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noun
- avoiding emotional involvement
- a small unit of troops of special composition
- coming apart
- the state of being isolated or detached
- the act of releasing from an attachment or connection
- (uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for a particular purpose or special mission.
- (countable, military) The unit so dispatched.
- (uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.
- (countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.
- (uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
- (uncountable) The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
- (uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
- (countable, military) A permanent unit organized for special duties.
noun
- avoiding emotional involvement
- the act of ceasing to participate in an activity
- a retraction of a previously held position
- formal separation from an alliance or federation
- the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.
- the act of withdrawing
- a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation
- the act of taking out money or other capital
- the termination of drug taking
- Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
- The sum of money taken from a bank account.
- A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
- A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
- An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.
noun
- emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
- something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
- a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
- a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
- (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
- (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
- (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
- (now usually in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
- (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
verb
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
- (intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.
- (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
verb
- avoid dealing with
- avoid (one's assigned duties)
- (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
- (transitive) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
- (transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
noun
verb
- To emotionally disengage or distract oneself from a situation.
- (intransitive, with of and transitive, with object before go) To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.
- (euphemistic, usually reflexively) To gain weight.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, go.
- (transitive) To ignore (a comment, etc.).
- (euphemistic, transitive) To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance.
- (euphemistic) To dismiss from employment.
- be relaxed
- release, as from one's grip
adj
- showing lack of emotional involvement
- being or feeling set or kept apart from others
- not fixed in position
- no longer connected or joined
- used of buildings; standing apart from others
- lacking affection or warm feeling
- Not physically attached; separated from something to which it could connect.
- Having or showing no bias or emotional involvement; disinterested.
- Not influenced by anyone else; characterized by an impersonal objectivity; impartial.
- Of a house: not joined to another house on either side.
verb
verb
- To keep (someone) emotionally or socially apart from another person or people.
- To leave behind (someone or something moving in the same direction; specifically, other competitors in a race) some distance away; to outpace, to outstrip.
- (figurative) To keep oneself emotionally or socially apart from another person or people; to keep one's distance.
- Often followed by from: to set (someone or something) at a distance (noun noun sense 1.1) from someone or something else.
- To exceed or surpass (someone, such as a peer or rival); to outdo, to outstrip.
- To cause (a place, a thing, etc.) to seem distant, or (figurative) unfamiliar.
- To set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move away from someone or something.
- (reflexive) To keep (oneself) away from someone or something, especially because one does not want to be associated with that person or thing.
- go far ahead of
- keep at a distance
noun
- (horse racing) Originally, the space measured back from the winning post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in a subsequent heat; also, the point on the racecourse that space away from the winning post; now, the point on a racecourse 240 yards from the winning post.
- Chiefly preceded by the, especially in into or in the distance: the place that is far away or remote.
- An amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- (figurative) A separation in some way other than space or time.
- The maximum amount of space between a boxer and their opponent within which the boxer can punch effectively.
- (horse racing) Chiefly in by a distance: a space of more than 30 lengths (about 80 yards or 7.3 metres) between two racehorses finishing a race, used to describe the margin of victory; also (archaic), any space of 240 yards (about 219.5 metres) on a racecourse.
- Chiefly in from a distance: a place which is far away or remote; specifically (especially painting), a more remote part of a landscape or view as contrasted with the foreground.
- The state of remoteness or separation in some way other than space or time.
- Often in go the distance, last the distance, or stay the distance: the scheduled duration of a bout.
- The state of people not being close, friendly, or intimate with each other; also, the state of people who were once close, friendly, or intimate with each other no longer being so; estrangement.
- The entire amount of progress to an objective.
- (military) The amount of space between soldiers or cavalry riders marching or standing in a rank; also, the amount of space between such ranks.
- An interval or length of time between events.
- The state of being separated from something else, especially by a long way; the state of being far off or remote; farness, remoteness.
- Excessive reserve or lack of friendliness shown by a person; aloofness, coldness.
- (sports) The complete length of a course over which a race is run.
- Chiefly with a modifying word: a measure between two points or quantities; a difference, a variance.
- The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- (fencing) The amount of space between a fencer and their opponent, which the fencer tries to control in order to gain an advantage over the opponent.
- a remote point in time
- the interval between two times
- indifference by personal withdrawal
- size of the gap between two places
- a distant region
- the property created by the space between two objects or points
verb
- avoid speaking to or dealing with
- expel from a community or group
- (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
- (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
verb
- To refrain from expressing (a negative emotion), to one's psychological detriment; to bottle up.
- To process new information in one's mind.
- (finance) To transfer stocks between brokers within an organization, rather than through the exchange.
- (transitive, programming) To store (a string or other structure) in a shared pool, such that subsequent items with the same value can share the same instance.
- incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
adj
- lacking warmth or emotional involvement
- having no adornment or coloration
- having a large proportion of strong liquor
- unproductive especially of the expected results
- lacking moisture or volatile components
- not producing milk
- used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones
- without a mucous or watery discharge
- free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
- (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish
- (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation
- practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages
- lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless
- opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- not shedding tears
- humorously sarcastic or mocking
- (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- (figurative) Athirst, eager.
- (poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
- (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- Lacking interest, boring.
- (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
- In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
- Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
- (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
- (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
- (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- (Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
noun
- a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
- The process by which something is dried.
verb
verb
- consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
- To put into bottles.
- (sports, slang) To prevent (an opponent) from achieving any effective action.
- (informal) To comprehensively defeat.
- (idiomatic) To keep suppressed and hidden.
- To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage.
verb
- consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
- make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally
- prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something
- limit, block, or decrease the action or function of
- (Philippines) To recuse.
- (transitive) To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
verb
- consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
- (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
- lessen to the point of stopping
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- bring under control by force or authority
- put out of one's consciousness
- To stop a flow or stream.
- (military) To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
- To prevent publication.
- (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
- (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
- To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
verb
- (idiomatic) To prevent oneself from becoming emotionally involved in a certain situation.
- (idiomatic) To quietly abandon a belief.
- (idiomatic) To stop what one is doing and evaluate the current situation.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, back.
- (idiomatic) To retreat from one's duties in a job; to reduce one's duties, often as a prelude to leaving a position; to take a back seat.
- (rail transport, of a driver at a terminal station) to depart driving the train following the train they arrived into the station driving, so as to decrease service turnaround time.
noun
adj
- emotionally involved
- connected by participation or association or use
- entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- enveloped
- Having an affair with someone.
- Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
- Complicated.
verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
- (computing) A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
- (broadcasting) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
- Ellipsis of remote control.
- a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
verb
adj
- shunning contact with others
- hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior
- Antagonistic, hostile, or unfriendly toward others; menacing.
- Opposed to social order or the principles of society; hostile toward society.
- Unwilling or unable to cooperate and associate normally with other people.
noun
verb
- free from involvement or entanglement
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- extricate from entanglement
- separate the tangles of
- release from entanglement of difficulty
- (intransitive) To become free or untangled.
- (transitive) To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.
- (transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
noun
- knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
- freedom to act or judge on one's own
- refined taste; tact
- the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies
- the trait of judging wisely and objectively
- The authority to exercise one's own judgement in making decisions that have effect.
- The quality of being discreet.
- The freedom to make one's own judgements.
- The ability to make wise choices or decisions.
noun
- knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
- discretion in practical affairs
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being prudent: circumspection and good judgment in knowing how best to act; (countable, archaic) an instance of this.
- (uncountable, specifically) Synonym of frugality (“the quality of avoiding unnecessary expenditure; economy, parsimony, thrift, thriftiness”).
prefix
- Avoiding an action.
- Absence, the absence of the root (a quantity).
- prevocalic form of nona-
- Not, the negation of the root word (a quality).
- Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
- Neutral in quality.
verb
- refrain from doing something
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- declare invalid
- stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
- refrain from certain foods or beverages
- (transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
- (transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
- (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
- (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
- (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
- (transitive) To try not to do something or to have something happen.
adj
- characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
- showing lack of art
- simple and natural; without cunning or deceit
- (of persons) lacking art or knowledge
- Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.
- Free of artificiality; natural.
- Poorly made or done; crude.
- Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
noun
- the act of secluding yourself from others
- the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
- A secluded, isolated or private place.
- The act of secluding, shutting out or keeping apart.
- (meteorology) The mature phase of the extratropical cyclone life cycle.
- The state of being secluded or shut out, as from company, society, the world, etc.; solitude.
adj
- reluctant to draw attention to yourself
- cool and formal in manner
- temperamentally disinclined to talk
- Unwilling to communicate; keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.
- (proscribed) Hesitant or not wanting to take some action; reluctant (usually followed by a verb in the infinitive).
noun
- absence of affectation or pretense
- a lack of penetration or subtlety
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- lack of ornamentation
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded
- Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
- The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
- Lack of complication; efficiency.
- The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
- Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
- Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
verb
- make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated
- transfer property or ownership
- arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
- To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
- To cause one to feel unable to relate.
- To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
noun
- (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
- The state of being suppressed.
- (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- The act or instance of suppressing.
- (of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
- the failure to develop some part or organ
- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
adj
- free from pomp or affectation
- marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
- low or inferior in station or quality
- not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance
- Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble.
- (especially of behavior or clothing) Intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.
- Small, moderate in size.
- Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety.
adv
adj
noun
verb
adj
- being or feeling set or kept apart from others
- under forced isolation especially for health reasons
- cut off or left behind
- remote and separate physically or socially
- marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
- not close together in time
- (algebra, of an associated prime of a module) Minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes).
- (meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting ten to twenty percent of a forecast zone.
- Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
- (medicine) Of a condition or abnormality: occurring in the absence of associated conditions or abnormalities.
- (medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.
- (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
- Happening or occurring only once.
verb
noun
- avoiding emotional involvement
- a small unit of troops of special composition
- coming apart
- the state of being isolated or detached
- the act of releasing from an attachment or connection
- (uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for a particular purpose or special mission.
- (countable, military) The unit so dispatched.
- (uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.
- (countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.
- (uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
- (uncountable) The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
- (uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
- (countable, military) A permanent unit organized for special duties.
noun
- avoiding emotional involvement
- the act of ceasing to participate in an activity
- a retraction of a previously held position
- formal separation from an alliance or federation
- the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.
- the act of withdrawing
- a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation
- the act of taking out money or other capital
- the termination of drug taking
- Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
- The sum of money taken from a bank account.
- A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
- A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
- An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.
noun
- emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
- something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
- a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
- a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
- (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
- (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
- (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
- (now usually in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
- (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
verb
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
- (intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.
- (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
noun
- knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
- freedom to act or judge on one's own
- refined taste; tact
- the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies
- the trait of judging wisely and objectively
- The authority to exercise one's own judgement in making decisions that have effect.
- The quality of being discreet.
- The freedom to make one's own judgements.
- The ability to make wise choices or decisions.
noun
- knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
- discretion in practical affairs
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being prudent: circumspection and good judgment in knowing how best to act; (countable, archaic) an instance of this.
- (uncountable, specifically) Synonym of frugality (“the quality of avoiding unnecessary expenditure; economy, parsimony, thrift, thriftiness”).
noun
- the act of secluding yourself from others
- the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
- A secluded, isolated or private place.
- The act of secluding, shutting out or keeping apart.
- (meteorology) The mature phase of the extratropical cyclone life cycle.
- The state of being secluded or shut out, as from company, society, the world, etc.; solitude.
noun
- absence of affectation or pretense
- a lack of penetration or subtlety
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- lack of ornamentation
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded
- Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
- The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
- Lack of complication; efficiency.
- The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
- Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
- Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
noun
- (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
- The state of being suppressed.
- (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- The act or instance of suppressing.
- (of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
- the failure to develop some part or organ
- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
verb
- avoid dealing with
- avoid (one's assigned duties)
- (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
- (transitive) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
- (transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
noun
verb
- To emotionally disengage or distract oneself from a situation.
- (intransitive, with of and transitive, with object before go) To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.
- (euphemistic, usually reflexively) To gain weight.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, go.
- (transitive) To ignore (a comment, etc.).
- (euphemistic, transitive) To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance.
- (euphemistic) To dismiss from employment.
- be relaxed
- release, as from one's grip
verb
- To keep (someone) emotionally or socially apart from another person or people.
- To leave behind (someone or something moving in the same direction; specifically, other competitors in a race) some distance away; to outpace, to outstrip.
- (figurative) To keep oneself emotionally or socially apart from another person or people; to keep one's distance.
- Often followed by from: to set (someone or something) at a distance (noun noun sense 1.1) from someone or something else.
- To exceed or surpass (someone, such as a peer or rival); to outdo, to outstrip.
- To cause (a place, a thing, etc.) to seem distant, or (figurative) unfamiliar.
- To set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move away from someone or something.
- (reflexive) To keep (oneself) away from someone or something, especially because one does not want to be associated with that person or thing.
- go far ahead of
- keep at a distance
noun
- (horse racing) Originally, the space measured back from the winning post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in a subsequent heat; also, the point on the racecourse that space away from the winning post; now, the point on a racecourse 240 yards from the winning post.
- Chiefly preceded by the, especially in into or in the distance: the place that is far away or remote.
- An amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- (figurative) A separation in some way other than space or time.
- The maximum amount of space between a boxer and their opponent within which the boxer can punch effectively.
- (horse racing) Chiefly in by a distance: a space of more than 30 lengths (about 80 yards or 7.3 metres) between two racehorses finishing a race, used to describe the margin of victory; also (archaic), any space of 240 yards (about 219.5 metres) on a racecourse.
- Chiefly in from a distance: a place which is far away or remote; specifically (especially painting), a more remote part of a landscape or view as contrasted with the foreground.
- The state of remoteness or separation in some way other than space or time.
- Often in go the distance, last the distance, or stay the distance: the scheduled duration of a bout.
- The state of people not being close, friendly, or intimate with each other; also, the state of people who were once close, friendly, or intimate with each other no longer being so; estrangement.
- The entire amount of progress to an objective.
- (military) The amount of space between soldiers or cavalry riders marching or standing in a rank; also, the amount of space between such ranks.
- An interval or length of time between events.
- The state of being separated from something else, especially by a long way; the state of being far off or remote; farness, remoteness.
- Excessive reserve or lack of friendliness shown by a person; aloofness, coldness.
- (sports) The complete length of a course over which a race is run.
- Chiefly with a modifying word: a measure between two points or quantities; a difference, a variance.
- The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- (fencing) The amount of space between a fencer and their opponent, which the fencer tries to control in order to gain an advantage over the opponent.
- a remote point in time
- the interval between two times
- indifference by personal withdrawal
- size of the gap between two places
- a distant region
- the property created by the space between two objects or points
verb
- avoid speaking to or dealing with
- expel from a community or group
- (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
- (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
verb
- To refrain from expressing (a negative emotion), to one's psychological detriment; to bottle up.
- To process new information in one's mind.
- (finance) To transfer stocks between brokers within an organization, rather than through the exchange.
- (transitive, programming) To store (a string or other structure) in a shared pool, such that subsequent items with the same value can share the same instance.
- incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
verb
- consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
- To put into bottles.
- (sports, slang) To prevent (an opponent) from achieving any effective action.
- (informal) To comprehensively defeat.
- (idiomatic) To keep suppressed and hidden.
- To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage.
verb
- consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
- make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally
- prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something
- limit, block, or decrease the action or function of
- (Philippines) To recuse.
- (transitive) To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
verb
- consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
- (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
- lessen to the point of stopping
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- bring under control by force or authority
- put out of one's consciousness
- To stop a flow or stream.
- (military) To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
- To prevent publication.
- (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
- (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
- To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
verb
- (idiomatic) To prevent oneself from becoming emotionally involved in a certain situation.
- (idiomatic) To quietly abandon a belief.
- (idiomatic) To stop what one is doing and evaluate the current situation.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, back.
- (idiomatic) To retreat from one's duties in a job; to reduce one's duties, often as a prelude to leaving a position; to take a back seat.
- (rail transport, of a driver at a terminal station) to depart driving the train following the train they arrived into the station driving, so as to decrease service turnaround time.
noun
verb
- free from involvement or entanglement
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- extricate from entanglement
- separate the tangles of
- release from entanglement of difficulty
- (intransitive) To become free or untangled.
- (transitive) To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.
- (transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
verb
- refrain from doing something
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- declare invalid
- stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
- refrain from certain foods or beverages
- (transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
- (transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
- (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
- (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
- (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
- (transitive) To try not to do something or to have something happen.
verb
- make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated
- transfer property or ownership
- arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
- To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
- To cause one to feel unable to relate.
- To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
adv
adj
noun
verb
adj
- showing lack of emotional involvement
- being or feeling set or kept apart from others
- not fixed in position
- no longer connected or joined
- used of buildings; standing apart from others
- lacking affection or warm feeling
- Not physically attached; separated from something to which it could connect.
- Having or showing no bias or emotional involvement; disinterested.
- Not influenced by anyone else; characterized by an impersonal objectivity; impartial.
- Of a house: not joined to another house on either side.
verb
adj
- lacking warmth or emotional involvement
- having no adornment or coloration
- having a large proportion of strong liquor
- unproductive especially of the expected results
- lacking moisture or volatile components
- not producing milk
- used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones
- without a mucous or watery discharge
- free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
- (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish
- (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation
- practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages
- lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless
- opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- not shedding tears
- humorously sarcastic or mocking
- (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- (figurative) Athirst, eager.
- (poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
- (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- Lacking interest, boring.
- (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
- In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
- Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
- (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
- (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
- (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- (Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
noun
- a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
- The process by which something is dried.
verb
adj
- emotionally involved
- connected by participation or association or use
- entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- enveloped
- Having an affair with someone.
- Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
- Complicated.
verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
- (computing) A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
- (broadcasting) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
- Ellipsis of remote control.
- a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
verb
adj
- shunning contact with others
- hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior
- Antagonistic, hostile, or unfriendly toward others; menacing.
- Opposed to social order or the principles of society; hostile toward society.
- Unwilling or unable to cooperate and associate normally with other people.
noun
adj
- characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
- showing lack of art
- simple and natural; without cunning or deceit
- (of persons) lacking art or knowledge
- Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.
- Free of artificiality; natural.
- Poorly made or done; crude.
- Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
adj
- reluctant to draw attention to yourself
- cool and formal in manner
- temperamentally disinclined to talk
- Unwilling to communicate; keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.
- (proscribed) Hesitant or not wanting to take some action; reluctant (usually followed by a verb in the infinitive).
adj
- free from pomp or affectation
- marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
- low or inferior in station or quality
- not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance
- Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble.
- (especially of behavior or clothing) Intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.
- Small, moderate in size.
- Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety.
adj
- being or feeling set or kept apart from others
- under forced isolation especially for health reasons
- cut off or left behind
- remote and separate physically or socially
- marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
- not close together in time
- (algebra, of an associated prime of a module) Minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes).
- (meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting ten to twenty percent of a forecast zone.
- Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
- (medicine) Of a condition or abnormality: occurring in the absence of associated conditions or abnormalities.
- (medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.
- (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
- Happening or occurring only once.