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adj
- of an instrument of certain death
- causing or capable of causing death
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- Causing death; lethal.
adv
adj
noun
prep
- Using as an instrument; by means of.
- Affected by (a certain emotion or condition).
- Considering; taking into account.
- Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
- In regard to.
- In addition to; as an accessory to.
- Keeping up with; understanding; following along.
- Against.
- Prompted by (a certain emotion).
- Having, owning.
- In support of.
- In the employment of.
- In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
adv
noun
noun
- death of a person
- a mark (‘) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
- (loosely) Any place of interment.
- (by extension, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.
- (uncountable, by extension) Death, destruction.
- (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.
- A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
adj
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- Low in pitch, tone etc.
- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
verb
noun
- (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
- (textiles) A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
- A baker’s kneading trough.
- (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
- Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
- A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
- (agriculture) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
- (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
- A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
- A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
- A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
- Any fern in the genus Pteris.
- The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
- any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- anything that slows or hinders a process
- an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
noun
adj
adj
- occurring at the time of death
- immediately past
- conclusive in a process or progression
- coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
- most unlikely or unsuitable
- highest in extent or degree
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- not to be altered or undone
- lowest in rank or importance
- Lowest in rank or degree.
- Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
- Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- Most recent, latest, last so far.
- Being the only one remaining of its class.
noun
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
- a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- the last or lowest in an ordering or series
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
- holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
- (shoemaking) A tool in the form of a foot on which an item of footwear (such as a boot or shoe) is placed for shaping while it is being manufactured or repaired.
adv
verb
- persist for a specified period of time
- continue to live and avoid dying
- (transitive, shoemaking) To shape (an item of footwear such as a boot or shoe) during its manufacture or repair while it is placed on a last (noun etymology 3 sense 1).
- (intransitive, slang, of a man) To purposefully refrain from orgasm
- (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
- (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
det
- (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
- The (one) immediately before the present.
noun
- (medicine) The death of part of the body.
- A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
- A bringing under of the passions and appetites by a severe or strict manner of living.
- (chiefly Scots law, now historical) A bequest to a charitable institution.
- The act of mortifying.
- an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect
- strong feelings of embarrassment
- (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)
- the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
noun
adj
adv
noun
- Specifically, the death blow.
- the act of terminating a life
- The act of killing.
- (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
- the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- deprive of life
- hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- tire out completely
- thwart the passage of
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- end or extinguish by forceful means
- drink down entirely
- be the source of great pain for
- cause to cease operating
- cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- be fatal
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- cause the death of, without intention
noun
- An instrument or condition to achieve a result.
- plural of mean
- (uncountable) Financial resources; wealth.
- Substantial wealth.
- an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end
- considerable capital (wealth or income)
- to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
verb
noun
- an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose
- any clever maneuver
- any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)
- something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
- an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)
- (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
- (computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
- (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
- (crosswording) Any specific class of wordplay element in a cryptic crossword.
- (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
- (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
- Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."
noun
- Death.
- (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
- An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
- Destiny, especially terrible.
- Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
phrase
verb
noun
- Death.
- a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
- An accident that causes death. [from 19th c.]
- Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. [from 17th c.]
- The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.]
- A person killed.
- That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from 18th c.]
- (video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.
- the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
prefix
noun
- A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.
- A large or dangerous shark, specifically, (zoology) a member of the family Carcharhinidae.
- A Mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.
- A musical composition for such a mass.
- a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
noun
- (figuratively) Death.
- Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).
- The state of being susceptible to death.
- (biology, ecology, demography, insurance) The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
- the quality or state of being mortal
- the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
noun
- (music) A mournful, deliberately-paced musical work suitable for a funeral or remembrance ceremony.
- (capitalized) Any of several particular notable musical works of this kind, such as the Marche funèbre by Frédéric Chopin or the funeral anthem in George Frideric Handel's Saul.
- a slow march to be played for funeral processions
adj
noun
- a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
- A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation; broadly, synonym of funeral home.
- (historical) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.
noun
verb
noun
- the act of exploding a percussion cap
- the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments
- the act of playing a percussion instrument
- tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes
- (medicine) The tapping of the body as an aid to medical diagnosis.
- (countable) The sound so produced.
- (music) The section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group; in bands, may be separate from drum kits.
- (countable) The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound.
- (engineering) The repeated striking of an object to break or shape it, as in percussion drilling.
- (countable) The detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm.
- (palmistry) The outer side of the hand.
adj
- After the death of someone.
- In reference to a musical opus, published or initially performed after the composer's death.
- In reference to a work, published after the author's death.
- Taking place after one's own death.
- (originally) Born after the death of one's father.
- occurring or coming into existence after a person's death
noun
- The sound of such an instrument or device.
- An individual ringing component of such a set.
- A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
- (music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
- A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
- Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”).
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
verb
- (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
- To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
- (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
- (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
- (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
- emit a sound
verb
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- 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 agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
- (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).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (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.
noun
- 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
- 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”).
noun
- A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
- A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
- (Ireland, UK, slang, sometimes derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Prod (“protestant”).
- A poke.
- (programming, slang, uncountable) Clipping of production (“the live environment”).
- A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
- (demoscene, slang, countable) A production; a created work.
- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion
verb
adj
noun
noun
- A notice of death.
- (church history) A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died.
- (uncountable) The study of death or the dead.
- A listing of people who have died during a specific period of time.
- a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
- a list of people who died recently
phrase
- (by extension) death.
- (video games) A message signaling that the game has ended, usually because the player failed (for example by losing all of their lives) but sometimes following successful completion of the game.
- (by extension) The end of some ongoing situation due to either failure or success, typically failure.
noun
verb
noun
noun
- a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations
- a small, hard plate, made of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with the body to absorb such a shock.
- (medicine) Something used to absorb the energy generated by the strike from a percussion hammer, during medical percussion. Usually this is simply the doctor's hand.
adj
- subject to death
- causing or capable of causing death
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- unrelenting and deadly
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- Punishable by death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- (Scotland, Geordie, slang) Very drunk.
- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
noun
adv
noun
- A ceremonial form of this weapon.
- A heavy fighting club.
- Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
- A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
- An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
- An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
- A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
- A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
- An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
- an official who carries a mace of office
- spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed
- a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority
verb
noun
- death of a person
- a mark (‘) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
- (loosely) Any place of interment.
- (by extension, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.
- (uncountable, by extension) Death, destruction.
- (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.
- A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
adj
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- Low in pitch, tone etc.
- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
verb
noun
- (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
- (textiles) A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
- A baker’s kneading trough.
- (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
- Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
- A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
- (agriculture) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
- (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
- A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
- A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
- A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
- Any fern in the genus Pteris.
- The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
- any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- anything that slows or hinders a process
- an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
noun
adj
noun
- (medicine) The death of part of the body.
- A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
- A bringing under of the passions and appetites by a severe or strict manner of living.
- (chiefly Scots law, now historical) A bequest to a charitable institution.
- The act of mortifying.
- an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect
- strong feelings of embarrassment
- (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)
- the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
noun
adj
adv
noun
- Specifically, the death blow.
- the act of terminating a life
- The act of killing.
- (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
- the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- deprive of life
- hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- tire out completely
- thwart the passage of
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- end or extinguish by forceful means
- drink down entirely
- be the source of great pain for
- cause to cease operating
- cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- be fatal
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- cause the death of, without intention
noun
- An instrument or condition to achieve a result.
- plural of mean
- (uncountable) Financial resources; wealth.
- Substantial wealth.
- an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end
- considerable capital (wealth or income)
- to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
verb
noun
- an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose
- any clever maneuver
- any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)
- something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
- an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)
- (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
- (computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
- (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
- (crosswording) Any specific class of wordplay element in a cryptic crossword.
- (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
- (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
- Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."
noun
- Death.
- (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
- An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
- Destiny, especially terrible.
- Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
phrase
verb
noun
- Death.
- a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
- An accident that causes death. [from 19th c.]
- Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. [from 17th c.]
- The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.]
- A person killed.
- That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from 18th c.]
- (video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.
- the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
noun
- A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.
- A large or dangerous shark, specifically, (zoology) a member of the family Carcharhinidae.
- A Mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.
- A musical composition for such a mass.
- a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
noun
- (figuratively) Death.
- Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).
- The state of being susceptible to death.
- (biology, ecology, demography, insurance) The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
- the quality or state of being mortal
- the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
noun
- (music) A mournful, deliberately-paced musical work suitable for a funeral or remembrance ceremony.
- (capitalized) Any of several particular notable musical works of this kind, such as the Marche funèbre by Frédéric Chopin or the funeral anthem in George Frideric Handel's Saul.
- a slow march to be played for funeral processions
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verb
noun
- the act of exploding a percussion cap
- the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments
- the act of playing a percussion instrument
- tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes
- (medicine) The tapping of the body as an aid to medical diagnosis.
- (countable) The sound so produced.
- (music) The section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group; in bands, may be separate from drum kits.
- (countable) The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound.
- (engineering) The repeated striking of an object to break or shape it, as in percussion drilling.
- (countable) The detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm.
- (palmistry) The outer side of the hand.
noun
- The sound of such an instrument or device.
- An individual ringing component of such a set.
- A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
- (music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
- A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
- Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”).
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
verb
- (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
- To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
- (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
- (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
- (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
- emit a sound
noun
- A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
- A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
- (Ireland, UK, slang, sometimes derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Prod (“protestant”).
- A poke.
- (programming, slang, uncountable) Clipping of production (“the live environment”).
- A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
- (demoscene, slang, countable) A production; a created work.
- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion
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noun
- A notice of death.
- (church history) A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died.
- (uncountable) The study of death or the dead.
- A listing of people who have died during a specific period of time.
- a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
- a list of people who died recently
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noun
- a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations
- a small, hard plate, made of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with the body to absorb such a shock.
- (medicine) Something used to absorb the energy generated by the strike from a percussion hammer, during medical percussion. Usually this is simply the doctor's hand.
noun
- A ceremonial form of this weapon.
- A heavy fighting club.
- Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
- A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
- An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
- An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
- A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
- A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
- An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
- an official who carries a mace of office
- spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed
- a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority
verb
verb
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- 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 agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
- (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).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (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.
noun
- 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
- 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”).
adj
- of an instrument of certain death
- causing or capable of causing death
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- Causing death; lethal.
adv
adj
- of an instrument of certain death
- causing or capable of causing death
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- Causing death; lethal.
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adj
noun
adj
- occurring at the time of death
- immediately past
- conclusive in a process or progression
- coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
- most unlikely or unsuitable
- highest in extent or degree
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- not to be altered or undone
- lowest in rank or importance
- Lowest in rank or degree.
- Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
- Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- Most recent, latest, last so far.
- Being the only one remaining of its class.
noun
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
- a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- the last or lowest in an ordering or series
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
- holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
- (shoemaking) A tool in the form of a foot on which an item of footwear (such as a boot or shoe) is placed for shaping while it is being manufactured or repaired.
adv
verb
- persist for a specified period of time
- continue to live and avoid dying
- (transitive, shoemaking) To shape (an item of footwear such as a boot or shoe) during its manufacture or repair while it is placed on a last (noun etymology 3 sense 1).
- (intransitive, slang, of a man) To purposefully refrain from orgasm
- (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
- (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
det
- (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
- The (one) immediately before the present.
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noun
- a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
- A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation; broadly, synonym of funeral home.
- (historical) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.
adj
- After the death of someone.
- In reference to a musical opus, published or initially performed after the composer's death.
- In reference to a work, published after the author's death.
- Taking place after one's own death.
- (originally) Born after the death of one's father.
- occurring or coming into existence after a person's death
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noun
adj
- subject to death
- causing or capable of causing death
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- unrelenting and deadly
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- Punishable by death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- (Scotland, Geordie, slang) Very drunk.
- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).