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noun
adj
verb
- not accept something given or offered
- refuse entrance or membership
- reject with contempt
- not accept as true
- deem wrong or inappropriate
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- (transitive) To refuse a romantic advance.
- (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- (transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
noun
noun
- the act of rejecting something
- The act of rejecting.
- the state of being rejected
- The state of being rejected.
- the speech act of rejecting
- (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign
- (medicine) An immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in an organ transplant.
- (sports) A blocked shot.
verb
- To refuse something offered, especially with contempt, disgust, or scorn, or with apparent disregard about offending the offerer.
- To tilt one's face upwards slightly, thus raising one's nose, and often to look downwards at someone, as a sign of contempt, disgust, or scorn.
- To regard or treat someone with contempt or scorn; to scorn; also, to disregard or ignore someone in a contemptuous or scornful way.
verb
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
- accept or judge as acceptable
- be superior or better than some standard
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- throw (a ball) to another player
- allow to go without comment or censure
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go unchallenged; be approved
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
- move past
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- for time to move forward
- travel past
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- disappear gradually
- be inherited by
- grant authorization or clearance for
- transmit information
- go across or through
- pass over, across, or through
- cause to pass
- place into the hands or custody of
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- come to pass
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
noun
- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- An attempt.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a usually brief attempt
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- (military) a written leave of absence
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- a difficult juncture
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a complimentary ticket
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
adj
noun
- (rare) The person who declines such an offer.
- (rare) A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
- (radio, television, broadcasting) An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.
- A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
- The particles themselves.
- The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
- the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion
- any adverse and unwanted secondary effect
noun
- A refusal or failure to provide or grant something that is requested or desired.
- the act of refusing to comply (as with a request)
- (logic) The negation in logic.
- Refusal to believe that a problem exists.
- (psychology) A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect.
- An assertion of untruth.
- A disownment or disavowal
- Refusal to admit responsibility for wrongdoing.
- Negationism, denialism of historical facts or accepted interpretation.
- the act of asserting that something alleged is not true
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against them
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
- renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
noun
- The act of declining or refusing something.
- Downward movement, fall.
- A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
- A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- change toward something smaller or lower
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- a downward slope or bend
verb
- (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- (by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
- (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- (transitive, grammar) To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
- go down
- not accept as true
- show unwillingness towards
- inflect for number, gender, case, etc.
- grow smaller
- fall in value
- grow worse
noun
- a polite refusal of an invitation
- A refusal.
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere
- a downward slope or bend
- (linguistics, prosody) The gradual decline in the overall fundamental frequency or pitch of speech over the course of an utterance, independent of local variations such as tones and pitch accents.
- At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.
- At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the earth and the equatorial plane.
noun
- a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal
- a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms
- the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later
- (card games) A device for cheating at card games by covertly holding a card out of play until it is wanted.
- One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who holds out; one who clings to a cause that has been mostly abandoned.
verb
- offer as an excuse or plea
- appeal or request earnestly
- enter a plea, as in courts of law
- make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts
- (ambitransitive, copulative) To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.
- (intransitive) To beg, beseech, or implore, especially emotionally.
- (transitive) To discuss by arguments.
- (transitive) To offer by way of excuse.
verb
noun
noun
- A situation where a person is presented with the illusion of a free choice, but in reality there is only one option available: accepting the offer or having nothing at all.
- the choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all
- (by extension, loosely) A choice between several undesirable options; Sophie's choice.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) The voice.
noun
- a promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future
- a ticket stub entitling the holder to admission to a future event if the scheduled event was cancelled due to rain
- (by extension) In social interactions, a deferred invitation, or deferred acceptance of an invitation.
- A (special) price guarantee for a sold-out item or temporarily unavailable service.
- (less commonly) The promise to make good on any experience that the customer deems unsatisfactory.
- (originally US baseball) A reissue, at no extra charge, of a ticket for a baseball game or other outdoor event postponed or interrupted because of rain.
noun
- the act of taking something that is offered
- the state of being acceptable and accepted
- a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
- the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true
- a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank
- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
- (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)
- (government, US) The act of an authorized representative of the government by which the government assents to ownership of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
- (horse racing, Australia, New Zealand, plural only) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.
- (optics) Synonym of etendue.
- The state of being accepted.
- (law) An agreeing to the action, proposals, or terms of another by some act which results in the conclusion of a legally binding contract; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking of possession of a thing as owner.
- The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
- (uncountable) The act of accepting; the receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval.
- Belief in something; agreement, assent.
- (business, finance) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance; the bill of exchange itself when accepted.
- (countable) An instance of that act.
noun
- The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
- (Christianity) The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.
- A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.
- (bridge) A bid that tells one's partner that game or slam is likely if their hand is at the strong end of what they have indicated.
- Allurement; enticement.
- (fencing) A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
- a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something
- a tempting allurement
noun
- (figuratively) A refusal, a denial, a rejection.
- (UK law) A declaration from the attorney general ending a criminal prosecution.
- (law) A proceeding or declaration by which a plaintiff or prosecutor ends a legal suit.
- an entry in the court record to the effect that the plaintiff or prosecutor will not proceed
verb
noun
- Acceptance (of a proposal, offer, request, etc.).
- The act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.
- (machinery) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine or loom for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
- the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
- any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)
noun
- The act by which something is offered.
- An oblation or presentation made as a religious act.
- Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered, such as for sale
- That which has been offered; a sacrifice.
- A contribution given at a religious service.
- money contributed to a religious organization; item or items contributed to a religious organization for religious purposes
- the verbal act of offering
- the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity
- something offered (as a proposal or bid)
verb
noun
- to offer or accept a challenge
- a glove with long sleeve
- a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
- a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
- the convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place; the inner rails cross and run parallel and then diverge so a train remains on its own tracks at all times
- (US) Alternative spelling of gauntlet.
noun
- to offer or accept a challenge
- a glove with long sleeve
- a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
- a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
- Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.
- A long glove covering the wrist.
- (rail transport) Overlapping parallel rail tracks; either to allowing passage through a narrow opening in each direction without switching, or to allow vehicles of a larger gauge to pass through a station without hitting the platforms.
- A simultaneous attack from two or more sides.
- (nautical) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
- (medicine) An eruption of pellagra on the hands.
- (figuratively) Any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal, often one performed for atonement or punishment.
- (video games) A fight against swarms of relatively minor enemies in the form of multiple waves, often but not always preceding a boss.
noun
- The act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.
- The resignation of an ecclesiastical office.
- (law) The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.
- (Christianity) In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.
- an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned
- the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)
- rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid
- the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
noun
- a brief and unsympathetic rejection
- (chiefly uncountable, figuratively) Sometimes preceded by the: a quick dismissal or rejection, especially one which is impolite and undertaken without proper consideration.
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly Roman Catholicism, historical) A rushed sacrament of confession given to a prisoner who is to be executed very soon.
- (countable, by extension) A short interval of relief or time.
- (chiefly uncountable, by extension) Speedy execution, usually without any proper determination of guilt.
verb
- (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
- (transitive) To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.
- (transitive) To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.
- (transitive) To order to leave.
- (transitive) To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).
- (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
- (transitive, sports, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.
- (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.
- bar from attention or consideration
- end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave
- stop associating with
- cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration
- declare void
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
noun
verb
verb
- (intransitive, colloquial, figuratively) To fail; to be refused a request or to have a proposal not be accepted, in particular a request for a (hopefully romantic) date.
- (figuratively) To strongly criticize or make a verbal attack, particularly as a response to previous criticism or provocation.
- (ergative, baseball, softball) Of a batter, to be retired after three strikes (missed swings, as opposed to any other way of becoming "out"); of a pitcher, to cause this to happen to the batter.
- (law, figurative) to treat something as settled
- To draw a line through some text such as a printed or written sentence, with the purpose of deleting that text from the rest of the document.
- (intransitive, often with at) To lash out; to strike or hit at someone or something, particularly something in arm's length of the striker and at or near the level of the striker's head.
- To begin to make one's way.
- remove from a list
- cause to get out
- be unsuccessful in an endeavor
- put out or be put out by a strikeout
- set out on a course of action
- make a motion as with one's fist or foot towards an object or away from one's body
verb
- (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
- To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
- (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
- (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
- To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
- (transitive) To disallow or reject.
- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- refuse to recognize or acknowledge
- deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure
- declare untrue; contradict
- refuse to accept or believe
- refuse to grant, as of a petition or request
- refuse to let have
verb
noun
noun
- a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
- a task to be dealt with
- an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors)
- (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false
- the act of making a proposal
- (countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
- (grammar) A complete sentence.
- (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
- (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
- (poetic) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
- (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
- (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
- A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed.
- (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula.
- (informal) A suggestion of sexual intercourse (made to someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
- Misspelling of preposition.
- (countable, mathematics, philosophy) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
verb
noun
- a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
- a just detectable amount
- the act of inducing hypnosis
- persuasion formulated as a suggestion
- an idea that is suggested
- the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association
- (law, countable) Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.
- (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
- (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
- (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
- The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
verb
- (transitive, UK, Australia) To reject; to refuse.
- (transitive) To drink an alcoholic beverage swiftly or often; to finish a beverage.
- (transitive, baking) To press or knead (dough) so as to remove air bubbles.
- (transitive) To withstand or endure a difficult situation or setback.
- (transitive) To achieve a significant accomplishment or success.
- (transitive) To push or strike someone or something backward with force.
- (transitive) To stun; to surprise.
- cost a certain amount
verb
noun
- An unscrupulous and sometimes illegal sales technique, in which an inexpensive product is advertised to attract prospective customers who are then told by sales personnel that the inexpensive product is unavailable or of poor quality and are instead urged to buy a more expensive product.
- (by extension) Any similar deceptive behavior, especially in politics and romantic relationships.
- a deceptive way of selling that involves advertising a product at a very low price in order to attract customers who are then persuaded to switch to a more expensive product
adj
- modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures
- showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement
- affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way
- Pretending shyness or modesty, especially in an insincere or flirtatious way.
- Soft, gentle, hesitating.
- Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish.
noun
noun
adj
noun
- the act of rejecting something
- The act of rejecting.
- the state of being rejected
- The state of being rejected.
- the speech act of rejecting
- (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign
- (medicine) An immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in an organ transplant.
- (sports) A blocked shot.
noun
- (rare) The person who declines such an offer.
- (rare) A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
- (radio, television, broadcasting) An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.
- A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
- The particles themselves.
- The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
- the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion
- any adverse and unwanted secondary effect
noun
- A refusal or failure to provide or grant something that is requested or desired.
- the act of refusing to comply (as with a request)
- (logic) The negation in logic.
- Refusal to believe that a problem exists.
- (psychology) A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect.
- An assertion of untruth.
- A disownment or disavowal
- Refusal to admit responsibility for wrongdoing.
- Negationism, denialism of historical facts or accepted interpretation.
- the act of asserting that something alleged is not true
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against them
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
- renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
noun
- The act of declining or refusing something.
- Downward movement, fall.
- A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
- A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- change toward something smaller or lower
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- a downward slope or bend
verb
- (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- (by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
- (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- (transitive, grammar) To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
- go down
- not accept as true
- show unwillingness towards
- inflect for number, gender, case, etc.
- grow smaller
- fall in value
- grow worse
noun
- a polite refusal of an invitation
- A refusal.
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere
- a downward slope or bend
- (linguistics, prosody) The gradual decline in the overall fundamental frequency or pitch of speech over the course of an utterance, independent of local variations such as tones and pitch accents.
- At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.
- At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the earth and the equatorial plane.
noun
- a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal
- a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms
- the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later
- (card games) A device for cheating at card games by covertly holding a card out of play until it is wanted.
- One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who holds out; one who clings to a cause that has been mostly abandoned.
noun
- A situation where a person is presented with the illusion of a free choice, but in reality there is only one option available: accepting the offer or having nothing at all.
- the choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all
- (by extension, loosely) A choice between several undesirable options; Sophie's choice.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) The voice.
noun
- a promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future
- a ticket stub entitling the holder to admission to a future event if the scheduled event was cancelled due to rain
- (by extension) In social interactions, a deferred invitation, or deferred acceptance of an invitation.
- A (special) price guarantee for a sold-out item or temporarily unavailable service.
- (less commonly) The promise to make good on any experience that the customer deems unsatisfactory.
- (originally US baseball) A reissue, at no extra charge, of a ticket for a baseball game or other outdoor event postponed or interrupted because of rain.
noun
- the act of taking something that is offered
- the state of being acceptable and accepted
- a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
- the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true
- a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank
- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
- (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)
- (government, US) The act of an authorized representative of the government by which the government assents to ownership of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
- (horse racing, Australia, New Zealand, plural only) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.
- (optics) Synonym of etendue.
- The state of being accepted.
- (law) An agreeing to the action, proposals, or terms of another by some act which results in the conclusion of a legally binding contract; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking of possession of a thing as owner.
- The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
- (uncountable) The act of accepting; the receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval.
- Belief in something; agreement, assent.
- (business, finance) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance; the bill of exchange itself when accepted.
- (countable) An instance of that act.
noun
- The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
- (Christianity) The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.
- A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.
- (bridge) A bid that tells one's partner that game or slam is likely if their hand is at the strong end of what they have indicated.
- Allurement; enticement.
- (fencing) A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
- a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something
- a tempting allurement
noun
- (figuratively) A refusal, a denial, a rejection.
- (UK law) A declaration from the attorney general ending a criminal prosecution.
- (law) A proceeding or declaration by which a plaintiff or prosecutor ends a legal suit.
- an entry in the court record to the effect that the plaintiff or prosecutor will not proceed
verb
noun
- Acceptance (of a proposal, offer, request, etc.).
- The act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.
- (machinery) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine or loom for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
- the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
- any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)
noun
- The act by which something is offered.
- An oblation or presentation made as a religious act.
- Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered, such as for sale
- That which has been offered; a sacrifice.
- A contribution given at a religious service.
- money contributed to a religious organization; item or items contributed to a religious organization for religious purposes
- the verbal act of offering
- the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity
- something offered (as a proposal or bid)
verb
noun
- to offer or accept a challenge
- a glove with long sleeve
- a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
- a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
- the convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place; the inner rails cross and run parallel and then diverge so a train remains on its own tracks at all times
- (US) Alternative spelling of gauntlet.
noun
- to offer or accept a challenge
- a glove with long sleeve
- a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
- a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
- Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.
- A long glove covering the wrist.
- (rail transport) Overlapping parallel rail tracks; either to allowing passage through a narrow opening in each direction without switching, or to allow vehicles of a larger gauge to pass through a station without hitting the platforms.
- A simultaneous attack from two or more sides.
- (nautical) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
- (medicine) An eruption of pellagra on the hands.
- (figuratively) Any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal, often one performed for atonement or punishment.
- (video games) A fight against swarms of relatively minor enemies in the form of multiple waves, often but not always preceding a boss.
noun
- The act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.
- The resignation of an ecclesiastical office.
- (law) The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.
- (Christianity) In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.
- an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned
- the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)
- rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid
- the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
noun
- a brief and unsympathetic rejection
- (chiefly uncountable, figuratively) Sometimes preceded by the: a quick dismissal or rejection, especially one which is impolite and undertaken without proper consideration.
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly Roman Catholicism, historical) A rushed sacrament of confession given to a prisoner who is to be executed very soon.
- (countable, by extension) A short interval of relief or time.
- (chiefly uncountable, by extension) Speedy execution, usually without any proper determination of guilt.
noun
verb
noun
- a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
- a task to be dealt with
- an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors)
- (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false
- the act of making a proposal
- (countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
- (grammar) A complete sentence.
- (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
- (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
- (poetic) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
- (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
- (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
- A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed.
- (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula.
- (informal) A suggestion of sexual intercourse (made to someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
- Misspelling of preposition.
- (countable, mathematics, philosophy) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
verb
noun
- a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
- a just detectable amount
- the act of inducing hypnosis
- persuasion formulated as a suggestion
- an idea that is suggested
- the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association
- (law, countable) Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.
- (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
- (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
- (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
- The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
verb
- not accept something given or offered
- refuse entrance or membership
- reject with contempt
- not accept as true
- deem wrong or inappropriate
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- (transitive) To refuse a romantic advance.
- (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- (transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
noun
verb
- To refuse something offered, especially with contempt, disgust, or scorn, or with apparent disregard about offending the offerer.
- To tilt one's face upwards slightly, thus raising one's nose, and often to look downwards at someone, as a sign of contempt, disgust, or scorn.
- To regard or treat someone with contempt or scorn; to scorn; also, to disregard or ignore someone in a contemptuous or scornful way.
verb
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
- accept or judge as acceptable
- be superior or better than some standard
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- throw (a ball) to another player
- allow to go without comment or censure
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go unchallenged; be approved
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
- move past
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- for time to move forward
- travel past
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- disappear gradually
- be inherited by
- grant authorization or clearance for
- transmit information
- go across or through
- pass over, across, or through
- cause to pass
- place into the hands or custody of
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- come to pass
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
noun
- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- An attempt.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a usually brief attempt
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- (military) a written leave of absence
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- a difficult juncture
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a complimentary ticket
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
adj
verb
- offer as an excuse or plea
- appeal or request earnestly
- enter a plea, as in courts of law
- make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts
- (ambitransitive, copulative) To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.
- (intransitive) To beg, beseech, or implore, especially emotionally.
- (transitive) To discuss by arguments.
- (transitive) To offer by way of excuse.
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
- (transitive) To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.
- (transitive) To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.
- (transitive) To order to leave.
- (transitive) To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).
- (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
- (transitive, sports, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.
- (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.
- bar from attention or consideration
- end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave
- stop associating with
- cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration
- declare void
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
verb
- (intransitive, colloquial, figuratively) To fail; to be refused a request or to have a proposal not be accepted, in particular a request for a (hopefully romantic) date.
- (figuratively) To strongly criticize or make a verbal attack, particularly as a response to previous criticism or provocation.
- (ergative, baseball, softball) Of a batter, to be retired after three strikes (missed swings, as opposed to any other way of becoming "out"); of a pitcher, to cause this to happen to the batter.
- (law, figurative) to treat something as settled
- To draw a line through some text such as a printed or written sentence, with the purpose of deleting that text from the rest of the document.
- (intransitive, often with at) To lash out; to strike or hit at someone or something, particularly something in arm's length of the striker and at or near the level of the striker's head.
- To begin to make one's way.
- remove from a list
- cause to get out
- be unsuccessful in an endeavor
- put out or be put out by a strikeout
- set out on a course of action
- make a motion as with one's fist or foot towards an object or away from one's body
verb
- (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
- To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
- (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
- (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
- To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
- (transitive) To disallow or reject.
- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- refuse to recognize or acknowledge
- deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure
- declare untrue; contradict
- refuse to accept or believe
- refuse to grant, as of a petition or request
- refuse to let have
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive, UK, Australia) To reject; to refuse.
- (transitive) To drink an alcoholic beverage swiftly or often; to finish a beverage.
- (transitive, baking) To press or knead (dough) so as to remove air bubbles.
- (transitive) To withstand or endure a difficult situation or setback.
- (transitive) To achieve a significant accomplishment or success.
- (transitive) To push or strike someone or something backward with force.
- (transitive) To stun; to surprise.
- cost a certain amount
verb
noun
- An unscrupulous and sometimes illegal sales technique, in which an inexpensive product is advertised to attract prospective customers who are then told by sales personnel that the inexpensive product is unavailable or of poor quality and are instead urged to buy a more expensive product.
- (by extension) Any similar deceptive behavior, especially in politics and romantic relationships.
- a deceptive way of selling that involves advertising a product at a very low price in order to attract customers who are then persuaded to switch to a more expensive product
adj
- modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures
- showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement
- affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way
- Pretending shyness or modesty, especially in an insincere or flirtatious way.
- Soft, gentle, hesitating.
- Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish.