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verb
noun
- An incursion; an inroad.
- (countable) The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.
- (astronomy, uncountable) Movement towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity; especially the process whereby gas falls towards a neutron star or black hole at high speed, forming a plasma
- The act or process of falling in.
verb
- (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
- (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
- To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, across, or against.
- (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
- (transitive, figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
- make an error
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- encounter by chance
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To suddenly fail or give way destructively.
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at; to mess up; to make a mistake in.
- (transitive) To make flyblown; to defile or spoil, especially with fly eggs.
- (ergative, of a fuse) To melt away because of overcurrent, creating a gap in a wire, thus stopping a circuit from operating.
- (transitive, historical, military) To blow from a gun (method of executing a person).
- (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
- (intransitive) To produce an air current.
- (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
- (intransitive, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as a result of being blown.
- (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed (in flesh or meat).
- (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform oral sex on (someone); to fellate.
- (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing (as a musical instrument).
- (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
- (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
- (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
- (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- (intransitive, slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- cause to move by means of an air current
- cause air to go in, on, or through
- free of obstruction by blowing air through
- spout moist air from the blowhole
- be blowing or storming
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- shape by blowing
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- be inadequate or objectionable
- play or sound a wind instrument
- deposit eggs (of insects)
- burst suddenly
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- sound by having air expelled through a tube
- exhale hard
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- show off
- make a sound as if blown
- spend lavishly or wastefully on
- leave; informal or rude
- cause to be revealed and jeopardized
- allow to regain its breath
adj
intj
noun
- A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
- (figurative) A display of anything bright or brilliant.
- A strong wind.
- An instance of the act of striking or hitting.
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
- (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- (uncountable, Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.
- (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
- (uncountable, US, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
- (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
- A state of flowering; a bloom.
- A damaging occurrence.
- an impact (as from a collision)
- a strong current of air
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- street names for cocaine
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
verb
intj
verb
- (intransitive) To become hard.
- (Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize.
- (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
- (intransitive, informal) To get an erection.
- (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder.
- (ambitransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
- (transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
- (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
- become hard or harder
- cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
- make hard or harder
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- make healthy
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- walk with great difficulty
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- to arrange in a systematic order
noun
- (UK) One who attends a stag night.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- an unsteady uneven gait
verb
- (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
- (transitive) To endure, undergo.
- (intransitive) To become worse.
- (intransitive) To feel pain.
- undergo or suffer
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- be in pain
- be given to
- get worse in quality
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- be set at a disadvantage
- undergo or be subjected to
verb
- (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
- (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
- (transitive) To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
- (finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.
- (transitive) To supply with corners.
- (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
- (transitive) To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- turn a corner
- gain control over
intj
noun
- (baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
- (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
- (soccer) A corner kick.
- (baseball) First base or third base.
- (boxing, by extension) The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
- The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
- One who corns, or preserves food in salt.
- (American football) A cornerback.
- (boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
- (figuratively) Complete control or ownership of something.
- A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
- An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
- The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
- (attributive) Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.
- (Maine) The neighborhood surrounding an intersection of rural roads.
- The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
- the intersection of two streets
- a projecting part where two sides or edges meet
- the point where two lines meet or intersect
- a small concavity
- a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade
- (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
- a remote area
- a place off to the side of an area
- the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect
- an interior angle formed by two meeting walls
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
verb
- (intransitive) To fall in; to cave in.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, in.
- (transitive, US) To install components, particularly car engines.
- (surfing, intransitive) To paddle into and take off on a wave another surfer is already riding.
- (idiomatic) To arrive casually and unannounced, with little or no warning; also, to visit without an appointment.
- visit informally and spontaneously
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (countable and uncountable, slang) Any alcoholic drink.
- (countable) An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
- (countable, rail transport) An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.
- a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
verb
- (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
- (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
- (transitive) To be profitable for.
- (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.
- (transitive) To give (something else than money).
- (transitive) To yield as a benefit.
- (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
- (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
- (ambitransitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
- dedicate
- cancel or discharge a debt
- be worth it
- make a compensation for
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- bring in
- bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action
- do or give something to somebody in return
- render
- give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
- discharge or settle
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make large
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
verb
- (intransitive) To make an attempt.
- (transitive) To offer as a price; to tender.
- (transitive, intransitive, trucking) To take a particular route regularly.
- (ambitransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
- (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
- (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
- (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
- (transitive) To invite; to summon.
- ask for or request earnestly
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
- ask someone in a friendly way to do something
- propose a payment
- make a serious effort to attain something
- invoke upon
noun
- An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
- (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
- (trucking) A particular route that a driver regularly takes from their domicile.
- (prison slang) A prison sentence.
- An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
- an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make
- an attempt to get something
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
verb
- (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- (transitive) To violate or break.
- (intransitive, of a whale or other sea creature) To leap out of the water.
- (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
- make an opening or gap in
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
noun
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
- an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
verb
- (intransitive) To progress with difficulty.
- (of the sun or moon) To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.
- (intransitive) To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
- (intransitive) To enter recklessly.
- (transitive) To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.
- walk (through relatively shallow water)
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To bend too far.
- (archery, transitive) To provide (an archer) with a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (archery, intransitive) To use a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (chiefly poetic, transitive) To arch over.
- (transitive) To show excessive deference toward by too much bowing.
- (transitive) To bow or bend (something) over beyond its natural trajectory; to bend in a contrary direction.
- To use too much pressure when playing a stringed instrument using a bow.
- (transitive) To overburden.
adj
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- (ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive) To neglect.
- fail to get a passing grade
- judge unacceptable
- be unsuccessful
- prove insufficient
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- deteriorate
- stop operating or functioning
- fall short in what is expected
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- be unable
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- (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.
- 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
- 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.
- The act of declining or refusing something.
- 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 blunder uncertainly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
- To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
- To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- handle clumsily
- feel about uncertainly or blindly
- drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become pessimal or the worst.
- (transitive) To take a pessimistic view of; to speak of in a negative or pessimistic way.
- (intransitive) To think like a pessimist; to believe the worst.
- (transitive) To make (something) pessimal or the worst; (in a weaker sense) to make (something, such as a computer program) less efficient.
verb
- (intransitive) To undulate.
- (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
- (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
- (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
- (rare, figuratively, also literally) To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- be unstable
- cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
verb
- (intransitive) to fall away or decline
- (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
- (intransitive) to flow back or recede
- (transitive) To cause to flow back.
- flow back or recede
- hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
- fall away or decline
adj
noun
- A gradual decline.
- A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
- (especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
- The receding movement of the tide.
- the outward flow of the tide
- a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
verb
- (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- (transitive) To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).
- throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo
- attack viciously and ferociously
noun
- A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
- A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.
- (chiefly UK, sometimes capitalized) The children's game of British Bulldog or Red Rover.
- (UK, Oxford University slang) One of the proctors' officers.
- Any of various species of African freshwater fish in the genus Marcusenius, a type of elephantfish.
- A stubborn or determined person.
- (US, publishing) A bulldog edition.
- The original form of this breed, the British bulldog.
- (professional wrestling) Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.
- a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting
verb
- (intransitive) To rise and fall.
- (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- (transitive) To utter with effort.
- (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
- (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- (transitive) To throw, cast.
- (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- lift or elevate
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- utter a sound, as with obvious effort
- throw with great effort
noun
- (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
- (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- (geology) a horizontal dislocation
- the act of raising something
- the act of lifting something with great effort
- throwing something heavy (with great effort)
- an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
- an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
verb
- (intransitive) To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- (transitive) To make the (specified) sound.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become (often used with colors and negative states).
- To come (to a certain condition or state).
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- (intransitive) To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- (transitive) To yield or weigh.
- (intransitive) To die.
- (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
- (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- (imperative) Expressing encouragement or approval.
- (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- (intransitive) To be valid or applicable.
- (intransitive) To leave; to move away.
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To fight, usually with the fists.
- To travel or pass along.
- (intransitive, colloquial, with another verb, sometimes linked by and) To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- (intransitive) To fight or attack.
- (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- (in phrases with 'as') Used to express how some category of things generally is, as a reference for, contrast to, or comparison with, a particular example.
- (intransitive) To be accepted.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket) To be lost.
- To move to (a position or state).
- (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
- (intransitive, snooker) Of a ball, to be capable of being potted, not having its path to the pocket obstructed by other balls.
- (intransitive) To extend along.
- (intransitive, usually followed by with) To pass (a specified time) in gestation; to be pregnant.
- (transitive, colloquial) To say (something, aloud or to oneself).
- (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- (intransitive, often followed by a preposition) To fit.
- (transitive, Australian slang) To attack.
- (intransitive) To date.
- (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
- (intransitive) To sound; to make a noise.
- (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- (intransitive) To belong (somewhere).
- (intransitive) To be spent or used up.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To be out.
- (intransitive) To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To go to the toilet; to urinate or defecate.
- (intransitive) Of an opinion or instruction, to have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.)
- (intransitive) To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- (intransitive) To be sold.
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- (intransitive) To break down or decay.
- (intransitive) To be discarded or disposed of.
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- (intransitive) To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- (intransitive) To tend (toward a result)
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- (intransitive) To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- (intransitive) To attend.
- (intransitive, copulative) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access (to).
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- (transitive) To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- (UK, especially MLE, Australia, Singapore, intransitive, colloquial) Clipping of go to the.
- (intransitive) To resort (to).
- (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay; to sell for.
- be sounded, played, or expressed
- lead, extend, or afford access
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- be spent
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- to be spent or finished
- be or continue to be in a certain condition
- be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
- progress by being changed
- be abolished or discarded
- begin or set in motion
- be contained in
- stop operating or functioning
- have a turn; make one's move in a game
- pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
- follow a procedure or take a course
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- be ranked or compare
- be awarded; be allotted
- move away from a place into another direction
- blend or harmonize
- make a certain noise or sound
- be in the right place or situation
- follow a certain course
- perform as expected when applied
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
- continue to live and avoid dying
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
adj
noun
- An attempt, a try.
- An act; the working or operation.
- (uncountable) Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- A period of activity.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- (uncommon) The act of going.
- (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- A time; an experience.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- a usually brief attempt
- a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters
verb
- (intransitive, with adverb or preposition) To enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
- (chess, backgammon, intransitive) To make a bad move, especially caused by tactical oversight.
- (intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid.
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative, with adverb or preposition) To move in an unsteady way.
- (chess, transitive) To overlook the possibility of, or end up in, a specified undesirable situation after making a bad move.
- (chess, transitive) To lose a piece due to having made a bad move [with the piece lost].
- commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- utter impulsively
noun
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
- (transitive, slang) To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
- (transitive, slang) To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.
- (transitive) To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
- (transitive) To damage; injure.
- (transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
- (transitive) To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
- (transitive) To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
- disturb the smoothness of
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- make a mess of or create disorder in
verb
- (intransitive) To be confused.
- (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
- (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
- (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
- mistake one thing for another
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- assemble without order or sense
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- cause to feel embarrassment
verb
- (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- assume a drooping posture or carriage
- fall in value
- fall or sink heavily
noun
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- (UK, dialect) A boggy place.
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- (geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
- (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
- (geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
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.
noun
- Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
- Something that is mandatory, required or recommended.
- Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
- 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
adj
verb
- (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
- (imperative, euphemistic) Damn; curse.
- To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
- (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
- (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- make nervous or agitated
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- make confused or perplexed or puzzled
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- intrude or enter uninvited
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To come down, to drop or descend.
- (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become (chiefly used with negative states).
- (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To be brought to the ground.
- (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To visit; to go to a place.
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- slope downward
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- lose one's chastity
- yield to temptation or sin
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- lose an upright position suddenly
- move in a specified direction
- begin vigorously
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be due
- be inherited by
- come out; issue
- occur at a specified time or place
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- lose office or power
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- come under, be classified or included
- come into the possession of
- fall or flow in a certain way
- come as if by falling
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- fall from clouds
- be captured
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- be cast down
- to be given by right or inheritance
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- go as if by falling
intj
noun
- (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- That which falls or cascades.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.
- (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The height of that which falls or cascades.
- (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a movement downward
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- a downward slope or bend
verb
- (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
- (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- (transitive) To remove a blockage by suction.
- (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
- thrust or throw into
- drop steeply
- dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
- cause to be immersed
- begin with vigor
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- devote (oneself) fully to
- fall abruptly
noun
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
- The act of plunging or submerging.
- (figuratively) The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- (slang) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
- a steep and rapid fall
- a brief swim in water
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To romp or tumble.
- (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
- (transitive, of a person or group of people) To annoy; to make angry; to throw into discord.
- (transitive, of a fluid, especially a liquid) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
- make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
- be agitated
verb
noun
- A minor offense.
- (mining) An intrusion of another material, such as dirt or slate, within a coal seam.
- (hunting) A loss of the scent being tracked by a hound.
- (typically uncountable) Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
- A characteristic, positive or negative or both, which increases one's risk of danger or difficulty.
- (geology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
- (programming) An exception within a software program or process.
- (tennis) An illegal serve.
- (equestrianism) A penalty point assessed in horseback events such as show jumping.
- (morality) A failing of character; less severe than a vice.
- A strongly undesirable variation of food or drink caused by impurity or contamination.
- (technology) An abnormal connection within an electric circuit.
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)
- responsibility for a bad situation or event
- the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection
- (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- an imperfection in an object or machine
verb
- (intransitive) To come out of a situation; to escape a fate.
- (intransitive) To be released, especially from hospital or prison.
- (intransitive) To end.
- (transitive) To remove or eliminate (dirt or stains).
- (intransitive) To become known.
- (transitive) To help (someone) leave.
- (intransitive) To spend free time out of the house.
- (transitive) To publish or make available; to disseminate.
- (intransitive) To leave the inside of a vehicle such as a car. (Note: for public transport, get off is more common.)
- (transitive) To take (something) from its container or storage place, so as to use or display it.
- (intransitive) To remove one's money from an investment; to end an investment.
- (transitive) To say with difficulty.
- (intransitive) To leave or escape.
- move out of or depart from
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- express with difficulty
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- take out of a container or enclosed space
- move out or away
- be released or become known; of news
intj
verb
- (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
- (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
- (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive, cricket) To suffer a batting collapse.
- (intransitive) To fold compactly.
- (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
- collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
- fold or close up
- cause to burst
- fall apart
- lose significance, effectiveness, or value
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- suffer a nervous breakdown
noun
- (cricket) Ellipsis of batting collapse.
- Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
- The act of collapsing.
- an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
- the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
- (intransitive, slang) To commit suicide.
- (intransitive, biology, of DNA) To switch locations on chromosomes.
- (transitive) To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
- (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
- (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- (transitive) To cause to jump.
- (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
- (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- (transitive) To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
- (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
- (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- (intransitive, figurative) To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
- rise in rank or status
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- increase suddenly and significantly
- cause to jump or leap
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- make a sudden physical attack on
- enter eagerly into
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- jump down from an elevated point
- be highly noticeable
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- run off or leave the rails
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- bypass
noun
- (film) Clipping of jump cut.
- (slang) Any abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- (US, informal, automotive) Ellipsis of jump-start.
- (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- (with on) An early start or an advantage.
- (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- (physics, hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
- (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become tattered.
- (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang, sometimes euphemistic) To menstruate.
- (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- (transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- (British slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- censure severely or angrily
- play in ragtime
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- break into lumps before sorting
- treat cruelly
noun
- (slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
- (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- (typography) An uneven vertical margin (of a block of type).
- (slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
- (UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- (derogatory) A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.
- (singular or plural, slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- (especially in the plural) Tattered clothes (clothing).
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a small piece of cloth
- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
- music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
verb
- (intransitive) To do something.
- (transitive) To feign.
- (intransitive, law) To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
- (intransitive) To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- (intransitive) Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
- (transitive) To play (a role).
- (intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- play a role or part
- discharge one's duties
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- perform on a stage or theater
- be suitable for theatrical performance
adv
noun
- (law) Ellipsis of act of parliament.
- (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
- (countable) A display of behaviour.
- (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- (law, countable) (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
- (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
- The process of doing something.
- (countable) Something done, a deed.
- (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- (countable) Any organized activity.
- (countable, drama) A division of a theatrical performance.
- (law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- something that people do or cause to happen
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet
- a manifestation of insincerity
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
verb
- (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- (transitive) To overcome a security system or component.
- (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
- (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
- (intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- (colloquial) To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
- (transitive) To tell (a joke).
- (transitive) To open slightly.
- (intransitive, transgender slang) To realize that one is transgender.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
- (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
- (transitive) To strike forcefully.
- (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
- (intransitive) To form cracks.
- (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
- (transitive, chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- (mid 2020s slang) To have sex with, especially penetrative sex.
- (transitive, figurative) To solve a difficult problem.
- cause to become cracked
- break partially but keep its integrity
- tell spontaneously
- make a very sharp explosive sound
- break into simpler molecules by means of heat
- hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- make a sharp sound
- reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
- gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- pass through (a barrier)
adj
noun
- (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- (Cumbria, Northern UK) A chat.
- (figurative, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- (informal) An attempt at something.
- A narrow opening.
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.
- (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
- (informal) The space between the buttocks.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- a long narrow cleft
- the act of cracking something
- a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts
- a usually brief attempt
- a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
- a narrow opening
- a long narrow depression in a surface
- a sudden sharp noise
- witty remark
- a chance to do something
verb
- (intransitive, with at or on) To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success.
- (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
- (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
- (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
- (transitive) To risk or offer.
- (transitive) To say something; to offer an opinion.
- proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
- put at risk
noun
- A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
- The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
- An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
- a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit
- any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
verb
- (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move or cause to move back and forth
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- undermine or cause to waver
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- move back and forth or sideways
- get rid of
noun
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- A shock or disturbance.
- (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- A milkshake.
- (historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- building material used as siding or roofing
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
verb
- (intransitive) To barge in on something; to be a third wheel; to insinuate oneself into a situation or relationship; to get oneself involved in something.
- (intransitive, slang) To unfairly push in on (something); to gain a role in (something unsavory); to acquire a partial interest in (something) through deceit.
- break into a conversation
verb
noun
- (uncountable, pathology) An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
- Alternative form of gote (“sluice, ditch, drain; vault”).
- (rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
- (usually followed by of) A drop; a spurt or splotch.
- a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints
verb
noun
- An incursion; an inroad.
- (countable) The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.
- (astronomy, uncountable) Movement towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity; especially the process whereby gas falls towards a neutron star or black hole at high speed, forming a plasma
- The act or process of falling in.
verb
- (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
- (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
- To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, across, or against.
- (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
- (transitive, figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
- make an error
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- encounter by chance
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To suddenly fail or give way destructively.
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at; to mess up; to make a mistake in.
- (transitive) To make flyblown; to defile or spoil, especially with fly eggs.
- (ergative, of a fuse) To melt away because of overcurrent, creating a gap in a wire, thus stopping a circuit from operating.
- (transitive, historical, military) To blow from a gun (method of executing a person).
- (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
- (intransitive) To produce an air current.
- (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
- (intransitive, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as a result of being blown.
- (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed (in flesh or meat).
- (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform oral sex on (someone); to fellate.
- (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing (as a musical instrument).
- (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
- (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
- (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
- (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- (intransitive, slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- cause to move by means of an air current
- cause air to go in, on, or through
- free of obstruction by blowing air through
- spout moist air from the blowhole
- be blowing or storming
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- shape by blowing
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- be inadequate or objectionable
- play or sound a wind instrument
- deposit eggs (of insects)
- burst suddenly
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- sound by having air expelled through a tube
- exhale hard
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- show off
- make a sound as if blown
- spend lavishly or wastefully on
- leave; informal or rude
- cause to be revealed and jeopardized
- allow to regain its breath
adj
intj
noun
- A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
- (figurative) A display of anything bright or brilliant.
- A strong wind.
- An instance of the act of striking or hitting.
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
- (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- (uncountable, Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.
- (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
- (uncountable, US, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
- (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
- A state of flowering; a bloom.
- A damaging occurrence.
- an impact (as from a collision)
- a strong current of air
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- street names for cocaine
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
verb
intj
verb
- (intransitive) To become hard.
- (Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize.
- (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
- (intransitive, informal) To get an erection.
- (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder.
- (ambitransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
- (transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
- (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
- become hard or harder
- cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
- make hard or harder
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- make healthy
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- walk with great difficulty
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- to arrange in a systematic order
noun
- (UK) One who attends a stag night.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- an unsteady uneven gait
verb
- (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
- (transitive) To endure, undergo.
- (intransitive) To become worse.
- (intransitive) To feel pain.
- undergo or suffer
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- be in pain
- be given to
- get worse in quality
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- be set at a disadvantage
- undergo or be subjected to
verb
- (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
- (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
- (transitive) To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
- (finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.
- (transitive) To supply with corners.
- (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
- (transitive) To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- turn a corner
- gain control over
intj
noun
- (baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
- (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
- (soccer) A corner kick.
- (baseball) First base or third base.
- (boxing, by extension) The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
- The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
- One who corns, or preserves food in salt.
- (American football) A cornerback.
- (boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
- (figuratively) Complete control or ownership of something.
- A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
- An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
- The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
- (attributive) Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.
- (Maine) The neighborhood surrounding an intersection of rural roads.
- The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
- the intersection of two streets
- a projecting part where two sides or edges meet
- the point where two lines meet or intersect
- a small concavity
- a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade
- (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
- a remote area
- a place off to the side of an area
- the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect
- an interior angle formed by two meeting walls
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
verb
- (intransitive) To fall in; to cave in.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, in.
- (transitive, US) To install components, particularly car engines.
- (surfing, intransitive) To paddle into and take off on a wave another surfer is already riding.
- (idiomatic) To arrive casually and unannounced, with little or no warning; also, to visit without an appointment.
- visit informally and spontaneously
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (countable and uncountable, slang) Any alcoholic drink.
- (countable) An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
- (countable, rail transport) An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.
- a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
verb
- (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
- (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
- (transitive) To be profitable for.
- (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.
- (transitive) To give (something else than money).
- (transitive) To yield as a benefit.
- (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
- (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
- (ambitransitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
- dedicate
- cancel or discharge a debt
- be worth it
- make a compensation for
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- bring in
- bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action
- do or give something to somebody in return
- render
- give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
- discharge or settle
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make large
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
verb
- (intransitive) To make an attempt.
- (transitive) To offer as a price; to tender.
- (transitive, intransitive, trucking) To take a particular route regularly.
- (ambitransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
- (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
- (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
- (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
- (transitive) To invite; to summon.
- ask for or request earnestly
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
- ask someone in a friendly way to do something
- propose a payment
- make a serious effort to attain something
- invoke upon
noun
- An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
- (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
- (trucking) A particular route that a driver regularly takes from their domicile.
- (prison slang) A prison sentence.
- An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
- an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make
- an attempt to get something
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
verb
- (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- (transitive) To violate or break.
- (intransitive, of a whale or other sea creature) To leap out of the water.
- (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
- make an opening or gap in
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
noun
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
- an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
verb
- (intransitive) To progress with difficulty.
- (of the sun or moon) To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.
- (intransitive) To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
- (intransitive) To enter recklessly.
- (transitive) To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.
- walk (through relatively shallow water)
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To bend too far.
- (archery, transitive) To provide (an archer) with a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (archery, intransitive) To use a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (chiefly poetic, transitive) To arch over.
- (transitive) To show excessive deference toward by too much bowing.
- (transitive) To bow or bend (something) over beyond its natural trajectory; to bend in a contrary direction.
- To use too much pressure when playing a stringed instrument using a bow.
- (transitive) To overburden.
adj
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- (ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive) To neglect.
- fail to get a passing grade
- judge unacceptable
- be unsuccessful
- prove insufficient
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- deteriorate
- stop operating or functioning
- fall short in what is expected
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- be unable
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- (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.
- 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
- 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.
- The act of declining or refusing something.
- 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 blunder uncertainly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
- To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
- To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- handle clumsily
- feel about uncertainly or blindly
- drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become pessimal or the worst.
- (transitive) To take a pessimistic view of; to speak of in a negative or pessimistic way.
- (intransitive) To think like a pessimist; to believe the worst.
- (transitive) To make (something) pessimal or the worst; (in a weaker sense) to make (something, such as a computer program) less efficient.
verb
- (intransitive) To undulate.
- (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
- (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
- (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
- (rare, figuratively, also literally) To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- be unstable
- cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
verb
- (intransitive) to fall away or decline
- (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
- (intransitive) to flow back or recede
- (transitive) To cause to flow back.
- flow back or recede
- hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
- fall away or decline
adj
noun
- A gradual decline.
- A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
- (especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
- The receding movement of the tide.
- the outward flow of the tide
- a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
verb
- (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- (transitive) To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).
- throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo
- attack viciously and ferociously
noun
- A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
- A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.
- (chiefly UK, sometimes capitalized) The children's game of British Bulldog or Red Rover.
- (UK, Oxford University slang) One of the proctors' officers.
- Any of various species of African freshwater fish in the genus Marcusenius, a type of elephantfish.
- A stubborn or determined person.
- (US, publishing) A bulldog edition.
- The original form of this breed, the British bulldog.
- (professional wrestling) Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.
- a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting
verb
- (intransitive) To rise and fall.
- (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- (transitive) To utter with effort.
- (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
- (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- (transitive) To throw, cast.
- (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- lift or elevate
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- utter a sound, as with obvious effort
- throw with great effort
noun
- (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
- (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- (geology) a horizontal dislocation
- the act of raising something
- the act of lifting something with great effort
- throwing something heavy (with great effort)
- an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
- an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
verb
- (intransitive) To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- (transitive) To make the (specified) sound.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become (often used with colors and negative states).
- To come (to a certain condition or state).
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- (intransitive) To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- (transitive) To yield or weigh.
- (intransitive) To die.
- (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
- (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- (imperative) Expressing encouragement or approval.
- (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- (intransitive) To be valid or applicable.
- (intransitive) To leave; to move away.
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To fight, usually with the fists.
- To travel or pass along.
- (intransitive, colloquial, with another verb, sometimes linked by and) To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- (intransitive) To fight or attack.
- (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- (in phrases with 'as') Used to express how some category of things generally is, as a reference for, contrast to, or comparison with, a particular example.
- (intransitive) To be accepted.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket) To be lost.
- To move to (a position or state).
- (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
- (intransitive, snooker) Of a ball, to be capable of being potted, not having its path to the pocket obstructed by other balls.
- (intransitive) To extend along.
- (intransitive, usually followed by with) To pass (a specified time) in gestation; to be pregnant.
- (transitive, colloquial) To say (something, aloud or to oneself).
- (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- (intransitive, often followed by a preposition) To fit.
- (transitive, Australian slang) To attack.
- (intransitive) To date.
- (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
- (intransitive) To sound; to make a noise.
- (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- (intransitive) To belong (somewhere).
- (intransitive) To be spent or used up.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To be out.
- (intransitive) To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To go to the toilet; to urinate or defecate.
- (intransitive) Of an opinion or instruction, to have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.)
- (intransitive) To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- (intransitive) To be sold.
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- (intransitive) To break down or decay.
- (intransitive) To be discarded or disposed of.
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- (intransitive) To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- (intransitive) To tend (toward a result)
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- (intransitive) To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- (intransitive) To attend.
- (intransitive, copulative) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access (to).
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- (transitive) To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- (UK, especially MLE, Australia, Singapore, intransitive, colloquial) Clipping of go to the.
- (intransitive) To resort (to).
- (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay; to sell for.
- be sounded, played, or expressed
- lead, extend, or afford access
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- be spent
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- to be spent or finished
- be or continue to be in a certain condition
- be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
- progress by being changed
- be abolished or discarded
- begin or set in motion
- be contained in
- stop operating or functioning
- have a turn; make one's move in a game
- pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
- follow a procedure or take a course
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- be ranked or compare
- be awarded; be allotted
- move away from a place into another direction
- blend or harmonize
- make a certain noise or sound
- be in the right place or situation
- follow a certain course
- perform as expected when applied
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
- continue to live and avoid dying
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
adj
noun
- An attempt, a try.
- An act; the working or operation.
- (uncountable) Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- A period of activity.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- (uncommon) The act of going.
- (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- A time; an experience.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- a usually brief attempt
- a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters
verb
- (intransitive, with adverb or preposition) To enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
- (chess, backgammon, intransitive) To make a bad move, especially caused by tactical oversight.
- (intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid.
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative, with adverb or preposition) To move in an unsteady way.
- (chess, transitive) To overlook the possibility of, or end up in, a specified undesirable situation after making a bad move.
- (chess, transitive) To lose a piece due to having made a bad move [with the piece lost].
- commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- utter impulsively
noun
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
- (transitive, slang) To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
- (transitive, slang) To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.
- (transitive) To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
- (transitive) To damage; injure.
- (transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
- (transitive) To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
- (transitive) To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
- disturb the smoothness of
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- make a mess of or create disorder in
verb
- (intransitive) To be confused.
- (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
- (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
- (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
- mistake one thing for another
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- assemble without order or sense
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- cause to feel embarrassment
verb
- (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- assume a drooping posture or carriage
- fall in value
- fall or sink heavily
noun
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- (UK, dialect) A boggy place.
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- (geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
- (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
- (geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
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.
noun
- Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
- Something that is mandatory, required or recommended.
- Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
- 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
adj
verb
- (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
- (imperative, euphemistic) Damn; curse.
- To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
- (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
- (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- make nervous or agitated
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- make confused or perplexed or puzzled
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- intrude or enter uninvited
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To come down, to drop or descend.
- (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become (chiefly used with negative states).
- (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To be brought to the ground.
- (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To visit; to go to a place.
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- slope downward
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- lose one's chastity
- yield to temptation or sin
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- lose an upright position suddenly
- move in a specified direction
- begin vigorously
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be due
- be inherited by
- come out; issue
- occur at a specified time or place
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- lose office or power
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- come under, be classified or included
- come into the possession of
- fall or flow in a certain way
- come as if by falling
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- fall from clouds
- be captured
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- be cast down
- to be given by right or inheritance
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- go as if by falling
intj
noun
- (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- That which falls or cascades.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.
- (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The height of that which falls or cascades.
- (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a movement downward
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- a downward slope or bend
verb
- (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
- (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- (transitive) To remove a blockage by suction.
- (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
- thrust or throw into
- drop steeply
- dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
- cause to be immersed
- begin with vigor
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- devote (oneself) fully to
- fall abruptly
noun
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
- The act of plunging or submerging.
- (figuratively) The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- (slang) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
- a steep and rapid fall
- a brief swim in water
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To romp or tumble.
- (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
- (transitive, of a person or group of people) To annoy; to make angry; to throw into discord.
- (transitive, of a fluid, especially a liquid) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
- make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
- be agitated
verb
noun
- A minor offense.
- (mining) An intrusion of another material, such as dirt or slate, within a coal seam.
- (hunting) A loss of the scent being tracked by a hound.
- (typically uncountable) Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
- A characteristic, positive or negative or both, which increases one's risk of danger or difficulty.
- (geology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
- (programming) An exception within a software program or process.
- (tennis) An illegal serve.
- (equestrianism) A penalty point assessed in horseback events such as show jumping.
- (morality) A failing of character; less severe than a vice.
- A strongly undesirable variation of food or drink caused by impurity or contamination.
- (technology) An abnormal connection within an electric circuit.
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)
- responsibility for a bad situation or event
- the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection
- (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- an imperfection in an object or machine
verb
- (intransitive) To come out of a situation; to escape a fate.
- (intransitive) To be released, especially from hospital or prison.
- (intransitive) To end.
- (transitive) To remove or eliminate (dirt or stains).
- (intransitive) To become known.
- (transitive) To help (someone) leave.
- (intransitive) To spend free time out of the house.
- (transitive) To publish or make available; to disseminate.
- (intransitive) To leave the inside of a vehicle such as a car. (Note: for public transport, get off is more common.)
- (transitive) To take (something) from its container or storage place, so as to use or display it.
- (intransitive) To remove one's money from an investment; to end an investment.
- (transitive) To say with difficulty.
- (intransitive) To leave or escape.
- move out of or depart from
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- express with difficulty
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- take out of a container or enclosed space
- move out or away
- be released or become known; of news
intj
verb
- (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
- (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
- (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive, cricket) To suffer a batting collapse.
- (intransitive) To fold compactly.
- (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
- collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
- fold or close up
- cause to burst
- fall apart
- lose significance, effectiveness, or value
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- suffer a nervous breakdown
noun
- (cricket) Ellipsis of batting collapse.
- Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
- The act of collapsing.
- an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
- the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
- (intransitive, slang) To commit suicide.
- (intransitive, biology, of DNA) To switch locations on chromosomes.
- (transitive) To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
- (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
- (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- (transitive) To cause to jump.
- (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
- (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- (transitive) To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
- (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
- (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- (intransitive, figurative) To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
- rise in rank or status
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- increase suddenly and significantly
- cause to jump or leap
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- make a sudden physical attack on
- enter eagerly into
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- jump down from an elevated point
- be highly noticeable
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- run off or leave the rails
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- bypass
noun
- (film) Clipping of jump cut.
- (slang) Any abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- (US, informal, automotive) Ellipsis of jump-start.
- (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- (with on) An early start or an advantage.
- (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- (physics, hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
- (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become tattered.
- (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang, sometimes euphemistic) To menstruate.
- (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- (transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- (British slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- censure severely or angrily
- play in ragtime
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- break into lumps before sorting
- treat cruelly
noun
- (slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
- (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- (typography) An uneven vertical margin (of a block of type).
- (slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
- (UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- (derogatory) A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.
- (singular or plural, slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- (especially in the plural) Tattered clothes (clothing).
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a small piece of cloth
- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
- music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
verb
- (intransitive) To do something.
- (transitive) To feign.
- (intransitive, law) To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
- (intransitive) To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- (intransitive) Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
- (transitive) To play (a role).
- (intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- play a role or part
- discharge one's duties
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- perform on a stage or theater
- be suitable for theatrical performance
adv
noun
- (law) Ellipsis of act of parliament.
- (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
- (countable) A display of behaviour.
- (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- (law, countable) (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
- (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
- The process of doing something.
- (countable) Something done, a deed.
- (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- (countable) Any organized activity.
- (countable, drama) A division of a theatrical performance.
- (law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- something that people do or cause to happen
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet
- a manifestation of insincerity
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
verb
- (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- (transitive) To overcome a security system or component.
- (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
- (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
- (intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- (colloquial) To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
- (transitive) To tell (a joke).
- (transitive) To open slightly.
- (intransitive, transgender slang) To realize that one is transgender.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
- (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
- (transitive) To strike forcefully.
- (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
- (intransitive) To form cracks.
- (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
- (transitive, chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- (mid 2020s slang) To have sex with, especially penetrative sex.
- (transitive, figurative) To solve a difficult problem.
- cause to become cracked
- break partially but keep its integrity
- tell spontaneously
- make a very sharp explosive sound
- break into simpler molecules by means of heat
- hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- make a sharp sound
- reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
- gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- pass through (a barrier)
adj
noun
- (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- (Cumbria, Northern UK) A chat.
- (figurative, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- (informal) An attempt at something.
- A narrow opening.
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.
- (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
- (informal) The space between the buttocks.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- a long narrow cleft
- the act of cracking something
- a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts
- a usually brief attempt
- a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
- a narrow opening
- a long narrow depression in a surface
- a sudden sharp noise
- witty remark
- a chance to do something
verb
- (intransitive, with at or on) To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success.
- (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
- (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
- (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
- (transitive) To risk or offer.
- (transitive) To say something; to offer an opinion.
- proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
- put at risk
noun
- A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
- The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
- An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
- a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit
- any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
verb
- (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move or cause to move back and forth
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- undermine or cause to waver
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- move back and forth or sideways
- get rid of
noun
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- A shock or disturbance.
- (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- A milkshake.
- (historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- building material used as siding or roofing
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
verb
- (intransitive) To barge in on something; to be a third wheel; to insinuate oneself into a situation or relationship; to get oneself involved in something.
- (intransitive, slang) To unfairly push in on (something); to gain a role in (something unsavory); to acquire a partial interest in (something) through deceit.
- break into a conversation
verb
noun
- (uncountable, pathology) An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
- Alternative form of gote (“sluice, ditch, drain; vault”).
- (rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
- (usually followed by of) A drop; a spurt or splotch.
- a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints
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