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- a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
- a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
- a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
- A catalyst.
- A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
- Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
- A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
noun
- a state of agitated irritation
- (US, dialect) A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois.
- (slang, derogatory) Term of abuse.
- (slang) A temper; a bad mood.
- A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters.
- (especially dialectal, e.g. West Virginia, Lunenburg, chiefly in the plural) A slice of dried fruit.
adj
- 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.)
- 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’)
noun
- (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.
- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
verb
noun
- uttering in an irritated tone
- a coarse file with sharp pointed projections
- A coarse file or filelike tool, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
- The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
verb
- scrape with a rasp
- utter in a grating voice
- (intransitive) To use a rasp.
- (transitive) To work something with a rasp.
- To say in a raspy voice.
- (intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
verb
- get very agitated or angry
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- emit steam
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
noun
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
adj
noun
- The state of being irritated.
- a sudden outburst of anger
- A thing or person that annoys.
- A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
- The act of irritating or annoying.
- (physiology) A state of inflammation or of painful reaction to cell or tissue damage.
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
- (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation
- an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- the act of troubling or annoying someone
noun
- A state of agitation.
- The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
- An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
- (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
- (uncountable, aerodynamics) An extremely dangerous divergent oscillation caused by a positive feedback loop between the elastic deformation of an object and the aerodynamic forces acting on it, potentially resulting in rapid structural failure.
- A hasty game of cards or similar.
- (British) A small bet or risky investment.
- abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block
- the act of moving back and forth
- the motion made by flapping up and down
- a disorderly outburst or tumult
verb
- (transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
- (transitive) To cause something to flap.
- (intransitive, aerodynamics) To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic deformation and aerodynamic forces.
- (intransitive) To be in a state of agitation or uncertainty.
- (intransitive) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
- (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
- (espionage, slang) To subject to a lie detector test.
- move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
- move back and forth very rapidly
- beat rapidly
- wink briefly
- flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements
verb
- be agitated
- bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
- immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes
- come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
- be in an agitated emotional state
- (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
noun
- the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
- a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
- A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
- (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
- An instance of boiling.
verb
- be agitated
- stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
- (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
- (informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
- (transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
- (US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
- (business, of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
- (finance) To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
noun
- a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
- (business, uncountable) Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
- (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
- A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).
- (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
- (historical) The last grain cut at harvest; kern.
- Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
- A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
verb
noun
- (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- A spot; a defilement.
- (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- Hard work.
- (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
verb
- be agitated
- make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
- (intransitive) To romp or tumble.
- (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
- (transitive, of a person or group of people) To annoy; to make angry; to throw into discord.
- (transitive, of a fluid, especially a liquid) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
adj
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- involving risk or danger
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without a basis in reason or fact
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
adv
noun
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
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- 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.
verb
- make a fuss; be agitated
- act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
- (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
- a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag
- a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
- the motion made by flapping up and down
- any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely
- (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
- A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
- A side fin of a ray.
- (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
- (graph theory) A connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.
- Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) The labia, the vulva.
- (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- A hinged leaf.
- The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
verb
- move with a thrashing motion
- pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds
- make a fuss; be agitated
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- move with a flapping motion
- to flutter noisily when moved by the wind
- (computing, telecommunications, intransitive, of a resource or network destination) To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
- (phonetics, intransitive) To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
- (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
- (soccer, intransitive) For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.
- (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
noun
verb
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- care for like a mother
- (transitive) To pet.
- (transitive) To disturb (a person)
- (intransitive, US, especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured.
- (intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.
- (intransitive) To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust
- (intransitive, with over) To show affection for, especially animals.
noun
- the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- something that agitates and arouses
- (physics) A transition of a nucleus, atom or molecule to an excited state by the absorption of a quantum of energy; the opposite of relaxation.
- (physiology) The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of stimulation.
- The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
- The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
noun
- the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- the act of setting something on fire
- arousal to violent emotion
- a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat
- (pathology) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
- The state of being inflamed.
verb
- be agitated or irritated
- 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
- (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
- being highly angry or excited; ready to boil over
- the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
- (physical chemistry, physics) The temperature at which a liquid boils, with the vapor pressure equal to the given external pressure.
- (idiomatic, figurative) The state of being heated, with high aggression.
noun
- a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored
- unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being livid.
- (countable) A livid area of skin, such as a bruise, or as is often found on cadavers.
- (uncountable) Livor mortis, suggillation.
adj
- (figurative) In a state of agitation; easily alarmed.
- Causing an itching sensation.
- Feeling an itching sensation; feeling a need to be scratched. (of a person, animal or body part)
- (figurative) Having a constant, teasing desire (for something, to do something); impatiently eager.
- Characterized by itching. (of a condition)
- (figurative) Causing a constant, teasing desire for something.
- causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch
- nervous and unable to relax
adj
- easily agitated
- Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
- excited in anticipation
- unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
- of or relating to the nervous system
- causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
- Supplied with nerves; innervated.
- Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
- Affecting or involving the nerves or nervous system.
adj
verb
noun
- a sudden outburst of anger
- tightly woven fabric with raised cords
- (sewing) Alternative form of piqué (“a kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk”).
- (uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
- (uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
- (card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
- midgie, sand fly, punkie, punky (US)
verb
- cause to feel resentment or indignation
- To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
- (reflexive) To pride (oneself) on something.
- To take pride in.
- To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
- To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
noun
- a sudden outburst of anger
- the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
- a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
- a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
- A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
- State of mind; mood.
- Middle state or course; mean; medium.
- A tendency to become angry.
- The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
- Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
- Anger; a fit of anger.
- (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
- The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
- (pottery, architecture) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.
- The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
verb
- change by restraining or moderating
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- adjust the pitch (of pianos)
- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- (cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
- To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
- (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
- To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
- To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
- To moderate or control.
noun
- A fit of temper; a tantrum.
- A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.
- (countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.
- A snowy sheathbill.
- (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
- Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
- rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field
- an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown
verb
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- try to stir up public opinion
- move very slightly
- move or cause to move back and forth
- change the arrangement or position of
- (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
- To participate in political agitation (sense 3).
- (transitive) To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
verb
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- demand payment
- lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
- cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- give over to another for care or safekeeping
- move quickly and violently
- direct into a position for use
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- make an accusatory claim
- attribute responsibility to
- set or ask for a certain price
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- instruct or command with authority
- fill or load to capacity
- energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
- blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
- provide (a device) with something necessary
- place a heraldic bearing on
- saturate
- file a formal charge against
- enter a certain amount as a charge
- (transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
- To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
- (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To impute or ascribe.
- (transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).
- (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
- (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- (transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
- (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- (transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
- (ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
noun
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- the price charged for some article or service
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
- the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
- request for payment of a debt
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- financial liabilities (such as a tax)
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
- an impetuous rush toward someone or something
- a person committed to your care
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- A load or burden; cargo.
- (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An instruction.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- (military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.
- (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
- (property law) A mortgage.
verb
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- arouse or elicit a feeling
- to evoke sexual feelings
- produce a magnetic field in
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- stir feelings in
- raise to a higher energy level
- act as a stimulant
- (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
- (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
- To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.
- (transitive) To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
verb
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- force or drive out
- cause to become awake or conscious
- become active
- (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- (intransitive) To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
noun
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- An arousal.
- (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
verb
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- to evoke sexual feelings
- cause to operate by flipping a switch
- get high, stoned, or drugged
- become hostile towards
- produce suddenly or automatically
- be contingent on
- (transitive) To aim at.
- (transitive) To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve.
- (intransitive, slang) To take drugs.
- (intransitive, of a device) To start operating; to power up, to become on.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to take up drugs, especially hallucinogens.
- (transitive) To rebel against; to suddenly attack.
- (transitive) To power up, to put into operation, to start, to activate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
- (transitive) To sexually arouse.
- (transitive) To introduce (someone to something), and especially to fill them with enthusiasm (about it); to intoxicate, give pleasure to ( + to an object of interest or excitement).
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to rebel against or suddenly attack (someone else).
- (intransitive) To depend upon; to pivot around, to have as a central subject.
adj
adv
noun
noun
- a state of agitated irritation
- (US, dialect) A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois.
- (slang, derogatory) Term of abuse.
- (slang) A temper; a bad mood.
- A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters.
- (especially dialectal, e.g. West Virginia, Lunenburg, chiefly in the plural) A slice of dried fruit.
noun
- uttering in an irritated tone
- a coarse file with sharp pointed projections
- A coarse file or filelike tool, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
- The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
verb
- scrape with a rasp
- utter in a grating voice
- (intransitive) To use a rasp.
- (transitive) To work something with a rasp.
- To say in a raspy voice.
- (intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
noun
- The state of being irritated.
- a sudden outburst of anger
- A thing or person that annoys.
- A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
- The act of irritating or annoying.
- (physiology) A state of inflammation or of painful reaction to cell or tissue damage.
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
- (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation
- an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- the act of troubling or annoying someone
noun
- A state of agitation.
- The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
- An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
- (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
- (uncountable, aerodynamics) An extremely dangerous divergent oscillation caused by a positive feedback loop between the elastic deformation of an object and the aerodynamic forces acting on it, potentially resulting in rapid structural failure.
- A hasty game of cards or similar.
- (British) A small bet or risky investment.
- abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block
- the act of moving back and forth
- the motion made by flapping up and down
- a disorderly outburst or tumult
verb
- (transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
- (transitive) To cause something to flap.
- (intransitive, aerodynamics) To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic deformation and aerodynamic forces.
- (intransitive) To be in a state of agitation or uncertainty.
- (intransitive) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
- (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
- (espionage, slang) To subject to a lie detector test.
- move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
- move back and forth very rapidly
- beat rapidly
- wink briefly
- flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements
noun
adj
verb
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.
verb
- make a fuss; be agitated
- act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
- (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
- a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag
- a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
- the motion made by flapping up and down
- any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely
- (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
- A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
- A side fin of a ray.
- (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
- (graph theory) A connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.
- Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) The labia, the vulva.
- (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- A hinged leaf.
- The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
verb
- move with a thrashing motion
- pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds
- make a fuss; be agitated
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- move with a flapping motion
- to flutter noisily when moved by the wind
- (computing, telecommunications, intransitive, of a resource or network destination) To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
- (phonetics, intransitive) To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
- (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
- (soccer, intransitive) For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.
- (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
noun
verb
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- care for like a mother
- (transitive) To pet.
- (transitive) To disturb (a person)
- (intransitive, US, especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured.
- (intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.
- (intransitive) To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust
- (intransitive, with over) To show affection for, especially animals.
noun
- the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- something that agitates and arouses
- (physics) A transition of a nucleus, atom or molecule to an excited state by the absorption of a quantum of energy; the opposite of relaxation.
- (physiology) The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of stimulation.
- The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
- The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
noun
- the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- the act of setting something on fire
- arousal to violent emotion
- a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat
- (pathology) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
- The state of being inflamed.
noun
- being highly angry or excited; ready to boil over
- the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
- (physical chemistry, physics) The temperature at which a liquid boils, with the vapor pressure equal to the given external pressure.
- (idiomatic, figurative) The state of being heated, with high aggression.
noun
- a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored
- unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being livid.
- (countable) A livid area of skin, such as a bruise, or as is often found on cadavers.
- (uncountable) Livor mortis, suggillation.
noun
- a sudden outburst of anger
- tightly woven fabric with raised cords
- (sewing) Alternative form of piqué (“a kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk”).
- (uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
- (uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
- (card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
- midgie, sand fly, punkie, punky (US)
verb
- cause to feel resentment or indignation
- To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
- (reflexive) To pride (oneself) on something.
- To take pride in.
- To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
- To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
noun
- a sudden outburst of anger
- the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
- a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
- a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
- A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
- State of mind; mood.
- Middle state or course; mean; medium.
- A tendency to become angry.
- The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
- Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
- Anger; a fit of anger.
- (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
- The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
- (pottery, architecture) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.
- The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
verb
- change by restraining or moderating
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- adjust the pitch (of pianos)
- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- (cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
- To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
- (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
- To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
- To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
- To moderate or control.
noun
- A fit of temper; a tantrum.
- A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.
- (countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.
- A snowy sheathbill.
- (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
- Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
- rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field
- an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown
verb
noun
- a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
- a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
- a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
- A catalyst.
- A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
- Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
- A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
verb
- get very agitated or angry
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- emit steam
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
noun
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
adj
verb
- be agitated
- bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
- immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes
- come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
- be in an agitated emotional state
- (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
noun
- the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
- a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
- A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
- (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
- An instance of boiling.
verb
- be agitated
- stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
- (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
- (informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
- (transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
- (US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
- (business, of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
- (finance) To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
noun
- a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
- (business, uncountable) Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
- (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
- A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).
- (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
- (historical) The last grain cut at harvest; kern.
- Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
- A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
verb
noun
- (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- A spot; a defilement.
- (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- Hard work.
- (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
verb
- be agitated
- make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
- (intransitive) To romp or tumble.
- (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
- (transitive, of a person or group of people) To annoy; to make angry; to throw into discord.
- (transitive, of a fluid, especially a liquid) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
verb
- be agitated or irritated
- 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
- (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”).
verb
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- try to stir up public opinion
- move very slightly
- move or cause to move back and forth
- change the arrangement or position of
- (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
- To participate in political agitation (sense 3).
- (transitive) To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
verb
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- demand payment
- lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
- cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- give over to another for care or safekeeping
- move quickly and violently
- direct into a position for use
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- make an accusatory claim
- attribute responsibility to
- set or ask for a certain price
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- instruct or command with authority
- fill or load to capacity
- energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
- blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
- provide (a device) with something necessary
- place a heraldic bearing on
- saturate
- file a formal charge against
- enter a certain amount as a charge
- (transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
- To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
- (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To impute or ascribe.
- (transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).
- (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
- (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- (transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
- (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- (transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
- (ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
noun
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- the price charged for some article or service
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
- the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
- request for payment of a debt
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- financial liabilities (such as a tax)
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
- an impetuous rush toward someone or something
- a person committed to your care
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- A load or burden; cargo.
- (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An instruction.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- (military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.
- (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
- (property law) A mortgage.
verb
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- arouse or elicit a feeling
- to evoke sexual feelings
- produce a magnetic field in
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- stir feelings in
- raise to a higher energy level
- act as a stimulant
- (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
- (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
- To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.
- (transitive) To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
verb
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- force or drive out
- cause to become awake or conscious
- become active
- (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- (intransitive) To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
noun
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- An arousal.
- (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
verb
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- to evoke sexual feelings
- cause to operate by flipping a switch
- get high, stoned, or drugged
- become hostile towards
- produce suddenly or automatically
- be contingent on
- (transitive) To aim at.
- (transitive) To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve.
- (intransitive, slang) To take drugs.
- (intransitive, of a device) To start operating; to power up, to become on.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to take up drugs, especially hallucinogens.
- (transitive) To rebel against; to suddenly attack.
- (transitive) To power up, to put into operation, to start, to activate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
- (transitive) To sexually arouse.
- (transitive) To introduce (someone to something), and especially to fill them with enthusiasm (about it); to intoxicate, give pleasure to ( + to an object of interest or excitement).
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to rebel against or suddenly attack (someone else).
- (intransitive) To depend upon; to pivot around, to have as a central subject.
adv
adj
verb
adj
- 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.)
- 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’)
noun
- (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.
- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
verb
adj
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- involving risk or danger
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without a basis in reason or fact
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
adv
noun
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
verb
adj
- (figurative) In a state of agitation; easily alarmed.
- Causing an itching sensation.
- Feeling an itching sensation; feeling a need to be scratched. (of a person, animal or body part)
- (figurative) Having a constant, teasing desire (for something, to do something); impatiently eager.
- Characterized by itching. (of a condition)
- (figurative) Causing a constant, teasing desire for something.
- causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch
- nervous and unable to relax
adj
- easily agitated
- Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
- excited in anticipation
- unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
- of or relating to the nervous system
- causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
- Supplied with nerves; innervated.
- Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
- Affecting or involving the nerves or nervous system.