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verb
adj
- Polite and respectful rather than rude.
- Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
- Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
- Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
- Docile and easily managed.
- having or showing a kindly or tender nature
- easily handled or managed
- having little impact
- quiet and soothing
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
- soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe
- marked by moderate steepness
noun
noun
- the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness
- the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else
- something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
- an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
- the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
- a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
- (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case they are arguing
- The act of submitting or yielding; surrender.
- The act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work.
- The thing which has been submitted.
- A submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports.
- A subset or component of a mission.
noun
- the act of tolerating something
- a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions
- willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others
- (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
- (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
- (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
- (uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To become quiet.
- (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
- (transitive) To make quiet.
- (transitive) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.
- become quiet or still; fall silent
- cause to be quiet or not talk
- wash by removing particles
- run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
- become quiet or quieter
noun
adj
adv
verb
noun
- (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
- (uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
- (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
- the quality of being funny
- (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
- the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
- the liquid parts of the body
verb
- (intransitive) To be subdued.
- (intransitive) To lose vitality.
- (transitive) To scare.
- (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
- (transitive) To affect with vexation or chagrin.
- (transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
- (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
- undergo necrosis
- hold within limits and control
- cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
- practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
adj
noun
verb
- To give way to (a habit or temptation); to not oppose or restrain.
- (transitive) To satisfy the wishes or whims of.
- (intransitive, often followed by "in"): To yield to a temptation or desire.
- To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.
- To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.
- give free rein to
- treat with excessive indulgence
- enjoy to excess
- yield (to); give satisfaction to
verb
verb
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
- To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
- (intransitive) Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- sag, bend, bend over or down
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward
- descend swiftly, as if on prey
- debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
noun
- (architecture, chiefly New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, also Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
- (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
- A stooping, bent position of the body.
- A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
- (architecture, US) The threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.
- An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
- small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house
- basin for holy water
- an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
verb
- (transitive) To make submissive or docile.
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- (transitive) To take control of something that is unruly.
- (transitive) To make gentle or meek.
- (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
- (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
- make less strong or intense; soften
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- correct by punishment or discipline
adj
- very docile
- (chiefly of animals) Docile or tranquil towards humans.
- (chiefly of animals) Accustomed to human contact.
- (figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
- Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Not exciting.
- flat and uninspiring
- brought from wildness into a domesticated state
- very restrained or quiet
verb
- To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued, or toned down.
- (originally US, informal, followed by out, of a person) To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something); to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
- (of food or drink, or its flavour) To mature and lose its harshness or sharpness.
- (also reflexive, originally US, informal) Followed by out: to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a person) to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- (archaic except British, regional, of soil) To be rendered soft and suitable for planting in.
- To cause (a person) to become calmer, gentler, and more understanding, particularly from age or experience.
- To cause (food or drink, for example, cheese or wine, or its flavour) to become matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- (archaic except British, regional) To soften (land or soil) and make it suitable for planting in.
- To cause (fruit) to become soft or tender, specifically by ripening.
- (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a person) to become slightly or pleasantly drunk or intoxicated.
- make or grow (more) mellow
- become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
- soften, make mellow
adj
- (also figuratively, of food or drink, or its flavour) Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang) Pleasing in some way; excellent, fantastic, great.
- Well-matured from age or experience; not impetuous or impulsive; calm, dignified, gentle.
- Drunk, intoxicated; especially slightly or pleasantly so, or to an extent that makes one cheerful and friendly.
- Cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back, calm, relaxed.
- (of leaves, seeds, plants, etc.) Mature; of crops: ready to be harvested; ripe.
- (of a place, or the climate or weather) Fruitful and warm.
- (of colour, sound, style, etc.) Not coarse, brash, harsh, or rough; delicate, rich, soft, subdued.
- (also figuratively, of fruit) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
- (chiefly US, slang) Pleasantly high or stoned, and relaxed after taking drugs; also, of drugs: slightly intoxicating and tending to produce such effects.
- (of soil) Soft and easily penetrated or worked; not hard or rigid; loamy.
- softened through age or experience
- slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
- unhurried and relaxed
- having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
noun
adv
verb
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
- (transitive) To make (more) fit for domestic life.
- (transitive) To make domestic.
- (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- (transitive, translation studies) To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.
noun
verb
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- reuse (materials from waste products)
- claim back
- (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
- (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
- (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- (sociology) To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
- (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
- (intransitive) Followed by with: see crawl with.
- (transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
- (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- (transitive) To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
- (intransitive, transitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
- (transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
- (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
- show submission or fear
- feel as if crawling with insects
- swim by doing the crawl
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- be full of
noun
- The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
- A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
- (television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
- (figurative) A very slow pace.
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
- a very slow movement
noun
- the quality of obedient submissiveness
- the act of mastering or subordinating someone
- the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head
- the state of being subordinate to something
- the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class
- The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.
- The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer); this quality as a systemic principle of discipline within a hierarchical organization.
- The process of making or classing (something or somebody) as subordinate.
verb
- (transitive) To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
- (Philippines) To do a service done by an establishment.
- (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
- (transitive) To endure patiently.
- (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
- (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
- (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
- (transitive) To receive officially.
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- admit into a group or community
- be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- consider or hold as true
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
- be designed to hold or take
- react favorably to; consider right and proper
- receive willingly something given or offered
- give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
noun
adj
- Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.
- Tending to withstand or survive.
- tolerant and forgiving under provocation
- showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others
- able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress
- showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
- showing the capacity for endurance
noun
noun
- The quality of being obedient.
- Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.
- The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
- A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
- the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person
- behavior intended to please your parents
- the trait of being willing to obey
verb
adj
noun
verb
- accustom gradually to some action or attitude
- impart skills or knowledge to
- (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
- (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
- (intransitive, stative) To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
noun
adj
- Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
- Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
- (informal, derogatory, usually of a woman or girl) Consenting readily to sex.
- Requiring little skill or effort.
- Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
- (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
- less in demand and therefore readily obtainable
- in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
- posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- affording comfort
- not strict
- not hurried or forced
- having little impact
- readily exploited or tricked
- affording pleasure
- obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally
- marked by moderate steepness
- free from worry or anxiety
adv
intj
noun
verb
adv
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
adj
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
noun
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To accord forgiveness.
- (transitive) To pardon (something); to waive any negative feeling over or retribution for.
- (transitive) To waive or remit (a debt), to absolve from payment or compensation of.
- (transitive) To look past; to look beyond.
- (transitive) To redeem; to offset the bad effects of something.
- (transitive) To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against.
- stop blaming or grant forgiveness
- absolve from payment
verb
adj
- (slang, MLE) Good; alright; cool; OK.
- (of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
- (of weather) Without wind or storm.
- (of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
- (of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
- not agitated; without losing self-possession
- (of weather) free from storm or wind
noun
- (in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
- (meteorology) The absence of wind; a period of time without wind.
- (in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
- steadiness of mind under stress
- wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale
noun
- the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness
- the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else
- something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
- an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
- the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
- a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
- (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case they are arguing
- The act of submitting or yielding; surrender.
- The act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work.
- The thing which has been submitted.
- A submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports.
- A subset or component of a mission.
noun
- the act of tolerating something
- a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions
- willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others
- (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
- (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
- (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
- (uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
verb
noun
- the quality of obedient submissiveness
- the act of mastering or subordinating someone
- the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head
- the state of being subordinate to something
- the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class
- The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.
- The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer); this quality as a systemic principle of discipline within a hierarchical organization.
- The process of making or classing (something or somebody) as subordinate.
noun
- The quality of being obedient.
- Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.
- The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
- A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
- the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person
- behavior intended to please your parents
- the trait of being willing to obey
verb
adj
- Polite and respectful rather than rude.
- Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
- Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
- Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
- Docile and easily managed.
- having or showing a kindly or tender nature
- easily handled or managed
- having little impact
- quiet and soothing
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
- soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe
- marked by moderate steepness
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become quiet.
- (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
- (transitive) To make quiet.
- (transitive) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.
- become quiet or still; fall silent
- cause to be quiet or not talk
- wash by removing particles
- run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
- become quiet or quieter
noun
verb
noun
- (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
- (uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
- (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
- the quality of being funny
- (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
- the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
- the liquid parts of the body
verb
- (intransitive) To be subdued.
- (intransitive) To lose vitality.
- (transitive) To scare.
- (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
- (transitive) To affect with vexation or chagrin.
- (transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
- (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
- undergo necrosis
- hold within limits and control
- cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
- practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
verb
- To give way to (a habit or temptation); to not oppose or restrain.
- (transitive) To satisfy the wishes or whims of.
- (intransitive, often followed by "in"): To yield to a temptation or desire.
- To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.
- To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.
- give free rein to
- treat with excessive indulgence
- enjoy to excess
- yield (to); give satisfaction to
verb
verb
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
- To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
- (intransitive) Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- sag, bend, bend over or down
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward
- descend swiftly, as if on prey
- debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
noun
- (architecture, chiefly New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, also Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
- (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
- A stooping, bent position of the body.
- A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
- (architecture, US) The threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.
- An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
- small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house
- basin for holy water
- an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
verb
- (transitive) To make submissive or docile.
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- (transitive) To take control of something that is unruly.
- (transitive) To make gentle or meek.
- (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
- (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
- make less strong or intense; soften
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- correct by punishment or discipline
adj
- very docile
- (chiefly of animals) Docile or tranquil towards humans.
- (chiefly of animals) Accustomed to human contact.
- (figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
- Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Not exciting.
- flat and uninspiring
- brought from wildness into a domesticated state
- very restrained or quiet
verb
- To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued, or toned down.
- (originally US, informal, followed by out, of a person) To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something); to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
- (of food or drink, or its flavour) To mature and lose its harshness or sharpness.
- (also reflexive, originally US, informal) Followed by out: to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a person) to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- (archaic except British, regional, of soil) To be rendered soft and suitable for planting in.
- To cause (a person) to become calmer, gentler, and more understanding, particularly from age or experience.
- To cause (food or drink, for example, cheese or wine, or its flavour) to become matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- (archaic except British, regional) To soften (land or soil) and make it suitable for planting in.
- To cause (fruit) to become soft or tender, specifically by ripening.
- (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a person) to become slightly or pleasantly drunk or intoxicated.
- make or grow (more) mellow
- become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
- soften, make mellow
adj
- (also figuratively, of food or drink, or its flavour) Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang) Pleasing in some way; excellent, fantastic, great.
- Well-matured from age or experience; not impetuous or impulsive; calm, dignified, gentle.
- Drunk, intoxicated; especially slightly or pleasantly so, or to an extent that makes one cheerful and friendly.
- Cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back, calm, relaxed.
- (of leaves, seeds, plants, etc.) Mature; of crops: ready to be harvested; ripe.
- (of a place, or the climate or weather) Fruitful and warm.
- (of colour, sound, style, etc.) Not coarse, brash, harsh, or rough; delicate, rich, soft, subdued.
- (also figuratively, of fruit) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
- (chiefly US, slang) Pleasantly high or stoned, and relaxed after taking drugs; also, of drugs: slightly intoxicating and tending to produce such effects.
- (of soil) Soft and easily penetrated or worked; not hard or rigid; loamy.
- softened through age or experience
- slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
- unhurried and relaxed
- having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
noun
adv
verb
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
- (transitive) To make (more) fit for domestic life.
- (transitive) To make domestic.
- (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- (transitive, translation studies) To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.
noun
verb
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- reuse (materials from waste products)
- claim back
- (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
- (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
- (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- (sociology) To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
- (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
- (intransitive) Followed by with: see crawl with.
- (transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
- (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- (transitive) To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
- (intransitive, transitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
- (transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
- (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
- show submission or fear
- feel as if crawling with insects
- swim by doing the crawl
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- be full of
noun
- The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
- A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
- (television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
- (figurative) A very slow pace.
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
- a very slow movement
verb
- (transitive) To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
- (Philippines) To do a service done by an establishment.
- (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
- (transitive) To endure patiently.
- (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
- (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
- (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
- (transitive) To receive officially.
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- admit into a group or community
- be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- consider or hold as true
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
- be designed to hold or take
- react favorably to; consider right and proper
- receive willingly something given or offered
- give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
noun
verb
adj
noun
verb
- accustom gradually to some action or attitude
- impart skills or knowledge to
- (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
- (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
- (intransitive, stative) To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To accord forgiveness.
- (transitive) To pardon (something); to waive any negative feeling over or retribution for.
- (transitive) To waive or remit (a debt), to absolve from payment or compensation of.
- (transitive) To look past; to look beyond.
- (transitive) To redeem; to offset the bad effects of something.
- (transitive) To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against.
- stop blaming or grant forgiveness
- absolve from payment
verb
adj
- (slang, MLE) Good; alright; cool; OK.
- (of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
- (of weather) Without wind or storm.
- (of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
- (of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
- not agitated; without losing self-possession
- (of weather) free from storm or wind
noun
- (in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
- (meteorology) The absence of wind; a period of time without wind.
- (in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
- steadiness of mind under stress
- wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale
adv
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
adj
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
noun
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
adj
adv
adj
noun
adj
- Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.
- Tending to withstand or survive.
- tolerant and forgiving under provocation
- showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others
- able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress
- showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
- showing the capacity for endurance
noun
adj
- Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
- Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
- (informal, derogatory, usually of a woman or girl) Consenting readily to sex.
- Requiring little skill or effort.
- Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
- (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
- less in demand and therefore readily obtainable
- in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
- posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- affording comfort
- not strict
- not hurried or forced
- having little impact
- readily exploited or tricked
- affording pleasure
- obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally
- marked by moderate steepness
- free from worry or anxiety
adv
intj
noun
verb
verb
- (transitive) To make submissive or docile.
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- (transitive) To take control of something that is unruly.
- (transitive) To make gentle or meek.
- (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
- (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
- make less strong or intense; soften
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- correct by punishment or discipline
adj
- very docile
- (chiefly of animals) Docile or tranquil towards humans.
- (chiefly of animals) Accustomed to human contact.
- (figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
- Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Not exciting.
- flat and uninspiring
- brought from wildness into a domesticated state
- very restrained or quiet