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adj
- worn and broken down by hard use
- Worn down by overuse; decrepit.
- of or pertaining to arthritis
- having a rasping or grating sound
- (linguistics) Of or relating to a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together, compressing the vocal folds.
- arthritic or rheumatic.
- Tending to creak.
adj
- worn and broken down by hard use
- in deplorable condition
- failing in what duty requires
- forsaken by owner or inhabitants
- Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
- (by extension) Of property: in a poor state due to abandonment or neglect; dilapidated, neglected.
- (specifically) Of a ship: abandoned at sea; of a spacecraft: abandoned in outer space.
- (chiefly US) Negligent in performing a duty; careless.
- (figurative) Adrift, lost.
noun
- a person without a home, job, or property
- a ship abandoned on the high seas
- (uncountable) Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
- (uncountable, specifically, law) Property abandoned at sea with no hope of recovery and no expectation of being returned to its owner; (countable) an item of such property, especially a ship.
- (countable, chiefly US) A person who is negligent in performing a duty.
- (countable, by extension, derogatory) A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant; also, a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their hygiene and personal affairs.
adj
- Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered.
- damaged especially by hard usage
- (informal) Drunk; inebriated.
- Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
- (cooking) Coated with batter (noun).
- damaged by blows or hard usage
- exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury
verb
noun
- anything lost by wear or waste
- (countable) Anything lost by wear or waste.
- the process of wasting
- (uncountable) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process.
- (uncountable) The periodical turnover of personnel in an organisation by death, retirement or resignation, as perceived by those aspiring to promotion or appointment in the organisation.
- (hunting, countable) The act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts, usually illegal.
- (uncountable) Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss.
noun
verb
- present or use over, with no or few changes
- go back over
- (transitive) To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event.
- (transitive) To repeat with minor variation.
- (transitive) To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.
- (transitive, computing) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
noun
- An object, typically broken beyond repair, that is used for spare parts.
- One who makes a donation.
- (chemistry) A group or molecule that donates either a radical, electrons or a moiety in a chemical reaction. Compare acceptor.
- (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)
- person who makes a gift of property
adj
- Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy.
- Of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean; also, not generous; stingy, tight-fisted.
- (often in the negative) Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.
- (UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) Chiefly of sheep: affected by shab or scab (“a skin disease”); scabby.
- Of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing.
- (UK, dialectal or informal) Of weather: wet and dreary.
- showing signs of wear and tear
- mean and unworthy and despicable
verb
adj
noun
- The act by which something is worn.
- That which is worn; clothes; garments.
- The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
- (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively
- the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
verb
adj
- not in good condition; damaged or decayed
- containing or based on a fallacy
- of e.g. advice
- suffering from severe mental illness
- not sound financially
- physically unsound or diseased
- (especially of equestrianism) Infirm, diseased.
- (UK, especially of people) Not good, unreliable.
- Not whole, not solid, defective.
noun
- Something that has been discarded; a castoff.
- (accounting) Income minus expenses and depreciation (before tax).
- (UK) A start in a hunt or a race.
- A red herring; something intended to throw people off.
- A control that engages or disengages part of the mechanism on a device without having to turn the device off.
- Something that is done, made, or said informally, on the side, or off-the-cuff.
- Something that is flung or thrown off.
- (sports) A throw taken to resume play, such as after a goal or at the start of a period.
- A byproduct, spinoff, or incidental creation.
- A race in which a contestant is paid to deliberately lose.
- The act of flinging or throwing something off.
- The deflection of a projectile at an angle.
- (by extension) A discount on a debt or invoice due to a problem with the asset being paid for.
noun
- The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
- Something or someone that has been ruined.
- (ornithology) A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
- (law, uncountable) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
- An event in which something is damaged through collision.
- (specifically, nautical) A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
- a ship that has been destroyed at sea
- an accident that destroys a ship at sea
- a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
- something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation
verb
- (transitive) To ruin or dilapidate.
- (transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
- (transitive, Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
- (intransitive) To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.
- (transitive) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
- smash or break forcefully
adj
- Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out.
- In poor condition; damaged, shabby; also, poorly equipped or provided for, inadequate, meagre, scanty.
- Of an argument, excuse, etc.: used so often that it is no longer effective or interesting; banal, clichéd, trite.
- An argument or assertion with little in the way of substance or supporting evidence.
- having the nap worn away so that the threads show through
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
noun
verb
- (intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
- (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
- have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
- last and be usable
- put clothing on one's body
- deteriorate through use or stress
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- go to pieces
- have or show an appearance of
- be dressed in
- have on one's person
adj
noun
verb
adj
- (of furniture, etc.) Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
- (of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.
- (of a property) Offered for sale after foreclosure.
- (finance, of securities) Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.
- Anxious or uneasy.
- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- generalized feeling of distress
- suffering severe physical strain or distress
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- (UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- The smallest amount.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used
- the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
verb
- (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- to fight
- (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of.
- (transitive) To make into scrap.
- (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
- make into scrap or refuse
- dispose of (something useless or old)
- have a disagreement over something
adj
- easily broken or damaged or destroyed
- developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
- difficult to handle; requiring great tact
- of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely
- marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique
- easily hurt
- exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
- Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
- Intended for use with fragile items.
- Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
- Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
- Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
- (informal) Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
- Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
- Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
- Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
- Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
- Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
- Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
noun
adj
noun
adj
- easily broken or damaged or destroyed
- Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- physically weak
- (medicine) In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
- Weak; infirm.
- Mentally fragile.
- Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
noun
- the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds
- a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)
- Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”).
- A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
- A rush for weaving baskets.
- The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail.
verb
adj
- Destroyed, usually in an accident; damaged to the point of unusability.
- (Internet slang) Having been put in a dreadful or embarrassing situation; can range from being pwned in a game to being utterly defeated in an argument or publicly shamed with a stinging insult.
- (slang) Very intoxicated from alcohol or recreational drugs.
- destroyed in an accident
verb
adj
- In poor condition or repair.
- Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.
- (originally British) Annoyed, bad-tempered, irritable.
- (Australia) Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, or over), attracted to, infatuated with.
- Infested with rats.
- showing signs of wear and tear
- of or characteristic of rats
- dirty and infested with rats
noun
noun
- Something that has been broken.
- The act of breaking.
- (accounting) A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
- The left-over money in a pari-mutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
- reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use
- the quantity broken
- the act of breaking something
adv
adj
- (of cigarette or cigar smoke) Inhaled from the air near someone else smoking.
- (of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.
- (of a dealer) Dealing in such merchandise.
- (figurative) Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand.
- derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand
- previously used or owned by another
noun
adj
noun
prep_phrase
noun
- a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- (in the plural) Money paid at the end of an incumbency by the incumbent or his heirs for the purpose of putting the parsonage etc. in good repair for the succeeding incumbent.
- (British, law) Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or intentionally.
- (law) The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or intentionally.
- The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined.
noun
- Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
- Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
- Something that is mandatory, required or recommended.
- The property of being stale or musty.
- Alternative spelling of musth.
- grape juice before or during fermentation
- a necessary or essential thing
- the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
verb
- (intransitive) To become musty.
- Used to indicate that something is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
- (transitive) To make musty.
- To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
- To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
adj
noun
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- loose material (stone fragments and silt etc.) that is worn away from rocks
- (biology, ecology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
- (countable, chiefly geology) Pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
- (by extension) Any debris or fragments of disintegrated material.
- Rock consisting of accumulated debris from decayed rocks, like sand, that often is joined by cement.
noun
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
verb
- remove the dust from
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- distribute loosely
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
noun
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
- Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
- (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
- (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- (slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.
- (nautical) Salt beef.
- (attributive) Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
- Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
verb
noun
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- (UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
- (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
- The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
verb
adj
noun
- words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
- (Internet) A burner account.
- Any printed material that need not be kept after being read; especially, a flyer or brochure.
adj
- Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
- Of a statement or account, unembellished.
- (by extension) Denuded of any covering.
- (specifically) Having little or no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head.
- Of animals, having areas (of fur or plumage) that are colored white, especially on the head.
- Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.
- Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.
- lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
- with no effort to conceal
- without the natural or usual covering
noun
verb
noun
- (US, Maine) An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
- The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
- (US, Maine) Junk or debris.
adj
verb
verb
- To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.
- To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.
- To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
- (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
- (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
- To adopt (an animal).
- To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
- (biology, genetics) To restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation.
- To save from any violence, danger or evil.
- free from harm or evil
- take forcibly from legal custody
noun
- A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
- A liberation, freeing.
- A rescuee.
- The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
- (law, largely obsolete) The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
- An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
noun
adj
verb
- To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
- To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
- To add fuel to (a fire).
- To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
- In mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace).
- To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
- (chiefly Scotland) To become morally improved or reformed.
- Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
- Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
- (archaic except UK, regional) To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
- heal or recover
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
noun
- (uncountable) Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
- (countable) An act of repairing.
- (countable) A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- the act of putting something in working order again
noun
- anything lost by wear or waste
- (countable) Anything lost by wear or waste.
- the process of wasting
- (uncountable) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process.
- (uncountable) The periodical turnover of personnel in an organisation by death, retirement or resignation, as perceived by those aspiring to promotion or appointment in the organisation.
- (hunting, countable) The act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts, usually illegal.
- (uncountable) Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss.
noun
verb
- present or use over, with no or few changes
- go back over
- (transitive) To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event.
- (transitive) To repeat with minor variation.
- (transitive) To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.
- (transitive, computing) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
noun
- An object, typically broken beyond repair, that is used for spare parts.
- One who makes a donation.
- (chemistry) A group or molecule that donates either a radical, electrons or a moiety in a chemical reaction. Compare acceptor.
- (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)
- person who makes a gift of property
noun
- Something that has been discarded; a castoff.
- (accounting) Income minus expenses and depreciation (before tax).
- (UK) A start in a hunt or a race.
- A red herring; something intended to throw people off.
- A control that engages or disengages part of the mechanism on a device without having to turn the device off.
- Something that is done, made, or said informally, on the side, or off-the-cuff.
- Something that is flung or thrown off.
- (sports) A throw taken to resume play, such as after a goal or at the start of a period.
- A byproduct, spinoff, or incidental creation.
- A race in which a contestant is paid to deliberately lose.
- The act of flinging or throwing something off.
- The deflection of a projectile at an angle.
- (by extension) A discount on a debt or invoice due to a problem with the asset being paid for.
noun
- The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
- Something or someone that has been ruined.
- (ornithology) A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
- (law, uncountable) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
- An event in which something is damaged through collision.
- (specifically, nautical) A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
- a ship that has been destroyed at sea
- an accident that destroys a ship at sea
- a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
- something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation
verb
- (transitive) To ruin or dilapidate.
- (transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
- (transitive, Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
- (intransitive) To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.
- (transitive) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
- smash or break forcefully
noun
verb
- (intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
- (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
- have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
- last and be usable
- put clothing on one's body
- deteriorate through use or stress
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- go to pieces
- have or show an appearance of
- be dressed in
- have on one's person
noun
- (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- (UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- The smallest amount.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used
- the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
verb
- (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- to fight
- (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of.
- (transitive) To make into scrap.
- (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
- make into scrap or refuse
- dispose of (something useless or old)
- have a disagreement over something
noun
- Something that has been broken.
- The act of breaking.
- (accounting) A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
- The left-over money in a pari-mutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
- reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use
- the quantity broken
- the act of breaking something
noun
- a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- (in the plural) Money paid at the end of an incumbency by the incumbent or his heirs for the purpose of putting the parsonage etc. in good repair for the succeeding incumbent.
- (British, law) Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or intentionally.
- (law) The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or intentionally.
- The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined.
noun
- Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
- Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
- Something that is mandatory, required or recommended.
- The property of being stale or musty.
- Alternative spelling of musth.
- grape juice before or during fermentation
- a necessary or essential thing
- the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
verb
- (intransitive) To become musty.
- Used to indicate that something is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
- (transitive) To make musty.
- To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
- To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
adj
noun
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- loose material (stone fragments and silt etc.) that is worn away from rocks
- (biology, ecology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
- (countable, chiefly geology) Pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
- (by extension) Any debris or fragments of disintegrated material.
- Rock consisting of accumulated debris from decayed rocks, like sand, that often is joined by cement.
noun
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
verb
- remove the dust from
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- distribute loosely
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
noun
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
- Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
- (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
- (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- (slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.
- (nautical) Salt beef.
- (attributive) Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
- Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
verb
noun
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- (UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
- (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
- The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
verb
noun
- (US, Maine) An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
- The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
- (US, Maine) Junk or debris.
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
- To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.
- To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.
- To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
- (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
- (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
- To adopt (an animal).
- To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
- (biology, genetics) To restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation.
- To save from any violence, danger or evil.
- free from harm or evil
- take forcibly from legal custody
noun
- A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
- A liberation, freeing.
- A rescuee.
- The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
- (law, largely obsolete) The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
- An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
verb
- To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
- To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
- To add fuel to (a fire).
- To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
- In mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace).
- To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
- (chiefly Scotland) To become morally improved or reformed.
- Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
- Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
- (archaic except UK, regional) To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
- heal or recover
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
noun
- (uncountable) Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
- (countable) An act of repairing.
- (countable) A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- the act of putting something in working order again
adv
adj
- (of cigarette or cigar smoke) Inhaled from the air near someone else smoking.
- (of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.
- (of a dealer) Dealing in such merchandise.
- (figurative) Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand.
- derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand
- previously used or owned by another
noun
adj
- worn and broken down by hard use
- Worn down by overuse; decrepit.
- of or pertaining to arthritis
- having a rasping or grating sound
- (linguistics) Of or relating to a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together, compressing the vocal folds.
- arthritic or rheumatic.
- Tending to creak.
adj
- worn and broken down by hard use
- in deplorable condition
- failing in what duty requires
- forsaken by owner or inhabitants
- Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
- (by extension) Of property: in a poor state due to abandonment or neglect; dilapidated, neglected.
- (specifically) Of a ship: abandoned at sea; of a spacecraft: abandoned in outer space.
- (chiefly US) Negligent in performing a duty; careless.
- (figurative) Adrift, lost.
noun
- a person without a home, job, or property
- a ship abandoned on the high seas
- (uncountable) Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
- (uncountable, specifically, law) Property abandoned at sea with no hope of recovery and no expectation of being returned to its owner; (countable) an item of such property, especially a ship.
- (countable, chiefly US) A person who is negligent in performing a duty.
- (countable, by extension, derogatory) A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant; also, a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their hygiene and personal affairs.
adj
- Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered.
- damaged especially by hard usage
- (informal) Drunk; inebriated.
- Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
- (cooking) Coated with batter (noun).
- damaged by blows or hard usage
- exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury
verb
adj
- Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy.
- Of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean; also, not generous; stingy, tight-fisted.
- (often in the negative) Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.
- (UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) Chiefly of sheep: affected by shab or scab (“a skin disease”); scabby.
- Of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing.
- (UK, dialectal or informal) Of weather: wet and dreary.
- showing signs of wear and tear
- mean and unworthy and despicable
verb
adj
noun
- The act by which something is worn.
- That which is worn; clothes; garments.
- The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
- (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively
- the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
verb
adj
- not in good condition; damaged or decayed
- containing or based on a fallacy
- of e.g. advice
- suffering from severe mental illness
- not sound financially
- physically unsound or diseased
- (especially of equestrianism) Infirm, diseased.
- (UK, especially of people) Not good, unreliable.
- Not whole, not solid, defective.
adj
- Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out.
- In poor condition; damaged, shabby; also, poorly equipped or provided for, inadequate, meagre, scanty.
- Of an argument, excuse, etc.: used so often that it is no longer effective or interesting; banal, clichéd, trite.
- An argument or assertion with little in the way of substance or supporting evidence.
- having the nap worn away so that the threads show through
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
adj
noun
verb
adj
- (of furniture, etc.) Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
- (of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.
- (of a property) Offered for sale after foreclosure.
- (finance, of securities) Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.
- Anxious or uneasy.
- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- generalized feeling of distress
- suffering severe physical strain or distress
verb
adj
- easily broken or damaged or destroyed
- developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
- difficult to handle; requiring great tact
- of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely
- marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique
- easily hurt
- exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
- Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
- Intended for use with fragile items.
- Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
- Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
- Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
- (informal) Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
- Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
- Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
- Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
- Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
- Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
- Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
noun
adj
noun
adj
- easily broken or damaged or destroyed
- Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- physically weak
- (medicine) In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
- Weak; infirm.
- Mentally fragile.
- Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
noun
- the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds
- a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)
- Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”).
- A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
- A rush for weaving baskets.
- The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail.
verb
adj
- Destroyed, usually in an accident; damaged to the point of unusability.
- (Internet slang) Having been put in a dreadful or embarrassing situation; can range from being pwned in a game to being utterly defeated in an argument or publicly shamed with a stinging insult.
- (slang) Very intoxicated from alcohol or recreational drugs.
- destroyed in an accident
verb
adj
- In poor condition or repair.
- Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.
- (originally British) Annoyed, bad-tempered, irritable.
- (Australia) Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, or over), attracted to, infatuated with.
- Infested with rats.
- showing signs of wear and tear
- of or characteristic of rats
- dirty and infested with rats
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
- words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
- (Internet) A burner account.
- Any printed material that need not be kept after being read; especially, a flyer or brochure.
adj
- Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
- Of a statement or account, unembellished.
- (by extension) Denuded of any covering.
- (specifically) Having little or no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head.
- Of animals, having areas (of fur or plumage) that are colored white, especially on the head.
- Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.
- Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.
- lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
- with no effort to conceal
- without the natural or usual covering