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- To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
- (transitive) To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- (transitive) To wake up earlier than.
- To make (someone) feel badly guilty and accuse (them) over something.
- (military, WW2 air pilots' usage) To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
- To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
- (reflexive) To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. (Usually followed by over or about.)
- gather
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- (informal, US) A beating; a thrashing.
- A processed secretion of the lac insect, Coccus lacca; used in polishes, varnishes etc.
- lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white
- a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood
- (metallurgy) A machine that mixes clay and sand under a roller for use in preparing a mould for metal casting.
- A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
- (by extension) A device used for crushing or grinding.
- A person who mulls wine or other alcoholic beverages.
- (chiefly art, pharmacy) A stone with a flat grinding surface, which is held in the hand and rubbed on a slab to grind paint pigments, medicinal powders, etc.
- a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
- a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation
- a vessel in which wine is mulled
- (boxing, slang) A beating; a thrashing.
- (MLE, slang) A shotgun.
- (baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
- (cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
- A plant of the family Piperaceae.
- (UK, US, Ireland and Canada) A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.
- (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
- any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
- climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
- pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
- sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
- (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
- (cryptography) To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing).
- (transitive) To add pepper to.
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To shoot (upon) with the dotty.
- (transitive, slang) To beat or thrash.
- (transitive, slang) To write accents or disambiguating marks in script.
- (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
- (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.
- add pepper to
- attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
- (boxing, wrestling, intransitive) To break the rules by being excessively violent.
- (transitive) To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
- To render rough; to roughen.
- (ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
- To endure primitive conditions.
- To create in an approximate form.
- To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
- prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
- Violent; not careful or subtle.
- Harsh-tasting.
- (of a place) Having socio-economic problems, hence possibly dangerous.
- Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
- Not smooth; uneven.
- (of a gem) Not polished; uncut.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, colloquial, slang) Unwell due to alcohol; hungover.
- Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
- Difficult; trying.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, colloquial, slang) Somewhat ill; sick; in poor condition.
- Crude; unrefined.
- Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.
- Turbulent.
- Of or relating to the rough breathing in the Greek language.
- not perfected
- unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
- unkind or cruel or uncivil
- causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- having or caused by an irregular surface
- unpleasantly stern
- full of hardship or trials
- not quite exact or correct
- ready and able to resort to force or violence
- (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
- of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
- violently agitated and turbulent
- not carefully or expertly made
- not shaped by cutting or trimming
- The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
- A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
- (cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
- A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
- The unmowed part of a golf course.
- A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
- the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
- an implement for beating
- a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter
- A person who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, typically working in a group with other beaters.
- (US, informal) A sleeveless undershirt.
- (weaving) A weaving tool designed to push the weft yarn securely into place. It contains the comb-like insert reed and is sometimes a part of the loom.
- (US, informal) An old or dilapidated automobile in poor operating condition.
- In the sport Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player a who attempts to hit the opposing team's players with bludgers and to block the bludgers from hitting their own team's players.
- A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
- Someone or something that beats.
- (music) A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
- (informal) A shoe suitable for everyday wear, during which they may get dirty or scuffed, as opposed to more valuable shoes that one wishes to keep in good condition.
- (informal) A durable and usually inexpensive wristwatch.
- (Canada) A harp seal pup after its first moult and before its second moult.
- A kitchen implement for mixing.
- A coffee bean.
- (botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
- (slang, US, African-American) A police car.
- One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean.
- An excavation; a military mine.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A mound; a barrow.
- (dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
- A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
- any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
- a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (transitive, informal) To haggle with (someone) to sell at a lower price.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, down.
- (transitive) To wear (someone) out by repeated actions that overwhelm one's patience or strength.
- (transitive) To forcefully diminish the power or influence of; to quell; to squash.
- (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone up.
- (intransitive) (of the sun) To shine brightly and radiate with intense heat.
- (intransitive) (of rain) To strike with great force.
- dislodge from a position
- persuade the seller to accept a lower price
- shine hard
- A beating as punishment; a hiding.
- (shipbuilding) The knee of the head, or lace-piece, a piece of compass or knee timber secured to the back of the figurehead.
- That with which something is laced.
- (mining) Lagging, or cross-pieces placed to prevent ore from falling into a passage.
- The tied or threaded laces that form a netlike pattern.
- (bookbinding) The cords by which the boards of a book are fastened to the back.
- a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
- a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage
- the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
- (transitive) To beat severely; to thrash.
- (transitive, British, regional) To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
- (intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
- (transitive) To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
- (intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
- (transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
- censure severely or angrily
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- (sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
- (UK, chiefly in the negative) To surpass; to better.
- (slang) To assassinate, bump off.
- (Singapore, Singlish) To eat something hurriedly.
- To hit, slap or strike.
- (transitive, slang) To share or parcel out (often with up).
- (Singapore, Singlish) To attempt something despite not knowing how to do it; to take on a task spontaneously and carelessly without planning.
- strike hard
- (slang) Alternative spelling of wack (“annoyingly or disappointingly bad”)
- (slang, computing, typography) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
- The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
- The sound of a heavy strike.
- (US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
- The strike itself.
- the sound made by a sharp swift blow
- the act of hitting vigorously
- (slang) To beat someone at something.
- (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- (intransitive, slang, chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- (intransitive) Of tobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- (transitive, slang) To snuff out; to kill, especially with a gun.
- (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
- (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
- (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- emit a cloud of fine particles
- inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
- (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- Pollen scattered by a plant.
- Mist, fog, or drizzle; water vapour, such as from exhalation into cold air.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- Opaque aerosol released on a battlefield, used e.g. to signal or to degrade enemy observation via smokescreen.
- (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
- (baseball, slang) A fastball.
- (countable) A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
- (uncountable, slang) Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.
- (uncountable) A light grey color tinted with blue.
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- street names for marijuana
- tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
- something with no concrete substance
- a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
- an indication of some hidden activity
- the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
- a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
- (writing) Ellipsis of chancery hand.
- (US, law) A court of equity; equity; a proceeding in equity.
- The type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy.
- (boxing, slang) The position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm.
- (historical) In the Middle Ages, a government office that produced and notarized official documents.
- The type of building that houses the offices and administration of a diocese; the offices of a diocese.
- (historical) In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity
- an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
- a court with jurisdiction in equity
- A person who rules or governs; someone or something that exercises dominion or controlling power over others.
- A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement; a straightedge with markings.
- a person who rules or commands
- measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths
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- (informal, US) A beating; a thrashing.
- A processed secretion of the lac insect, Coccus lacca; used in polishes, varnishes etc.
- lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white
- a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood
- To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
- (transitive) To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- (transitive) To wake up earlier than.
- To make (someone) feel badly guilty and accuse (them) over something.
- (military, WW2 air pilots' usage) To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
- To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
- (reflexive) To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. (Usually followed by over or about.)
- gather
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- (boxing, slang) A beating; a thrashing.
- (MLE, slang) A shotgun.
- (baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
- (cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
- A plant of the family Piperaceae.
- (UK, US, Ireland and Canada) A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.
- (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
- any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
- climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
- pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
- sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
- (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
- (cryptography) To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing).
- (transitive) To add pepper to.
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To shoot (upon) with the dotty.
- (transitive, slang) To beat or thrash.
- (transitive, slang) To write accents or disambiguating marks in script.
- (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
- (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.
- add pepper to
- attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
- an implement for beating
- a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter
- A person who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, typically working in a group with other beaters.
- (US, informal) A sleeveless undershirt.
- (weaving) A weaving tool designed to push the weft yarn securely into place. It contains the comb-like insert reed and is sometimes a part of the loom.
- (US, informal) An old or dilapidated automobile in poor operating condition.
- In the sport Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player a who attempts to hit the opposing team's players with bludgers and to block the bludgers from hitting their own team's players.
- A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
- Someone or something that beats.
- (music) A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
- (informal) A shoe suitable for everyday wear, during which they may get dirty or scuffed, as opposed to more valuable shoes that one wishes to keep in good condition.
- (informal) A durable and usually inexpensive wristwatch.
- (Canada) A harp seal pup after its first moult and before its second moult.
- A kitchen implement for mixing.
- (transitive, informal) To haggle with (someone) to sell at a lower price.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, down.
- (transitive) To wear (someone) out by repeated actions that overwhelm one's patience or strength.
- (transitive) To forcefully diminish the power or influence of; to quell; to squash.
- (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone up.
- (intransitive) (of the sun) To shine brightly and radiate with intense heat.
- (intransitive) (of rain) To strike with great force.
- dislodge from a position
- persuade the seller to accept a lower price
- shine hard
- A beating as punishment; a hiding.
- (shipbuilding) The knee of the head, or lace-piece, a piece of compass or knee timber secured to the back of the figurehead.
- That with which something is laced.
- (mining) Lagging, or cross-pieces placed to prevent ore from falling into a passage.
- The tied or threaded laces that form a netlike pattern.
- (bookbinding) The cords by which the boards of a book are fastened to the back.
- a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
- a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage
- the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
- (transitive) To beat severely; to thrash.
- (transitive, British, regional) To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
- (intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
- (transitive) To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
- (intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
- (transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
- censure severely or angrily
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
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- To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
- (transitive) To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- (transitive) To wake up earlier than.
- To make (someone) feel badly guilty and accuse (them) over something.
- (military, WW2 air pilots' usage) To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
- To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
- (reflexive) To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. (Usually followed by over or about.)
- gather
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- (metallurgy) A machine that mixes clay and sand under a roller for use in preparing a mould for metal casting.
- A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
- (by extension) A device used for crushing or grinding.
- A person who mulls wine or other alcoholic beverages.
- (chiefly art, pharmacy) A stone with a flat grinding surface, which is held in the hand and rubbed on a slab to grind paint pigments, medicinal powders, etc.
- a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
- a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation
- a vessel in which wine is mulled
- (boxing, wrestling, intransitive) To break the rules by being excessively violent.
- (transitive) To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
- To render rough; to roughen.
- (ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
- To endure primitive conditions.
- To create in an approximate form.
- To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
- prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
- Violent; not careful or subtle.
- Harsh-tasting.
- (of a place) Having socio-economic problems, hence possibly dangerous.
- Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
- Not smooth; uneven.
- (of a gem) Not polished; uncut.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, colloquial, slang) Unwell due to alcohol; hungover.
- Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
- Difficult; trying.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, colloquial, slang) Somewhat ill; sick; in poor condition.
- Crude; unrefined.
- Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.
- Turbulent.
- Of or relating to the rough breathing in the Greek language.
- not perfected
- unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
- unkind or cruel or uncivil
- causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- having or caused by an irregular surface
- unpleasantly stern
- full of hardship or trials
- not quite exact or correct
- ready and able to resort to force or violence
- (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
- of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
- violently agitated and turbulent
- not carefully or expertly made
- not shaped by cutting or trimming
- The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
- A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
- (cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
- A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
- The unmowed part of a golf course.
- A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
- the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
- A coffee bean.
- (botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
- (slang, US, African-American) A police car.
- One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean.
- An excavation; a military mine.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A mound; a barrow.
- (dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
- A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
- any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
- a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
- (UK, chiefly in the negative) To surpass; to better.
- (slang) To assassinate, bump off.
- (Singapore, Singlish) To eat something hurriedly.
- To hit, slap or strike.
- (transitive, slang) To share or parcel out (often with up).
- (Singapore, Singlish) To attempt something despite not knowing how to do it; to take on a task spontaneously and carelessly without planning.
- strike hard
- (slang) Alternative spelling of wack (“annoyingly or disappointingly bad”)
- (slang, computing, typography) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
- The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
- The sound of a heavy strike.
- (US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
- The strike itself.
- the sound made by a sharp swift blow
- the act of hitting vigorously
- (slang) To beat someone at something.
- (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- (intransitive, slang, chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- (intransitive) Of tobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- (transitive, slang) To snuff out; to kill, especially with a gun.
- (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
- (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
- (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- emit a cloud of fine particles
- inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
- (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- Pollen scattered by a plant.
- Mist, fog, or drizzle; water vapour, such as from exhalation into cold air.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- Opaque aerosol released on a battlefield, used e.g. to signal or to degrade enemy observation via smokescreen.
- (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
- (baseball, slang) A fastball.
- (countable) A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
- (uncountable, slang) Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.
- (uncountable) A light grey color tinted with blue.
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- street names for marijuana
- tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
- something with no concrete substance
- a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
- an indication of some hidden activity
- the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
- a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
- A person who rules or governs; someone or something that exercises dominion or controlling power over others.
- A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement; a straightedge with markings.
- a person who rules or commands
- measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths
- (transitive) To beat severely; to thrash.
- (transitive, British, regional) To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
- (intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
- (transitive) To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
- (intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
- (transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
- censure severely or angrily
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
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- (writing) Ellipsis of chancery hand.
- (US, law) A court of equity; equity; a proceeding in equity.
- The type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy.
- (boxing, slang) The position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm.
- (historical) In the Middle Ages, a government office that produced and notarized official documents.
- The type of building that houses the offices and administration of a diocese; the offices of a diocese.
- (historical) In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity
- an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
- a court with jurisdiction in equity