement.
- (in the plural, informal, UK, Ireland) Lots; a great amount.
- The or an act of lashing; a heavy falling or downpour (of rain).
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- Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
- Free from constraint; uninhibited.
- (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
- No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
- unrestrained and uninhibited
- forsaken by owner or inhabitants
verb
noun
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation
- (botany) The formation by plants of flagella, or their arrangement
- Beating, or an instance of beating, consisting of lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as a whipping or scourging.
noun
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- making leather from rawhide
- process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light
- The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the easily decomposing skins of animals.
- (informal) A spanking.
- The acquisition of a tan, either by exposure to the sun, or artificially.
verb
noun
- (historical) The punishment of being placed in a pillory and whipped.
- (plural "cavallettos") A specialized gantry crane for loading and unloading cargo ships that attaches to and moves along guides on the ship's hatchway.
- (plural "cavalletti") A long pole placed horizontally at a height of 4 to 20 inches from the ground, used in training horses.
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- (slang) A beating or flogging.
- (nautical) A rope used to secure a cannon.
- A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.
- (historical) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
- (equestrianism) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
noun
- (countable) The punishment of being whipped.
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- (bookbinding) The sewing of the edges of single leaves in sections by overcasting the thread.
- (nautical) The lashing of the end of a rope.
- (countable) A cord or thread used to lash or bind something.
- (countable) A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
- (uncountable) A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream to produce whipped cream.
- the act of overcoming or outdoing
- a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally
- a sound defeat
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- (slang, Winchester College) A flogging of six cuts on the small of the back in which the bible clerk and ostiarius held up the culprit's shirt while a school official administered the flogging.
- A student at a boarding school who has the job of reading from the bible during meals.
- One given to quoting the bible; a bible-thumper.
noun
- a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
- a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- (pedagogy) A device in scaffolding, i.e. the provision a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.
- (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
- (sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.
verb
- provide with a scaffold for support
- (transitive) To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
- (transitive, pedagogy) To provide a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.
- (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
- (transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
noun
adj
- (botany, anatomy) Having or relating to a stigma or stigmata.
- Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character; stigmatized.
- Impressing with infamy or reproach.
- pertaining to or resembling or having stigmata
- not astigmatic
- pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images)
noun
- Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
- (sports) sin bin
- A flaw or mistake.
- A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- A misdeed or wrong.
- Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”).
- A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
- (theology) A violation of divine will or religious law.
- A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
- ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- estrangement from god
- an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
- the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
verb
noun
- the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross
- An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.
- the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering
- (Christianity, often capitalized) The death of Jesus Christ on the Cross.
- (military, historical, colloquial) The military punishment of being tied to a fixed object, often with the limbs in a stretched position.
- (figuratively) An ordeal, terrible, especially malicious treatment imposed upon someone.
noun
- putting a condemned person to death
- (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable
- the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
- the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order
- unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
- (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
- a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out
- The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
- The state of being accomplished.
- (law) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
- (law) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
- (computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.
- The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
noun
- The state of being condemned.
- The ground or reason of condemning.
- The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong.
- The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.
- The process by which a public entity exercises its powers of eminent domain.
- an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable
- (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
- an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- (law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building)
- the condition of being strongly disapproved of
adj
noun
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- rope that is used for fastening something to something else
- Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
- The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation, chastisement.
- (in the plural, informal, UK, Ireland) Lots; a great amount.
- The or an act of lashing; a heavy falling or downpour (of rain).
verb
noun
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation
- (botany) The formation by plants of flagella, or their arrangement
- Beating, or an instance of beating, consisting of lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as a whipping or scourging.
noun
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- making leather from rawhide
- process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light
- The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the easily decomposing skins of animals.
- (informal) A spanking.
- The acquisition of a tan, either by exposure to the sun, or artificially.
verb
verb
- To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
- (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
- To take or carry on the back.
- (by extension) To flog.
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
- (intransitive) Synonym of horse around.
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- (transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
- (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
- provide with a horse or horses
noun
- (poker slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
- (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
- (slang) Heroin (drug).
- (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on WikipediaWikipedia).
- A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- A breastband for a leadsman.
- (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
- An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- A jackstay.
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
- (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
verb
- To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
- (transitive, military, rare) Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”).
- To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
- (religion) To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
- To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- spot, stain, or pollute
noun
- A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
- An act of marching in files or lines.
- A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.
- (military, rare) An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
- a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
verb
- (transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To sell.
- (theater) To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
- (transitive, Australia, agriculture) To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
- (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- beat with a cane
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verb
- torture and torment like a martyr
- kill as a martyr
- (transitive) To persecute.
- (transitive) To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
- (transitive) To torment; to torture.
noun
- one who suffers for the sake of principle
- one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion
- (by extension) One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
- (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly or constantly, even involuntarily.
- One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom.
- (derogatory) Someone who exaggerates their pain and suffering in order to gain sympathy.
verb
- To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
- To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
- (figuratively, now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation.
- To injure with divine power.
- To kill violently; to slay.
- To strike down or kill with godly force.
- cause physical pain or suffering in
- affect suddenly with deep feeling
- inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon
verb
- (transitive, historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
- (transitive, sports, often figurative) To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
- (transitive, slang) To steal.
- (transitive, slang) To rob.
- (intransitive) To be lifted up.
- (transitive, computing theory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
- (transitive) To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- move from one place to another by lifting
- raise by using ropes and pulleys
noun
- The position of a flag (on a mast) or of a sail on a ship when lifted up to its highest level.
- Any member of certain classes of devices that hoist things.
- The act of hoisting; a lift.
- The triangular vertical position of a flag, as opposed to the flying state, or triangular vertical position of a sail, when flying from a mast.
- The position of a main fore-and-aft topsail on a ship and fore fore-and-aft topsail on a ship.
- lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
verb
- (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To eat sparingly.
- (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To pilfer.
- (programming, in Python) To serialize.
- preserve in a pickling liquid
noun
- (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- (baseball) A rundown.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- (UK) A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
- (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
- (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- (slang) A penis.
- (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
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noun
- A sacrament in some Christian churches that involves penitence (remorse plus restitution via prayer).
- Any instrument of self-punishment.
- A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
- voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
- a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
- remorse for your past conduct
verb
- inflict as a punishment
- estimate the duration or outcome of something
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- convey or reveal information
- give or convey physically
- consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man
- dedicate
- bring about
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- manifest or show
- offer in good faith
- be the cause or source of
- accord by verdict
- allow to have or take
- emit or utter
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- bestow, especially officially
- proffer (a body part)
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- execute and deliver
- submit for consideration, judgment, or use
- give as a present; make a gift of
- cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
- deliver in exchange or recompense
- bestow
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- endure the loss of
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- present to view
- perform for an audience
- transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- propose
- give (as medicine)
- place into the hands or custody of
- leave with; give temporarily
- organize or be responsible for
- guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion
- give or supply
- occur
- give food to
- contribute to some cause
- To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
- To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- To propose someone for a toast, used in standard formulations for toasts.
- To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
- To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
- To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).
- (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- To provide or administer (a medication)
- (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
- To pledge.
- To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
- To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in (the specified person, or the target, audience, etc).
- To make a present or gift of.
- To present someone to an audience.
- To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
- (intransitive) To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
- To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- (slang, transitive) To give off (a certain vibe or appearance). (Compare giving.)
- To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
- (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
noun
verb
- To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
- To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
- (figurative) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
- (UK, dialectal, of plants) To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.
- To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
- devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure
- roll around
- rise up as if in waves
- delight greatly in
- be ecstatic with joy
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adj
- Punishable by death.
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- 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.).
- causing or capable of causing death
- subject to death
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- unrelenting and deadly
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adj
noun
- Forced labor in general, regardless of legality.
- A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
- (figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
- An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
- the state of being under the control of another person
- work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
- the practice of owning slaves
adj
noun
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- rope that is used for fastening something to something else
- Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
- The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation, chastisement.
- (in the plural, informal, UK, Ireland) Lots; a great amount.
- The or an act of lashing; a heavy falling or downpour (of rain).
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adj
- Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
- Free from constraint; uninhibited.
- (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
- No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
- unrestrained and uninhibited
- forsaken by owner or inhabitants