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noun
- The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.
- An anxious state of mind; anxiety.
- embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
- the trait of seeming ill at ease
- feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
- physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
- inability to rest or relax or be still
verb
adj
- taut or rigid; stretched tight
- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘beat’)
- Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
- Pulled taut, without any slack.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
- Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
noun
- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
- (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.
- (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
verb
- make nervous or agitated
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- make confused or perplexed or puzzled
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- intrude or enter uninvited
- (imperative, euphemistic) Damn; curse.
- To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
- (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
- (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
- (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
noun
adj
- Anxious or uneasy.
- (of a property) Offered for sale after foreclosure.
- (finance, of securities) Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.
- (of furniture, etc.) Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
- (of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.
- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- generalized feeling of distress
- suffering severe physical strain or distress
verb
adj
- Nervous, anxious.
- (of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
- Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
- Wavering; undecided.
- Shaking or trembling.
- vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
- not secure; beset with difficulties
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
adj
- Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
- Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
- Supplied with nerves; innervated.
- Affecting or involving the nerves or nervous system.
- excited in anticipation
- unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
- of or relating to the nervous system
- easily agitated
- causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
verb
noun
- A nervous action; a tic.
- (computing) A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.
- (chiefly in the plural, often with "the") A state of nervousness.
- (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
- (data visualization) A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
- small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources
- a small irregular movement
verb
- be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy
- lacerate by biting
- be on the mind of
- be concerned with
- touch or rub constantly
- disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress
- (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.
- (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; to exercise.
- (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
- (transitive) To touch repeatedly; to fiddle with.
- (intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
noun
adj
- Nervous, apprehensive.
- (Internet slang) Exhibiting behavior that is disconcerting or alarming, sometimes in an effort to impress or to troll others.
- Sharp; having prominent edges.
- (entertainment, advertising) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge.
- (slang) Cool by virtue of being tough, dark, or badass.
- (art) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
- (figurative) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué.
- being in a tense state
verb
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- to exert much effort or energy
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- become stretched or tense or taut
- remove by passing through a filter
- test the limits of
- (transitive) To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
- (transitive) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- (transitive) To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- (transitive) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- (ambitransitive) To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- (transitive) To urge with importunity; to press.
- (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
- (transitive) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
- (transitive) To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
noun
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- an intense or violent exertion
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the act of singing
- injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
- the general meaning or substance of an utterance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- (figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
- (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- (music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
verb
- be uneasy or apprehensive about
- be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement
- be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event
- be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
- regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
- (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
- (intransitive) To feel fear.
- (intransitive) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].
- (transitive) To regret.
- (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
noun
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- an anxious feeling
- a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
- (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
- (countable) Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
- (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- (UK, with definite article, "the fear") A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.
- (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
adj
noun
verb
- be flustered; behave in a confused manner
- cause to be nervous or upset
- (British, dialectal) To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
- To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- (by extension) To turn on, to make horny.
- To be agitated and confused; to bustle.
- To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
- (by extension) To become turned on, to become horny.
noun
- a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset
- activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption
- the act of causing disorder
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- (physics) a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly
- (countable) A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological or economic system).
- (uncountable) Agitation; the state of being perturbed.
- (countable, astronomy, physics) Variation in an orbit due to the influence of external bodies.
verb
- (intransitive, informal, rare) To be nervous.
- (transitive, informal) To perform a neurectomy on (someone or something).
- (transitive) To give courage.
- (transitive, informal, rare) To get on (someone’s) nerves; to annoy, irritate, or bother (someone).
- (transitive) To give strength; to supply energy or vigour.
- get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
noun
- (in the plural) Mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions.
- Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude.
- (nonstandard, colloquial) A neuron.
- (in the plural) One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's psyche.
- (botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood.
- Courage; boldness; audacity; gall.
- (polymer technology) The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.
- A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
- the courage to carry on
- impudent aggressiveness
- any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
verb
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- be agitated or irritated
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
verb
- To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
- To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
- (intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps.
- Alternative form of Twitter.
- (intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
- make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
noun
- (uncountable, countable) The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
- (countable, informal or British, regional) Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.
- (uncountable, electronics) Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
- (countable) A slight trembling of the nerves.
- (countable) A tremulous broken sound.
- a series of chirps
verb
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
noun
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
- an unwanted pregnancy
- a source of difficulty
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
noun
- The state or condition of being restless; an inability to be still, quiet, at peace or comfortable.
- a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion
- a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay
- the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active
- inability to rest or relax or be still
adv
noun
- the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas
- cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil
- (uncountable, countable) The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
- (countable, figurative) A turmoil; a disturbance like that of bubbling water.
- (uncountable, countable) The cooking (of food) or cleaning (of an object) by immersing it in liquid (usually water) that is boiling.
- (uncountable, figurative) An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance.
adj
verb
adj
- (slang) Nervous, frightened.
- Accompanied by wind.
- Long-winded; orally verbose.
- (informal) Flatulent.
- Empty and lacking substance.
- Unsheltered and open to the wind.
- (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
- using or containing too many words
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability
- abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
noun
adj
noun
- An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
- (pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.
- (informal) Any anxiety disorder, especially generalized anxiety disorder.
- An uneasy or distressing desire (for something). Endeavor (to please).
- (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic
- a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
adj
- worried and uneasy
- ceaselessly in motion
- nervous and unable to relax
- lacking or not affording physical or mental rest
- Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose; eager for change; discontented.
- Deprived of rest or sleep.
- Not allowing or affording rest.
- Without rest; unable to be still or quiet; uneasy; continually moving.
verb
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
adj
noun
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
verb
- think moodily or anxiously about something
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- sit on (eggs)
- (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
- (intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
- (intransitive) To be bred.
noun
- the young of an animal cared for at one time
- (countable, uncountable) A large number or crowd of people, animals, or objects.
- (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
- (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
- Parentage.
- The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
- That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
adj
verb
- think moodily or anxiously about something
- come back to
- exist or be situated within
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- originate (in)
- (intransitive, engineering) To be in a given state.
- (intransitive) To linger (on); to remain fixated. [with on ‘a particular thought, idea, etc.’]
- (intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
- (intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.
noun
- (engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
- (automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
- (engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
- (electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
- To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
- To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
- (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- handle clumsily
- feel about uncertainly or blindly
- drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.
- (transitive) To pet.
- (transitive) To disturb (a person)
- (intransitive, US, especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured.
- (intransitive) To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust
- (intransitive, with over) To show affection for, especially animals.
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- care for like a mother
noun
verb
- act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
- make a fuss; be agitated
- (literally) To tremble, shake, or shiver.
- To intentionally add noise to a signal to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- (computer graphics) To use dot patterns in an image or graphic to simulate colors or shades not in the system palette.
- To do something nervously.
- (figurative) To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay.
noun
- an excited state of agitation
- (computer graphics) The use of dot patterns in an image or graphic to approximate colors not available in the system palette.
- A form of noise intentionally added to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- A state of nervous excitement.
- Trembling, shaking, or shivering.
- The state of being undecided; indecision; vacillation.
noun
- A psychological state of being tense.
- (physics, engineering) The state of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
- (physics, engineering) Voltage.
- (physics, engineering) A force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on, in, or of, e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).
- The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
- A feeling of nervousness, excitement, or fear that is created in a movie, book, etc.; suspense.
- (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
- (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body
- a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)
- the physical condition of being stretched or strained
- the action of stretching something tight
- feelings of hostility that are not manifest
verb
noun
- The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.
- An anxious state of mind; anxiety.
- embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
- the trait of seeming ill at ease
- feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
- physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
- inability to rest or relax or be still
noun
verb
- be flustered; behave in a confused manner
- cause to be nervous or upset
- (British, dialectal) To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
- To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
- (by extension) To turn on, to make horny.
- To be agitated and confused; to bustle.
- To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
- (by extension) To become turned on, to become horny.
noun
- a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset
- activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption
- the act of causing disorder
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- (physics) a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly
- (countable) A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological or economic system).
- (uncountable) Agitation; the state of being perturbed.
- (countable, astronomy, physics) Variation in an orbit due to the influence of external bodies.
noun
- The state or condition of being restless; an inability to be still, quiet, at peace or comfortable.
- a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion
- a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay
- the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active
- inability to rest or relax or be still
noun
- An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
- (pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.
- (informal) Any anxiety disorder, especially generalized anxiety disorder.
- An uneasy or distressing desire (for something). Endeavor (to please).
- (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic
- a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
noun
- A psychological state of being tense.
- (physics, engineering) The state of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
- (physics, engineering) Voltage.
- (physics, engineering) A force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on, in, or of, e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).
- The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
- A feeling of nervousness, excitement, or fear that is created in a movie, book, etc.; suspense.
- (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
- (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body
- a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)
- the physical condition of being stretched or strained
- the action of stretching something tight
- feelings of hostility that are not manifest
verb
verb
adj
- taut or rigid; stretched tight
- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘beat’)
- Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
- Pulled taut, without any slack.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
- Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
noun
- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
- (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.
- (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
verb
- make nervous or agitated
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- make confused or perplexed or puzzled
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- intrude or enter uninvited
- (imperative, euphemistic) Damn; curse.
- To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
- (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
- (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
- (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
noun
verb
noun
- A nervous action; a tic.
- (computing) A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.
- (chiefly in the plural, often with "the") A state of nervousness.
- (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
- (data visualization) A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
- small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources
- a small irregular movement
verb
- be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy
- lacerate by biting
- be on the mind of
- be concerned with
- touch or rub constantly
- disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress
- (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.
- (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; to exercise.
- (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
- (transitive) To touch repeatedly; to fiddle with.
- (intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
noun
verb
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- to exert much effort or energy
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- become stretched or tense or taut
- remove by passing through a filter
- test the limits of
- (transitive) To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
- (transitive) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- (transitive) To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- (transitive) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- (ambitransitive) To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- (transitive) To urge with importunity; to press.
- (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
- (transitive) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
- (transitive) To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
noun
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- an intense or violent exertion
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the act of singing
- injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
- the general meaning or substance of an utterance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- (figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
- (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- (music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
verb
- be uneasy or apprehensive about
- be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement
- be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event
- be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
- regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
- (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
- (intransitive) To feel fear.
- (intransitive) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].
- (transitive) To regret.
- (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
noun
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- an anxious feeling
- a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
- (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
- (countable) Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
- (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- (UK, with definite article, "the fear") A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.
- (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
adj
verb
- (intransitive, informal, rare) To be nervous.
- (transitive, informal) To perform a neurectomy on (someone or something).
- (transitive) To give courage.
- (transitive, informal, rare) To get on (someone’s) nerves; to annoy, irritate, or bother (someone).
- (transitive) To give strength; to supply energy or vigour.
- get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
noun
- (in the plural) Mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions.
- Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude.
- (nonstandard, colloquial) A neuron.
- (in the plural) One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's psyche.
- (botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood.
- Courage; boldness; audacity; gall.
- (polymer technology) The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.
- A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
- the courage to carry on
- impudent aggressiveness
- any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
verb
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- be agitated or irritated
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
verb
- To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
- To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
- (intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps.
- Alternative form of Twitter.
- (intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
- make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
noun
- (uncountable, countable) The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
- (countable, informal or British, regional) Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.
- (uncountable, electronics) Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
- (countable) A slight trembling of the nerves.
- (countable) A tremulous broken sound.
- a series of chirps
verb
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
noun
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
- an unwanted pregnancy
- a source of difficulty
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
verb
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
adj
noun
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
verb
- think moodily or anxiously about something
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- sit on (eggs)
- (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
- (intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
- (intransitive) To be bred.
noun
- the young of an animal cared for at one time
- (countable, uncountable) A large number or crowd of people, animals, or objects.
- (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
- (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
- Parentage.
- The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
- That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
adj
verb
- think moodily or anxiously about something
- come back to
- exist or be situated within
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- originate (in)
- (intransitive, engineering) To be in a given state.
- (intransitive) To linger (on); to remain fixated. [with on ‘a particular thought, idea, etc.’]
- (intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
- (intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.
noun
- (engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
- (automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
- (engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
- (electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
- To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
- To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
- (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- handle clumsily
- feel about uncertainly or blindly
- drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.
- (transitive) To pet.
- (transitive) To disturb (a person)
- (intransitive, US, especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured.
- (intransitive) To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust
- (intransitive, with over) To show affection for, especially animals.
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- care for like a mother
noun
verb
- act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
- make a fuss; be agitated
- (literally) To tremble, shake, or shiver.
- To intentionally add noise to a signal to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- (computer graphics) To use dot patterns in an image or graphic to simulate colors or shades not in the system palette.
- To do something nervously.
- (figurative) To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay.
noun
- an excited state of agitation
- (computer graphics) The use of dot patterns in an image or graphic to approximate colors not available in the system palette.
- A form of noise intentionally added to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- A state of nervous excitement.
- Trembling, shaking, or shivering.
- The state of being undecided; indecision; vacillation.
adv
noun
- the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas
- cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil
- (uncountable, countable) The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
- (countable, figurative) A turmoil; a disturbance like that of bubbling water.
- (uncountable, countable) The cooking (of food) or cleaning (of an object) by immersing it in liquid (usually water) that is boiling.
- (uncountable, figurative) An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance.
adj
verb
adj
- Anxious or uneasy.
- (of a property) Offered for sale after foreclosure.
- (finance, of securities) Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.
- (of furniture, etc.) Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
- (of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.
- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- generalized feeling of distress
- suffering severe physical strain or distress
verb
adj
- Nervous, anxious.
- (of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
- Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
- Wavering; undecided.
- Shaking or trembling.
- vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
- not secure; beset with difficulties
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
adj
- Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
- Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
- Supplied with nerves; innervated.
- Affecting or involving the nerves or nervous system.
- excited in anticipation
- unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
- of or relating to the nervous system
- easily agitated
- causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
adj
- Nervous, apprehensive.
- (Internet slang) Exhibiting behavior that is disconcerting or alarming, sometimes in an effort to impress or to troll others.
- Sharp; having prominent edges.
- (entertainment, advertising) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge.
- (slang) Cool by virtue of being tough, dark, or badass.
- (art) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
- (figurative) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué.
- being in a tense state
adj
- (slang) Nervous, frightened.
- Accompanied by wind.
- Long-winded; orally verbose.
- (informal) Flatulent.
- Empty and lacking substance.
- Unsheltered and open to the wind.
- (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
- using or containing too many words
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability
- abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
noun
adj
adj
- worried and uneasy
- ceaselessly in motion
- nervous and unable to relax
- lacking or not affording physical or mental rest
- Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose; eager for change; discontented.
- Deprived of rest or sleep.
- Not allowing or affording rest.
- Without rest; unable to be still or quiet; uneasy; continually moving.